Is Lap Kei Engineering (Holdings) Limited (HKG:1690) Potentially Underrated?

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Attractive stocks have exceptional fundamentals. In the case of Lap Kei Engineering (Holdings) Limited (HKG:1690), there’s is a company with great financial health as well as a a great history of performance. In the following section, I expand a bit more on these key aspects. If you’re interested in understanding beyond my high-level commentary, read the full report on Lap Kei Engineering (Holdings) here.

Excellent balance sheet with proven track record

1690 delivered a satisfying double-digit returns of 20.76% in the most recent year Unsurprisingly, 1690 surpassed the Construction industry return of 11.41%, which gives us more confidence of the company’s capacity to drive earnings going forward. 1690 is financially robust, with ample cash on hand and short-term investments to meet upcoming liabilities. This indicates that 1690 has sufficient cash flows and proper cash management in place, which is a key determinant of the company’s health. 1690 seems to have put its debt to good use, generating operating cash levels of 8.52x total debt in the most recent year. This is also a good indication as to whether debt is properly covered by the company’s cash flows.

SEHK:1690 Income Statement June 27th 18
SEHK:1690 Income Statement June 27th 18

Next Steps:

For Lap Kei Engineering (Holdings), I’ve compiled three pertinent factors you should further examine:

  1. Future Outlook: What are well-informed industry analysts predicting for 1690’s future growth? Take a look at our free research report of analyst consensus for 1690’s outlook.

  2. Valuation: What is 1690 worth today? Is the stock undervalued, even when its growth outlook is factored into its intrinsic value? The intrinsic value infographic in our free research report helps visualize whether 1690 is currently mispriced by the market.

  3. Other Attractive Alternatives : Are there other well-rounded stocks you could be holding instead of 1690? Explore our interactive list of stocks with large potential to get an idea of what else is out there you may be missing!


To help readers see pass the short term volatility of the financial market, we aim to bring you a long-term focused research analysis purely driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis does not factor in the latest price sensitive company announcements.

The author is an independent contributor and at the time of publication had no position in the stocks mentioned.

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