Equity Research Analyst, Maritime sector, Drewry Maritime Financial Research

Ankush Kathuria CFA, FRM

Equity Research Analyst, Maritime sector

Maritime Sector, Equity & Credit Research

Drewry Maritime Financial Research

With no ties to other players in the shipping, finance or banking world, we provide a uniquely impartial view of the markets and companies we cover. Our parent organization, Drewry is a leading independent provider of research services to the maritime and shipping industry, employing over 100 professionals across an international network of offices in London, Delhi, Singapore and Shanghai. Combining our market-leading resources with seasoned sector expertise DFRS offers a highly differentiated and comprehensive range of investment and financial research services to lenders and prospective investors in publicly listed maritime and shipping companies. The full service of reports, supporting resources and sector orientated webinars provides our clients with the most complete picture of the organisations under coverage as is possible. We have been charting and analysing the world’s maritime markets for more than 40 years. This unrivalled intelligence and understanding provides the foundation of our research service. Our analysts have access to one of the most up-to-date, comprehensive and reliable sources of market insight and research data available today. We look at globally listed companies within the following sectors: Port Operators, Container Shipping, Container Manufacturing & Leasing, LNG Shipping, Dry Bulk Shipping and Tanker Shipping. Combine in-depth sector expertise with financial analysis focusing on over 50 stocks globally.

Equity Bottom-Up

Yang Ming Marine Transport / Equity Bottom-Up

<p><strong>Top-line signals recovery, but huge debt burden plays spoilsport.</strong> The turnaround story we have been advocating for the liner sector is building in favour of even our laggard stocks. Yang Ming’s (YMM) operational performance was noteworthy in 2Q17, with its sales growing by 20% compared to last year on the back of stronger volumes (up 7% to 1.15m teu). Although better sales translated to positive operating income of NTD 143m (USD 4.7m), the first in two years, this was not enough to prevent the…</p>

Top-line signals recovery, but huge debt burden plays spoilsport. The turnaround story we have been advocating for the liner sector is building in favour of even our laggard stocks. Yang Ming’s (YMM) operational performance was noteworthy in 2Q17, with its sales growing by 20% compared to last year on the back of stronger volumes (up 7% to 1.15m teu). Although better sales translated to positive operating income of NTD 143m (USD 4.7m), the first in two years, this was not enough to prevent the…

Yang Ming Marine (2609 TT) – Is the Run-Up in Stock Price Justified?