QUOTE(cypher @ Dec 3 2010, 03:15 PM)
suddenly so many sapu in OSK ???!!
KUALA LUMPUR: Berjaya Corp Bhd (BCorp) last Friday clinched a deal to sell a 70% stake in its stockbroking arm, Inter-Pacific Securities Sdn Bhd, to Singapore-listed Kim Eng Holdings Ltd for RM142 million.
The RM142 million price tag comprises total net assets of RM100 million and goodwill of RM42 million.
BCorp, in a statement, announced that its subsidiary Inter-Pacific entered into an asset purchase agreement with Kim Eng to transfer the former’s entire stockbroking and related businesses to a special-purpose vehicle (SPV).
The RM142 million sale consideration will be settled in the form of a 30% equity stake in the SPV and a cash payment of RM42 million.
According to Kim Eng’s announcement to the Singapore Exchange, Inter-Pacific’s estimated net profit for the financial year ended April 30, 2010, was about RM14.4 million, while its estimated net asset value as at April 30, 2010, was about RM97 million.
Based on the estimated net asset value of RM97 million,
Inter-Pacific is being valued at 1.46 times book, which analysts consider a rather good price for BCorp.
The deal came as a surprise as BCorp and Kim Eng had in end-August announced that discussions to form a partnership had been mutually terminated. The termination came barely two weeks after the duo had disclosed that they were in on-going talks for a strategic partnership, following a report in The Edge Financial Daily.
Nonetheless, this is a pleasant surprise to the local stockbroking industry.
The hefty RM42 million premium that BCorp is able to fetch will probably cheer the other stockbrokers,
many of whom are trading below book value.
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