Event: Cofco Science and Technology achieved revenue of 9.306 billion yuan in the first half of 2020, + 4.62% year-on-year; net profit of 365 million yuan, + 96.38%; and deduction of non-net profit of 358 million yuan, + 79.24% compared with the same period last year.
In the second quarter, the company's revenue was 5.237 billion yuan, year-on-year + 22.07%, net profit 265 million yuan, year-on-year + 106.59%, non-net profit 262 million yuan, year-on-year + 77.62%.
The demand for medical alcohol has greatly increased, the company has flexibly adjusted the structure of products and raw materials, and the quantity of ethanol products has increased steadily.
In the first half of the year, the company's ethanol product revenue was 4.76 billion (year-on-year + 4.3%), gross profit was 16.1% (year-on-1.2pct), and gross profit was about 770 million (year-on-year + 6.3%). Crude oil prices fell sharply in the first half of the year, domestic ethanol gasoline prices were-23% year-on-year, general-grade alcohol prices were about 6% year-on-year, and demand for medical alcohol increased greatly. According to the needs of epidemic prevention and control, the company made every effort to ensure the supply of anti-epidemic materials, increased the production of medical-grade sterilized alcohol, and maintained an operating rate of more than 95%. The overall sales of ethanol products in the first half of the year were about 800000 tons, including 250000 tons of medical alcohol. On the raw material side, corn prices rose sharply in the first half of the year. Based on the diversified production process of raw materials established for a long time, the company's fuel ethanol raw materials are mainly aged rice, trying to reduce the impact of rising raw material prices on costs. The overall production and marketing of ethanol products increased steadily.
Demand cost impact at both ends, starch and starch sugar and other products under temporary pressure. In the first half of the year, the company's revenue from corn starch, sugars, monosodium glutamate and citric acid products was 19.46,10.78,4.97 and 376 million, which was + 12.8%,-6.2%,-27.0% and-13.8%, of which the gross profit margin of starch and starch sugar was 2.5% and 8.1%. Year-on-year-13.2pct,-5.0 PCT, gross profit-82.3%,-42.0%. As a result of the implementation of the new revenue criteria, performance costs are carried forward to operating cost accounting, resulting in higher costs and a significant decline in gross profit. Affected by the epidemic, the demand for food ingredients and additives recovered slowly in the first half of the year, and the company's revenue from deep-processed products declined.
Persisting in improving quality and increasing efficiency, and the expense rate has maintained a downward trend. In the first half of the year, the rate of sales, management and financial expenses of the company was 1.03%, 2.78% and 0.59%, which was the same as that of 5.33pct,-0.98pct and-0.68pct. In the first half of the year, the company continues to optimize the procurement process and personnel structure, upgrade the process of citric acid, starch and other products, and actively strive for financial discount, the company management expense rate, financial expense rate have declined. The sharp decline in the rate of sales expenses is mainly due to the impact of the adjustment of accounting standards. The company continues to invest in R & D, adhere to quality improvement and efficiency, and has a good customer reputation and foreign trade channels, during which the expense rate has maintained a downward trend.
Investment suggestion: the company is a leading domestic corn processing enterprise with a leading market share of all kinds of products.
With the recovery of oil prices driving up the price of fuel ethanol, the profitability of the company's main products will continue to improve. We estimate that the EPS of the company from 2020 to 2022 is 0.42,0.53,0.60 yuan respectively. Based on the closing price on August 31, 2020, the corresponding PE is 24.3,19.2 and 17.1 times respectively, maintaining the "prudent overweight" rating.
Risk tips: oil price fluctuations, raw material price fluctuations, policy changes