This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on June 6, 2016.
PWF Consolidated Bhd (+ve)
PWF Consolidated Bhd (fundamental: 0.5 /3, valuation: 2/3) saw its shares dip one sen or 0.65% to RM1.54 last Friday. The counter saw 477,100 shares changed hands, higher than its 200-day average volume of 62,477 units.
Its share price has been trading upwards since May 31, after the group announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31,2016.
Its net profit grew 12.4% to RM3.73 million, from RM3.32 million a year ago, due to an increase in sales volume and selling prices of broilers. Meanwhile, its revenue increased 20.9% to RM83.64 million, from RM71.65 million last year.
PWF is principally engaged in poultry farming, including breeding of broilers, ducks, day-old chicks and other livestock, as well as processing of chickens and ducks, animal feed milling and trading of agricultural products.
The counter is trading at a 12-month trailing price-earnings ratio of 19.07 times, compared with Lay Hong Bhd’s 29.16 times.