Centaur Media

Overview
Price performance
Financials
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Thematics

Centaur Media is an international provider of business intelligence, learning and specialist consultancy. Its Xeim and The Lawyer business units serve the marketing and legal sectors respectively and offer customers a wide range of products and services targeted at helping them add value.

For the purposes of the Takeover Code, Edison is deemed to be connected with Centaur Media as a provider of paid-for research. Under Rule 20.1 Edison must not include any profit forecast, quantified financial benefits statement, asset valuation or estimate of other figures key to the offer, except to the extent that such forecasts, statements, valuations or estimates have been published prior to the offer period (as defined in the Takeover Code) by an offeror or the offeree company (as appropriate) in accordance with the requirements of the Code. Consequently we have removed our estimates until the offer period ends.

Latest Insights

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13.03.24

Centaur Media — MAP23 plan delivers a higher-quality business

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18.01.24

Centaur Media — Strong margin performance

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20.07.23

Centaur Media — Higher-quality revenues support EBITDA growth

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28.06.23

Centaur Media – executive interview

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Sector

TMT

Equity Analyst

Fiona Orford-Williams

Director, TMT

Key Management

Colin Jones

Chairman
Longfield, Simon

CFO
Mukerji, Swagatam

CEO

Balance Sheet

Forecast net debt (£m)

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Forecast gearing ratio (%)

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Share Price Performance

Price Performance
%	1M	3M	12M
Actual	30.4	37.3	6.2
Relative	26.8	28.5	1.2
52 week high/low	53.0p/36.0p

Financials

Centaur has received a preliminary expression of interest from Waterland PE Investments, which may or may not lead to an offer being made. The group’s FY23 results marked the end of its MAP23 margin acceleration plan. This saw the adjusted EBITDA margin more than doubling over three years to 26%, ahead of the original 23% target, despite the unhelpful economic backdrop. The recent CMD set out the overarching strategy for the next period to FY27, with a mid-term revenue target of £60m, pre any M&A.