TSH Resources BHD - strong growth ahead.

(I bought 3000 units of TSH at RM1.80, in early July.)

There are three business segment in TSH -- palm oil, cocoa, and wood products. While the palm-oil segment are growing exponentially, the other two segments were facing difficulties in recent years.

In 2009, palm-oil business had contributed about 80% of TSH's revenue, and 100% of its profit. Hence, we can say that the future of TSH is relying on palm-oil. So, I simply ignore the wood & cocoa segments, concentrate my analysis on its palm-oil business alone.

Let's take a look at the historical figures of THS' palm-oil segment: (RM million)

	Revenue	Profit
2001	83.0	14.5
2002	143.8	19.6
2003	233.5	35.8
2004	272.7	41.9
2005	318.0	35.7
2006	358.3	48.9
2007	575.7	85.3
2008	814.5	88.5
2009	784.2	118.6

During these years, the palm-oil business was growing at a CAGR of 30%.

In recent years, TSH had been aggressively purchasing plantation-land in Indonesia. Today, its accumulated land-bank area already closed to 100k hectares. Among these, only 25k ha had been planted with oil-palm trees. And in these 25k ha planted area, 13k ha are newly planted trees, age only 1~3 years old (i.e. non-matured). The remaining 12k ha trees are in prime matured stages, age 4~20 years.

Hence, we can predict that the oil-palm production of TSH is going to doubled within 3 years, which translated into a CAGR of > 25%.

Then, according to its management, current TSH's expansion plan is to plant up to 5000 ha of new estate per annum. If this target is achieved, then the matured-estates of TSH will be growing at 20% p.a. pace for another 3 years.

Seeing the huge land bank behind it, I believe that TSH will keep its double-digit-growth for many years, deep into the future.

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