Thursday 14 May 2015

SIA Engineering

UOBKayhian on 14 May 2015

FY15F PE (x): 31.6
 FY16F PE (x): 34.0

Management maintained its cautious stance on repair and overhaul business... Most of the discussion centred around the evolution of the repair and overhaul business. New generation aircraft require less maintenance and airlines are breaking up maintenance checks to include line maintenance. For example, A-checks, which are light checks typically performed on a quarterly basis are now broken down into shorter intervals to encompass line maintenance checks as well. Thus there are less labour hours spent on maintenance and this has been the main reason for the 8.8% decline in repair and overhaul revenue for FY15. Notably, most of the decline in operating revenue came from third-parties, suggesting competitive pressure was also a reason. Maintain SELL and lower our price target by 14% to S$3.00. We revise our valuation methodology slightly by employing a straight DDM versus an average of DDM and PER previously. At our fair value, SIAEC will still be trading at lofty 23x forward earnings, vs historical mean of 16x.

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