This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily on November 8, 2019 - November 14, 2019
Malaysian Bulk Carriers Bhd (-ve)
TRADING of shares in Malaysian Bulk Carriers Bhd (Maybulk) (fundamental: 1.15/3, valuation: 0.9/3) triggered our momentum algorithm yesterday for the eighth time this year, with the previous time on Sept 18.
At the closing bell, Maybulk — which closed unchanged at 69.5 sen — recorded a total trading volume of about five million shares, sharply higher compared with its 200-day average of 1.04 million
shares.
Maybulk was recently in the limelight after the Kuok Group, through its investment vehicle Quetzal Capital Pte Ltd, announced a voluntary conditional cash offer of 21.5 Singapore cents (66 sen) per share to buy out Singapore-listed PACC Offshore Services Holdings Ltd (POSH).
In 2008, Maybulk paid S$6.50 per share or a total of US$221 million to buy 34 million shares in POSH. In May last year, Maybulk, also a member of the Kuok Group, disposed of its 21.37% stake in POSH through a renounceable restricted offer for sale to its shareholders on the basis of 386 POSH shares for every 1,000 shares in Maybulk at 65 sen per share — about the same as the offer price of 21.5 Singapore cents.