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Chinese Small-Cap Company Feature: China Transinfo

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:30 AM on Monday, March 22nd, 2010

As many of you know, we are very bullish on the long-term future of Chinese small cap and mid cap companies for two reasons:

1] The obvious reason – China is the fastest growing economy on the planet and nothing is going to slow down its ascent over the next 50 years and beyond. Investing in growth companies there just makes too much sense.

2] Great Results and Valuations – Many Small Cap Chinese Companies are listing in the US (OTCBB, NYSE Alternext and NASDAQ) with great financial results. Unlike many dubious US Small Cap Companies, Chinese Companies don’t seem to believe in losing money or failing to execute in a business plan. As such, 7-digit revenues and profits are very common.

From a valuation point of view, many Chinese companies became a victim of their own success in Q4 2008 and Q1 2009. Why? When the world needed to start liquidating, one of the first places they looked were China where most investors had significant gains to sell into. This resulted in the proverbial baby being thrown out with the bathwater and some great valuations.

TODAY’S FEATURED COMPANY

China Transinfo (NASDAQ:CTFO)

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China TransInfo, through its affiliate, China TransInfo Technology Group Co., Ltd., (the “Group Company”) and the Group Company’s PRC operating subsidiaries, is primarily focused on providing transportation information services and comprehensive solutions based on GIS technologies. The Company aims to become the largest transportation information products and comprehensive solutions provider, as well as the largest real time transportation information platform operator and provider in China. In addition, the Company is developing its transportation system to include Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) technology.

On March 22nd 2010, the Company reported its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009.

Check out the full details below:

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Fourth Quarter 2009 Highlights
— Revenue increased 166.1% year-over-year to $28.4 million
— Gross profit expanded 64.9% year-over-year to $10.0 million
— Operating income grew 26.1% year-over-year to $5.1 million
— Adjusted net income increased 22.3% year-over-year to $5.1 million, or
$0.23 per fully diluted share

Fiscal 2009 Highlights
— Revenue increased 116.8% year-over-year to a record $63.7 million
— Gross profit expanded 53.8% year-over-year to $25.4 million
— Operating income grew 20.0% year-over-year to $13.7 million
— Adjusted net income increased 19.7% to $13.6 million, or $0.60 per
fully diluted share
— As of December 31, 2009, cash and cash equivalents totaled $27.4
million

YOUR RESEARCH STARTING POINTS FOR CHINESE SMALL CAP AND MID CAP COMPANIES

We’ve provided investors with two great starting points to research great Chinese small cap and mid cap companies.

1. ChinaSecurities.com – ChinaSecurities.com tracks 250 of the best small cap and mid cap companies trading on North American exchanges. It provides you with the best of the best in two ways. First, the front page lists the best news of the day coming out of the space. It does so by giving you a text view of the best press releases by industry and via Chinese Stocks TV, a 5-minute broadcast every morning just after the open. Chinese Stocks TV is archived, so you can catch up on shows you missed.

Second, if you want to research each of the 250 companies to find candidates for your portfolio, it has a very intuitive directory that lets you quickly review each company on the master list, or parse it out by industry and exchange if you have a particular sector of interest. Cool stuff.

2. Right here on AGORACOM, you can refer to our China category for other featured Chinese Small-Cap Companies. As always, we will disclose any IR relationship with any public company. Given the sheer number of great Chinese Small-Cap Companies out there, you can expect us NOT to have an IR relationship with most of these companies.

Regards,
George

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