Seatrium - DBS Research 2024-08-05: Turnaround Insight; Encouraging Margin Recovery In 1H24

Seatrium - Turnaround Insight; Encouraging Margin Recovery In 1H24

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  • 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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Above is an excerpt from a report by DBS Group Research.
Clients of DBS may access the full PDF report @ https://www.dbs.com/insightsdirect/.



Pei Hwa HO DBS Group Research | https://www.dbs.com/insightsdirect/ 2024-08-05



Read also DBS's most recent report:
2025-02-24 Seatrium - Slowly But Surely.

Previous report by DBS:
2025-01-27 Seatrium - Starts The New Year With A Bang!.

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