QUOTE(alphayou @ Jan 28 2010, 11:33 AM)
My personal opinion why i don;t really like JCY.
1) Manufacturing mechanical parts for Hard disk drive. Currently solid state drive is becoming more popular thus will replace the old mechanical hard disk gradually
2) 80% of sales come from Western Digital and thee rest from Seagate and etc. The customers is not that diversified.
3) 50% dividend payout - means not much expansion and growth
4) cant even find JCY website - dodgy
However those are just my personal opinion, to those who think otherwise can voice out and discuss. I am happy to hear other opinions about JCY
SSD isn't anywhere near a typical HDD both in terms of size and pricing. I think it'll be several more years before SSDs can replace HDDs.
Also, WD and Seagate combined control 60% of the HDD market IIRC. Granted there is a concentration risk but if you aren't their supplier, you'll be supplying to the other 3 smaller manufacturers.
50% dividend isn't too bad. It just means we get more dividends.
Here are some points to consider:
Notion only supplies a small part of the HDD while JCY produces most/all of the HDD parts.
Its vertically integrated and the only other company that's vertically integrated is Nidec which produces the HDD motors.
And IIRC, they're in the process of getting certification to produce HDD covers for Samsung.
But the most jarring fact is that YK Yong owns the all of the 2billion shares of JCY. Assuming the company gets listed at RM2, hello RM4b. You just have to respect that guy.
p.s. JCY won't get a single cent from the IPO. Its just YK Yong cashing out/selling his stake.