Risk factor
Strong & resilient to price shocks
Profitability factor
Greatly undervalued vs peers
About
IRPC Public Company Limited, founded in 1978 and based in Rayong, Thailand, is a diversified industrial firm specializing in the production and distribution of petroleum and petrochemical goods. It serves markets across Thailand, Singapore, and internationally, with operations segmented into Petroleum Products, Petrochemical Products, and Other Business. The company's extensive petroleum portfolio encompasses various fuels like liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), gasohol, gasoline (including base forms), diesel (with base options), and fuel oil. It also supplies specialized products such as lube base oil, slack wax, a range of aromatic extracts (treated distillate and residue), asphalt, straight-run fuel oil, white spirit, C9 aromatics, toluene, and xylene/mixed xylenes. In the petrochemical sector, IRPC manufactures polymers including polyethylene, polypropylene, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), acrylonitrile styrene (AS), polystyrene, expandable polystyrene (EPS), and various additives. Beyond manufacturing, IRPC provides essential industrial utility services, including generating and distributing electricity, power, steam, industrial water, and air systems, alongside offering wastewater treatment solutions to industrial clients. The company also manages comprehensive port and tank services, which feature amenities like tugboats, piloting, lighters, fresh water and fuel supply, weigh scales, container yards, warehouses, and specialized machinery for transshipping goods. Additionally, its diverse activities extend to asset management, renting oil vessels, manufacturing and supplying plastic resins, operating vocational schools, distributing non-woven fabrics and medical consumables, facilitating petrochemical product distribution, and overseeing power plant, jetty, and other utility operations. The company adopted its current name, IRPC Public Company Limited, in October 2006, having previously been known as Thai Petrochemical Industry Public Company Limited.
Company Valuation
Based on key historical and expected multiples, the stock is greatly undervalued relative to its peers. In particular, the stock is underpriced on P/E, of fair value on E
Target Price
The average target price of IRPC.BK is 1.7 and suggests 7% downside potential. Usually, this means a SELL recommendation among investment firms, or a recommendation to de