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PT Paramita Bangun Sarana Tbk

PT Paramita Bangun Sarana is a debt-free Indonesian contractor that builds palm-oil mills and jetties for one industrial group, with a record 2025 profit that a large securities portfolio helped set.

The window opens in late January 2026 near $0.14 — the tail of an H2-2025 spike the exchange had suspended — then slides to a $0.034 low in June before settling at $0.043.
$0.043
Share price, 24 Jul 2026
$130M
Market capitalisation
$95M
FY2025 revenue
31%
of pretax profit from unrealized marks
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The statements

A decade of lumpy growth, a record 2025 — and cash that lags profit

FY2018 → FY2025as reported · $
Revenue$95M+33%
Operating margin15.3%−1.3pp
Net income$19M+44%
EPS$0.01+$0.01
Free cash flow$21M+$25M
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As-reported income statement and cash flow, converted to USD, FY2018–FY2025.
  • Record top line. FY2025 revenue reached $95M and net profit $19.2M, both records — but revenue has swung from $94M in 2016 to a $20M trough in 2021, the signature of a project contractor.
  • High returns, no debt. Reported return on equity was 34% on $55.7M of equity, with effectively no borrowings and $28.4M of cash and securities at year-end.
  • Cash is lumpy too. FY2025 operating cash flow swung to $22.0M after a negative $2.7M in FY2024, as percentage-of-completion working capital moved the other way.
Two engines diverge

One quarter shows the headline and the construction engine are not the same number

Q1 FY2025 vs Q1 FY2026 ($M)
Operating income grew 59.8%; a $4.0M unrealized mark-loss cut net profit 94%.
  • The wedge, on one page. In Q1 FY2026 PBSA's construction-driven operating income grew 59.8% to $4.56M, yet net profit fell 94% to $0.08M because the investment portfolio swung to an unrealized fair-value loss of $4.0M.
  • It cuts both ways. The swing is unrealized and non-cash: it never touches the cash the construction work generates, so the near-zero net understates the quarter exactly as FY2025's positive marks overstated the year.
Earnings quality

Strip the unrealized marks and a third of the record profit disappears

FY2025 profit bridge ($M)
Line$M
Reported net profit19.2
Less: unrealized fair-value gain−6.7
Less: realized gain on sale−0.3
Construction-only net profit12.2
Construction-only EPS is about $0.004 against the reported $0.006.
  • A marked-to-model third. FY2025's $6.7M fair-value gain — 31% of pretax profit — is an unrealized mark on Nusadana-managed funds; realized gains on actual sales were only $0.3M.
  • One holding does the work. KPD Nusadana, a discretionary managed account, was revalued 187% in a single year on units the company already owned — from about $0.053 to $0.152 per unit.
  • Still a real business. Construction-only profit of about $12.2M is a record on its own and cash-backed; the concern is quality, not existence — the same marks swung to a loss the next quarter.
When it appeared

Operating profit and reported profit tracked each other until FY2023

Operating income vs pretax profit ($M)
The two lines tracked closely until FY2023; investment income has driven the gap since.
  • A new engine at scale. The link between what PBSA builds and what it reports broke in FY2023 and has not been restored; investment results supplied about a third of the three-year pretax total.
  • Two very different windfalls. FY2023's gap was a real, taxed cash exit — the EcoOils stake sold for $13.75M. FY2024–FY2025's is unrealized marks on a fund book that never touched a buyer.
  • Untaxed, for now. Because the FY2025 mark is unrealized it is untaxed, but it carries an unbooked tax cost on the day it is sold — PBSA paid $2.4M of cash tax when it last harvested the book.
The second engine

A $20M fund book, mostly one manager, valued at its own reported NAV

$20M securities book ($M)
83% sits in Nusadana-branded funds carried at manager NAV; only Indah Kiat has a market price.
  • It quadrupled in a year. The book grew from $5M to $20M during FY2025, nearly a quarter of total assets, funded by fresh cash — PBSA was a net buyer of $7.3M of units, not a seller.
  • A reserve, not just a bet. The portfolio doubles as working capital: in Q1 FY2026 the company sold $2.8M of units to bridge a soft quarter, which is one reason the position is unlikely to shrink to zero.
The customer base

Every major customer, and the entire order book, is one palm-oil group

FY2024 disclosed order book by owner ($M)
About $40M of contracts above ~$0.6M — all Sinar Mas / Golden Agri palm-oil entities.
  • Concentration, not degree. For FY2024 and FY2025, every customer above 10% of revenue was a Sinar Mas or Golden Agri entity; construction is 91.6% of revenue, with no meaningful line outside the group.
  • Growing, and lumpy. Revenue rose 101.5% in FY2024 and 37.9% in FY2025 to $95M, but the backlog turns over roughly annually — no multi-year cushion, so the top line can double or fall by a fifth.
  • Diversification is a plan. Management targets industrial estates, energy and EPC work, but the nearest non-palm job in the book still sits inside Sinar Mas — credible intent, not yet a fact.
Governance

The funds that set a third of profit share a name with vehicles insiders once ran

83%
of the portfolio in Nusadana-branded funds
99.7%
of securities valued at manager NAV, not market
1 of 5
board members independent
83.7%
held by two control companies
  • Self-set values. $16M of the $20M book — 83% — sits in Nusadana-branded funds carried at manager net asset value; only a $0.05M listed stake has a market price.
  • Old ties, open question. Two directors once held senior roles at Nusadana entities. The corpus does not show the family currently owns or controls the manager, and this run could not retrieve that registry fact — a governance flag, not a proven related-party.
  • Aligned on the dividend. The 83.7% control block takes its return pro-rata through the cash dividend, on the same terms as minorities; there is no disclosed related-party leakage in pay or payout.
Capital allocation

A high, cash-backed dividend — sized to construction profit, not the headline

Net income vs dividend ($M)
The FY2025 $10.8M payout is ~56% of reported profit but ~89% of construction-only profit.
  • Paid every year. Per-share dividends climbed from about $0.0024 to $0.0036, funded by construction cash — FY2025 operating cash flow of $22M covered the payout comfortably.
  • Marks left on the balance sheet. The headline payout ratio fell to 56%, but against construction-only profit of about $12.2M it is ~89% — the board treated the paper gains as non-distributable.
  • A small buyback, underwater. A $5.6M programme spent just $1.1M at about $0.071/share in early 2026; against $0.043 today it reads as a confidence signal, not a material return.
The tape

A roughly 6x spike, an exchange suspension, then a round-trip on a thin float

Share price, IDX daily close, late January to 24 July 2026.
  • A momentum round-trip. After trading near $0.022 through early 2025, the shares ran to a $0.13 high and closed 2025 at $0.09 — a market cap of $270M — with no corporate action behind the move.
  • The exchange stepped in. With only about 16% of the stock in public hands, the IDX suspended trading for eleven days in September 2025 as a cooling measure to protect investors.
  • Back near fundamentals. By 24 July 2026 the price had fallen 64% from the peak to $0.043 — still about 40% above the pre-spike multiple, on a thin float with no analyst coverage.
Sum-of-the-parts

Value the cash separately and the market pays about 10x for the construction stub

What $130M of market cap pays for ($M)
The cushion fell 42% in a quarter — from a fifth of market cap to about an eighth.
  • Two things, not one. With near-zero debt, the cash-and-securities stack is separable from the business. Backing it out, the market pays about $115M for construction — 10x normalized earnings, 8.4x operating income.
  • The cushion thinned fast. The stack fell from $26.5M to $15.2M in one quarter as a $4.0M mark-loss and negative operating cash flow drained both cash and marks.
  • The swing factor. Each turn of the construction multiple is worth about $0.0038/share; a 6x-to-14x range spans roughly $0.028 to $0.058, so the case is most sensitive to the stub multiple, not the 7.3x headline.
Scenario ladder

What the shares imply at each construction multiple, cash held fixed

Implied share price by construction P/E ($)
Holds the $15.2M financial stack fixed on $12.2M of normalized construction earnings.
  • The price sits at 10x. At $0.043 the market places the construction business at almost exactly 10x normalized earnings; an 8x multiple — still fair for a concentrated contractor — implies about $0.036, roughly 18% lower.
  • The second variable. The securities stack is about $0.004 per share and Q1 FY2026 showed it can swing a third of its value in a quarter; a reader who marks it conservatively and discounts the stub lands well below $0.043.
Peer multiples

The lowest P/E in the peer group is the marks' arithmetic, not a discount

IDX private-sector contractors (24 Jul 2026)
TickerP/E rep.P/E norm.P/B
PBSA7.311.52.50
TOTL8.28.22.53
NRCA7.37.30.91
JKON7.97.90.34
DGIK12.512.50.90
IDPR20.120.10.85
Normalizing lifts PBSA from the cheapest reported P/E to a 3–4 turn premium over TOTL and NRCA.
  • Cheap is the cushion's arithmetic. Removing $7.0M of FY2025 investment income cuts net profit to $12.2M and lifts the normalized P/E from 7.3x to 11.5x — a 3–4 turn premium to net-cash peers TOTL (8.2x) and NRCA (7.3x).
  • Priced with the best, not below. The IDX prices these contractors off book and returns; on 2.5x book PBSA sits level with TOTL's 2.53x — the top of the group, without a haircut for single-customer risk.
  • Quality on the other side. The construction stub earns above 40% on operating equity and grew operating income 59.8% year-on-year in Q1 FY2026, so about 10x may be fair for that growth rather than rich.
PBSA's 7.3x reported P/E, the lowest of the six IDX private-sector contractors, is an artefact of the unrealized investment gains: removing the $7.0M of FY2025 investment income cuts net profit to $12.2M and lifts the normalized whole-company P/E to 11.5x — a 3-4 turn premium to the two comparable net-cash peers (TOTL 8.2x, NRCA 7.3x) — while backing out the $15.2M cash-and-securities stack leaves the market paying ~$115M (~10x normalized earnings, 8.4x operating income) for the construction stub, so on a clean basis PBSA sits at the sector's top book multiple (2.5x, level with TOTL's 2.53x), not at a discount.
What to watch

A genuine, cash-generative engine; whether the record profit is durable or flattered turns on a few checkable filings.

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Compiled from the full report · 2026-07-24 · For information, not investment advice.