The following is an excerpt from TwinPeak Capital’s Third Quarter Report.
“In terms of specific securities within this quarter, we have entered and exited Koyo International, making a decent return of approximately 17%. On 18 January 2016, the share price of Koyo International crashed by more than 80% due to SGX releasing a statement, urging investors to trade with caution. For the past year, a group of investors have been responsible for the majority of volume traded, pushing the share price up from SGD0.05 to SGD0.40. Having been familiar with Koyo International’s fundamentals, we saw the recent collapse in price a good opportunity to initiate a position. At such valuations, the company trades at a discount to net current asset value with minimal debt. The key issue here is, does being slapped with a ‘Trade With Caution’ alert by SGX warrant a significant selldown of more than 80%? Stock selection requires a skilful balance between the facts of the past and possibilities of the future. As investors, we can never be fully certain of the future; hence, we have to bear and manage risks. While Koyo International was a company whose share price was once manipulated upwards, the fact remains that the current risk reward ratio is largely skewed to our advantage. Based on the above logic, we decided to initiate a small position in Koyo International. Over the course of 2 months, the stock remained fairly muted with thinly traded volumes. However, over the last few trading days, the share price spiked to the highs of SGD0.08 on large trading volumes. We decided to exit the stock at this time despite the fact that SGD 0.08 did not fully represent the fair value of the company because of the inherent risks. While our position may be small, it was still roughly 0.5% of the Koyo International’s market capitalisation. Our key concern was if we missed this opportunity, we would face the problem of exiting in future given the poor trading volumes. Hence, given the chance to exit the investment with a respectable return over a short span of time and trading volumes being in our favour, we felt that it was time to make an exit.”
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