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Singapore Institute of Advanced Medicine Holdings Ltd

Singapore Institute of Advanced Medicine Holdings Ltd ("Sam" or the "Company") is offering 114m new shares comprising 4.415m Public Offer Shares and 109.585m Placement Shares at $0.23 each for a listing on Catalist.  The Company aims to raise $26.2m and the majority of the proceeds will be used to repay debt and the balance for working capital. The market cap based on the IPO price is $231.8m and the offer will close on 14 Feb at 12 noon and starts trading on 16 Feb 2024 at 9am.   Principal Business SAM is a healthcare service provider using advanced technology for early and accurate diagnosis to detect and treat cancer, neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases.  SAM has strategic collaborations with public and private institutions for research and clinical work.  SAM's goal is to create a comprehensive one-stop ambulatory cancer centre to undertake the challenges to fight cancer and is one of the first to adopt proto beam therapy treatment in Singapore. Fi

Aspial Retail Bonds - 5.25% 5 years



Aspial announced that it is offering 75m worth of bonds with the following terms:
  • Interest rate: 5.25% per annum
  • Tenure: 5 years
  • Maturity : August 2020
  • Amount for retail investors: Originally $50m, reduced to $25m but can be upsized to $100m if retail demand is strong. (See announcement here)
  • Minimum subscription for retail: $2,000
  • Amount for institutional investors: Originally $25m but upsized to $50m (See report here and the subsequent clarification by Company)
  • Minimum subscription for placement: $100,000
  • Interest payable on: 28 Feb and 28 Aug each year
  • Closing: 26 August 2015 - 12pm
  • CPF: Cannot apply or invest after listing
  • SRS: Cannot apply but may invest after listing
  • Listing date: 31 August 2015
The product highlight sheet is here. I would strongly recommend that you read through the product highlight sheet and this was mandated by MAS in recent years, knowing how investors do not read the prospectus or offering circular. iFast has also done a write up here. Do read it.

The time table of key events is listed below for your information. Key date will be 26 August 12pm where the public offer will close. 

Time Table of Key Events


Sponsor and Issuer Corporate Structure

This is the corporate structure of Aspial and Aspial Corporation is guaranteeing the obligations.


As you can see for the structure, there are a few main business - property development, jewelry retail, pawn broking and the acquisition of LCD development.

In deciding whether to apply for the corporate bonds bearing 5.25%, it is important to analyze the financial performance and balance sheet of Aspial, hoping that it will not fail!

Financial Performance


One of my concerns was the poor 1H performance of Aspial Corporation. This was explained in the first half performance review. The first half results is enclosed for your reference.


I would say that the first half results is horrible. Aspial explained that they would have made a profit if not for the following costs amounting to S$16.7 million for HY2015:
  • foreign exchange loss of S$6.5 million (largely unrealised) due to the decline in Australian and Malaysian currencies;
  • sales and marketing expenditure of S$8.9 million for the global launch of Australia 108 and Avant in Melbourne and the building of a sales gallery and the preparation of marketing materials for the Nova 8 project in Cairns, and marketing expenditure for Waterfront@Faber and City Gate in Singapore; and
  • a one-off cost of about S$1.3 million relating to the voluntary conditional cash offer for the shares in LCD through its 50 per cent.-owned joint venture company, AF Global Pte. Ltd. ("AFG").
Excluding the above costs, the Guarantor Group's profit before tax would have been S$18.3 million in HY2015. Given the major issuance of debt is to fund the real estate business, let's look at the prospect of the real estate business.

Real Estate and Business Prospects

The real estate business is the biggest revenue driver and the key reason for the high leverage of the Company. It is expected to contribute significantly to the revenue and profitability for the following reasons:

  • based on the units sold in its property development projects as at 6 August 2015, the Guarantor Group has locked in total revenue of about S$620 million in Singapore which will be progressively recognised using the percentage of completion method. 
  • the Guarantor Group has locked in more than A$1,050 million of sales revenue from the Australia 108 and Avant projects as at 6 August 2015. The revenue will be recognised upon the completion of the projects. 
  • at current market prices, the potential sales revenue from the Guarantor Group's remaining local and overseas property development projects is estimated to be in excess of S$2.0 billion as at 6 August 2015. 
For the above reasons, i am cautiously optimistic that the Company will be able meet its obligations when they fall due. I have looked at the different debt ratios but felt that given the lumpiness of the revenue and profit, it may not paint a full and meaningful picture.

Existing obligations
The list below is the unsecured obligations under the MTN (medium term notes) programme. You can see that the interest range from 4.5% to 5.5%. The retail bond is likely to be the Series 5 notes due 2020.


Net Asset Value

The picture below is the balance sheets as of 1H 2015.


Based on the balance sheet as of 30 June 2015, there is a "equity buffer" of S$183m for the bond holders given that it is ranked higher than equity holders. However, this does not take away the fact that the balance sheet is highly geared.

How existing bonds of Aspial are trading?


My bond prices are a bit dated at 28 July 2015 (sorry i have deleted the latest copy) but it shows that the existing bonds of Aspial are still trading well but it may make sense of accredited investors to compare the 5.5% bond that expires in Nov 2018 against this issuance to see which bond offers better value. For retail investors, there is no choice for you as the above bonds are traded in tranches of $250,000.

Who is suited to buy Aspial bonds?

Please note that bond investment is not for everyone, and especially not appropriate for investors who have short term liquidity needs. You should only buy bonds with your spare cash and better still, if you intend to hold it till maturity.


Mr IPO's views

While i do have concerns of the Company's balance sheet being overstretched, the Company has been launching interesting property projects in Singapore and Australia - such as Citigate and Australia 108. The likely listing of the overseas property arm on Catalist will also ease concerns on it being over levered as it can then raise new equity

I like the Aspial bonds for the following reasons:
  • Good demand from Institutions and accredited investors at 3x subscribed. This should spur the demand from the retail tranche.
  • 5.25% is a decent yield and will provide a good buffer against future rate increases
  • 5 year is a "just about right" and you can reinvest the proceeds should interest rate rise in future
  • This is not a first time issuance and it is good that the Company has expanded its pool of investors to retail
Although the bonds are unrated, i believe it is worth having an allocation in my portfolio as it provides regular income stream for the next 5 years. I will apply for some and do note that I intend to hold till maturity.

Comments

Anonymous said…
I seldom comment but I really want to show my appreciation for your articles. Thanks Mr ipo! I've learnt a lot from your articles.
Mr. IPO said…
Good to hear! Cos I spent the whole Saturday writing it. Haha :)
Anonymous said…
I ballot for some.Like u say. Bonds is to hold until mature.
Anonymous said…
Thank you Master :)
Anonymous said…
Thank you for your insight . I would just like your comments on the timing of the bond purchase with the impending FED interest rate rising as early as in September ? With his in mind, wouldn't it be better to buy from the open market after September as the bond price might fall below the issue price ?
Mr. IPO said…
My view : I believe the market has already priced in a rate hike but at the same time, Yellen hinted that any hike will be gradual given the uncertainties in global economy. So my take is it may not have the impact u mentioned. - my own view.
James said…
Thanks for the detailed write up, really appreciate it. I'm also considering whether to apply for it. Just not sure whether 5.25% is sufficient for the default risk, given the highly leveraged balance sheet.
The June 2019 Aspial bond is currently trading at similar YTM (approx 5.2%) with a shorter duration, but of course min investment is $250k (!). I guess retailers need to pay a 'scarcity premium' for bonds, in terms of lower yields.
Mr. IPO said…
Indeed! If the laws are less painful for retail investors then it will broaden the instruments we retail have. Case in point - LTA issued bonds to accredited investors and not to retail. Isn't it ironic since default risk is probably zero...
James said…
Yeah, I'd love to have some LTA/HDB bonds in my portfolio! Let's hope Singapore's retail bond scene will improve in the future.

Do you think Aspial is raising money via retail channel because they cannot secure a good rate via the normal institutional channels? I don't really believe they are doing this to 'diversify their source of funding' haha.
Mr. IPO said…
They have done the accredited route a few times Liao... Having retail may lower the rate in future so it's good to start somewhere. The issue is quite small anyway haha.
Anonymous said…
http://infopub.sgx.com/FileOpen/PressRelease27Aug2015.ashx?App=Announcement&FileID=367451
Anonymous said…
Since like demand is strong.:)
Mr. IPO said…
Looks like retail investors are still hungry !
Anonymous said…
Hi again =)
Any thoughts on TLV Holdings aka Taka Jewellery that's coming out soon?
Mr. IPO said…
Forgot to write due to elections. Hahaha. No public tranche. You have placement shares ?
Anonymous said…
None although it might be interesting to trade for awhile =)
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Anonymous said…
Hi Mr Singapore IPO,
May I know the online trading rate for retail bond? Is it the same as trading stocks?
Thanks.
Anonymous said…
Hi,

Can i know what happens upon maturity? Do we have to fully redeem our bonds on stock exchange ourselves?
Mr. IPO said…
Don’t have to do anything.. the principal plus interest will be credited to your bank account (if no default happens).
Anonymous said…
Can we redeem prematurely? Is there any penalty?
Mr. IPO said…
Nope. You can’t redeem prematurely but you can sell it on the market.