United Plantation Berhad
Tue, 27-Feb-2024 08:40 am
by Steven Chong • Apex Research

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UTDPLT (2089)

Target Price (RM)

23.57

Recommendation

Buy

• The Group’s FY23 net profit came above our expectations as we had

underestimated the crop production recovery as well as higher-thanexpected

operating margin improvement

• Looking ahead, we anticipate further strengthening of CPO prices

averaging at RM4,000/mt as CPO production remains stagnant.

• We upgrade our recommendation to BUY (previously HOLD) with a TP of

RM23.57 (previously RM 17.66) based on forward PE multiple of 13.5x

and FY24F EPS of RM1.75.

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