Indonesia Daily Focus November 30, 2020

 

Coal sector outlook – Buoyant optimism

We maintain our assumption on China’s full-year 2021-22F coal production at 3.49bn tonnes (+2.7% YoY) and 3.51bn tonnes (+0.6% YoY), respectively. Of a note, we project China’s full-year 2020F coal production to stand at 3.32bn tonnes. Thus, we retain our average full-year 2021-22F global coal price assumption at USD70.0/tonne and USD75.0/tonne, respectively. We think that China’s electricity consumption would improve further after being hit by the COVID-19 pandemic effect in early 2020.

To give more value added for the nation’s economy, the Indonesian government is getting more serious in supporting coal players which can integrate their coal business into downstream coal sector by giving them zero royalty. We note that PTBA would integrate its coal business into a coal-to-chemical plant through a joint venture with Indonesia’s giant oil & gas SoE company (Pertamina).

As we maintain our average full-year 2021-22F global coal price assumption, we retain our Overweight stance on the coal sector. Meanwhile, we change our top pick from Adaro Energy (ADRO) and Indo Tambang Raya Megah (ITMG) to Bukit Asam (PTBA) as we think that PTBA would benefit from the zero royalty policy due to its coal downstream business plan although we haven’t included this in our financial forecasts of PTBA. Our downside risks are lower global coal prices and changes in regulation.

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