Buy @ $2.74
Got impatient waiting for lower prices… Recent price weakness may be due to,
- Stronger Oil Prices
- BREXIT fears causing weakness in British Pounds (20.5% of FY15 Operating Profit from UK/Ireland)
- Threat to Taxi Operation by Uber & GrabCar (36.5% of FY15 Operating Profit from Taxis)
- The threat is highest in Singapore due to lower barriers imposed by regulators
- My estimate is 15%-20% of FY15 Operating Profit comes from Singapore Taxi Operation
- SMRT with taxi fleet 3000+ reported $13.74m Operating Profit for Taxi segment
- Comfort Taxi fleet is 10,000+ & another 5,000+ in CityCab (JV with ST Kinetics)
Singapore Bus exposure is via 75.08% Subsidiary SBSTransit, which contributes only ~4.19% to FY15 Operating Profit. This is not very significant and thus, SBSTransit losing any more bus routes due to the new Bus Contracting Model is not expected to have a very significant impact on ComfortDelgro… 😀