Versus the CI

BSA International: Aluminium alloy tyre rims maker, BSA International, is an original brand producer for a number of international tyre rim brands, as well as car manufacturers. Its exports to a good mix of countries constitute 80% of its sales. A transfer in May of its listing to the KLSE main board helped lift its corporate profile. Future plans include tapping the burgeoning Chinese market by setting up a factory there. 

Top Glove: The top rubber glove manufacturer in the country saw its sales boosted by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in April and May, but its share price has been lagging, only bouncing up recently. Top Glove is already the third largest glove maker in the world, but has ambitions to be the largest. Its new factories in Thailand and China should help in its quest. 

UDA: The company has reiterated that property management and development would continue to be its core activities in the current financial year. Its retail segment's performance has been rather uninteresting. But it would be interesting to see if the low profile company can improve on its performance under its new managing director Datuk Zahari Omar, who replaced Datuk Abdul Razak Hussain. Razak retired in May. 

Sinmah: This company used to generate a lot of speculative interest but things have been pretty quiet lately. Operationally, Sinmah has not been performing. A research house has pointed out that while management expressed optimism about its core broiler and eggs business in the latest results review, it has been mum on its newest venture – the management of rubber smallholdings – news of which had generated a great deal of excitement among punters last year. 

Analabs: The company listed to great expectations a few years back, but would need to find a new theme to regain the interest of investors. Despite moving from the recovery and recycling of industrial wastes and precious metals into the recycling of rice husks into fibre polymer composite materials the company hasn't really been able to grow its business. Part of the reason for this, according to Analabs, has been the issuance of 60 new licences to waste recyclers in the past three years. 

Top Glove: The top rubber glove manufacturer in the country saw its sales boosted by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in April and May, but its share price has been lagging, only bouncing up recently. Top Glove is already the third largest glove maker in the world, but has ambitions to be the largest. Its new factories in Thailand and China should help in its quest. 

UDA: The company has reiterated that property management and development would continue to be its core activities in the current financial year. Its retail segment's performance has been rather uninteresting. But it would be interesting to see if the low profile company can improve on its performance under its new managing director Datuk Zahari Omar, who replaced Datuk Abdul Razak Hussain. Razak retired in May. 

Sinmah: This company used to generate a lot of speculative interest but things have been pretty quiet lately. Operationally, Sinmah has not been performing. A research house has pointed out that while management expressed optimism about its core broiler and eggs business in the latest results review, it has been mum on its newest venture – the management of rubber smallholdings – news of which had generated a great deal of excitement among punters last year. 

Analabs: The company listed to great expectations a few years back, but would need to find a new theme to regain the interest of investors. Despite moving from the recovery and recycling of industrial wastes and precious metals into the recycling of rice husks into fibre polymer composite materials the company hasn't really been able to grow its business. Part of the reason for this, according to Analabs, has been the issuance of 60 new licences to waste recyclers in the past three years.