Sorry to reply late. I just came back last night.
I see you have shifted to jobs now but in case you might come and look
at chbt again in the future. I will conclude some info that others
didn't write about yet.
Oh, first on all, please do not public my comment on the internet. My
english is bad and I'm still long the stock eventhrough my opinion
about investerday might not look good as others. Some of my comment
might get stock even down which I don't want that, wish you will
understand.
First, I will answers your questions
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:23 PM, wefe 5433 <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Santi, I thought of a few more questions. I have consolidated them as
> follows:
>
> 1) Has the company closed any more retail outlets since the end of June?
- company has closed more stores but they don't tell how many.
> 2) How many retail outlets does the company currently have?
- 103 outlets. By the way, definition of outlet is place where company
gets direct cash when they sell and distributor is selling through
others channel which company get money later (book as account
receivable)
> 3) Of the company's current retail outlets, how many are stand alone
> stores, how many are stores-within-stores, and how many are shelf space in
> stores?
64 stand alone stores
39 stores or counters in store
shelf space doesn't count as company own outlets
> 4) If some of the retail outlets are shelf space, how does the company
> distinguish between a retail outlet and sales through a distributor?
- I think above answer is clear enough.
>
> 5) How many pharmacies, drugstores, hypermarkets are the company's products
> in through its distributors?
- I didn't have a chance to ask
> 6) Regarding the new animal feed facility, what are the pros and cons of
> the company doing it itself versus working with a partner?
- Also there isn't much time to go in the detail but there is someone
ask about annual sales income of 3.13 billion yuan in the news, you
might saw on Jason projection. CFO answer that it's just rough
estimate and it's depend on many factors so it's too far to discuss
about revenue but right now company is discussing with many partners.
>
> 7) What is the revenue opportunity of the new facility?
- as above
>
> 8) Given the delays experienced with the Qingpu facility, how confident is
> the company that it can meet its two year timetable with the new animal feed
> facility?
- also no details
And these are more detail of investor day.
- Overall chbt didn't do good job, schedule is messy, too many
programs stuff in one day, so there isn't enough time for investor to
ask question.
- If mission of investor day is gaining back confidences from
investor, I think chbt fail to do it.
I separate company present as 3 part
1. Retail
- I give very 2/10 score on this defend.
- 4 Retail stores that we went to see are look like a set up. There
are too many customers in ther stores and some investor ask them how
do they know the product they said they were just call 3 days ago to
come. Also I ask one customer how much for the package, which every
body in the store have one box of chbt's product, she didn't know how
much cause chbt just gave them for free. I can't judge that company
has good intention trying to set up to just impress investors or chbt
has bad intention to deceive us.
- I asked CFO twice to provide 64 addresses of company own stores but
he said he didn't think defend every rumors from any internet blogger
is a good idea and chbt is shifted strategy to distributor and bulk
business so he refused to provides the information. Jason wrote that
chbt showed 64 addresses of slides but it's too for anyone to write
any address down. This issue irritated me the most.
2. Company document
- I didn't look at any of the documents cause I didn't think that I
could distinguise whether or not they are real of fake but some
investors including jason (and the one from roth, I think) they told
me that all the documents look legit. Some of them is auditor so I
think I can give chbt high score for this defends like 8/10.
3. Bulk facilities
- Plants are really big and equipment looks new and high-tech but I
can't judge from it look cause I don't have one to compare.
- Phase1 uses 70 workers working 3 shifts, it's around 2x per shift.
So we didn't see many wokers. I have seen many bigger plants in
Thailand using automation equipments have less worker than chbt so I
give them the advantage of doubt.
- R&D and office space are also really big but there are many rooms
aviable. (It using may be 30% of aviable spaces) This could look 2
different ways. One is that company is just set it up so there are
many equipments. Another is that there are a lot of space for company
to grow much more.
- Overall score for this one this one is 7/10.
Other comments
- CFO isn't good. it's not just my opinion but also many investor said
so. He couldn't answer well. Somtime when he faces hard question he
pointed at his watched and said that there isn't enough time then he
change the subject.
- Everyone except CFO answer questions very well especially Mr. Song.
He gave many details of industry and company strategies.
Those are from investor day.
Due to the fact that you watch this stock for a long time and I've
read many of your comments and many info you provide in your blog, I
would like to ask for your honest opinion about my position.
After attent investor day myself, I think this stock has more risk
than I first expected. Today I talk to 3 auditors whether or not it's
possible to fake cash and what I got is that if audit isn't involve in
fraud it's almost impossible. So, my downside of chbt is $5 (little
bit less than net cash for conservation). For upside, if chbt is not a
fraud, I still think chbt worth 15 p/e so it's $25-30 for 1 year
holding or 45-50 for 2 years holding.
Eventhough, investor day went bad, I looked closely at company
cashflow statements from 2007-2010 and found that their operating
cashflow is so good. As I know, fraud company such as CXTI, it had
revenue and profit but not cashflow and I can see that working
capital is in a big negative compare to net profit for many year. I
can't find this kind of red flag from chbt's cashflow statement. Most
of the time it has positive working cap and just small negative in
some year which I think this prove the company's business to be real.
After calculation, downside is $5 and upside is $25
prop. of being fraud is low = 0.3 (considered bad investor day which
decrease chbt's creditability. If I look only just cashflow statment
itself I might put 0.1 prop.)
prop. of being legit is higher = 0.7
So expected return would be 0.3*5 + 0.7*25 = $19
There is still 100% upside from yesterday price. That is why I still long chbt.
I respect your position which you sell chbt to jobs because if I were
you I would do the same. I still doesn't see many good stocks to
diversify in US (I have 25-30% of my portfolio in US and I put it all
in chbt). I've looked at some stock before focusing on CHBT such as
CEU CMFO CHNG AMCF ARO but none of them even match CHBT at that time.
If you have any others undervalue stock except JOBS which I will try
to look at, it would be very kind of you so that I will have more
stock to compare and might have a chance to diversify.