According to CGS-CIMB Research, poultry companies are expected to face pricing competition from imported chicken while caps on selling prices may result in margin compression.
In view of rising poultry prices, the government recently announced it is maintaining the ceiling selling price of chicken eggs and lowering the ceiling selling price for whole chickens to RM8.90 per kg from RM9.10 per kg previously. One is higher feed cost prices where the prices of corn and soybean meal have risen by 30.9% and 16.6% year-on-year , respectively, in 2021.