Sinwa Ltd is one of Asia Pacific’s leading marine supply and logistics companies. It serves more than 100 ports from 12 offices located in Singapore, China, Australia and Malaysia.SINWA LIMITED'S 2014 earnings soared 41% to S$9.16m on its robust core business.
The profit attributable to shareholders was $8.42 million, up 24% y-o-y.
Revenue increased 10.7% to S$154.3 million, largely due to growth in its customer base and sales volume for the marine, offshore supply and logistics divisions.
Gross profit increased 8.0% to S$37.2 million.
However, gross profit margin declined marginally from 24.7% to 24.1%, mainly due to the disposal of an Anchor Handling Tug (AHT) in the first quarter of FY2014 and to stiff competition in the market as the industry is going through challenging market conditions.
Marketing and distribution costs grew in line with the revenue growth, increasing 13.7% to S$5.3 million in FY2014, mainly due to higher marketing and delivery charges incurred.
Administrative expenses increased at a much slower pace of 6.5% to S$21.9 million.
Consequently, the Group’s net profit after tax grew 41% to S$9.16 million, translating into an increased basic earnings per share of 2.5 cents in FY2014 (FY2013: 2.03 cents).
The Group's cash and cash equivalents amounted to S$24.8 million as at 31 December 2014.
The Board has proposed a final ordinary dividend of 0.5 cent per share. With this, the total dividend for FY2014 will be 2.25 cents per share.
This represents a payout of about 40% of earnings, excluding a special dividend of 1.25 cents.
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- Bruce Rann (above), Group CEO of Sinwa |
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