Key points: urea industry will be in the 17 year of spring season showing demand trend, the gap between supply and demand is expected to more than 2 million tons, the superposition light storage delay background, supply and demand gap will continue to expand; due to continuous demand between new, we believe that the market cycle duration is expected to exceed the expected until mid 17.
Long period, coal water slurry technology of urea has strong competitiveness in the world, is expected to fall in the price of coal, natural gas prices continued upward and North American interaction devaluation expectations, we estimate that the manufacturing cost of the future coal urea process in China advanced, and has a high chance of full cost less than in North America gas from urea.
Spreads narrowed, the operating rate will remain sluggish: urea prices 16 years dropped to less than 1200 yuan / ton low, accompanied by raw materials prices, gas prices and rising freight costs, reduce price to the limit, and even the use of advanced technology of the manufacturers is difficult to profit. Although from the beginning of September, the price of urea rebound bottom, but instead of operating rates continue to decline, currently only about 50%. On the one hand, because most manufacturers are still not profitable, manufacturers production will is not strong; on the other hand, middlemen worried about coal downside risk caused by urea prices, light storage stocking will lower, we believe that the downturn will maintain the operating rate.
In the spring of peak demand, middlemen inventory low: about 60% spring season urea demand will reach annual agricultural urea demand (25 million tons), from the beginning of winter wheat turning green fertilizer, continuous demand for new convergence. For the whole year, agricultural urea demand and exports is expected to be slightly under pressure, but in the export tariffs or will be canceled, and promote the rapid growth of demand for urea for industrial use, we believe that the 17 year urea demand will remain stable. Inventory, through grassroots research, at present only half of the middleman inventory in less than 15 years over the same period, the social stock is more intense, and in the high coal price situation, the current stock brokers will still not strong.
The gap between supply and demand will continue to expand, the business cycle is expected to continue until mid 17: after calculation, we believe that in the case of considering inventory, even to return to work capacity (about 75 million tons) from 17 at the beginning of next year’s spring season all production, is still a large probability will form a gap between supply and demand, when urea price rises will exceed the market expected, is expected to exceed 2000 yuan / ton (in the current coal price calculation). We believe that the main reason for this phenomenon lies in the light storage delay performance for November and December is expected to yield fell sharply year-on-year, to stabilize the spring season demand plays a stocking missing, in the subsequent continuous demand convergence under the background of urea cycle is expected to continue until the middle of 17. We judge the current price of coal for 17 years, the price of urea in 1700-1750 yuan central near the actual price will fluctuate based on central.
Investment advice: we believe that the 17 year spring season urea industry supply and demand gap is relatively clear, optimistic about the magnitude and duration of urea prices surpassed market expectations, and priority stocks more flexible, the proposals concern urea industry related targets, elastic order: Yang coal chemical (600691), Hubei (000422), Yihua Hualu-Hengsheng (600426), Luxi Chemical (000830), and proposes a focus on Hong Kong stocks subject Chinese fertiliser (01866).
Risk warning: risk of downstream demand is less than expected; the risk of price fluctuation of agricultural products; the risk of coal and natural gas price volatility