Der positive Coba-Bericht nach dem Interwiew mit Linzbach. Ich gönne und wünsche allen, dass er Recht hat. Frühindikatoren hierzu entnehmen wir den Postings von Schmodo.
Profitability rebound to send a message Sales in Q3 are likely to increase 15% year over year to €728m helped by additional impetus from the Drupa trade fair in Q1 and a favourable comparison base. We expect EBIT before special items to jump from €2m to €30m driven by scale economies, a more profitable product mix and cost savings. This implies a bold improvement in underlying margins with 4.1% after 0.3% in Q3 2011 and 0.1% in Q2. Note that timing of financial one-offs and volatile tax leaves tangible risk to our reported estimates.
GIS conference conversation reassuring We had a personal conversation with CEO Dr Linzbach at our German Investment Seminar. As previously, management sees the printing equipment market to have bottomed and reiterates confidence in achieving a 2013/14 EBIT ex special items of €120m (after IAS 19) and a net profit. As a new theme it was also suggested that by accounts receivable management (i.e. rising prepayments on equipment sales) Heidelberger is seeking to further optimise its working capital going forward.
Confidence to increase further We expect the coming two quarters to benefit from fewer one-off items, scale economies on a shift of sales into H2 of c. €300m, the sales mix now tilting towards equipment with longer lead times which is more profitable, and first restructuring benefits aimed at €60m coming to light. Once our claim of a strong rebound in operating margins is being substantiated, we expect confidence to further increase. We reiterate Buy with a €2.0 target price (based on a DCF approach).
Key Data Year-end Mar 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13E 2013/14E 2014/15E CAGR 2011-14E Sales rep. (€ m) 2,306 2,629 2,596 2,734 2,729 2,796 2.5 % EBITDA adj. (€ m) (24.8) 104 89.6 110 157 182 26.7 % EBITA adj. (€ m) (129) 3.9 2.5 21.5 69.1 92.0 232.0 % EBITA margin (5.6%) 0.1% 0.1% 0.8% 2.5% 3.3% EBITA rep. (€ m) (159) 6.2 (140) (18.5) 69.1 92.0 FCF pre-div (€ m) (62.4) 74.9 9.8 (101) 6.1 48.5 70.3 % FCF yield (14.9%) 9.5% 2.2% (27.1%) 1.6% 13.1% EPS rep. (€) (2.94) (0.83) (0.98) (0.49) 0.06 0.18 n.a. EPS adj. (€) (2.65) (0.86) (0.39) (0.32) 0.06 0.18 n.a. DPS (€) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 n.a. EV/Sales (x) 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 EV/EBITA (x) n.m. n.m. n.m. n.m. 16.5 12.0 P/E (x) n.m. n.m. n.m. n.m. 25.6 8.7 Div yield 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% Net debt (€ m) 920 468 569 794 802 764 Net debt/EBITDA (x) (37.1) 4.5 6.4 7.2 5.1 4.2 Source: Company, Commerzbank Corporates & Markets |