Games Workshop Group (LSE: GAW)

Currency in GBP

Last close As at 04/12/2023

GBP107.10

−100.00 (−0.93%)

Market capitalisation

GBP3,558m

Games Workshop is a leading international specialist designer, manufacturer and multi-channel retailer of miniatures, scenery, artwork and fiction for tabletop miniature games set in its fantasy Warhammer worlds.

Games Workshop Group is the global leader for tabletop miniature gaming, a market it created. Tabletop miniature gaming is the fastest-growing segment of the global non-digital games market, which is expected to grow at a CAGR of 9% between 2017 and 2023 and reach a value exceeding $12bn.

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Games Workshop Group — Leviathan

Consumer | Update

Games Workshop Group — Merci, France

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Sector

Consumer

Equity Analyst

Russell Pointon

Russell Pointon

Director, Consumer

Key Management

  • John Brewis

    Non-executive chairman

  • Kevin Rountree

    CEO

  • Rachel Tongue

    CFO

Balance Sheet

Forecast net debt (£m)

89

Forecast gearing ratio (%)

37

Share Price Performance

Price Performance
% 1M 3M 12M
Actual 9.4 0.8 46.8
Relative 6.3 1.3 49.1
52 week high/low 11700.0p/7285.0p

Financials

Games Workshop Group’s June 2023 launch of Leviathan has been well received based on core year-on-year revenue growth of 14% in Q124 which, accompanied by a more favourable cost profile, translated to c 46% growth in PBT to £57m (c £39m in Q123). Our reported PBT estimates for FY24 increased by 6%, to give year-on-year growth of c 9% and we introduced FY25 estimates for c 4% growth to c £193m. So far in FY24, GAW has declared total dividends of 195p/share (dividends of 145p/share and 50p/share), c 63% higher than cumulative dividends at the same time in FY23 of 120p/share (dividends of 90p/shares and 30p/share).

Y/E May Revenue (£m) EBITDA (£m) PBT (£m) EPS (fd) (p) P/E (x) P/CF (x)
2022A 414.8 193.2 156.5 394.6 27.1 29.0
2023A 470.8 213.3 170.6 411.8 26.0 18.3
2024E 495.8 224.2 186.2 426.3 25.1 19.6
2025E 518.4 233.6 193.2 442.3 24.2 19.1

Further insights

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