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Severfield — Better revenue, margin and cash progress

FY17 has seen a strong close and we have increased FY17 and FY18 estimates as a result. Margin improvement has been a key focus, but this successful trading period shows through in a broader number of areas. Severfield’s full year results are scheduled for 14 June; order book progression and revenue run rates at that time will inform FY18 prospects more fully.

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Severfield

Better revenue, margin and cash progress

FY17 year-end update

Construction & materials

29 March 2017

Price

80.63p

Market cap

£241m

Net cash (£m) at end September 2016

24.2

Shares in issue

298.9m

Free float

100%

Code

SFR

Primary exchange

LSE

Secondary exchange

N/A

Share price performance

%

1m

3m

12m

Abs

3.0

6.1

49.3

Rel (local)

1.6

1.8

25.4

52-week high/low

81.8p

43.8p

Business description

Severfield is a leading UK structural steelwork fabricator operating across a broad range of market sectors. An Indian facility currently undertakes structural steelwork projects for the local market and is fully operational.

Next events

FY17 results

14 June 2017

Analysts

Toby Thorrington

+44 (0)20 3077 5721

Roger Johnston

+44 (0)20 3077 5722

Severfield is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

FY17 has seen a strong close and we have increased FY17 and FY18 estimates as a result. Margin improvement has been a key focus, but this successful trading period shows through in a broader number of areas. Severfield’s full year results are scheduled for 14 June; order book progression and revenue run rates at that time will inform FY18 prospects more fully.

Year
end

Revenue (£m)

PBT*
(£m)

EPS*
(p)

DPS
(p)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

03/15

201.5

8.8

2.5

0.5

32.3

0.6

03/16

239.4

13.7

3.8

1.5

21.2

1.9

03/17e

263.2

20.1

5.6

2.0

14.4

2.5

03/18e

263.2

21.4

6.0

2.2

13.4

2.7

Note: *PBT and EPS are normalised, excluding pension net finance costs, intangible amortisation and exceptional items.

Strong revenue growth in H2, margins also improve

Severfield’s UK order book began to pick up at the beginning of 2016 (from c £185m in November 2015 to £315m a year later) and this has progressively fed into its FY17 trading performance. H117 revenue was comparable y-o-y, but a marked EBIT margin improvement was the standout feature of results for the first half. We had factored in a good sales uptick in H2 and it appears that the run rate has exceeded our expectations with y-o-y progress approaching 20%. Importantly, this has not come at the expense of margin, which looks to be at or around 8% in H2 (and 7.5% for the year, +180bp). Additionally, good cash collection and receipt of advance payments give our new estimated year-end cash position of c £30m (vs c £19m at the end of FY16). Taken together, this provides persuasive evidence that the enhanced commercial procedures across project lifecycles introduced a few years ago have been rigorously applied. Elsewhere, the Indian JV trading performance has been stable, as has the local order book (at £40m).

Estimates raised for FY17 and FY18

We have raised our FY17 and FY18 PBT estimates by c 9% and c 5% respectively with increased revenue and margin expectations in both years. FY17 UK revenue throughput – especially on larger projects – has brought the year-end order book back down to £267m; we would like to see how the pipeline converts to new work over the next quarter before taking a stronger view on FY18 prospects. Also, at this stage, we have left our dividend expectations unchanged; firming earnings estimates and good cash performance could support an enhanced payout in due course. Lastly, Alan Dunsmore (group FD for seven years) will assume the duties of Severfield’s CEO during his period of temporary absence through illness and John Dodds (chairman since 2011) will act as executive chairman on an interim basis.

Valuation: Driving outperformance

Severfield’s share price has now outperformed the FTSE All-Share Index over 12 months, 2017 to date and one-month periods. We believe the company is still on track to double FY16 PBT by FY20 (implicitly, PBT c £26m) and the closing year P/E of 14.4x and EV/EBITDA of 8.2x compress meaningfully on this basis.

Exhibit 1: Financial summary

£m

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017e

2018e

2019e

Year end 31 March

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

12m to Dec

12m to Dec

12m to Dec

15m to Mar

12m to Mar

12m to Mar

12m to Mar

12m to Mar

12m to Mar

12m to Mar

PROFIT & LOSS

Revenue

 

 

266.7

267.8

256.6

318.3

231.3

201.5

239.4

263.2

263.2

267.8

Cost of Sales

(242.6)

(246.9)

(268.8)

(330.9)

(217.8)

(186.7)

(219.6)

(237.1)

(235.7)

(238.0)

Gross Profit

24.1

20.9

(12.2)

(12.7)

13.5

14.9

19.8

26.0

27.5

29.7

EBITDA

 

 

21.6

19.5

(13.6)

(13.6)

12.0

13.6

18.9

25.7

27.2

29.5

Operating Profit - Edison

 

 

17.1

15.0

(17.7)

(18.6)

8.4

10.0

15.2

21.8

23.0

25.0

Net Interest

(0.9)

(1.6)

(1.6)

(2.0)

(0.6)

(0.5)

(0.2)

(0.1)

(0.1)

0.0

Associates

(0.4)

(2.5)

0.2

(0.3)

(3.0)

(0.2)

(0.2)

0.0

0.0

0.0

SBP

(0.0)

(0.3)

(0.0)

(0.1)

(0.2)

(0.5)

(1.1)

(1.5)

(1.5)

(1.5)

Intangible Amortisation

(2.7)

(2.7)

(2.7)

(3.5)

(2.7)

(2.6)

(2.6)

(2.6)

(1.7)

0.0

Pension Net Finance Costs

(0.5)

(0.5)

(0.5)

(0.6)

(0.5)

(0.5)

(0.5)

(0.5)

(0.5)

(0.5)

Exceptionals

(1.4)

(0.6)

(1.0)

(3.8)

(5.3)

(5.9)

(0.9)

0.0

0.0

0.0

Profit Before Tax (norm) - Edison

 

15.8

10.6

(19.1)

(20.9)

4.5

8.8

13.7

20.1

21.4

23.5

Profit Before Tax (norm)

 

 

15.3

10.1

(19.6)

(21.5)

4.0

8.3

13.2

19.6

20.9

23.0

Profit Before Tax (FRS 3)

 

 

11.1

6.8

(23.3)

(28.9)

(4.1)

(0.2)

9.6

17.0

19.2

23.0

Tax

(3.5)

(0.9)

3.9

5.7

1.4

0.3

(1.0)

(3.2)

(3.5)

(3.8)

Profit After Tax (norm)

11.7

7.7

(16.2)

(17.9)

3.1

7.4

11.4

16.8

17.9

19.7

Profit After Tax (FRS 3)

7.6

5.8

(19.4)

(23.1)

(2.6)

0.1

8.6

13.8

15.7

19.2

Average Number of Shares Outstanding (m)

89.0

89.3

89.3

89.3

295.8

297.5

297.5

298.5

298.5

298.5

EPS - normalised (p) - Edison

 

 

6.82

4.51

(9.42)

(10.42)

1.05

2.47

3.84

5.64

6.01

6.59

EPS - normalised (p)

 

 

6.51

4.21

(9.72)

(9.45)

0.88

2.31

3.67

5.47

5.84

6.42

EPS - FRS 3 (p)

 

 

4.47

3.41

(11.33)

(13.49)

(0.89)

0.05

2.89

4.64

5.26

6.42

Dividend per share (p)

7.5

5.0

1.5

0.8

0.0

0.5

1.5

2.0

2.2

2.4

Gross Margin (%)

9.0

7.8

-4.8

-4.0

5.8

7.4

8.3

9.9

10.4

11.1

EBITDA Margin (%)

8.1

7.3

-5.3

-4.3

5.2

6.7

7.9

9.8

10.3

11.0

Operating Margin - Edison (%)

6.4

5.6

-6.9

-5.8

3.6

4.9

6.4

8.3

8.8

9.4

BALANCE SHEET

Fixed Assets

 

 

165.0

156.9

155.6

154.9

147.7

145.1

149.3

149.0

148.6

149.6

Intangible Assets

75.2

72.9

70.4

69.8

64.6

61.8

59.2

56.4

54.7

54.7

Tangible Assets

82.9

79.6

76.2

76.1

74.1

76.6

77.4

79.3

80.1

80.7

Investments

6.9

4.4

8.9

8.9

9.0

6.7

12.7

13.2

13.7

14.2

Current Assets

 

 

88.1

100.5

69.8

80.5

72.2

76.3

75.1

92.4

104.4

118.2

Stocks

12.6

9.1

7.1

8.2

5.8

4.8

5.3

5.7

5.7

5.7

Debtors

71.9

89.2

61.2

71.6

60.8

64.6

50.7

55.2

56.0

57.6

Cash

3.6

2.3

1.4

0.7

5.5

6.9

19.0

31.5

42.7

54.9

Current Liabilities

 

 

(99.8)

(103.6)

(97.0)

(112.5)

(57.9)

(59.7)

(58.2)

(66.9)

(67.4)

(68.3)

Creditors

(81.2)

(70.3)

(66.1)

(70.9)

(52.7)

(59.5)

(58.1)

(66.8)

(67.2)

(68.1)

Short term borrowings

(18.6)

(33.3)

(30.9)

(41.7)

(5.2)

(0.2)

(0.2)

(0.2)

(0.2)

(0.2)

Long Term Liabilities

 

 

(22.3)

(21.6)

(21.7)

(20.4)

(18.5)

(21.1)

(17.9)

(23.4)

(23.4)

(23.4)

Long term borrowings

0.0

(0.3)

(0.3)

(0.2)

(0.0)

(0.6)

(0.4)

(0.3)

(0.3)

(0.3)

Other long term liabilities

(22.3)

(21.3)

(21.4)

(20.2)

(18.5)

(20.5)

(17.5)

(23.1)

(23.1)

(23.1)

Net Assets

 

 

130.9

132.3

106.6

102.4

143.4

140.6

148.2

151.1

162.2

176.1

CASH FLOW

Operating Cash Flow

 

 

(5.8)

(5.4)

12.9

3.1

2.1

11.4

24.8

26.0

26.1

27.9

Net Interest

(0.8)

(2.0)

(1.3)

(1.7)

(0.8)

(0.8)

(0.2)

(0.1)

(0.1)

0.0

Tax

(5.4)

(3.7)

(2.7)

(2.3)

0.4

(1.0)

(0.9)

(1.9)

(3.2)

(3.5)

Capex

(2.8)

(1.5)

(0.2)

(1.4)

(1.5)

(1.3)

(4.3)

(5.8)

(5.0)

(5.0)

Acquisitions/disposals

(2.9)

(0)

(2)

(3.0)

(3.5)

(1.7)

(4.1)

(0.5)

(0.5)

(0.5)

Financing

0

0

0

0.0

44.8

0

0

0

0

0

Dividends

(8.9)

(3.6)

(4.5)

(4.5)

0.0

0.0

(3.0)

(5.1)

(6.1)

(6.7)

Net Cash Flow

(26.6)

(16.3)

1.7

(9.7)

41.5

6.7

12.4

12.6

11.2

12.2

Opening net debt/(cash)

 

 

(11.5)

15.0

31.3

31.3

41.2

(0.3)

(6.1)

(18.4)

(31.0)

(42.2)

HP finance leases initiated

0

0.0

0.1

0.0

(0.2)

(0.3)

(0.2)

(0.1)

0.0

0.0

Other

0

(0)

(0)

(0)

0.2

(0.6)

0.2

0

0

(0)

Closing net debt/(cash)

 

 

15.0

31.3

29.7

41.2

(0.3)

(6.1)

(18.4)

(31.0)

(42.2)

(54.4)

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