£95.2m market cap
103p last close
Carr’s Group’s Agriculture division serves farmers in the North of England, South Wales, the Welsh Borders and Scotland, the US, Germany and New Zealand. The Engineering division offers remote handling equipment and fabrications to the global nuclear and oil and gas industries.
Investment summary
As flagged in an interim management statement in January, Carr’s Group’s UK agricultural activities have been adversely affected by the mild winter that has depressed demand for feed and feed supplements. Based on the order pipeline, management had expected this would be balanced by overperformance in the Engineering division, but delays in receiving orders will lead to underperformance here as well. We cut our FY20 and FY21 EPS estimates by 26% and 10% respectively and reduce our indicative valuation from 190p/share to 172p/share.
Y/E Aug |
Revenue (£m) |
EBITDA (£m) |
PBT (£m) |
EPS (fd) (p) |
P/E (x) |
P/CF (x) |
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| 2018A | 403.2 | 19.9 | 17.7 | 14.8 | 7.0 | 6.3 |
| 2019A | 403.9 | 22.1 | 18.9 | 15.2 | 6.8 | 5.9 |
| 2020E | 372.0 | 20.3 | 15.2 | 11.7 | 8.8 | 8.0 |
| 2021E | 412.6 | 22.7 | 18.5 | 14.8 | 7.0 | 4.7 |
Industry outlook
Compared to FY19, demand for animal feed in the UK was depressed by the unseasonably mild weather. Moreover, a combination of lower cattle prices, rising input prices and continuing Brexit uncertainty resulted in lower sales of supplements and products related to infrastructure investment. In the US, there was lower demand for feed blocks because of reduced cattle prices and a delayed start to winter feeding. Contract phasing meant that Engineering had a slow start to the year. However, management anticipates that the strong pipeline, which includes a US$8.5m robotics contract from the US primarily for delivery in FY20, will result in full year divisional performance ahead of management’s previous expectations.
Last updated on 26/03/2020
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| Forecast net debt (£m) | 29.3 |
| Forecast gearing ratio (%) | 22 |
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Key management |
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| Tim Davies | CEO |
| Neil Austin | FD |
| Peter Page | Non-executive chairman |
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