China State Construction (601668.SS)
Industrials · Shanghai · China
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
China State Construction trades at CN¥4.47, which is 126% below the CN¥10.10 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a DCF is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 26 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 5.0 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
About China State Construction
China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an investment and construction company in China and internationally. It operates through five segments: Housing Construction Projects; Infrastructure Construction and Investment; Real Estate Development and Investment; Design and Investigation; and Others. Its housing construction projects includes general contracting and professional contracting projects, such as foundation, steel structure, building installation, decoration, etc. The company's infrastructure projects comprises transportation projects, including highways, municipal roads, railways, urban rail transit, airports, ports and docks, parking lots, tunnels, bridges, and waterways; energy; petrochemical; water supply and treatment; environmental protection; postal and telecommunications; defense and disaster prevention; hydraulic; and other projects, such as outdoor stadiums, outdoor entertainment facilities, land reclamation, artificial islands, underground comprehensive pipeline corridors, pipeline networks, etc. It also includes corridors, ports and waterways, electricity, mining, metallurgy, petrochemicals, airports, and nuclear power plants, as well as expressways and urban integrated management at home and abroad. In addition, the company is involved in the real estate development, financing, and investment activities; and architectural design, urban planning, engineering survey, and other fields, such as airports, hotels, sports, exhibition, ancient, super high-rise buildings, etc. Further, it engages in municipal, transport, energy engineering; water and environmental protection; water conservancy and water transport; and in land development, machinery and equipment leasing, engineering supervision, etc. The company was founded in 1982 and is based in Beijing, China. China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited operates as a subsidiary of China Construction Engineering Corp.
601668.SS passes 6 of our 30 screens today
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Common questions
Is China State Construction (601668.SS) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of CN¥10.10, 601668.SS at CN¥4.47 is 126% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
What is 601668.SS's P/E ratio?
601668.SS trades at 5.0 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
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