Short term, its fundamental is rosy, due to very good crack spread or refining margin.
But it needs to undergo major upgrade on their refining operation to meet Euro 4 spec in 2018 and a more distant future Euro 5, aka needs some major capex and potential downtime due to upgrading works, which may affect its future profitability level.
Currently no major capex, little depreciation, good profit figure.
After major capex, more depreciation may drag down the profitability, if profit margin is still the same.
There is a reason why refining company stocks are trading at single digit of PE across the globe, as it is capital intensive hence it may affect potential generous dividend prospect for minority shareholders as well as profit margin is always in cyclical in nature.
Refining margin is always exposed to crude oil movement, which we know crude oil is never a stable commodity.
Gasoline price is affected by demand and supply of between refiners and consumer vehicle.
Crude oil price is affected by demand of supply of oil producing countries and refiners.
For the last 1-2 years, there is oversupply of crude oil, hence refiners can buy cheap crude oil, while consumer demand of gasoline still the same, resulted refiners can earn good profit (good crack spread).
Summarise,
Short term up to next year major capex, fundamental is indeed very good, that's why its price shoot up a lot.
Long term, up to anyone guess.
Refining business or profitability is always cyclical, up and down never in a stable line one.
Hey thanks for sharing. Although you dont know me personally, you still took your time to write a long genuine reply.
And on what you wrote, yes that makes perfect sense.
I took a quick look at its fundamentals for the past few quarters. I was wondering,if perhaps you would know, the reason why there is little to zero tax paid by Hengyuan? Its net profit is almost the same as its PBT, if not identical.
Again, if you dont mind me asking, you mentioned single digit PE. Do you have a link summarizing major global refineries PE? and at current PE of 6.xx, is it fair or its a little too high compared to other more reputable refineries?