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Friday, 22 May 2026
AGM for FY 2025 - 21 May 2026 (Tropicana Golf and Country Club)
YSPSAH Q1-2026 result
Picture below shows the segregation of sales from various countries. Obviously, there is a drop in sales from Malaysia (= RM4.5 M). According to the Management, this is due to the drop in revenue from government hospital. Indeed, government hospital would look into cost first during any medication tender. This does not align with the YSPSAH marketing strategy, which is aiming to provide better service so that they could sell the products at slightly higher price.
Interestingly, there is a huge jump in sales in "Other countries" segment. I need to find out more on this.
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
YSPSAH 2026 AGM, Bangi Resort Hotel
I attend the AGM of YSPSAH held at Bangi Resort Hotel with my wife today. After all, YSPSAH is my second largest shareholding in my portfolio. Hence, I keep track of this company closely.
We depart from our home at 8:30 AM and arrive at the venue around 9:37 AM. The traffic is terrible.
As I am late for the meeting, I rush into the ballroom after I reach the venue. I ask my wife to park the car for me as I worry that I might miss the Q&A session.
I got no time to take picture as well.
There is no financial result briefing from the Board, as usual. As soon as I enter the Ballroom, the Q&A session started.
I have a chance to post my questions as well. This is the summary that I have obtained.
- The prepayment of plant and equipment (RM 19.9 M) is meant for the new injection plant.
- Dr. Lee (MD) said that the new injection plant II will be ready by this year. Then, they will renovate the old injection plant. The management planned to build a line that can handle large batch size.
- A shareholder mentioned that the product of YSPSAH is priced lower than competitor according to his survey. Nevertheless, Dr. Lee denied that and mentioned that his product is always priced higher than others (coz. better servicing).
- Dr. Lee mentioned that YSPSAH focuses mainly on private hospital, clinics and pharmacies. They market their products via building physical relations with customers to have good bonding with them (to build trust). Sometimes customers prefer to buy from YSPSAH as delivery is faster. However, for customers at some countries like Cambodia, they need an agent to help them coz it is too far.
- A shareholder mentioned to me that YSPSAH is amongst the top sales company within the private healthcare sector.
- Dr. Lee mentioned that the company revenue hardly grows since FY2024 because customers have frontloaded the medications during post-covid period. Plus, there is a upgrade in the operating facilities at Bangi plant (some old machines in the old injection plant is not functioning), hindering them to take more orders.
The Board gave each shareholder 1+1 door gift (SHINE brand supplements, consisting of probiotics, calcium pill, Vitamin pill). Why 1+1?? There is a shareholder requesting for extra supplement to be given out to each shareholder because there are many extra door gifts as many shareholders did not attend the meeting. Below is the door gift from YSPSAH during the AGM:
Meals include nasi goreng kampung, fried wanton, pastry and fruits. Taste so-so.. My wife ate only the pastry.
Overall, the Board has answered all my questions. I passed the marketing stretegies of Dr. Lee to Google AI and the AI told me this:
- Government Tenders Demand Low Costs: Government contracts are won by bidding the absolute lowest price per pill. To survive on these razor-thin margins, a company must cut all extra costs. They cannot afford to spend money on a large sales force or fast, customized delivery fleets.
- The Private Sector Demands Premium Service: Private clinics and pharmacies are willing to pay a higher price for medications if it means they get immediate delivery, flexible credit terms, and face-to-face relationship management.
- The Strategic Link: If YSPSAH lowered its prices to win government tenders, it would lose the profit margins needed to pay for the fast delivery and physical relationship building that the private sector expects.
- A Dedicated Sales Fleet: Building physical relationships requires hiring, training, and fueling a massive team of sales representatives to visit thousands of individual clinics.
- A Rapid Delivery Fleet: Providing fast delivery requires decentralized warehouses, local delivery drivers, and advanced tracking logistics.
- The Strategic Link: Government buyers do not care about sales rep visits or 24-hour delivery; they buy in bulk months in advance. If YSPSAH spent its budget bidding on government tenders, it would not have the capital to invest in the sales reps and delivery trucks needed to win over private doctors.
Wednesday, 13 May 2026
DKSH AGM 13 MAY 2026
Today I attend the AGM of DKSH Malaysia. I drive there after fetching my daughter to tuition center at around 0830. It took me almost 1 hour to reach the venue (Tropicana Golf Club, usual AGM venue for DKSH) via LDP, as the traffic at LDP is very congested...
I reach Tropicana Golf Club at around 0930. After registration, the counter staff gave me 2 meal vouchers (breakfast & lunch). You have to use these vouchers to claim for your meals later.
When I attended the AGM 2-3 years ago, I was given a goodie bag, with a box of Ferrero Roche chocolate, a tub of Buttercup, etc. inside the bag. No door gift is given on this year though, kinda disappointed haha. I have agreed to treat my daughters a few Ferrero Roche chocolate balls. It looks like they would be disappointed tonight..
Coming to the 1st agenda of the AGM, i.e. the financial statement of DKSH.
The war begins.....
The first question was given by a representative from Pangolin Fund. I guess he is James Hay, the Director of Pangolin Fund. He pointed out why the Management decided not to pay dividend for FY 2025, although the financial numbers look promising. In fact, this was my concern too as already mentioned in my previous post in DKSH. After knowing that DKSH decided NOT to pay dividend for FY 2025, I further trimmed my shareholdings in DKSH immediately. But, for a big fund like Pangolin, it is quite difficult for them to sell their shares in open market just like me.. When your fund grows bigger, I start to realize that it is NOT easy at all to manage the fund, especially if the fund is used to invest in undervalued but out-of-favor stocks such as DKSH. Therefore, I am quite surprised that Pangolin Fund has invested in DKSH although its liquidity is rather limited. Nevertheless, I respect James, as he is truly a value investor, unlike those fund managers that like to chase hot themes.
Soon after James posted his questions, other shareholders started to post a similar question again to the Board. Overall, the main concern of the shareholder is about why the dividend is not given to shareholders although the company did very well last year. Free cash flow is positive, growing profit, good ROE, etc... all these should lead to higher dividend being paid out!! Instead, the Management decided not to pay dividend.. What on earth is happening? Their reasons given are the company wants to use the cash to reduce debt, to serve as working capital in future expansion activities, to cope with the current uneven market condition (due to Iran war), etc.... However, we do note that DKSH is operating in a high gearing mode all this while, and DKSH is able to weather through the even more challenging crisis such as COVID-19, why only now DKSH decided to sacrifice the dividends to reduce their debt? A 70-year-old shareholder compared DKSH vs Nestle, saying that Nestle is giving out most of its profits as dividends, unlike DKSH. To be fair, I think the shareholder should not use Nestle as an example coz. the business models of Nestle and DKSH are different. Instead, another FMCG distributor such as HARISON is more suitable, and HARISON is able to pay dividend to shareholders consistently.
At least 3 shareholders bombarded the Board from the floor just now about the dividend issue, citing the fact that the Executive Director has enjoyed a pay rise, but nothing is given back to the shareholder. In fact, I agree with the shareholder as well. Before that, I tend to emphasize on buying undervalued listed companies in Malaysia as long as their profit growth in on track, regardless of whether they are paying dividends or not. I noticed that if those companies are in technological sector (or in other hot sectors such as Renewal Energy, solar, etc.), they would still be able to attract tremendous buying interest from the public (hence shareholders can enjoy capital gain, no dividend though). However, if those companies are in non-sexy (or traditional sector), sorry to say, public would tend to abandon those counters, unless the dividend is great. This could explain why DKSH share price is so cheap even though the company is growing. The answer is, obviously, subpar dividend being distributed to shareholder. Worse still, no dividend is declared for FY 2025 due to the somewhat unacceptable reasons given by the Board.
Anyway, as minor shareholders, we have no say on the Board's decision. We have to accept it reluctantly though. However, we do have many other investment choices. If the claim made by one of the shareholders, i.e. the dividend is NOT paid because the largest DKSH shareholder intends to punish the minor shareholders for rejecting the take-over bid so that the share price is depressed and hence they could buy back more shares via the 3rd party, is true, then I would be very disappointed on the Company. I am not sure whether it is classified as market manipulation? Have to find out..
For the time being, I will just keep my existing DKSH shareholding, and eyeing other undervalued counters that are abandoned by the market.
After voting, I took my lunch box and leave around 12 PM.
It is Spaghettis....
Monday, 11 May 2026
SKB Shutters
I commute using MRT to work since 2024.
Today, as usual, I go to MRT Jinjang Station as I need to work in my office near Kajang today. I reach the station quite early. As I am so bored there, I spend time wandering around the station, and I see this:
There are plenty of fire-rated doors made by SKB around the MRT Jinjang station, including the staff room (customer service) room door, telecommunication riser room door, hose riser room door, fire exit doors and many others. Pls see below.
At MRT Kajang station, I saw the SKB-made roller shutter near a warung makan (next to KTM Kajang entrance). My daughter likes to purchase sweet corn from this warung when she follows me to my office. This roller shutter is located between the walkway from carpark to KTM Kajang (see below). By the way, KTM Kajang entrance is just next to MRT Kajang exit.
In fact, I have purchased small quantities of shares of SKB Shutters (SKBSHUT) last year (2 Oct 2025) around RM 0.9+ when it reported a record high Q4 FY2025 profit. Its PER during that time is < 10, and I believe this company should be sold at the level of 10x PER at least, considering its dividend yield of almost 7%. However, after I purchased the shares, the share price plummets, lol...
Am I making a wrong investment decision?
Let us analyze this company fundamentally.
Business background
SKBSHUT is focusing on manufacturing fire-rated doors, metal doors (for data center, which drives high margin, 35% of revenue), racking system (20% - 23% of total revenue), roller shutters (35% of revenue), etc. The boss of this company, Mr. Sin, is a mechanical engineer graduated from Taiwan. He is a very innovative engineer and entrepreneur, holding many patents for his design of roller shutter and steel-related products.
SKBSHUT will soon operate in a new, larger factory in Puncak Alam. The company has allocated huge capex for this purpose in FY2025, see below:
I have found the fire doors made by this company in various MRT stations, including MRT Jinjang, MRT Kajang, Ikano Power Center. According to the Management, "the metal door in data center could drive even higher margin as these doors are quite special and need to follow certain specifications/requirements. According to the Management, there are several notable competitors in the region, including those from Germany, China, and Malaysia. Locally, while there are a handful of competitors, SKB is currently the largest in terms of scale." --> Quoted from the MoM FY2025
I believe the moat of this company is that it is able to produce products that can meet stringent safety and regulatory requirements. Mr. Sin is a forward looking entrepreneur (and capable engineer) and able to design products to cater for future needs. As quoted from their MoM 2025:
"Innovation is the key driver of SKB’s growth. A strong example is the Insulated Fire Shutter. Even before it was made compulsory, SKB had already undertaken nearly five years of R&D. It took time for the product to be tested and certified, but when the market eventually mandated its use, SKB was wellpositioned as a first mover with a competitive advantage."
"SKB was the first in the market to achieve an Insulated Fire Shutter, tested to provide four hours thermal insulation and four hours fire integrity in 2015. That year, SKB had already introduced the product to the market, which later proved advantageous when authorities made it compulsory. Since then, the market has had the option to choose between Uninsulated and Insulated Fire Shutters. In 2021, Insulated Fire Shutter became a mandatory requirement, and this was reflected positively in the Company’s financial results."
Financial background
Let us examine the financial aspect of this company.
By looking at the historical record of its profit trend, undoubtedly, it is a growing company. Except in FY 2020, the net profit has been increasing consistently especially from FY 2023 onwards. The most notable growth is in FY2025 as the company has recorded the highest profit margin of around 19% as SKB had a higher concentration of high-margin products in FY 2025.
Thursday, 7 May 2026
Q4 FY2026
AEONCR had announced its quarter report Q4 FY2026 a few weeks ago, as below:
As an investor of this company, I would like to find out why AEONCR performs so well this quarter. I have compiled the quarterly financial data of AEONCR as below.
I believe the good profit of Q4 FY2026 is due to the reversal of impairment loss of + RM72M (vs - RM 14 M in Q4 FY 2025). From AEONCR presentation slide, they said that "Impairment loss reversal in Q4 was mainly attributed a one-off adjustment of RM131 mil arising from the restaging of AKPK provisions from stage 3 to stage 2, offset by receivables movement of RM129 mil and ECL refresh of RM27 mil respectively".
From what I have gathered from Google AI (plus some guesses), AEONCR needs to set aside some "allowances" of impairment loss for 3 different loan stages. I guess these stages are D0, D1, D2.... DN. where N could be number of months passed. D3 is the most critical one, which it will be classified as D3+ (Non-Performing Loan) if the loan is not settled by the customer. For these different stages, AEONCR will set aside more allowances if the loan is moved from D2 to D3. During Q4 FY2026, somehow, there is a restaging from D3 to D2, so AEONCR is allowed to write-back the previous allowances made. Note that it is only one-off.
I have also highlighted the D0, D1 and D2 collection ratio. Apparently, the Management has ramped up its effort to increase the collection ratio, which is a good sign.
In fact, AEONCR business is growing.... This can be proven from its fast-growing gross financing receivable (loans approved) yearly. However, there are several factors affecting its profit growth in recent years, especially after COVID. I will list them below
(1) Non-Performing Loan (NPL)% at relatively high level. The loan is classified as NPL when the loan is classified as D3+ (already past 3 months but not paid back to AEONCR?). After COVID, it seems that the NPL is higher than that before. This is likely due to the higher living cost and inflation. Note that the customer base of AEONCR is mainly from B40, so they would definitely feel the pinch during inflation.
- Superbike Financing growth of 51.2% YoY, reflecting a shift towards higher-score customers and premium product
- Payment Business targeting the middle-income group, coupled with the new card launches, lifted receivable by 16.5% YoY, increasing portfolio share to 7.1%
- Personal Financing recorded marginal QoQ growth due to credit refinement on young age and low-income group
- Continued focus on digital onboarding adoption and strengthening asset quality
(2) Loss from AEON Bank. AEONCR owns 50% of AEON Bank, which is a new digital bank in Malaysia. In FY 2026, AEONCR has recorded RM 85M loss from AEON Bank alone (vs RM 68M in last year). Hopefully the loss has peaked in FY 2026.
Valuation
There is a strong correlation between Price to Book Ratio and ROE, as shown below.
The ROE of AEONCR has been downtrending since FY 2014. So, investors would pay less premium to this company. At the time of writing, the company is traded slightly below its book value of RM 6.
On the historical PER of AEONCR below, it seems that AEONCR is traded at single digit PER since FY 2023, which I think is due to the lumpy earnings reported. It is currently (7 May 2026) traded at historically low PER regime.
Smooth sailing for AEONCR in future quarters!
Sunday, 3 May 2026
Sodium level in AJINOMOTO
I am shopping for groceries in Lotus Kepong today with my family today.
It has become my habit that I will visit the display rack of MSG as AJINOMOTO is in my share portfolio.
There are many MSG brands in the market nowadays. Here is the list that I could find from Lotus:
(1) BESTARI (RM 10.99/kg)
(2) LOTUS (RM 10.99/kg)
(3) AJINOMOTO (RM 13.95/kg)
(4) VEPLUS (owns AJI-NORIKI MSG) (RM 11.25/kg)
Clearly, AJINOMOTO is the most expensive out of all MSG brands displayed.
I managed to capture the nutrition facts of these MSG brands as well:
(1) AJINOMOTO
(2) AJI-NORIKI
One of the key ingredients that I am focusing on is the "Sodium/Natrium" level, which is known to causing hypertension if consumed excessively.
For each 100g of the product, the "Sodium/Natrium" contents for different brands are:
AJINOMOTO : 9794.5 mg
AJI-NORIKI : 12300 mg
Faiza : 12300 mg
Interestingly, AJINOMOTO contains the least amount of sodium compared to other brands.
And, it is quite surprising to note that both AJI-NORIKI and Faiza has the same nutritious contents :-))
For other brands like Lotus and Bestari, I could not find the nutrition facts.
How about the sodium content for salt? It is
Salt : 39000 mg (3x-4x higher than MSGs!!)
The other interesting fact that I have found out is that out of 100g of AJINOMOTO, the protein content is 45.2g. No protein is found in other brands like AJI-NORIKI and Faiza. I am not sure why there is such a big difference. They are MSGs after all right?? It could be due to how they define "protein" during the measurement process.
From a survey from Internet, high sodium intake could lead to (https://www.heartwest.com.au/high-sodium-levels-warning/):
(1) High blood pressure
(2) Increased thirst
(3) Headache
(4) Fatigue, etc.
My wife always complaint after eating out, she would feel drowsy, headache and thirsty. Maybe she has consumed too much sodium. I experienced the same syndrome as well.
Less sodium, less salt, and stay healthy.