Walker Greenbank — Maintained expectations, awaiting strategy update

Walker Greenbank — Maintained expectations, awaiting strategy update

Positive steps have been taken in the UK and US that will benefit Walker Greenbank in future periods and although the domestic market remains challenging, management’s full year expectations are unchanged. The upcoming strategic update may bring the prospects for re-building earnings and associated valuation metrics into sharper focus for investors.

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Walker Greenbank

Maintained expectations, awaiting strategy update

End H120 update

Care & household goods

9 August 2019

Price

83.5p

Market cap

£59m

Net cash (£m) at end-January 2019

0.4

Shares in issue

70.9m

Free float

92%

Code

WGB

Primary exchange

AIM

Secondary exchange

N/A

Share price performance

%

1m

3m

12m

Abs

1.2

17.8

8.4

Rel (local)

4.6

18.1

16.1

52-week high/low

92.0p

56.2p

Business description

Walker Greenbank is a luxury interior furnishings group combining specialist design skills with high-quality upstream UK manufacturing facilities. Leading brands include Harlequin, Sanderson, Morris & Co, Scion, Anthology, Zoffany and Clarke & Clarke. FY18 revenue was split UK 58%, international 39% and licence income 3%.

Next events

FY19 final DPS of 2.55p to be paid

9 August

H120 results

October tbc

Analyst

Toby Thorrington

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Walker Greenbank is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

Positive steps have been taken in the UK and US that will benefit Walker Greenbank in future periods and although the domestic market remains challenging, management’s full year expectations are unchanged. The upcoming strategic update may bring the prospects for re-building earnings and associated valuation metrics into sharper focus for investors.

Year end

Revenue (£m)

PBT*
(£m)

EPS*
(p)

DPS
(p)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

01/18**

112.2

12.7

14.7

4.4

5.7

5.3

01/19

113.3

9.5

10.8

3.2

7.7

3.8

01/20e

109.3

7.3

8.4

2.5

9.9

3.0

01/21e

111.8

7.8

9.0

2.7

9.3

3.2

Note: *PBT and EPS (fully diluted) are normalised, excluding exceptional items and LTIP charges. **Restated for IFRS 15.

UK market soft, international improving

H120 revenue looks to have been at a broadly similar level to the prior year on a reported basis. Core UK sales are still tracking below prior year levels in both Brands (products -3.1%) and Manufacturing (Edison estimates UK third-party sales down c 10%). In the former case, this represents the net effect of lower heritage brand sales partly offset by growth at Clarke & Clarke and in ancillary lines and the overall rate of decline is lower than seen in FY19 as a whole. There has been progress in international markets for manufactured products (sales +17.2%) though LFL Brands export turnover was modestly down. US channel disruption makes the underlying trend here difficult to interpret but migrating distribution arrangements to Kravet Inc (announced 1 July) should result in improved momentum in that market. Lastly, non-apparel licence income is growing with existing licensees, though of course the significant apparel licence income seen in FY19 will not recur this year.

Cost reduction, cash control and strategy update

Management maintained existing full year expectations though no specific comments were made on H120 profitability. Consolidating Clarke & Clarke infrastructure with Style Library/heritage Brands is substantially complete and accounts for the majority of an anticipated £2m annualised cost savings, £1m of which is set to accrue in the current year underpinning our existing estimates, which are unchanged. End July net cash is likely to be similar to, and possibly slightly better than, the year end £0.4m. This provides a flexible backdrop for the expected strategic update from new management accompanying the interim results announcement in October.

Valuation: Single-digit rating on trough earnings

After a dip following the February trading update, Walker Greenbank’s share price has regained levels seen earlier in the year. However, some of the recent gains have been given up in the last week and the company’s rating remains in single digits for this year (ie P/E 9.7x and EV/EBITDA, adjusted for pensions cash of 6.1x) on what we believe might be trough earnings.

Exhibit 1: Financial summary

£m

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2018R

2019

2020e

2021e

2022e

Year end January

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

PROFIT & LOSS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenue

 

 

75.7

78.4

83.4

87.8

92.4

108.8

112.2

113.3

109.3

111.8

114.5

Cost of Sales

 

 

(30.2)

(30.3)

(32.7)

(35.9)

(36.2)

(43.3)

(44.0)

(45.3)

(44.8)

(45.9)

(46.9)

Gross Profit

 

 

45.5

48.1

50.7

52.0

56.2

65.5

68.2

68.0

64.5

66.0

67.5

EBITDA

 

 

8.6

9.7

10.7

11.8

13.4

15.9

16.1

13.3

11.3

11.8

12.0

Operating Profit (before GW, except. & LTIP)

6.6

7.5

8.3

9.1

10.6

12.8

13.0

9.8

7.6

8.0

8.1

Operating Profit (before GW and except.) - reported

5.8

6.5

7.3

8.2

9.8

12.4

12.6

10.4

7.6

7.4

7.5

Net Interest

 

 

(0.2)

(0.2)

(0.2)

(0.2)

(0.2)

(0.3)

(0.3)

(0.3)

(0.3)

(0.3)

(0.2)

Intangible Amort – acquired

 

 

0

0

0

0

(0.3)

(1.0)

(1.0)

(1.0)

(1.0)

(1.0)

(1.0)

Pension net finance charge

(0.7)

(0.9)

(0.8)

(0.7)

(0.5)

(0.6)

(0.6)

(0.6)

(0.7)

(0.7)

(0.7)

Exceptionals

 

 

0

0

0

0

(1.8)

2.3

2.3

(2.2)

(0.5)

0.0

0.0

Other

 

 

0

0

0

0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Profit Before Tax (norm)

 

 

6.4

7.3

8.1

8.9

10.4

12.5

12.7

9.5

7.3

7.8

7.9

Profit Before Tax (statutory)

 

 

4.9

5.5

6.3

7.3

7.0

12.8

13.0

6.3

5.1

5.5

5.6

Tax

 

 

(1.0)

(0.5)

(1.2)

(1.5)

(1.6)

(1.0)

(1.1)

(1.2)

(1.4)

(1.4)

(1.4)

Profit After Tax (norm)

 

 

5.4

6.6

6.9

7.5

8.6

11.5

10.4

7.7

6.0

6.4

6.5

Profit After Tax (statutory) 

 

4.0

5.0

5.1

5.9

5.4

11.8

11.9

5.1

3.7

4.1

4.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average number of shares outstanding (m) 

57.5

58.5

59.3

60.0

62.7

70.4

70.4

71.0

71.0

71.0

71.0

EPS - normalised (p) FD

 

 

9.4

10.7

11.2

11.6

12.9

14.43

14.68

10.8

8.4

9.0

9.2

EPS - statutory (p)

 

 

6.9

8.6

8.6

9.8

8.6

16.70

16.95

7.2

5.3

5.8

5.9

Dividend per share (p)

 

 

1.5

1.9

2.3

2.9

3.6

4.4

4.4

3.2

2.5

2.7

2.8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross Margin (%)

 

 

60.1

61.3

60.8

59.2

60.8

60.2

60.8

60.0

59.0

59.0

59.0

EBITDA Margin (%)

 

 

11.4

12.4

12.8

13.4

14.6

14.6

14.3

11.7

10.3

10.5

10.5

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

7.7

8.3

8.8

9.3

10.7

11.4

11.2

9.2

7.0

6.6

6.6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BALANCE SHEET

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed Assets

 

 

18.5

21.1

21.5

18.9

47.5

47.7

47.7

46.0

44.4

42.6

40.7

Intangible Assets

 

 

6.7

7.3

7.2

7.1

31.6

31.8

31.8

30.8

29.6

28.5

27.3

Tangible Assets

 

 

9.8

11.7

12.7

11.7

15.8

16.0

16.0

15.2

14.7

14.1

13.5

Investments

 

 

2.0

2.2

1.6

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Current Assets

 

 

32.6

35.3

37.1

40.3

51.3

51.9

52.1

49.3

50.9

53.7

56.6

Stocks

 

 

16.8

18.4

22.0

18.1

30.3

29.4

29.5

28.0

27.7

28.4

29.0

Debtors

 

 

12.8

13.9

14.1

19.3

19.5

21.2

21.3

18.9

19.3

19.6

19.9

Cash

 

 

2.9

2.8

1.0

2.9

1.5

1.3

1.3

2.4

3.9

5.8

7.6

Other

 

 

0.1

0.2

0.0

0.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Liabilities

 

 

(17.3)

(19.4)

(20.7)

(19.4)

(34.8)

(28.9)

(28.9)

(23.8)

(24.4)

(25.3)

(26.3)

Creditors

 

 

(16.9)

(19.0)

(20.3)

(19.0)

(28.0)

(22.4)

(22.4)

(21.8)

(22.4)

(23.3)

(24.3)

Short term borrowings

 

 

(0.4)

(0.4)

(0.4)

(0.4)

(6.8)

(6.6)

(6.6)

(2.0)

(2.0)

(2.0)

(2.0)

Long Term Liabilities

 

 

(9.6)

(10.2)

(10.9)

(4.5)

(12.7)

(9.1)

(9.1)

(10.6)

(8.5)

(6.3)

(4.0)

Long term borrowings

 

 

(1.4)

(0.9)

(0.6)

(0.2)

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Other long term liabilities 

(8.2)

(9.2)

(10.4)

(4.3)

(12.7)

(9.1)

(9.1)

(10.6)

(8.5)

(6.3)

(4.0)

Net Assets

 

 

24.2

26.9

26.9

35.3

51.3

61.6

61.8

60.9

62.4

64.7

67.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CASH FLOW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Cash Flow

 

 

6.0

6.2

3.5

7.1

12.4

7.0

7.0

12.6

8.3

8.3

8.4

Net Interest

 

 

(0.2)

(0.2)

(0.2)

(0.1)

(0.2)

(0.2)

(0.2)

(0.3)

(0.3)

(0.2)

(0.2)

Tax

 

 

(0.0)

(0.0)

(0.0)

(0.6)

(2.3)

(2.2)

(2.2)

(0.8)

(1.4)

(1.4)

(1.4)

Capex

 

 

(3.1)

(4.7)

(3.2)

(2.5)

(6.7)

(3.5)

(3.5)

(2.8)

(3.0)

(3.0)

(3.0)

Acquisitions/disposals

 

 

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

(27.1)

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Financing

 

 

(0.1)

(0.0)

(0.4)

(0.1)

18.3

1.8

1.8

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Dividends

 

 

(0.7)

(0.9)

(1.1)

(1.4)

(1.8)

(2.7)

(2.7)

(3.1)

(2.2)

(1.8)

(1.9)

Net Cash Flow

 

 

1.8

0.3

(1.5)

2.3

(7.4)

0.1

0.1

5.7

1.5

1.9

1.8

Opening net debt/(cash)

0.7

(1.2)

(1.5)

(0.0)

(2.3)

5.3

5.3

5.3

(0.4)

(1.9)

(3.8)

HP finance leases initiated

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

(0.0)

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Other

 

 

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

(0.2)

(0.1)

(0.1)

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Closing net debt/(cash)

 

 

(1.2)

(1.5)

(0.0)

(2.3)

5.3

5.3

5.3

(0.4)

(1.9)

(3.8)

(5.7)

Source: Walker Greenbank, Edison Investment Research. Note: 2018 results restated for IFRS 15 ‘Revenue from Contracts with Customers’; the primary P&L effects were to reclassify some marketing materials/services as net other income and carriage recoveries to revenue and, as they were previously netted out of distribution costs previously, increase this cost line.


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Research: Metals & Mining

Endeavour Mining — Tipping point

Endeavour’s Q219 results were significantly ahead of not only the prior quarter, but also our expectations. In general, grades increased relative to Q1, owing to improved access to higher-grade material and a lower proportion of processed material being derived from low-grade stockpiles. As Endeavour enters H219, the improved gold price environment is coinciding with a sharp reduction in capex and continued improvements to operating conditions, which has caused us to upgrade our FY19 forecasts materially.

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