PP 7767/09/2010(025354)

Malaysia
RHB Research
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MARKET DATELINE
27 April 2010

Genting Singapore Share Price

Fair Value
:
:
S$0.86
S$1.35
Recom : Outperform
The Competition Starts Now (Maintained)

Table 1 : Investment Statistics (GENS; Code: G13 ) Bloomberg: GENS SP

Net Net
FYE Turnover Profit ^ EPS # Growth PER C.EPS* P/CF P/NTA EV/EBITDA Gearing GDY
Dec (S$m) (S$m) (cent) (%) (x) (cent) (x) (x) (x) (%) (%)
2009 491.2 (167.0) (1.4) (191.7) n.m. - n.m. 3.7 n.m. 26.8 0.0
2010f 2,550.1 318.5 2.7 290.8 31.6 3.0 8.4 3.3 16.8 50.3 0.0
2011f 3,339.8 439.3 3.8 37.9 22.9 4.0 9.4 2.9 11.8 38.0 0.0
2012f 3,933.8 693.0 5.9 57.7 14.5 5.0 8.1 2.4 10.0 22.4 0.0
Straits Times Index ^normalised * Consensus Based On IBES # fully diluted for 2009 rights issue

♦ Marina Bay Sands opening today. Marina Bay Sands (MBS) will open its Issued Capital (m shares) 3,703.6
Issued Cap (m shares)
first phase with 963 out of 2,560 hotel rooms, a portion of its shopping Market
– fd for Cap(RMm)
rights 11,690.1
25,369.4
mall, restaurants and the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, the event Daily
MarketTrading Vol (m shs)
Cap(S$m) 5.9
10,579.5
plaza and the casino today. The Casino Regulatory Authority issued a 52wk Price Range (RM)
Daily Trading Vol (m shs) 6.40 -102.1
9.25
casino licence to MBS yesterday, 26 April 2010. Although the casino licence Major Shareholders:
52wk Price Range (S$) (%)
0.55-1.32
has been awarded to MBS, recall that RWS needed a few days to reset the Kien
MajorHuat Realty Sdn Bhd
Shareholders: 41.5
(%)
systems back to zero and to get the real “chips” ready before it could Free floatBerhad
Genting 58.5
54.3
officially open, and the casino only opened a full 8 days after the licence
was awarded. If we assume a like-for-like scenario, it could be possible FYE Dec FY10 FY11 FY12
that MBS may only be able to open the casino in a few days time. FYE Dec FY07 FY08 FY09
EPS chg (%) 0.7 0.8 0.4
♦ Cannibalisation of market share or growth of gaming market? We EPS chg (%)
Var to Cons (%)
(6.0)
(9.2)
(5.9)
(6.0)
(6.0)
18.6
believe MBS would likely face similar teething issues as RWS and would Var to Cons (%) (1.7) (0.0) (14.5)

also take some time to ramp up the hotel rooms and gaming tables to full Share Price Chart
PE Band Chart
capacity. As such, while we do expect to see some visitor cannibalisation
at RWS on the opening of MBS, we believe the effect could be a short-term
one. In addition, we expect MBS’ opening to actually result in enlarging the
gaming market, rather than shrinking the existing market, as we expect to
see more visitors coming through to Singapore once both casinos are
open, as the “pull factor” would be greater.
♦ Seven takeaways from recent visit. We recently visited the company
and came away with some updates on RWS’ operations: (1) more than
60% of tables operating currently; (2) no significant drop in visitor
numbers since CNY; (3) table drops in line with expectations, mass table
Relative Performance To FSSTI
limits raised; (4) still waiting for junket approvals; (5) hotels still fully Relative Performance To KLCI
occupied; (6) Universal Studios Singapore tickets doubled up already; and
(7) preoperating losses to be lower qoq in 1QFY10.
♦ Risks include, amongst others: 1) regulatory risk – with regards to casino
licence and junket operators licences and commission structure; 2) new
market risk – Singapore is an untested market; 3) competition risk – in FSSTI
view of the liberalisation of the Asian casino industry and revitalisation of
Genting Singapore
previously halted construction plans in Macau; 4) operational risk –
relating to RWS, which could end up with higher-than-expected operating
costs; and 5) external risk – relating to economic stability and recovery as
well as factors like the risk of a serious contagious disease outbreak.
♦ Forecasts and investment case. Post-visit, we tweaked our forecasts
slightly, by +0.4-0.8% for FY10-12. No change to our S$1.35 fair value,
based on blended average of EV/EBITDA (12x FY11 based on regional
average) and DCF methodologies. At current price levels, GS’ EV/EBITDA
of 11.8x FY11 is now at a 6.3% discount to its regional peers average of
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♦ Marina Bay Sands opening today. Marina Bay Sands (MBS) will open its first phase with 963 out of 2,560
hotel rooms, a portion of its shopping mall, restaurants and the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, the
event plaza and the casino today. The Casino Regulatory Authority issued a casino licence to MBS yesterday,
26 April 2010. The rest of the hotel rooms and suites, the Sands SkyPark and additional shops will be opened
during the Grand Opening on June 23, while the museum, theaters and the remainder of the shops will open
towards the end of the year. The progressive opening is not unlike Resorts World Sentosa’s opening, although
RWS only has two main phases of openings, compared to MBS’ three phases.

♦ Is MBS ready? Although the casino licence has been awarded to MBS, recall that RWS needed a few days to
reset the systems back to zero and to get the real “chips” ready before it could officially open. We note that
for RWS, although the licence was actually awarded on 6 Feb, the casino did not open officially until 14 Feb, a
full 8 days after. If we assume a like-for-like scenario, it could be possible that MBS may only be able to open
the hotel rooms, a portion of its shopping mall, some restaurants and the Sands Expo and Convention Centre
today, while the casino may only be opened in a few days time. We believe MBS would also likely face
similar teething issues faced by RWS and would also take some time to ramp up the hotel rooms and gaming
tables to full capacity. Besides having to do test runs on its hotels like RWS did, all the staff and croupiers
have to get licensed by the Casino Regulatory Authority (CRA), and this takes some time, especially now that
staff of both the IRs will be in a hurry to get licenced. We understand that not just casino staff, but even
cleaners, waiters, general service and corporate staff also have to be licensed by the CRA and this takes
some time to obtain, as the CRA are very thorough in its background checks.

♦ Cannibalisation of market share or growth of gaming market? As such, while we do expect to see the
opening of MBS’ casino to cannibalise visitor numbers at RWS’ casino, we believe the cannibalisation effect
could be a short-term one, if MBS faces the same teething problems as RWS did. In addition, we expect
MBS’ opening to actually result in enlarging the gaming market, rather than shrinking the existing gaming
market. This is because we expect to see more visitors coming through to Singapore once both casinos are
open, as the “pull factor” would be greater. We note that Singapore is well on its way to achieving its tourist
arrival target growth of 11.5-12.5m for 2010, or up 19-29% yoy. YTD Feb 2010, visitor arrivals have grown
by an impressive 21.2% yoy to 1.77m. In Feb 2010 alone, visitor arrivals registered a 24.2% yoy growth,
while visitor days reached 3.2m days, a growth of 17% yoy.

♦ Official government visitor projections much higher than RHBRI forecasts. We highlight that the
official government visitor projection of 11.5-12.5m is 12-23% higher than our projection of just 10.2m for
2010, while the actual visitor numbers recorded in 2009 of 9.67m was also 4% higher than our earlier
projections of 9.3m. For the longer term, recall that the Singapore government is targeting tourist arrivals to
reach 17m tourists by 2015, which would imply a similar tourist arrival CAGR of 10-11% for the next six
years, which we think is not too ambitious a target. Given that one of the key assumptions governing our
casino revenue projections is tourist arrivals, a higher tourist arrival forecast would also raise our casino
revenue forecasts, as we had assumed about 80% of the tourists to Singapore (80% of tourists are of legal
age) visit both casinos at least once during their visits. We note that every additional 1m visitors to
Singapore above our forecasted 10m visitors would raise our forecasts by 10-13% for FY10. We are
maintaining our total tourist arrival forecasts in our assumptions for now until clearer data points are made
available as to actual casino visitor numbers versus tourist arrival figures. We note that based on the actual
2009 tourist arrival numbers, our forecasts now assume only 5.4% yoy growth in tourist arrivals for 2010,
versus the government’s target of 19-29% yoy (see Chart 1).

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Chart 1: Singapore tourist arrivals (RHBRI vs Singapore Government forecast)

14.0
13.0
12.0
11.0
10.0
'marrivals

9.0
8.0
7.0
6.0
5.0
4.0

3.0
2.0
1.0
0.0
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010F 2011F

Tourist Arrivals (RHBRI Est) Singapore Government Forecast

Source:Singapore Tourism Board, RHBRI

♦ RWS vs MBS. We maintain our belief that RWS and MBS cater to different crowds and would actually
complement each other in terms of the offerings and attractions within the IRs (see Table 2). While RWS
would likely appeal to the more family oriented visitors, given the various theme parks available and the
resort concept, MBS would appeal to the business traveller and the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions
and Exhibitions) market. Note that in our projections, we have assumed that MBS has a larger market share
of 51-52% versus RWS’ 48-49% in the first few years of operations. This is based on MBS’ advantage coming
from its convenience of location right in the middle of the city centre which will give it exposure to the more
urban, wealthier business traveller segment; its VIP/junket experience; and its larger number of hotel rooms
available (2,500 versus RWS’ 1,800 rooms) within the IR. Nevertheless, we believe in the longer term, this
could even itself out to become equally distributed amongst the two players. This is on the back of Genting’s
Worldcard loyalty programme which is likely to be aggressively promoting tie-ups and member benefits for
visits to RWS amongst its existing membership base, of about 2.7m. We understand RWS has definitely
added (<+10%) to its membership base since opening, although no specific numbers were given.

Table 2: Resorts World @ Sentosa versus Marina Bay Sands

Resorts World @ Sentosa Marina Bay Sands

Size 49 ha 21 ha

Investment cost S$6.59bn S$7.8bn

Casino opening date 14 Feb 2010 27 April 2010

Key attractions Universal Studios MICE facilities - 120,000 sqm

Quest Marine Life Oceanarium Skypark - 1 ha oasis atop hotel

Maritime Xperential Museum Arts and science museum

Waterfront Promenade - outdoor event plaza

Equarius Water Park
10,000 people capacity

Festive Grand Theatre - 1,600 seats Two theatres - 4, 000 seats

Espa Wellness Sanctuary Banyan Tree Spa (in Marina Bay Sands Hotel)

Hotels 6 hotels with 1,800 rooms 3 hotel towers with 2,560 rooms

Retail 330,000 sq ft of GLA 800,000 sq ft of GLA

Casino Not > 15000 sq m and 2,500 machines Not > 15000 sq m and 2,500 machines

- No VIP tables (est) 50-100 70-100

- No mass tables (est) 500 600

- No slots (est) 1,500 1,600

Source: Company, RHBRI

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Chart 2 : View of Marina Bay Sands (Three Hotel Towers and Sky Park)

Source: RHBRI (@ Apr 16, 2010)

Chart 3: MBS theatres under construction Chart 4: MBS construction in progress

Source: RHBRI (@ Apr 16 2010)

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Chart 5 : View of Marina Bay Sands – theatres and museum (@ April 16)

Source: RHBRI (@ Apr 16 2010)

Update on RWS

♦ Seven main takeaways from recent visit. We recently visited the company and came away with some
updates on RWS’ operations: (1) more than 60% of tables operating currently; (2) no significant drop in
visitor numbers since CNY; (3) table drops in line with expectations, mass table limits raised; (4) Still waiting
for junket approvals; (5) hotels still fully occupied; (6) Universal Studios Singapore tickets doubled up
already; and (7) preoperating losses to be lower qoq in 1QFY10.

♦ More than 60% of tables operating currently. We understand RWS has opened more than 300 gaming
tables already (out of a maximum of 500 and up from 270 tables in mid-Feb 2010) and plans to ramp up the
table openings to the maximum by June 2010, or as and when license for the dealers/croupiers are obtained.
In terms of slots, RWS now has slightly below 1,500 machines which are operational. We understand that
RWS have hired about 9,300 staff already currently (out of a targeted total of 10,000 staff and up from 8,000
staff at end-Dec 09), out of which about 25-30% is for the casino.

♦ No significant drop in visitor numbers. According to management, there has been no significant drop in
visitor numbers since the Chinese New Year opening, with about 20,000-30,000 visitors per day. We
understand the crowd is made up of Singaporeans (40%), Malaysians (30-40%) and other foreigners from
China and Indonesia, amongst others. We understand also, that out of the Singaporeans that have visited,
approximately 10-15% have purchased the annual pass, which we believe is a relatively significant number.
Despite this statistic, we would be unable to gauge the number of annual passes sold so far, given that
repeat visits by the same person would also be included in the daily visitor count.

♦ Table drops in line with expectations, mass table limits raised. We understand that the amount of
money spent per bet on the tables and slots have been better than expected so far, particularly for the slots,
while the table limits for the grind market have even been raised to as high as S$50/bet now (from as low as
S$20/bet previously). However, we note that the table limits are quite flexible and can be changed at any
point in time, depending on demand and supply factors. For example, during peak periods, table limits are
raised and during non-peak periods, reduced. For the VIP tables, table bets have been more erratic, although
on the whole, earnings from the VIP market have been within expectations, making up about half of total
casino revenue. This is in line with our forecasts, as we have projected a VIP:mass market split of 50:50 for

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RWS. Luck factor, according to management, has also been within the theoretical levels so far, which we
believe, should mean that EBITDA margins could be close to 40% for the entire casino operations, in line with
Genting Malaysia’s EBITDA margin over the last few years.

♦ Still waiting for junket approvals. Junket approvals are still in the process, as “some applications” have
already been submitted, although none of them have been licensed yet by the CRA. We understand some of
these applications were put in a few months ago, but nothing has been approved yet.

♦ Hotels still fully occupied. RWS has opened about 800 hotel rooms already (out of a total of 1,350 in
Phase 1, and relatively unchanged from mid-Feb 2010), about 40-50% of which is for the casino patrons,
although this is adjusted on a daily basis, in order to maximise room occupancy. The rooms which have not
been blocked off for casino patrons, are fully occupied. Management expects all 1,350 rooms to be opened by
June for the grand opening. We understand about half of the hotel occupants are Singaporeans, while the
other half are foreigners. No numbers were given for RevPAR (revenue per average room) however. In our
forecasts, we have assumed RevPAR of S$250 per night while occupancy rate is projected at 83% for FY10,
although we expect this to be on a rising trend from the first year of operations. In our assumptions, we have
assumed about 60% of the hotel rooms are sold, while 40% are blacked off for casino patrons.

♦ Universal Studios Singapore tickets doubled up already. USS is now selling about 6,000 tickets per day
(doubled up from 3,000 tickets per day when it first opened) and by June, it expects this to increase to about
12-13,000 tickets per day. Ever since USS opened, the tickets have been fully sold out, and we understand
more day trip tickets rather than 2-day passes have been sold. In our assumptions we have projected about
2.5m visitors to USS in FY10, which, if extrapolated over 9.5 months (as USS opened on Mar 18), would
translate to 8,650 visitors per day. We think this is a reasonable assumption, given that RWS intends to ramp
up the number of tickets sold on a gradual basis over the next few months.

♦ Preoperating losses to be lower qoq in 1QFY10. We understand pre-operating losses would be lower in
1QFY10 than the estimated S$74.2m recorded in 4QFY09), given that the IR started operations in phases
from mid-Jan 2010 onwards already.

Risks

♦ Risks include, amongst others: 1) regulatory risk – with regards to casino licence and junket operators
licences and commission structure; 2) new market risk – Singapore is an untested market; 3) competition
risk – in view of the liberalisation of the Asian casino industry and revitalisation of previously halted
construction plans in Macau; 4) operational risk – relating to RWS, which could end up with higher-than-
expected operating costs; and 5) external risk – relating to economic stability and recovery as well as factors
like the risk of a serious contagious disease outbreak.

Forecasts

♦ Tweaked forecasts slightly. Post-visit, we have just tweaked our forecasts slightly, resulting in a 0.4-0.8%
rise in our FY10-12 forecasts.

Valuation and Recommendation

♦ Fair value and Outperform recommendation unchanged. No change to S$1.35 fair value (see Table 3),
based on blended average of EV/EBITDA (12x FY11 based on regional average) and DCF methodologies. We
highlight that at current price levels, GS’ EV/EBITDA is no longer at a premium to its regional peers, as it is
now trading at at EV/EBITDA of 11.8x FY11, which is a 6.3% discount to its regional peers average of 12.6x
FY11 and a 20% discount to its Macau peers average of 14.8x FY11 (see Table 6). As such, while we do
expect some potential downside in share price upon the opening of MBS, we believe downside risk is limited
at these levels and advise investors to take this opportunity to buy the shares on weakness. Maintain
Outperform.

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Table 3: Genting Singapore’s Fair Value Calculation

SOP Valuation S$m Basis

Sales & Marketing & IT 188.1 12x CY10

DCF UK 847.5 DCF at WACC of 8.7%
DCF RWS 19,410.2 DCF at WACC of 8.4%
Rank stake 103.0 Market value of 10% stake @ 4 Mar 10
Net cash/(debt) (1,108.0) At end-4Q09

Sum of Parts 19,440.8

No. of shares (m) 11,690.1

SOP/share (S$) 1.66

EV/EBITDA Valuation

FY11 EBITDA (S$m) 1,009.4

EV/EBITDA Target (x) 12 Global EV/EBITDA FY11 Average

EV (S$m) 12,113.2
No Shares (m) 11,690.1

Implied Fair Value (S$) 1.04

BLENDED AVERAGE FAIR VALUE (S$) (SOP and EV/EBITDA) 1.35

Table 4. Earnings Forecasts Table 5. Forecast Assumptions

FYE Dec (S$m) FY09a FY10F FY11F FY12F FYE Dec FY10F FY11F FY12F

Turnover 491.2 2,550.1 3,339.8 3,933.8 RWS Casino Visitor Growth (%) 100.0 9.9 12.4
Turnover growth (%) (22.1) 419.1 31.0 17.8 RWS Casino Revenue/Visitor (S$) 160 176 185
Genting UK Casino Revenue Gth (%) 24.3 7.2 9.4
EBITDA (52.1) 730.1 1,009.4 1,126.7 Free cashflow (S$m) (299.2) 817.9 996.3
EBITDA margin (%) (10.6) 28.6 30.2 28.6

Depreciation (37.8) (64.4) (74.3) (76.4)

Net Interest (56.2) (272.9) (276.4) (206.4)
Associates (8.9) (8.9) (8.9) (8.9)
EI (110.6) - - -
- - - -
Pretax Profit (265.7) 383.8 549.8 834.9
Tax (11.8) (65.2) (110.5) (141.9)
PAT (277.6) 318.5 439.3 693.0
Minorities 0.0 - - -
Net Profit (277.6) 318.5 439.3 693.0
Core Net Profit (167.0) 318.5 439.3 693.0
Source: Company data, RHBRI estimates

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Table 6 : Global Peer Comparison

Company FYE Price * Currency PER (x) # EV/EBITDA (x) P/NTA (x)
FY10f FY11f FY10f FY11f FY10f FY11f
Genting Singapore Dec 0.86 SG$ 31.6 22.9 16.8 11.8 3.3 2.9

MGM Mirage Dec 15.89 US$ n/a n/a 14.9 13.1 1.9 2.0
Las Vegas Sands Dec 25.12 US$ 89.7 41.9 16.8 12.5 4.3 4.0
Wynn Resorts Dec 89.50 US$ 149.2 86.9 14.9 12.9 3.3 3.0
Melco Crown Dec 4.85 US$ n/a n/a 13.2 11.2 1.0 1.0
US Average 119.4 64.4 15.0 12.4 2.6 2.5

Crown Ltd Jun 8.06 A$ 21.8 17.1 10.4 9.3 1.8 1.7
Tabcorp Jun 6.87 A$ 8.6 8.6 5.9 5.7 1.2 1.2
Aust Average 15.2 12.9 8.1 7.5 1.5 1.5

Melco Int Dec 3.49 HK$ n/a 79.3 31.0 31.4 0.6 0.6
SJM Dec 5.17 HK$ 14.8 12.9 6.9 6.0 2.7 2.4
Galaxy Dec 3.88 HK$ 38.8 24.3 14.9 9.8 1.8 1.7
Wynn Macau Dec 11.68 HK$ 22.0 18.5 15.3 12.7 11.1 7.2
Sands China Dec 12.62 HK$ 40.7 32.6 16.5 14.2 3.4 3.1
Macau Average 29.1 33.5 16.9 14.8 3.9 3.0

Simple Average
- US, Aust & Macau ^ 48.2 35.8 14.6 12.6 3.0 2.5

Resorts Dec 2.86 RM 13.6 12.8 5.9 5.0 1.6 1.5

Genting Dec 6.70 RM 14.6 11.9 4.2 4.1 2.0 1.7
Malaysia average 14.1 12.4 5.1 4.6 1.8 1.6

# Cells with n/a indicate the company is projected to record losses

* In respective currencies @ 26Apr 2010
^ Simple averages exclude outliers

Source: IBES Consensus & RHBRI

Chart 6: GenS Technical View Point

♦ The share price of GenS began its rally since Mar
2009 and moved along the UTL, before accelerating
to above 1.01 in Sep 2009.

♦ After a consolidation phase, the stock broke out the

congestion and headed to a high of 1.32 in early
Jan 2010.

♦ But, the stock encountered a strong profit-taking

pressure, and was even dragged down to below the
1.01 level in Feb 2010, and fell out of the
supportive UTL.

♦ The stock tried to find a support near 0.835 in Mar

2010, but a subsequent technical rebound faded
out quickly as it closed back near to the 0.835
critical support of late.

♦ Technically, it is facing a critical test near 0.835.

Losing this level will exaggerate the selling
momentum to the support zone of 0.60 – 0.68
region, while a firm support at 0.835 means a
refresh of a possible technical rebound ahead.

♦ Another heavy resistance level is near the UTL and

the psychological level of 1.01.

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the actions of third parties in this respect.

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