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To be comfortable owning Longfor Group today, you have to believe that a pressured mainland property business can still work through weaker margins, tighter financing and softer sales, while gradually rebuilding profitability. The latest half-year numbers, with sales and net income down sharply year-on-year, reinforce that earnings volatility is a central part of the story, not a side issue. In the short term, key catalysts remain any improvement in cash generation, refinancing progress and signs that contracted sales stabilise, and the market’s steep share price pullback suggests this earnings reset was taken seriously. The board change, with Ms. Shen stepping back from the board but staying in senior HR and foundation roles and commercial specialist Mr. Bao joining as executive director, looks incremental rather than transformative, yet it does put more focus on how Longfor wants to weight its mix of investment property and development exposure.
However, one operational risk in particular is worth keeping front of mind. Despite retreating, Longfor Group Holdings' shares might still be trading above their fair value and there could be some more downside. Discover how much.Explore another fair value estimate on Longfor Group Holdings - why the stock might be worth just HK$9.26!
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