Micro-Mechanics (Holdings)

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Rainbow 
eAGM 30 Oct 2020@9am
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MM AR is out today.
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After a lengthy development and testing period, MMUS recently received customer qualification for a family of ultra-critical parts used in the semiconductor wafer-fabrication process. Because the qualification was based on the high quality and competitive cost of our products, we have never felt more positive about MMUS’ prospects. Indeed, our team there has worked tirelessly to develop MMUS as an elite supplier for critical parts for semiconductor wafer-fabrication.
Ultimately, we believe only a handful of suppliers to the semiconductor industry will possess the capabilities to meet the increasingly stringent requirements required for manufacturing nano-level device geometries. The Group’s goal is to become a leading Next Generation Supplier to our customers. This strong focus on customers and the great work by our people should enable the Group to maintain a healthy gross profit margin. In FY2020, our gross profit margin was relatively steady at 53.4% despite the challenging conditions. We plan to continue working to strengthen this key measure of our focus on the customer, competitive strength, and the value our work creates.

Valuation of property, plant and equipment 
During the year, the Company carried out a review of the recoverable amount of MMUS’s property, plant and equipment, in view of its loss-making position.

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I quoted 2 parts of today AR:
1. MMUS breakthru after lengthy development and testing with its semicon customer
2. MMUS is loss-making aka until today, MMUS had and had been reporting losses year after year

Looking back into history.
MMUS was brought by Chris during a crisis many years ago.

At that time, MM board make it very clear that the only way they could approve the purchase of a loss-making business is Chris handling MMUS personally aka MMUS will be Chris baby and Chris will be accountable to grow it into a profitable assets for Micro-Mechanics instead of a liability.

Other than initial investment, Chris had continuously pour in a few rounds of capital in order to get MMUS to a viable operating condition. $$$ keep pumping in.
Not just $$$ but Chris himself had to fulfill his promise of baby-sitting MMUS.  
Chris devoted a lot of his precious time working with MMUS to iron out all the teething issues.
At that time, Chris like MMUS because MMUS has a great listing of clients which potentially will open up market opportunities for MM's flagship products (hint: not MMUS products).
The idea is simple. MM had a strong foothold in Semicon. By leveraging MMUS client list, MM would be able to sell it's product and hence grow its business beyond semicon.

After a try, Chris realised that it's not so simple. The synergy only works in semicon but not other industry.  Painfully, Chris had made a change in the sales strategy and decided to remain status quo in all industry except semicon.
This strategy unfortunately still does not stop the bleed, otherwise you won't see the current situation that MMUS is still loss making.
Granted, semicon customer is more willing to accept MMUS product, however, a lot of capital is required to maintain the sales revenue.
It's a loss making business.

Of course, we must be fair to Chris. He had tried his best.
We had to understand that MM profit margin (before acquisition of MMUS) was excellent but its revenue could only grow with the growth in semicon industry.
The organic growth would be too slow for satisfaction (despite the excellent profit. imagine the capital investment for MMUS is return as cash dividend to shareholders)  Big Grin

Chris idea of leveraging MMUS to branch out of semicon is a great idea.
MMUS was purchased during a crisis and its a calibrated - relatively small purchase - is to cap the risk of investment turn sour makes a lot of sense.

Moving forward, let's see what Chris can do.

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Does anyone one know how much % sales is to Intel? If Intel were to outsource more manufacturing of wafer to TSMC, is it negative for MMH?

Separately, the US division had not been making much money... the annual report stated that MMH is qualified by US wafer equip client which mean we may see US margin similar to other region? Even is we assume no revenue growth and US margin improve to 35% that is a 25% increase in segmental profit.
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Rainbow 
MM does not mention specifically the name of it's major customers.
From Paul Chew analysis, take note that MM's revenue actually tied more closely with Taiwan backend semiconductor volumes, so we should focus more on this indicator.


As for margin for USA factory aka MMUS, it's actually loss making business, even as at today.

With the new MMUS deals, we might or might not see the increase in profits, simply because an increase in revenue does not imply increase in profits, right?

Anyway, we could do a quick verification soon:
MM will release it's Quarterly result 1Q21 ended 30 Sep 2020 
on 29 Oct 2020.
https://links.sgx.com/FileOpen/MMH-Date%...eID=635705

Stay home and stay healthy, everyone.
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Rainbow 
The Annual General Meeting will be convened and held by way of electronic means on 30 October 2020 at 9.00 a.m.
Same SGX announcement also comes with 10 pages of QnA.
Most already known.
Extract Q24 on confirmation of MMUS
MMUS is continuing to gain traction and visibility with several key customers that are leaders in the semiconductor equipment industry. After a lengthy development and testing period, MMUS recently received customer qualification for a family of ultra-critical parts used in the semiconductor wafer-fabrication process. This is a significant project and milestone for MMUS. 

Our qualification from the customer over its long-time incumbent supplier was based on the superior quality and lower cost of our products. 
During 1Q21, MMUS began receiving various initial orders and has commenced production and delivery

Although there will always be more engineering and operational enhancements to make, the Group has never felt more positive about the prospects for MMUS. Ultimately, our aim is for MMUS to become an elite supplier for critical parts used in semiconductor wafer-fabrication.
https://links.sgx.com/FileOpen/MMH-AGM%2...eID=636959

1Q21 Result
Rev $18m (vs 15m)
GP  $9m  (vs  8m)
NP  $4m  (vs  3m)

One of our biggest concerns regarding COVID-19 is the possibility of a positive test by one or more of our people which might lead to the shutdown of a work area and/or the entire factory in order to undertake a full disinfection.

Although we are working to mitigate this risk through all of the recommended safety protocols including masking, social distancing, cleaning, hand-washing and eliminating all but essential employee or visitor traffic, the Group is highly wary of the possibility of a COVID-19 related quarantine or factory shutdown as we move forward.

As we move forward, our goal is not to hope for life and business to just go back to normal. Instead, we want to absorb what we have learned, implement more fully some of the changes we made to adapt to changing circumstances, and better anticipate the challenges that lie ahead. In short, we have an incredible opportunity to go back to better.
https://links.sgx.com/FileOpen/MMH-SGXne...eID=636957


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Rainbow 
Micro-Mechanics - conducted eAGM this morning.
Let me re-direct you to MrTFI2024 website and see what he learn this morning.
https://mrtfi2024.wordpress.com/2020/10/...anics-agm/

MrTFI2024 sold his Micro-Mechanics at $1.41 few years back and had been regretting his sales.

Subsequently, he brought back at an average price of $1.84.

This is his first AGM with Micro-Mechanics and I have to says that his learning experience is in line with mine too.

https://links.sgx.com/FileOpen/MMH-AGM%2...eID=637171

Have a nice weekend and enjoy: Smile

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Rainbow 
29 Oct 2020 3 Stocks Hitting 52-Week Highs
Royston@The SMART investor dot com

The blog started with something which sounds naive and yet worth a thought
There are stocks that are hitting 52 week-high despite the pandemic.

Royston immediately explain the reason
The strange thing about this COVID-19 crisis is that it has not impacted all industries in the same way.

Well, if Royston take a look at US stock market, especially S&P, then it's very clear what had happened.
Those stocks which benefited from C19 took off like no tomorrow.
FANG-MAN-ATM moon - performing like crypto.

I like his last paragraph on Micro-Mechanics  Smile . It's like music to my ears
MMH’s prospects appear sanguine as the group is well-positioned to capture opportunities offered by the growth in the industry and the increased proliferation of electronic devices as the pandemic accelerates digitalisation.

As mentioned, just buy a little bit of this company and start learning on what and how did they build a solid business
that's "Build to last"!



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Micro-Mechanics (Holdings) Ltd. (the “Company”) wishes to announce that its founder and CEO, Mr Christopher Borch, has made a gift of 2.85 million Micro-Mechanics shares to The Borch Foundation. 
To-date, Mr Borch and his family have donated a total of 7.85 million of their shares in the Company to The Borch Foundation.


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The donation to The Broch Foundation to me means that dividend for Micro-Mechanics would be a necessity... otherwise, The Broch Foundation will not have $$$ to operate and would be selling stocks to raise cash (for operations).
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Rainbow 
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Merry Christmas, Ho Ho Ho.
Waking up to another beautiful and cooling day, wish our valuebuddies a wonderful weekend ahead.

Is it a Penguin or is it a reindeer?

Is Micro-Mechanics a dividend stock or is it a growth stock.

I just read about the following yesterday and thought that it resonance with what my investment thesis in MM.

Enjoy.

Paul:
I think most pple are into dividend investing because most prefer the dividends being sent to them and there's no need to engage the market in transaction to realise any cash.
And they simply like the slow rising streams of income with can keep up and be ahead of inflation
Get rich fast, I doubt that's in the minds of many dividend investors

Vancouver
And I prefer to invest in those small-mid size companies which is run by founder which filled with zeal. 
Businesses which has high growth rate in term of sales, consistent margin, gross profit, participants, also in the growing Total Addressable Market(TAM) while riding the tailwind.
That business must be able to offer value on the table which the traditional one is unable to offer.  
It will be better if those CEO aka founder dun focus in P/L on surface based on Wall St expectation as his purpose is to retain/grow its customer base while munching up market share out there.

Another thing is I have to be ensure it has strong recurring revenue growth despite market condition.

Sims:
Just a thought those who want stable div stocks that with some limited growth can also consider some local tech counters like UMS, Micro-Mechanics, ISDN Holding etc.  
They dun oay alot of dividends but they do make up in growth.
I notice they also sometimes move in opposing directions when the sgx market underperform in banks/reits.

I really thought that Micro-Mechanics fit the bill (own view).

It is definitely a dividend stocks.
I agreed that compared to those "real" famous dividend stock, MM dividend is not fantastic.
However, if you observed carefully, the increasing dividend trend is really amazing.

All these while, MM had never been cheap.  
Its PE/PB was always high aka not undervalue in this aspect.

You will hear a lot from MM investors that its very difficult to accumulate a large position in MM as the liquidity is not there.
Any slight buying (or selling) will move the price.

It happened now and it happened many years ago.
It was always like that.

Side track on how I managed to buy a good chunk of MM.
The stocks was trading between 40-43 and I was Q-ing everyday.
The liquidity is so low that we could expect no trade/transaction for the entire day.

Then, one day, I run out of patient and brought one lot at 48.
Somehow, it triggered a tsunami of selling at 43.

I just mop up all the stocks and enjoy the ride all these years.

Back to the question of is MM a dividend or a growth stock.
My observation is it is both.
While its dividend is not fantastic, it's grow (tailwind) make up the diff.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Thinking Twice?


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Tech supply chain going crazy on shortages in North Asia. Rush order, supply chain shortage, higher inventory as a norm could be beneficial to MMH.
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MMH hit 3.42 closing today with 1mil volume which is very high. 

Anyone heard anything about this stock? Who is buying so much ?Why?
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