Earnings Call: H2 2013

Mar 25, 2014

Good day everyone, and thank you for joining us today to discuss First Pacific 2013 full year financial and operating results. We hope you have been able to get a copy of the results presentation, which is available on First Pacific website at www.firstpacific.com. For today's conference call, we have with us Mr. Manny Pangilinan, our Managing Director and CEO, Mr. Rob Nicholson and Mr. Edward Tortorici, our Executive Director, Mr. Richard Pitcher from our Group Financial Control, and Mr. Joseph Ng of Corp Finance, Mr. Stanley Yang from Corporate Commerce Development, and Mr. John Ryan from Corporate Communication. At this point, I would like to turn to Mr. Ryan for his presentation. Good evening. I'll walk through this in a fairly brisk manner. Those of you who know us are aware that we've got a much larger presentation that we use in our meetings. Any of you who want to be emailed this presentation, please drop us a note after the call. Let's turn to page 2 of the presentation, where there's a brief list of some of the major developments last year. The biggest among them probably is our 1-for-8 rights issue, which finished in July of last year. We raised roundabout $500 million from that offering. We made some additional investments. We bought alongside Meralco, the 70% stake in the newest gas-fired power station in Singapore, and we renamed it PacificLight Power. Working with MPIC, we bought almost 30%, a bit less, of Don Muang Tollway. That's a highway in Bangkok. In the natural resources side, working with IndoAgri in a 70/30 joint venture, we bought a 34% stake in Roxas Holdings in the Philippines. It's that country's biggest sugar business. The two graphics on the right-hand side of the page show that the value of our assets was just over $8 billion at the end of 2013. Over the 10 years or so to that period, we had a compound annual growth rate of 21%. Last year, our dividend yield and payout ratio described in the graphic on the bottom. The payout ratio was 35%, by far the highest we've ever had, and the dividend yield was 2.4%. Let's turn to page 3, where I'll note one or two of the more important of the 2013 results. Recurring profit declined a bit less than 9% to $327 million, and that largely is a result of the decline in the average rupiah exchange rate. It was about 11% last year. Contribution from operations was a little bit up, notwithstanding that decline in the exchange rate. You'll see later on that some of our companies produced some very good news indeed. Turnover was up a bit less than 4% to $6.2 billion, and that's the third highest it's ever been. Let us turn now to page 4, where we'll talk a little bit about highlights of the operating performance. The reported profit, as you can see there, was down quite a bit, by about a third to $235 million. There are some big non-recurring items relating to Philex and PLDT, and we had some foreign exchange losses there as well. Again, the contribution was up slightly to $467 million. That breaks down in the table below where you can see PLDT raised theirs to almost $210 million. MPIC delivered its highest ever to us. Indofood, as you can see, was down, and that is purely a result of the rupiah's difficulties during the year. In local currency terms, they had their eighth successive record high core profit. Philex, coming off a difficult shutdown of its Padcal mine and very low gold and copper prices, saw a sharp fall in its contribution to us. Our three new investments I described a moment ago made their first contributions to First Pacific in 2013. FPM Power, that is the owner of PacificLight Power, that has got some startup costs there. Our dividend income for the third year in a row was over $300 million, as you can see in the graphic on the right-hand side of the page. Contribution and recurring profit are also graphically illustrated, showing the long-term growing trend. Let us turn now to page five for a brief note about PLDT. After two years of declining profit, it returns to earnings growth in 2013, and the driver there is an acceleration of growth among data services such as mobile broadband and corporate data. We are expecting earnings to continue growing in 2014 and beyond. Free cash flow at PLDT was a little bit less than $1 billion, and for the seventh year in a row, they paid out 100% of their core earnings to shareholders. They delivered to us the bulk of our dividend income. The graphic in the middle of the page on the right-hand side gives you an illustration of how the service revenues evolved from 2012 to 2013. On page six, you see Metro Pacific has all of its major operating units showing a growth in their contribution. So their core income was up a double digit 10% to 7.2 billion pesos. The outlook, notwithstanding some quite serious concerns about regulatory matters, you may bring this up in the Q&A, the outlook is quite positive for Metro Pacific. Now let us turn to page seven, a brief word about Indofood, where I will repeat, they had in local currency terms, their eighth successive record high earnings. As you can see in the middle graphic on the right-hand side, all their businesses did extremely well except for what you would expect did not do too well. The edible oils and fats was hurt mostly by very low prices for palm oil. Let us turn now to page eight, where we have got a brief indication of Philex's performance in 2013. The two graphics on the right-hand side describing the production cost and prices for gold and copper really illustrate what happened to Philex's earnings in 2013. Prices were lower for both of those metals. They had greater production volumes in 2013 than in the previous year, which is a positive. Going forward, I think we can expect some growth in their daily production volumes in 2014, which should contribute to a pretty good solid 12 months for Philex, notwithstanding our lack of control over prices of those two commodities. Now turning to page nine, I will not read off all of these goals. These are, in fact, not even a list of all the goals for our operating companies, the old ones and the new ones. The most important, of course, are the goals for First Pacific head office. We want to conclude an acquisition offering a strong return. I am sure you folks will bring that up in our Q&A session. We hope to guide all our investee companies to continued earnings growth, and that, frankly, seems much likelier than not. Going forward, we want to fully integrate our new investments into the group's portfolio. That is the sugar, that is the toll road, that is the power plant, and other new investments that we will be making going forward. The rest of the slide describes some more focused goals for the operating companies. This presentation ends with a contribution summary and some other financial statistics regarding our performance in 2013. Let me end the narration here, and Sara will bring us into the Q&A now. Thank you. We are now ready for questions. Ladies and gentlemen, if there are any questions on the line, please press the star followed by the one on your touch tone phone. You will hear a tone indicating that you are in the queue. Again, if you would like to ask a question, please press the star followed by the one. Your first question will come from the line of Nick van Broekhoven of Value Square. Please go ahead. Yes, hello. Good evening. I was just wondering if you could give me your thoughts on using some of the cash. Last year, we did the capital raise, and then actually, you were not creating any value or buying back stock above the amount you issued stock. I do not think that makes any sense. At least now you are buying back stock reasonably below where you issued stock. In any event, this money was not raised to buy back stock, but to do an acquisition. So where are we on this? On the last two conference calls, you seemed to indicate they were close. But the last small deals you have been doing, I think actually confuse investors more because you are always trying to do these joint ventures with your subsidiaries. If a holding company wants to trade at a low discount, it should be easy to understand and not difficult with all these co-investments. Could you just explain the rationale for all these co-investments? Also, are we finally going to see something in your core area being ASEAN instead of a power plant, for example, in Singapore? Okay, it is Robin here. I think we met, actually. Robin Nicholson. First let me say that as a holding company, we do look to our operating entities for expertise in certain specific areas. I think that explains why we have been prepared to team up with subsidiary and associated companies when making certain infrastructure or other investments around the region. It does make sense to combine the capital and transactional experience of the head office with the detailed sector experience of the operating companies. I think that is something you can expect to see in the future. We are not an easy group, going to your point about complexity. In a way, that is part of our charm. Those who know us will know that we have a portfolio of investments that complement each other to some extent. They certainly offer an opportunity to spread risk. It does not mean that we are easy to analyze, and I do not expect that we are going to get easier as we look at new investments. In terms of what we are trying to do to allocate the capital, things are expensive in Asia at the moment. We need to be careful we do not overpay, particularly if we try and allocate the capital in larger segments. We will stay within those areas where we have got specific expertise somewhere within the group, whether that is food or infrastructure or agriculture. You can expect to see further acquisitions in the agriculture front, I hope not too long from now. We would like to do something on the Consumer Branded Products front, but prices are high. We have to make sure that if we do anything, it is a special situation or some opportunity where we can add value. Singapore, I think, is within ASEAN. A little bit of a mistake to push Singapore further out into the Indian Ocean or wherever it currently lives. Power is certainly an area where I think we would look for other opportunities. Again, power is expensive at the moment in Asia. If you know that sector, you will know that returns which are available are high single digits. There is a lot of competition for opportunities, so we need to be careful that we do not, in our haste to allocate the capital, to resolve the uncertainty that having that brings, that we do not end up overpaying. To summarize, we will be sticking within Asia, we will be sticking within one of our key areas. We can expect to see further acquisitions in the agricultural space. We can expect to see, I hope, infrastructure and further Consumer Branded Products opportunities being taken. I would not rule out power, although at the moment, prices do not make it easy to go for power in Asia. Nick, I think we are seeing you next week, Thursday. Is that right? Yes, that is right. I think, you raised money last year in the summer, so next month will be April, so it has been a long time. At that time when you raised the money, it seemed to indicate that you have something which would be closer. I think many investors are waiting to see how you put this money to work to reward you with a higher rating for your equity. The last year and a half or two, if you look at your recurring profits, have not really been growing. I know there has been some issues, et cetera. I just wanted to understand how your feelings were about that. I know Singapore is in ASEAN, but I was referring to, let's say, larger countries in ASEAN, let's say more the Vietnams and Thailands of this world, where you might not have exposure yet, or very little exposure after the toll road deal you did, et cetera. Anyways, on terms of capital returns, dividends, and buybacks, that's going to continue this year? Well Right. Yes. Yes. That's true. I think, today we approved a 35% dividend payout out of core for 2013, and 10% of the core will be allocated to share buyback. Okay. I had a question on MPIC. I saw the company itself recently. It seems that there's quite a lot of moving parts in terms of government intervention or government not letting them pass on toll road increases, government being difficult in the water concessions. I was just wondering if Manny could give any comments on his views for these sectors in the Philippines. I know it's not just MPIC. I know it's not specific to you, but it's more the whole regulated utility sector in the Philippines. Any comments on that, I would be interested to hear. I'll let Manny address the situation in the Philippines. I would say, you need to be mindful of the fact that MPIC is continuing to perform very well. In each of the entities, even though there may be some background noise by virtue of discussions with the relevant agencies over their franchises, all of these companies have done very well. If you look at our track record in infrastructure in the Philippines, we have been very successful of driving value and cash out of these infrastructure projects. Anyway, Manny, over to you. Well, yes, we've been experiencing for the past few months, difficulties with the regulatory environment. I think, the situation with respect to tollways, not all these companies, whether ourselves or the San Miguel Group, have gotten any rate increase. In our case, in respect of Cavitex, in Cavite Tollways, it's been about two years. NLEX is about a year, and we're in arbitration. Manila Water has got this issue on the generation cost. I think if we look at it one by one, and looking at the first two months numbers of Metro Pacific for this year, all of the operating companies, despite the regulatory difficulties, have shown increases in their profitability, principally because volumes are up. In the case of the tollways, volumes are up 6% and there's been a slight increase in the tariff of the tollways, mainly because of the mix of vehicles that have been traveling through the tollways. On the water side, volumes are up by 4%. There's been some slight inflationary adjustment to the tariff. So the income of Manila Water has been up for the first two months compared to the first two months last year. Of course, hospitals are showing their normal high growth. Now, Meralco, the issue revolves not on our distribution charge, which has been kept. In fact, it's more the GenCos. As you know, it's a pass-through, whilst we do get the brunt of public comment in the Philippines. But at the end of the day, Meralco's financial position is basically agnostic to this generation charge. At the end of the day, the suggestion that we quietly put the government about recalculating the gen co charge has been accepted by them. It's now our job. We were given the rates that we should charge the consumer. It's now our job to charge it to the consumer, and it has absolutely no impact on the P&L or the cash flows of Meralco. From a purely financial perspective, all of this noise surrounding the generation charges had no impact on us. Volume has not grown as quickly as it has in the past. It's about 1.8% ahead of last year. That's partly explained by the fact that for the month of January, temperatures are down compared to last year. Now with the coming warming months, starting March, we're seeing volume going up in growth rates compared to last year. Yeah, we ourselves are surprised with the performance of Metro despite these challenges. Now, on the part of PLDT, it is not regulated, but still, I think the first two months have been very good for them as well. So in the case of the Philippines, we should see a good growth in profitability. All right. Thank you. I will let some other people ask questions. See you next week, Nick. Mr. Choi, please go ahead. Hi. I have two questions. Can you hear me? Yes, we hear you fine. Sure. Two questions here. First, can you talk a bit about the performance of FPM Power? I think start of operation on official basis in February. How is that tracking versus your expectation? Second is, can you talk a bit about the expectation for margin over at Indofood CBP? Looks like there was some margin pressure in the fourth quarter, and how do you think that is going to play out in 2014? Thanks. Sorry, what was his second question referring to? Margin pressure of which company? CBP. Consumer Branded Products, got you. Well, I will talk very quickly about our company. I think the first thing to take comfort from is that the building phase has been completed pretty much on time and on budget, and the plant is operating well. Any big development project always carries with it a risk, and it is a relief that we have managed to get through the building phase as anticipated. Market prices in Europe have been soft, lower, I think, than we had hoped. Nevertheless, it is fair to say that there is every indication that the other big gen cos are making a bit of space for us to operate. We have been dispatching at, given we are a startup, at acceptable levels. We expect the company will do slightly better over the next few months, and it is a bit early to say whether in the context of the first year's performance, we will meet our original expectations. We are very pleased that everything is operating smoothly. We have been able to bring in some retail customers, and the other market participants, yes, be making a little bit of space for us to operate efficiently. This is John here. I will give you a bit of help on ICBP's margin pressures. I guess the biggest one there, of course, was in the skim milk powder. That was up quite a bit last year. Indofood Group as a whole had very strong pressure on labor costs. I think for the full year it was something like 17%-19% increase, much like the rest of the Indonesian economy. They did introduce lots of new products, potato chips and things like that. Noodles, even with their massive market share, which I am not allowed to tell you, saw very strong sales growth. If you do look at their numbers, the margins for most of those businesses were down. Overall, it was down to 11% from 13.1% for the year as a whole. Moving forward, you probably saw that they have made some big first steps in their drinks ventures that they are doing with the Asahi Group. The first revenues have been coming in from those ventures, I think it was in the fourth quarter. Overall, for 2014, there is still going to be some margin pressure. They have had to increase their marketing and advertising expenditure a fair amount owing to competition. We expect all in all, 2014 is going to be a stronger year than 2013. I, for one, was kind of disappointed to see that they had a slight earnings decline for 2013. Great. That is very helpful. Thanks. Your next question will come from the line of Mark Webb of HSBC. Please go ahead. Hello, good evening. Just a couple of questions. Firstly, on your other two new investments, the Don Muang Tollway and also FP Natural Resources, could you provide just a bit more guidance on the profit out or the profitability for 2013 or for 2014? Also just in connection with the head office corporate overhead, just so I can try and understand, they seem to be rising quite a lot. Also within that head office P&L, there is some other head office expenses. What are these other expenses, and will they continue in the future? Hi, Mark, it is John here. Okay. You can hear me okay? The toll road- Yes in Bangkok is actually a splendid little investment. I wish we had more than, I think it is what, 34%? No. 29. Just under 30% we have. Thanks, Dan. Their core profit rose to $25 million, I am talking USD here, from $20 million in 2012. The revenues were up to $70 million from $58 million. If you look on their website, they have got a pretty decent annual report that you can look at. Of particular interest to us is their dividend payout is near enough to 100% of their core earnings. Notwithstanding all the fuss we have seen in Bangkok in the past few months, we are still seeing and expecting to continue traffic growth on that toll road. It is a very good, stable growing investment for us. With the other one, the- He can finally answer. Yes. That is the typical profile of toll roads, like our toll roads in the Philippines. We do dividend almost if not 100% of the core income of the toll roads. Because once you build the road, the only CapEx you have is the maintenance CapEx for the road, and the rest is cash flow. Mark, were you asking also about the sugar company? Yes, that was it. They have got a funny reporting year. They end in September because of the cycle of the sugar season. I think the big thing to look for is their ethanol plant, which they have spent a couple of years building, is expected in 2014 to begin delivering its share of profit. That should contribute pretty well to growth there. The investment itself, we would like to see as a seed for further growth and consolidation of that industry. I think Roxas Sugar is the largest single sugar producer in the Philippines. They account for about 20% of the total sugar produced. They have three sugar mills in the Philippines, and they mill about 4 million tons a year, equivalent of about 400,000 tons of raw sugar. Part of that is converted into refined sugar, and the molasses are converted into ethanol. It is also the largest single ethanol producer in the Philippines. I think the profit last year was about 600- 650 million. 650 million pesos. I think there's room for it to increase its profitability and its cash flows. In many respects, we're following the lead of IndoAgri in Indonesia, where it has a sugar mill and a sugar plantation as well. Mark, Richard Beacher will say a word about the costs. Evening. Just briefly, the increase this year is in relation to a few things. The largest element of the increase is related to the costs associated with the long-term incentive plan. That was a cost related to the first year of the valuation of that. Next year, that will be down fairly significantly. That is not recurring, to answer the second part of your question. We had a higher average debt balance, and as long as the debts are maintained at the level they are, that will be of a recurring nature. The other non-recurring items that have hit us this year are some one-off expenses in relation to projects that we've been pursuing. We trust that perhaps some of that will be reflected in earnings going forward 2014. To answer your question, yes, we have had quite a blip this year in head office expenses. Going forward, the two large items there will not be of a recurring nature. We're anticipating and budgeting that 2014 will be lower than 2013. Perfect. Thank you, Richard. Your next question will come from the line of Angus Cheng of UBS. Please go ahead. Hi. Good evening. Thanks for taking my question. The first question is on M&A. I remember you guys said that you wanted to diversify away from the Philippines and Indonesia. Hence, I guess, the investment in Thailand and Singapore. Is that still the case with the remaining $500 million or so of war chest? My second question is in relation to a foreign exchange loss of $56.3 million. If my understanding is correct, these are hedging contracts. Lots of in relation to hedging contracts. I suppose if rupiah and the peso weakens, the net impact would be positive from these gains if it's a currency hedge. I just want to understand why the $56 million loss, which seems pretty big, in 2013. Thank you. Robin, let me address quickly your point on M&A. It continues to be our objective to broaden the geographic spread of our key investments, and we are looking hard in countries other than the Philippines and Indonesia. I would hope we are able to find something significant within our area of competence in other countries. However, having said that, I think we will see some further investments in the Philippines because it is our home country, and we do get access to tremendous transaction flow there. We've made a number of investments recently, particularly in the agricultural space. I think we need to build on that. So although they may not be very large in the context of the funds we have to deploy, I would hope that we would see something in the agricultural space in the Philippines. Indonesia also offers opportunities from time to time. I really would be very reluctant to rule out a further investment in Indonesia, but I can confirm it remains our objective to diversify outside those two countries, and we are looking very seriously at significant investments in other parts of our area of operation. As you know, we have got lookout offices in Vietnam and Myanmar, and we have got significant presence in Singapore and in Thailand. We hope that by utilizing that network, we will get access to some interesting transaction opportunities. A brief overview of the foreign exchange. I heard you mention 56.3. That is presumably the figure you picked up quite correctly from the contribution summary, which is on page 10. The narrative below that explains exactly what it is. It is the translation differences emanating from the borrowings within the group. During the year, the closing exchange rate at which those borrowings are translated in peso depreciated 7.5%, and very specifically for the rupiah, 20.7%. That explains the whole of that 56.3. There are no derivative or hedge contracts taken out at the head office. It is purely a retranslation on a consolidated level of the borrowings at the individual companies. Joseph here is just pointing out to me the split, crudely, for Indofood is $500 million of exposure, U.S. dollar exposure. The unhedged element is $112 million. Sorry, the hedged amount is $112 million, and the unhedged is $390 million. In relation to PLDT, the total U.S. dollar exposure is $1.2 billion. The hedged is $200 million, and the unhedged is just over a billion. Okay. That just relates to the retranslation of the borrowings at those investee companies. There is no foreign exchange losses emanating from any transactions that have taken place at head office. Thanks. Just quickly as a follow-up then, can you just remind us on your hurdle rate in terms of investing overseas? My understanding is that the Singapore power plant, and even, I guess, the toll road in Thailand, if my numbers are right, the return on investment seem to be relatively mid-single digit rates, 5%-6%. How do you justify that relative to, I guess, the cost of equity, which is likely to be higher with the equity money you raised last year? Thank you. Well, again, it's Robin here. We don't have a specific hurdle rate. When we look at investments, we don't say, "Chuck those in the bin that don't offer 15% or 17% or 19%." It's always a question of taking a look at the risks associated with any particular investment, and that in turn depends upon the maturity of the thing we're buying, the company that's operating it, the country that's operating it, and the quality of the earnings that we can expect to see from the thing we're trying to buy. We don't have a specific hurdle rate. Everything needs to be looked at in context. I think when we looked at the power, we were looking at higher than mid-low single digits or mid-single digits. It's just too early to say what we will achieve. That transaction is still only just relatively recently closed and the power plant itself just started operations. We just have to see. But we're certainly looking for better than mid-single digits. Similarly, I think with the operations in Thailand. Thank you very much. Your next question will come from the line of Robert Klau of AVI. Please go ahead. Hi, good evening. Two questions. The first is, I noticed from the last page 13, you put the discount at 29.8%. It's obviously expanded a bit to, I think it's currently trading at a 46% discount. You've mentioned you're going to be spending 10% of core profit to buy back shares. What else will you be doing to eliminate that discount? Robert, just a quick word from me on that. The trouble with those year-end snapshots is they can be dreadfully misleading. That 29% you have on December 31 contrasts with, I think it was a 55% we had on June 30. Currently, it's around about 43%, I think at today's close, not quite as high as that 46% you saw. Over the past eight to 12 months, as money moved quite out of emerging Asia, we saw that they moved first out of our operating companies, and only more slowly out of First Pacific. That drove the discount down, then the tide washed back in, so to speak, and pushed our discount back out to the 43% level. Our commitment to repurchases remains firm. It's a signal of our antipathy towards that discount, as you well know. It is our expectation as 2014 begins to deliver the better numbers and the investments we are planning to make, these will help drive the discount down. Robin here may have something to add on that. The discount has been a perennial issue. We've attempted to address it in a range of ways, tried to be completely transparent in terms of how we allocate the capital. We've tried to run our businesses efficiently. We've engaged with the investor base at every opportunity to explain our philosophy. Over the next few months, we hope that we'll be able to make acquisitions that people can understand and like. I hope that in combination, those measures will take the discount back towards the 30% where it's at three months ago. It's a bit difficult to compare us with our so-called peers in Hong Kong, given that we're an emerging market investor and they are really property investors with sidelines. We're about in the middle range of all of those conglomerates listed here in Hong Kong. The fact that we're distinctly average on this measure doesn't really make us feel much better, but it does give a step back, a look at the forest as it would be. Can we have a quick comment on the loan to Philex? I see that's increased up to $80 million. Could you just have a bit of a comment on that, on when the repayments are going to happen? Ultimately, it's our plan to capitalize that loan in the context of assisting with the funding of Philex's long-term investment plans. Indeed, that remains how I think it will ultimately be unwind. As you know, Philex has got a number of projects on hand, including a prospective and quite significant mine down in Mindanao. It does have over the next few years, requirements for quite large CapEx. We've often said to the management of our companies that although we expect them to pay dividends when they have the cash, when they have projects that merit support, we are prepared to put the money in. The loan to Philex really represents our willingness to fund a subsidiary when it needed money for expansion activity. As you also know putting cash into Philippine companies is not entirely straightforward. The procedures that have to be followed there are quite cumbersome. Ultimately, we'll see, I think, that loan capitalized. Thank you. There are no further questions at this time. Please continue. I think just to summarize, this is Ed Tourer. There have been a number of questions in regard to the money we raised last year and why we haven't spent it so far. I think the purpose of raising that money was to have on hand the cash needed to do a significant investment. When we were able to do PacificLight, we had the cash and were able to move very quickly. That was the reason behind raising additional funds after we had spent it on PacificLight so that we could move more quickly when the right acquisition hit the table. Now, all of us have been working diligently looking at deals all over Southeast Asia on a continuous basis. But we're not going to spend the money just to spend the money. We're looking for the right deal at the right opportunity. When that comes, we continue to work hard on looking for those deals. When the time comes, we will have the money to spend and complete an acquisition that you will all like, as opposed to spending it on something that you're not going to like. Thank you, Ed. For those who would like to meet with us in the coming weeks, we will be next week in Tokyo with Nomura. We will be in Singapore with Standard Chartered. In the second week of April, we will be in Europe with CLSA. We are going to the JP Morgan Greater China conference in London as well. Following Easter, UBS and JP Morgan will take us through North America. Those of you who want to meet us, please contact your banker. If you need some help with that, drop a line to me or to Sara. Thanks, John. Thanks again for joining today's call. Operator, please can you provide the replay information? Yes, and thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, to access the replay of today's call, you may dial the Asia Pacific number, 852-3056-2777. Access code is 467-2502. 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