** PTTGC -BUY with a Bt67 new TP by rolling over target to end-17 to capture its long term growth from PIP. Our target is based on PTTGC’s 5-year forward core PE mean of 9x.
Event : There is a lightning at its olefins cracker #3 since mid-May and had damaged its coils, resulting a completely shutdown. It expects the plant to resume its operation at 66% by mid-Jun 16 and to operate at full capacity by Aug 16.
PTTGC has insurance coverage under Machinery Breakdown with US$5m deductible and Business Interruption with a 90-day grace period.
Comment : Negative news to PTTGC in S-T with 4% impact to bottom line if the company is unable to receive any compensation from insurer.
- We have revised down net profit forecasts by 8.1% in 2016 and 0.7% 2017 to take into account the following factors.
1) the total loss from this incident worth Bt1.2b, 2) lowering our PX and BZ spread assumptions to be in line with management guidance and 3) We assume some benefits from PIP into 2016-2017 earnin...