Thursday, July 18, 2019

CK Asset Holdings's Strategic Shift Has The Shares Trading In No Man's Land

Originally created as a pure-play property development and management company (primarily from CK Hutchison (OTCPK:CKHUY), CK Asset Holdings (OTCPK:CHKGF) (1113.HK) has since elected to abandon the pure-play property strategy and is instead essentially “re-comglomerating” itself into a more diverse company with a growing array of income-producing non-property assets. Unfortunately, management doesn’t really have a demonstrated track record here and the company’s transition process is lumpy – property still generates the large majority of earnings, but the land bank is dwindling and there’s no real visibility as to what sort of income-producing assets will come into the mix in the coming years.

CK Asset hasn’t earned back any real benefit of the doubt, and the shares are down about 5% from my last report on the company. Although I do think CK Asset looks undervalued, there’s huge modeling uncertainty, since so much of the company’s long-term earnings-producing asset base isn’t even owned by CK Asset today. Buying in today could lead to significant gains in the future, but that’s really just a gamble/speculation on the management team at this point, and that’s not really my preferred investing approach.

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CK Asset Holdings's Strategic Shift Has The Shares Trading In No Man's Land

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