De La Rue — Withdrawal from subscale activity

De La Rue — Withdrawal from subscale activity

De La Rue has announced it is selling its International ID Solutions business for £42m. Following the loss of the UK Passport Contract last year, the remaining activities lacked critical mass in a consolidating sector and disposal to Assa Abloy has been deemed to be the most favourable solution. The deal will be earnings dilutive as the passport contract winds down and by the end of FY20 there will be no contribution from ID Solutions from FY21. Our EPS for FY21 is reduced by 8% to 31.9p.

Andy Chambers

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Andy Chambers

Director, Industrials

De La Rue

Withdrawal from subscale activity

Sale of International ID

Industrial support services

14 June 2019

Price

304p

Market cap

£315m

Net debt (£m) at 31 March 2019

107.5

Shares in issue

103.8m

Free float

100%

Code

DLAR

Primary exchange

LSE

Secondary exchange

N/A

Share price performance

%

1m

3m

12m

Abs

(30.4)

(27.4)

(45.3)

Rel (local)

(32.0)

(29.1)

(42.3)

52-week high/low

557p

300p

Business description

De La Rue is a world leader in anti-counterfeiting and security for currency and brand protection. The company operates across 140 countries and is the number one commercial designer and producer of banknotes and security features on both paper and increasingly polymer substrates.

Next events

AGM

25 July 2019

Interim result

November 2019

Analyst

Andy Chambers

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De La Rue is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

De La Rue has announced it is selling its International ID Solutions business for £42m. Following the loss of the UK Passport Contract last year, the remaining activities lacked critical mass in a consolidating sector and disposal to Assa Abloy has been deemed to be the most favourable solution. The deal will be earnings dilutive as the passport contract winds down and by the end of FY20 there will be no contribution from ID Solutions from FY21. Our EPS for FY21 is reduced by 8% to 31.9p.

Year end

Revenue (£m)

PBT*
(£m)

EPS*
(p)

DPS
(p)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

03/18**

461.4

47.5

38.2

25.0

8.0

8.2

03/19

516.6

54.1

42.9

25.0

7.1

8.2

03/20e

493.0

42.9

32.7

25.0

9.3

8.2

03/21e

390.7

41.2

31.9

25.0

9.5

8.2

Note: *PBT and EPS are normalised, excluding amortisation of acquired intangibles, exceptional items and share-based payments. **Restated for the sale of Paper and IFRS 15.

Sale of International ID

De La Rue is selling its international identity solutions contracts to HID Corporation Limited (HID Global), a subsidiary of Assa Abloy of Sweden. The cash proceeds of £42m will be subject to usual working capital adjustments and will be received on completion, which we expect early in H220. In FY19 the activity being sold had revenues of £37.8m and an operating profit of £2.3m after allocated central costs. With the winding down of the UK Passport Contract also expected by the end of FY20, the remaining single-digit revenue ID security features and components will be absorbed into the new Authentication division.

A simplified business moving forward

With the already announced reorganisation and restructuring creating a two-division structure for the group, the exit from the ID Solutions activities helps to simplify the business. Security Features will move from Currency, as will the small element of retained security products and components in the ID business to join the existing Product Authentication and Traceability business in the newly created Authentication division. The reorganisation should provide a significant portion of the recently announced £20m of costs savings by removing associated overheads, not least relating to the ID Solution activity. Currency will consist of the Banknote Print activity and the growing Polymer substrate business. FY21 revenue and profits now look a relatively clean basis on which to base future expectations.

Valuation: Rating still looks unduly low

After the dilution that the complete withdrawal from ID Solutions generates, a single-digit P/E ratio for FY21e looks undemanding. Our DCF value falls by 8% to 522p (from 568p) reflecting the reduction of future earnings and a 1.4% increase in share count. While the dividend yield looks supportive, the market is regarding the low level of cover and the reducing cashflow stream as likely to lead to a rebasing. While we have maintained the payment in our current forecasts, it is worth noting that c 2x covered dividend in FY21 of 16p would still provide a yield of over 5%.

Earnings revisions

We have assumed the disposal of International ID completes in October 2019. We have also corrected the average share count for FY20 and FY21 with a 1.4% increase to 103.8m. A summary of the changes to our estimates is shown below.

Exhibit 1: De La Rue earnings estimates changes

Year to March (£m)

2020e

2020e

 

2021e

2021e

 

 

Prior

New

% change

Prior

New

% change

Currency

355.0

355.0

0.0%

291.1

291.1

0.0%

ID Solutions

77.1

61.3

-20.4%

59.4

0.0

-100.0%

PA&T

76.6

76.6

0.0%

99.6

99.6

0.0%

Sales

508.7

493.0

-3.1%

450.1

390.7

-13.2%

 

 

 

 

 

 

EBITDA

72.8

69.8

-4.2%

75.1

67.9

-9.5%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Currency

19.5

19.5

0.0%

21.8

21.8

0.0%

ID Solutions

12.3

9.8

-20.4%

4.7

0.0

-100.0%

PA&T

20.7

20.7

 

26.9

26.9

 

Underlying EBITA

52.5

50.0

-4.8%

53.5

48.7

-8.9%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Underlying PTP

44.4

42.9

-3.5%

44.0

41.2

-6.3%

 

 

 

 

 

 

EPS - underlying continuing (p)

34.4

32.7

-5.0%

34.6

31.9

-8.0%

DPS (p)

25.0

25.0

0.0%

25.0

25.0

0.0%

Net debt / (cash)

140.2

97.7

-30.3%

155.3

113.3

-27.0%

Source: Edison Investment Research estimates

Exhibit 2: Financial summary

£m

2018

2019

2020e

2021e

Year end 31 March

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

PROFIT & LOSS

Revenue

 

 

461.4

516.6

493.0

390.7

EBITDA

 

 

78.4

79.5

69.8

67.9

Operating Profit (before amort. and except.)

 

 

59.5

62.8

52.9

52.1

Intangible Amortisation

(2.6)

(2.7)

(2.9)

(3.3)

Exceptionals

74.6

(28.6)

(20.7)

(2.7)

Other

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Operating Profit

131.5

31.5

29.3

46.0

Net Interest

(9.4)

(6.0)

(7.2)

(7.5)

Profit Before Tax (norm)

 

 

47.5

54.1

42.9

41.2

Profit Before Tax (FRS 3)

 

 

122.1

25.5

22.2

38.5

Tax

(18.9)

(4.8)

(3.5)

(6.2)

Profit After Tax (norm)

40.3

45.4

35.2

34.5

Profit After Tax (FRS 3)

103.2

20.7

18.6

32.4

Average Number of Shares Outstanding (m)

101.9

102.9

103.8

103.8

EPS - normalised (p)

 

 

38.2

42.9

32.7

31.9

EPS - normalised and fully diluted (p)

 

 

37.8

42.7

32.7

31.9

EPS - (IFRS) (p)

 

 

93.6

16.5

16.8

29.8

Dividend per share (p)

25.0

25.0

25.0

25.0

EBITDA Margin (%)

17.0

15.4

14.2

17.4

Operating Margin (before GW and except.) (%)

12.9

12.2

10.7

13.3

BALANCE SHEET

Fixed Assets

 

 

149.0

155.6

117.9

120.6

Intangible Assets

29.5

33.3

36.2

38.7

Tangible Assets

112.8

115.0

74.4

74.6

Investments

6.7

7.3

7.3

7.3

Current Assets

 

 

179.9

219.7

209.8

178.9

Stocks

34.1

42.3

41.4

37.1

Debtors

102.3

139.3

130.6

105.5

Cash

15.5

12.2

12.2

12.2

Other

28.0

25.9

25.6

24.1

Current Liabilities

 

 

(252.7)

(321.6)

(302.0)

(289.0)

Creditors

(187.3)

(201.9)

(192.5)

(164.3)

Short term borrowings

(65.4)

(119.7)

(109.9)

(125.5)

Long Term Liabilities

 

 

(96.6)

(82.9)

(61.9)

(39.9)

Long term borrowings

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Other long term liabilities

(96.6)

(82.9)

(61.9)

(39.9)

Net Assets

 

 

(20.4)

(29.2)

(36.6)

(30.2)

CASH FLOW

Operating Cash Flow

 

 

93.2

(6.3)

21.5

43.6

Net Interest

(4.6)

(3.8)

(3.9)

(5.1)

Tax

(30.6)

(0.9)

0.6

(5.6)

Capex

(24.7)

(25.4)

(24.7)

(22.5)

Acquisitions/disposals

57.7

0.2

42.0

0.0

Financing

2.0

4.3

0.0

0.0

Dividends

(25.8)

(26.2)

(25.7)

(26.0)

Other

3.8

0.5

0.00

0.0

Net Cash Flow

71.0

(57.6)

10.2

(15.6)

Opening net debt/(cash)

 

 

120.9

49.9

107.5

97.7

HP finance leases initiated

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Other

0.0

0.0

(0.0)

0.0

Closing net debt/(cash)

 

 

49.9

107.5

97.7

113.3

Source: Company data, Edison Investment Research


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