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Heliad Equity Partners — Enpal and Razor closing new funding rounds

Heliad Equity Partners (HEP) reported a 3.6% decrease in net asset value (NAV) over the four-month period ending January 2023, bringing the NAV decrease since end 2021 to 45.4%. flatexDEGIRO (FTK) was the main valuation driver and remains HEP’s largest asset (38% of the portfolio). Meanwhile, HEP’s private portfolio saw successful funding rounds at Enpal and Razor Group in recent months. HEP recently issued 1.6m new shares, raising €7m in new capital to facilitate further investments. Given that the share issue was carried out at a 43.6% discount to end-January 2023 NAV, we calculate that it will result in a c 5% NAV per share dilution.

Milosz Papst

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Milosz Papst

Director, Financials

Investment Companies

Peer group comparison

HEP’s NAV performance is below peer average over the last one-, three and five-year periods due to the recent significant decrease in FTK’s valuation, which also affects the long-term results. HEP’s ongoing charges ratio is higher than peers and it does not intend to pay dividends for now, contrary to venture capital trusts (VCTs), which normally distribute dividends on a regular basis.

HEP currently trades at a 44% discount to NAV, wider than the peer group average of 25%. However, we note that VCTs tend to trade at a much narrower discount than some of the other peers (with HEP having the narrowest discount among them, see Exhibit 4). For illustrative purpose, if we applied the current average peer discount to HEP’s NAV at end January 2023 (adjusted for the subsequent movement in FTK’s share price and completion of the share issue), we would arrive at a fair value per share of €5.54.

Exhibit 4: Peer group comparison at 10 March 2023* in sterling terms

 

Market cap (£m)

NAV TR
1-year

NAV TR
3-year

NAV TR
5-year

Discount
(ex-par)

Ongoing
charge (%)

Perf. fee

Net gearing

Dividend
yield (%)

Heliad Equity Partners

49

(42.3)

10.8

(34.5)

44.5

3.8

Yes

119

0.0

Albion Enterprise VCT

113

(3.1)

21.2

53.4

(4.2)

2.5

Yes

100

5.4

Kings Arms Yard VCT

103

1.5

24.4

38.8

(3.5)

2.4

Yes

100

11.3

Northern 2 VCT

102

(4.5)

24.3

33.4

(11.7)

2.2

Yes

100

6.2

FinLab

50

(40.9)

-26.4

(8.9)

(41.7)

3.1

No

100

0.0

British Smaller Companies VCT2

102

9.5

51.3

70.6

(8.2)

2.0

Yes

100

14.4

ProVen Growth and Income VCT

154

(8.8)

8.5

12.2

(4.2)

2.4

Yes

100

10.4

Augmentum Fintech

166

4.9

38.1

N/A

(40.1)

1.7

Yes

100

0.0

Vostok Emerging Finance

137

(40.5)

10.3

40.7

(52.9)

1.3

Yes

100

0.0

Molten Ventures

467

(5.6)

45.8

(16.1)

(62.8)

2.3

Yes

100

0.0

Average (excl. HEP)

155

-9.7

22.0

28.0

(25.5)

2.2

N/A

100

5.3

HEP’s rank in sector

10

10

7

9

1

10

N/A

10

6

Source: Morningstar, Edison Investment Research. Note: TR = total return. Net gearing is total assets less cash and equivalents as a percentage of net assets (100 = ungeared). *12-month performance based on latest available ex-par NAV: end January 2023 for HEP, end-December 2022 for Albion Enterprise VCT, Kings Arms Yard VCT, Northern 2 VCT, FinLab, British Smaller Companies VCT2, ProVen Growth and Income VCT and Vostok Emerging Finance; end September 2022 for Augmentum Fintech and Molten Ventures.

Scenario analysis

We believe that forecasting the results of an investment company like HEP is very difficult (if not impossible), as these depend on a number of parameters relating to its existing investments, such as holding period, realised multiple of invested capital (MOIC) and prospective new investment activity. Moreover, HEP’s future earnings will also depend on FTK’s share price performance and realisation path. Having said that, we have updated our scenario analysis, which we included in our initiation note published in July 2022 (see Exhibit 5).

Exhibit 5: HEP’s prospective NAV TR under different scenarios*

FY21

FY22e

FY23e

FY24e

FY25e

FY26e

FY27e

Average MOIC at 2.5x, FTKs share price at average sell-side target price

EPS (diluted, €)

1.67

(7.02)

1.08

0.59

0.83

1.03

1.35

IFRS NAV per share (€)

14.15

7.13

7.92

8.51

9.34

10.37

11.72

NAV TR

 

(50%)

11%

7%

10%

11%

13%

Average MOIC at 3.0x, FTK’s share price at average sell-side target price

EPS (diluted, €)

1.67

(7.02)

1.27

0.91

1.28

1.65

2.19

IFRS NAV per share (€)

14.15

7.13

8.28

9.19

10.47

12.11

14.31

NAV TR

 

(50%)

16%

11%

14%

16%

18%

Average MOIC at 2.0x, FTK’s share price flat

EPS (diluted, €)

1.67

(7.02)

0.66

0.10

0.27

0.39

0.52

IFRS NAV per share (€)

14.15

7.13

7.34

7.44

7.71

8.10

8.62

NAV TR

 

(50%)

3%

1%

4%

5%

6%

Source: HEP, Edison Investment Research. Note: *All scenarios assume share issue completed in full.

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