Melrose Industries is a focused aerospace group with activities in engine components and structures, operating in both metallic and composite materials. The group has significant risk reward sharing partnership (RRSP) investments on multiple engine programmes.
The civil aerospace market continues to grow strongly. Melrose has been restructuring to deliver improving performance. FY24 EBIT guidance increased by 6%. FY25 remains unchanged, although management emphasised expectations that the key Engines business will see margins over 30% beyond 2025 (current FY25 guidance: 28%). The group is furthering its strategy to develop as a focused aerospace business.
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Christopher Miller
Executive Vice Chairman
Matthew Gregory
CFO
Peter Dilnot
CEO
Forecast net debt (£m)
1126
Forecast gearing ratio (%)
31
% | 1M | 3M | 12M |
---|---|---|---|
Actual | 7.12 | 20.46 | 102.31 |
Relative | 6.71 | 17.21 | 107.54 |
52 week high/low | 170.2p/95.5p |
Melrose Industries continues to deliver strong performance improvements and is on track to achieve its ambitious margin targets in 2025 (Engines 28% and Structures 9%). As a focused aerospace group, Melrose is also benefiting from the positive long-term drivers in the sector with record civil order backlog. This bodes well for continued earnings momentum and cash generation to drive shareholder value.
Y/E Dec | Revenue (£m) | EBITDA (£m) | PBT (£m) | EPS (fd) (p) | P/E (x) | P/CF (x) |
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2022A | 2954.0 | 292.0 | 89.0 | 4.1 | 151.9 | 30.0 |
2023A | 3350.0 | 532.0 | 331.0 | 19.1 | 32.6 | 15.8 |
2024E | 3677.0 | 699.0 | 456.0 | 26.7 | 23.3 | 12.0 |
2025E | 4028.0 | 839.0 | 575.0 | 34.2 | 18.2 | 9.8 |