In an initiation report on Sunday, analyst Luis Hilado identifies the UK and Australia as markets which would be in line with CDG’s management plans to invest in companies that permit majority control overseas, preferably with rate structures like those under Singapore’s bus-contracting model (BCM) which would allow for immediate earnings accretion.
SINGAPORE (Mar 4): Maybank Kim Eng is starting coverage on ComfortDelGro (CDG) at “hold” with a target price of $2.45.
This comes on expectations the group’s transport focus and global expansion, which will provide a decent shelter amid private taxi-hailing competition, has been priced into valuations of 17 times 2019E-20E P/E.
