Hi Rahul ~ Your Question is quite interesting and I’m sure over 80000 shareholders of City Union Bank would like to know too !
On November 12,2012 I had blogged on a surging L & T Finance and it’s stake in CUB
“Should you retain CUB ex rights for 3 months?” is what you ask
The Answer depends on the Shareholder’s Risk Profile and whether the shareholder is comfortable with a Long Term Outlook on CUB
Of Course your Question is specific on the time Period ~ 3 Months
There are Two Approaches to Consider here and assess their weightage in your decision making to immediately sell or hold CUB ex rights
- Immediate to two to three months ex rights Impact on Share Price and Traded Volumes because of the Rights Issue ~ There will be some price pressure ex rights
- Assets and Earnings Valuation of CUB and Interesting Shareholding Developments going into 2013 ~ I will give more weightage to this
Rational Thinking and Maintaining Same Scrip Weightage Exposure in the Portfolio would guide you to adopt a strategy of replacing existing original CUB holdings with Cheaper Rights at Rs 20 ~ However the Rights Ratio is only 1: 4 and the Rights Pricing is attractive at Rs 20 and therefore it will not be possible to replace entire original holding as you may not get more shares than entitled even if you do apply for them ~ so you could adopt the strategy of selling 25% of your original holding now ex rights @ Rs 50 knowing you will be getting the same quantity in the Rights at Rs 20 ~ this will serve two objectives ~ Reduce your Holding Cost while maintaining CUB weightage in your Portfolio
The Risk you take here is that the Share Price of CUB actually will move up in 2013 from ex rights Rs 50 levels ~ This brings us to the Assets and Earnings Valuation Assessment of CUB ~ Ex Right the Book Value drops to Rs 30 +and the FY 13 Projected EPS to Rs 5+ giving us relatives of P/BV of 1.6 and P/E of 10 ~Despite the Pressures on Margins and rising NPAs with such a huge FII Shareholding of over 21% of the Equity as well as L & T Finance being the largest shareholder holding just under 5% in CUB,my sense is that 2013 will be a very interesting year
I would take a longer term view and give more weightage to continuing and sustainable valuations and the interesting shareholding developments that may take place in 2013 and beyond in CUB and would not sell CUB ex rights ~ Of course this would mean I’m increasing my shareholding in CUB through subscribing for the Rights and therefore also increasing the CUB weightage in my Portfolio
I suspect what most will do is to sell 1/4 th original holding right away ex rights at Rs 50 and replace these with the Rights Shares at Rs 20 ~ I also noticed heavy buying cum Rights at Rs 60 by those who are playing the Rights Game with a Financing and Fixed Return and Stag Mindset ! Their holding cost will be Rs 52 /share => 4* 60 + 1*20 => 260/5=> Rs 52 ~ Therefore they may sell when CUB moves to just Rs 55 and beyond to capture their 5 % absolute Interest Returns in the next two to three months ~ Therefore in the Short Term there will be some Pressure on the CUB Share Price ~ but will it drop towards Rs 40 ! ? I think one should take the risk it will not given the Valuations and Shareholding Situations that I’ve specified above
Yesterday CUB became ex rights at as I had stated in my earlier blog will trade ex rights around Rs 52 ~ Today is the Rights Record date
Volumes have been quite strong on the last two days of CUB being cum rights and then again yesterday on the first day of CUB going ex rights ! Even today as we approach 1.30 pm the BSE Volume is approaching 100000
|
Date |
Open |
High |
Low |
Close |
WAP |
No. of |
|
| 12/11/12 |
59.20 |
61.25 |
59.00 |
59.45 |
60.10 |
11,01,960 |
|
| 13/11/12 |
60.00 |
60.45 |
59.75 |
60.00 |
59.99 |
2,02,866 |
|
| 15/11/12 |
60.00 |
60.05 |
59.45 |
59.90 |
59.86 |
4,23,013 |
|
| 16/11/12 |
60.00 |
60.00 |
58.50 |
59.00 |
59.71 |
2,28,064 |
|
| 19/11/12 |
59.25 |
59.90 |
58.90 |
59.00 |
59.28 |
1,98,301 |
|
| 20/11/12 |
59.35 |
62.40 |
59.35 |
61.00 |
61.33 |
7,21,097 |
|
| 21/11/12 |
61.50 |
61.80 |
60.05 |
61.25 |
60.98 |
3,27,580 |
|
| 22/11/12 |
54.35 |
54.35 |
50.60 |
51.35 |
51.33 |
4,79,304 |
What I also suspect should happen is some selling by over 3000 employees who may want to book profits ~ Employees are getting a bonanza quota of shares at Rs 20 and may want to cash in when allotted in December 2012
So CUB Price may remain subdued in the next Few Months~ However my sense is that for the Longer term CUB needs to be retained unless you want to risk and play a strategy of sell now ex rights @ Rs 50 ,take the rights at Rs 20 and then consider to buy in yet again if Price drops to Rs 40 ~ this price drop may not happen though ~ moreover experience tells me that one rarely buys back what one sells ! ~ and CUB shareholders are Investors ~not traders or jobbers who try to make a living getting in and out of CUB ! ~ Right !?
Hope Rahul,I have outlined my view clearly as also outlined the strategy that I suspect will be adopted by shareholders and employees
Come on CUB ! Don’t let me down ! ~ Lets Hope CUB moves up strongly past Rs 70 in 2013 ! ~ perhaps courtesy L & T Finance !
Another way of Looking at it is this way ,Rahul ~ If I have been a Shareholder of CUB for awhile now it means I have conviction in CUB ~ Now if I’m entitled to Attractive Rights at Rs 20,of course I shall add to my Holding ~ Why would I think to sell unless my conviction in CUB is shaken ! ~ On the Contrary the developments in CUB should interest me even more !
Disclaimer: Neither my Family nor me hold CUB Shares. However a few I know well,do though not held under my advice~ However they too have asked me the same Question that Rahul has posed and that led to this Blog