- Excluding provisions and disposal gains, gross margin climbed to ~8%, lifting Seatrium's 1H24 core profit to S$150mil. See Seatrium's announcement dated 2 Aug 2024.
Better-than-expected core profit in 1H24.
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Commendable operating performance.
- Besides the legal settlement provision, COGS also took a hit of an incremental S$70mil in provisions for onerous contracts. Excluding both provisions, gross margins would have inched up to ~8%, which we thought is decent, indicative of a margin recovery for Seatrium.
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- Sequential operational improvement would be closely tracked to access the progress of Seatrium’s recovery; it has been loss-making for six years in a row.
Further provision risks likely to be lower in 2H24.
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