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The big question with Yuexiu Property is whether you are comfortable owning a capital intensive developer where contracted sales volumes and pricing power drive almost everything. September’s print fits into that story in a slightly uncomfortable way. The value of monthly sales barely moved year on year while GFA shrank sharply, and year-to-date figures show softer contracted value but higher area sold. That combination hints at pressure on average selling prices just as the share price has already declined 19.7% year to date and 31.4% over 12 months.
In the short term, that matters for two things you probably care about. First, weaker ticket sizes can make it harder for Yuexiu Property to translate forecast earnings improvement into actual cash generation, which is important when interest costs are not well covered by earnings and the group relies entirely on higher risk funding. Second, a business that is still loss making, with revenue already reported lower in the last year, has less room for project delays or further demand softness before balance sheet concerns start to dominate the discussion.
Even so, the more interesting question for anyone looking at Yuexiu Property now is whether the discount and the forecast profit recovery really compensate for the fact that ...
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