image

Authoritative Independent Monthly Share Selections Using Technical & Fundamental Analysis

Latest issue now available

REA Holdings - Palm oil firm looks cheap compared with rivals

March 2011

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • RE.
  • Price:
  • 800p
One of the most lucrative sectors to invest in right now is palm oil, with prices now more than triple their credit crunch lows and closing in on the all-time high set in the summer of 2008. For Indonesian-based producer, REA Holdings, the added attraction is that it is also in the middle of a rapid expansion program, which has seen production increase from around 50,000 tonnes of crude palm oil (CPO) in 2002 to 127,200 tonnes last year. But this could be just the beginning with management aiming to increase its planted up area from 32,000 hectares to nearly 40,000 over the next 12 months, while its huge land bank provides the capacity to eventually double even that. REA was originally involved in running rubber estates in Indones ...

To access our archive of articles and to receive current issues you need to subscribe.

Subscribe now

Already a subscriber? Login

With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

All material on this website is protected by copyright. You may use Information retrieved from the www.scsw.co.uk website for your own personal non-commercial use which means that you may not sell or copy this information to any third party without prior written consent. ISSN 1358-183X