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Zero Debt, High Dividends & Strategic Real Estate – Inside Reclaims Global's FY2026 Transformation · Investor Exchange

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  Time for another Investor Exchange podcast. Here are your hosts, Matt and Sally.
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  Welcome to the deep dive. I want you to imagine something for a second.
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  Think about getting like a tiny 5% raise at work. Okay, a modest bump.
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  Always nice. Right. But then somehow at the end of the year,
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  you look and you have 25% more money sitting in your bank account. Wow.
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  Yeah. Mathematically, that sounds highly suspicious. Exactly.
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  It makes no sense on the surface. But today, we are putting on our investor
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  hats to figure out how a real company actually pulled that off.
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  And we're diving into the FY2026 financial results of Reclaims Global Limited, or RGL for short.
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  Yep. And for you listening, we've got a whole stack of freshly released corporate
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  documents here, their profit guidance, the official press release,
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  and the full FY2026 results announcement. Right.
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  And just for some quick context, RGL is this eco-friendly integrated service
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  provider in Singapore's construction sector.
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  So heavy machinery, logistics, that sort of thing. OK, let's unpack this because
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  the headline numbers are wild.
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  Their revenue only went up to 46.5 million Singapore dollars.
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  Which is just a 4.8 percent bump.
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  Yeah, a super modest increase. But their net profit, it jumped by 23 percent, hitting 6.8 million.
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  I mean, how do you get that much profit out of barely any new revenue?
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  Well, the secret sauce here is really cost management and, you know,
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  the fact that broader inflation actually started easing up.
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  Oh, interesting. So like cheaper fuel for the trucks.
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  Fuel, definitely. But it's also the cost of materials, services and consumables.
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  That obviously dropped.
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  In FY 2025, those costs ate up 55.7% of their revenue. Okay.
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  But in FY2026, they squeezed that down to 51.7%. Wait, a full 4% improvement? Exactly.
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  When you're dealing with tens of millions of dollars, that 4% goes straight to the bottom line.
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  That is a massive multiplier on their profitability. But looking at the documents,
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  they also got a bit of a one-off windfall, right? Yeah, they absolutely did.
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  They saw a $1.2 million boost, which the books call a gain on disposal of property, plant, and equipment.
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  Right. They sold off some old assets. I see here was their old office building
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  at Tua South Street 7. Yep.
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  Before moving to a newer, more streamlined place at Tuas Avenue 11.
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  So that definitely helped pad that 23 percent profit jump.
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  Getting leaner and cashing out the old real estate. I like it.
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  But, you know, we need to look at exactly where their actual revenue comes from
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  because they don't just do one thing.
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  No, not at all. They have three main segments, excavation services.
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  Logistics and leasing and recycling.
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  And the first two just crushed it. Excavation was up 14.8 percent to 35 million.
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  Which is huge. That's the undisputed core of their business.
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  Yeah. And logistics was up 33.2% to 10.6 million.
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  But, and I have to push back here, there is a glaring anomaly in these documents.
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  You're looking at the recycling segment. I am. It plummeted by a staggering
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  85.4%, dropping to just 0.8 million.
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  I mean, they brand themselves as an eco-friendly company.
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  If a company's core eco-segment drops by 85%, isn't that a massive red flag
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  for an investor? I get why you'd say that.
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  But what's fascinating here is how management frames it.
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  They attribute this to a change in project mix.
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  A change in project mix. That sounds a little like corporate spin, doesn't it?
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  Maybe a little. But it actually highlights how highly adaptable RGL is.
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  When those recycling projects dried up, they didn't just let their heavy machinery sit around rusting.
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  Oh, I see. An excavator doesn't care if it's moving recycled concrete or just regular dirt. Exactly.
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  Their execution capabilities allowed them to seamlessly pivot.
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  They saw stronger market demand in excavation and logistics,
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  and they just went and captured it.
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  So they more than made up the difference. Okay, that actually makes me feel
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  better about their management team. Which brings us to their war chest. Yes, the balance sheet.
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  It is looking incredibly healthy. Healthy is an understatement.
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  Net assets are up to $47.2 million. They generated positive operating cash flow of $3.1 million.
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  And their total cash and cash equivalents practically doubled. Right.
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  From $14 million to $27.9 million.
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  Though we should mention that was partly helped by raising $7.5 million through
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  a share placement. True.
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  But the real kicker here, they have zero loans and borrowings.
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  Zero debt. in a heavy industrial business. That is practically unheard of.
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  So they have all this cash, no debt. What are they doing with it?
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  Well, they aren't just hoarding it. They are aggressively rewarding shareholders.
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  The dividend payout ratio jumped from 28% last year to 54% this year. Wow, okay.
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  Breaking that down, it's a total payout of 1.0 cent per share.
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  Right, which combines a 0.5 cent final dividend and a 0.5 cent special dividend.
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  And the documents explicitly note that special dividend is directly from that
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  Tua South property sale we talked about earlier. Exactly.
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  They sold the building and handed the cash right back to the investors.
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  Plus, they executed a one-for-one bonus share issuance. Oh, right.
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  So they literally doubled the number of shares investors hold.
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  Yep. That's a huge confidence signal.
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  But here's where it gets really interesting. Oh. Because even after paying out
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  all that cash, they still have millions left over.
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  So they went on a real estate shopping street. Wait, a construction company
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  buying real estate? Yeah.
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  They bought a six-story commercial building at Serangoon Road for $35.1 million.
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  And a B1 industrial property at Tagore Industrial Avenue for $20.5 million.
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  Just for clarity, B1 means like light industrial use, right?
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  Clean manufacturing and stuff. Correct.
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  No heavy polluting operations. Okay, but I have to use an analogy here.
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  This feels like playing Monopoly.
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  You know, you dominate the brown and light blue properties, your construction
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  business, So suddenly you just start buying up the green and dark blue ones.
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  That's, yeah, that's exactly what it looks like.
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  Is RGL suffering from mission creep? Like, are they accidentally becoming a
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  property company instead of a construction company? It's a fair question. Yeah.
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  But if we connect this to the bigger picture, it's a classic diversification move.
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  They're broadening their revenue streams. So they're just looking to collect rent checks.
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  Rent checks and long-term capital appreciation. It basically builds this defensive
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  load around their business because, you know, the construction industry is notoriously
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  cyclical. Boom and bust. Right.
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  So having a steady stream of rental income smooths out those up and down years.
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  OK, that makes a lot of sense as a hedge. So what does this all mean for their
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  future looking ahead into the rest of 2026?
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  Well, there are some really positive tailwinds. The Building Construction Authority
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  in Singapore, the BCA, they project massive construction demand. How massive?
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  Between $47 billion and $53 billion for 2026. Wow.
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  And that's driven by, what, new MRT lines, hospitals, housing?
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  All of the above. It's a huge pipeline of potential work for RGL's excavation
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  and logistics teams. That sounds like a dream scenario. It does.
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  But this raises an important question about the macro risks.
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  The corporate documents actually go out of their way to warn investors about
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  this. Well, they do. What kind of warnings?
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  They explicitly say these rosy projections sit against a backdrop of geopolitical
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  tensions and economic uncertainties.
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  Right, because a global supply chain hiccup means building materials don't arrive.
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  Exactly. And those macro factors can cause sudden changes to project schedules
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  and phasing. Ah, and if a project is delayed by six months, RGL's excavators
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  are just sitting there burning cash on maintenance and operator salaries without generating revenue.
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  Precisely. It is a key risk for any investor to monitor right now.
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  So just to quickly recap this whole journey for you listening,
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  we've explored how RGL leveraged some serious operational efficiency to drive
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  a massive profit explosion.
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  Even with barely any revenue growth. Exactly.
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  They built this bulletproof, debt-free balance sheet. They heavily rewarded
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  their shareholders with dividends and bonus shares.
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  And then they pivoted all that excess cash into commercial real estate to hedge
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  against future risks. Right.
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  Which leaves us with a final thought for you to mull over.
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  When a highly specialized company starts pouring its capital into entirely different
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  asset classes like commercial real estate, does it masterfully hedge its bets
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  against an unpredictable future?
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  Or does it risk losing focus on the core engine that built its wealth in the first place?
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  It's a fine line to walk, that's for sure. Absolutely.
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  Time will tell. This content is intended to serve strictly and only as an informational,
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  independent, objective summary of recent events and should in no way be interpreted,
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  construed, or relied upon by any party as inside information or financial advice.