SINGAPORE (June 18): RHB Research has upgraded ComfortDelGro (CD) to ‘neutral’ as the stock looks fairly priced now although it remains confident over the company’s growth recovery.
“While we like the defensive nature of its earnings, investors should consider buying at a lower price (about $2.40),” says analyst Shekhar Jaiswal in a Tuesday report, adding that the stock is trading at 17.3 times 2019 earnings versus its five-year average of 15 times.
SINGAPORE (June 4): ComfortDelGro (CDG) announced that its six-month-old US$100 million corporate venture capital fund ComfortDelGro Ventures has made three strategic investments in transport-related technology start-ups in the areas of on-demand bus technology, fleet management and autonomous vehicle safety testing.
The first is the group’s investment in SWAT, a Singapore-based shared mobility technology company that routes vehicles optimally to offer the highest utilisation rates and service levels.
SINGAPORE (May 28): UOB Kay Hian recommends investors "buy" ComfortDelGro (CDG) on dips with a target price of $2.77 following the group’s results announcement.
CDG on May 14 announced that its 1Q19 earnings have increased by 6.2% y-o-y to $70.4 million, due to higher revenue, driven by strong contributions from recent acquisitions made in 2017 and 2018.
SINGAPORE (May 16): Analysts are mostly neutral on ComfortDelGro Corporation (CDG) after the group announced at 6.2% y-o-y increase in its 1Q19 earnings to $70.4 million, due to higher revenue, driven by strong contributions from recent acquisitions made in 2017 and 2018.
Revenue grew by 7.8% y-o-y to $947.3 million, with the topline growth coming mainly from the Public Transport Services, Automotive Engineering Services and Driving Centre businesses, but this was offset in part by lower income from the Taxi and Bus Station businesses.
SINGAPORE (May 14): ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited (CDG) has announced earnings of $70.4 million for the 1Q ended March, rising 6.2% from $66.3 million in 1Q18 due to higher revenue, driven by strong contributions from recent acquisitions made in late 2017 and 2018.
Revenue for the quarter grew 7.8% on-year to $947.3 million from $878.8 million, with the topline growth coming mainly from the Public Transport Services, Automotive Engineering Services and Driving Centre businesses.
SINGAPORE (Apr 17): OCBC Investment Research is keeping its “hold” call on ComfortDelGro (CDG), but raising its fair value estimate to $2.63 from $2.38 on the back of improved market sentiment for the public transport operator.
Analyst Low Pei Han notes that the share price of CDG’s 74.5%-owned subsidiary SBS Transit has climbed around 56% year-to-date.
She adds that this has been supported by earnings growth with the contributions from the Seletar and Bukit Merah Bus Packages, which commenced operations from March and November 2018, respectively.
SINGAPORE (Apr 3): RHB Securities is staying positive on ComfortDelGro’s growth in the public transportation sector but after delivering 21% YTD returns, the stock now seems fairly priced at $2.59.
While CD’s dividend yield of 4% is still above the 10-year bond yield of 2.1%, RHB says this has fallen a tad below the STI’s 4.1% dividend yield.
“We deem it difficult for CD to continue outperforming the STI, as the stock is trading above +1SD from its 5-year mean P/E of 15.4x,” says RHB.
SINGAPORE (Mar 4): Maybank Kim Eng is starting coverage on ComfortDelGro (CDG) at “hold” with a target price of $2.45.
This comes on expectations the group’s transport focus and global expansion, which will provide a decent shelter amid private taxi-hailing competition, has been priced into valuations of 17 times 2019E-20E P/E.
SINGAPORE (Feb 15): RHB Research has upgraded ComfortDelGro to “buy” with $2.65 target price given the stock could re-rate further on expected strong profit contribution from new acquisitions, continuing organic growth in public transport business and lack of material rise in competition so far from private hire car players in its taxi business.
SINGAPORE (Feb 13): ComfortDelGro, one of the world’s largest land transport companies, today announced that its FY18 earnings have increased by 0.6% to $303.3 million, compared to $301.5 million in FY17.
However, adjusting for the one-off special dividend from A2B Australia Limited in 2017 and the net gain on the Surrender of lease of the property at Teban Gardens from VICOM in 2018, earnings for FY18 would have been $298.2 million, 2.3% higher than earnings of $291.5 million in FY17.
