CII's 2nd General Meeting of Shareholders is expected to be held next October.
Recently, Ho Chi Minh City Infrastructure Investment Joint Stock Company (Code CII) held an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in 2023. However, because the number of shareholders attending only reached 31% of the voting shares, the meeting could not take place successfully. It is expected that CII will have to hold a second extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in October.
Convening shareholders to attend the general meeting with the required voting percentage has long been a difficult problem for CII. The reason is that the number of small shareholders is too large, causing the number of shares to be dispersed and difficult to convene.
CII must hold the second extraordinary shareholders' meeting next October due to failure to convene enough voting shares (Photo TL)
In April 2023, CII also had to give money to shareholders to attract enough people to attend the meeting, but ultimately failed and had to hold a second shareholders' meeting the following month.
With this extraordinary shareholders’ meeting, CII plans to announce a number of business plans for the coming time. Notably, it will study 6 BOT projects with a total investment capital of up to 75,000 billion VND.
With a debt of 13,000 billion and heavy interest, where does CII get the money to do the BOT project worth 75,000 billion?
Although information about CII researching 6 BOT projects with a total investment of up to 75,000 billion VND was released before, investors are still skeptical about CII's ability to carry out these projects.
Specifically, CII is researching and implementing 6 BOT projects including: Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong - My Thuan Expressway Phase 2 with 22,000 billion VND; Improving traffic capacity in the Northwest area of Ho Chi Minh City with 19,059 billion VND; Upgrading and expanding National Highway 1A from Tan Kien intersection to Long An border with 11,982 billion VND; Project to improve traffic capacity along Pham Van Dong - Nguyen Xi - Ung Van Khiem - Nguyen Huu Canh route with 10,108 billion VND; Project to upgrade and expand the North-South axis from Nguyen Van Linh to Ben Luc Long Thanh Expressway with 6,625 billion VND; Project to upgrade and expand the connecting route of Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong Expressway with 5,048 billion VND.
6 BOT projects with a total investment of 75,000 billion that CII is researching (Photo TL)
The plan to study these projects was proposed in the context of CII's business situation facing many problems. Notably, the company's debt situation is escalating along with the huge interest that it has to pay every day.
By the end of the second quarter, CII's total assets reached VND26,649.2 billion, down about 6.7% compared to the beginning of the year. Of which, short-term debt accounts for a large proportion and tends to increase from VND5,166.4 billion to VND6,039.4 billion. It can be seen that in the first 6 months of the year alone, short-term debt increased by VND615.6 billion.
Long-term debt also accounts for VND 7,112.3 billion in CII's capital structure. CII's total debt as of the end of the second quarter of 2023 is VND 13,151 billion. Compared with equity, it can be seen that total debt is 62.2% higher than equity.
With the huge debt of more than 13,000 billion VND mentioned above, CII currently has to pay interest expenses in the second quarter of 363.3 billion VND, equivalent to paying 4 billion VND in interest every day, not to mention other additional costs.
With debt escalating and interest costs becoming a burden, where CII gets the money to do the BOT project with a total investment of 75,000 billion is really a big question mark.
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