Treatt — Another Treat(t)

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Treatt — Another Treat(t)

Treatt has once again delivered an exceptional performance in the first four months of FY21, with strong momentum across multiple categories contributing to growth. Operating margins have benefited from the improved product mix as Treatt continues to move up the value chain and partners with its customers to develop new products. Despite only being four months into the new financial year, the board is cautiously optimistic about continued growth and exceeding current market expectations. We raise our sales forecasts by 7–10% over the next three years and our operating profit and earnings forecasts by 20–32%. Our fair value also moves up to 870p.

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Treatt

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Trading update

Food & beverages

22 January 2021

Price

760.00p

Market cap

£458m

Net cash (£m) at 30 September 2020

0.4

Shares in issue

60.3m

Free float

100%

Code

TET

Primary exchange

LSE

Secondary exchange

N/A

Share price performance

%

1m

3m

12m

Abs

4.8

2.8

15.9

Rel (local)

0.8

(10.9)

24.2

52-week high/low

828.0p

310.0p

Business description

Treatt provides innovative ingredient solutions from its manufacturing bases in Europe and North America, principally for the flavours and fragrance industries and multinational consumer goods companies, with particular emphasis on the beverage sector.

Next events

AGM

29 January 2021

H121 results

11 May 2021

FY21 results

30 November 2021

Analysts

Sara Welford

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Russell Pointon

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Treatt is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

Treatt has once again delivered an exceptional performance in the first four months of FY21, with strong momentum across multiple categories contributing to growth. Operating margins have benefited from the improved product mix as Treatt continues to move up the value chain and partners with its customers to develop new products. Despite only being four months into the new financial year, the board is cautiously optimistic about continued growth and exceeding current market expectations. We raise our sales forecasts by 7–10% over the next three years and our operating profit and earnings forecasts by 20–32%. Our fair value also moves up to 870p.

Year end

Revenue (£m)

PBT*
(£m)

EPS*
(p)

DPS
(p)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

09/19

112.7

14.0

19.0

5.5

39.9

0.7%

09/20

109.0

15.8

21.3

6.0

35.6

0.8%

09/21e

123.2

19.4

26.4

7.5

28.8

1.0%

09/22e

130.6

21.5

29.3

8.3

26.0

1.1%

Note: *PBT and EPS are normalised, excluding amortisation of acquired intangibles, exceptional items and share-based payments.

Step change in growth

Treatt has transformed itself from a commodity-based ingredients trading house into a supplier of value-added ingredients and ingredient solutions, and its financial performance reflects this change. Its technical expertise is being utilised across a growing range of applications, which has led to revenue growth and margin expansion. We believe this is likely to continue beyond FY21, hence our forecast of continued strong growth in both revenues and margins in FY22 and FY23.

Demand remains strong

The demand for flavour ingredients remains strong and, indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in consumers increasingly focusing on health and wellbeing, thus demanding authentic flavours with clean labels. The beverages market has seen a switch from the on-trade to the off-trade channel as restrictions have been imposed globally. For beverages companies this has typically resulted in margin erosion, while for the flavour industry the more important metric is overall volume consumed and Treatt has seen an overall increase in demand for its products.

Valuation: At a premium to its peers

We value Treatt using a DCF model, which indicates a fair value of 870p (up from 670p). We have raised our operating forecasts materially for this year, but we expect the momentum to continue and hence have also raised our FY22 and FY23 forecasts. For FY21e Treatt trades at 28.8x P/E and 19.5x EV/EBITDA. This is broadly in line with its peer group in both cases.

Forecasts

In light of the current trading trends discussed above, we raise our forecasts for FY21–23 as detailed in Exhibit 1. We expect the current momentum to continue, but also expect the mix to keep improving through FY22 and FY23, thus delivering an acceleration in sales and operating performance. Given the significantly better performance we are expecting, we have also raised our capex forecasts for FY22 and FY23 as we assume more investment will be required to fulfil the increased demand. We have also increased our dividend per share forecasts, in light of increased EPS expectations.

Exhibit 1: Old versus new key P&L forecasts

2021

2022

2023

Old

New

Diff

Old

New

Diff

Old

New

Diff

Revenue

114,467

123,188

7.6%

119,045

130,579

9.7%

123,807

138,414

11.8%

Operating profit

15,160

18,163

19.8%

16,004

20,166

26.0%

16,892

22,345

32.3%

PBT*

15,166

18,147

19.7%

16,053

20,162

25.6%

17,006

22,385

31.6%

PBT (pre-exceptional) Edison

16,221

19,397

19.6%

17,156

21,533

25.5%

18,163

23,894

31.6%

Basic EPS*

20.3

24.3

19.7%

21.5

27.0

25.6%

22.7

29.9

31.6%

Basic EPS (pre-exceptional) Edison

22.0

26.3

19.6%

23.3

29.2

25.5%

24.7

32.4

31.5%

Source: Edison Investment Research. Note: *Stated on an FRS/reported basis.

Valuation

We illustrate Treatt’s relative valuation versus its ingredients peer group in Exhibit 2 below. For 2021, Treatt trades broadly in line with its peer group on both P/E and EV/EBITDA. Although it is smaller than its peers, its portfolio of products is increasingly specialised and the company has demonstrated its resilience with robust performance despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Exhibit 2: Comparative valuation

Market cap (m)

P/E (x)

EV/EBITDA (x)

Dividend yield (%)

2020e

2021e

2020e

2021e

2020e

2021e

Givaudan

CHF32,779

38.4

35.9

26.2

25.1

1.8

1.9

IFF

$12,841

21.5

19.8

16.1

14.8

2.5

2.8

Symrise

CHF13,610

38.5

35.4

19.9

18.9

1.0

1.1

Chr Hansen

DKK71,996

37.1

43.1

26.8

28.3

1.5

1.6

Kerry

€19,830

32.7

28.8

22.1

20.1

0.7

0.8

Ingredion

$5,300

13.3

12.3

8.3

7.7

3.3

3.3

Peer group average

30.4

30.3

20.3

19.9

1.9

1.8

Treatt

£453

35.6

28.8

26.8

19.5

0.8

1.0

Premium/(discount) to peer group (%)

17.8%

(1.3%)

34.5%

1.8%

(56.5%)

(48.6%)

Source: Refinitiv, Edison Investment Research. Note: Priced at 21 January 2021.

Our DCF-derived fair value increases to 870p given our increased short-term forecasts. Our WACC has fallen to 5.8% (beta of 0.8, a risk-free rate of 2.0%, an equity risk premium of 5.0% and a borrowing spread of 5.0%). We leave our medium-term sales growth assumption of 5.0% pa unchanged, falling to 2% growth in perpetuity (also unchanged). We note that a medium-term sales growth of 5.5% would lift our fair value to c 900p, as illustrated in Exhibit 3.

Exhibit 3: DCF sensitivity to terminal growth rate and sales growth (p/share)

Sales growth

4.0%

4.5%

5.0%

5.5%

6.0%

Terminal growth

-1.0%

557

571

586

601

616

0.0%

614

631

647

664

682

1.0%

696

715

735

755

775

2.0%

822

845

869

893

919

3.0%

1038

1069

1100

1133

1166

4.0%

1502

1549

1596

1646

1696

Source: Edison Investment Research

Exhibit 4: Financial summary

£000s

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021e

2022e

2023e

Year-end September

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

PROFIT & LOSS

Revenue

 

 

101,250

112,163

112,717

109,016

123,188

130,579

138,414

Cost of Sales

(75,985)

(84,407)

(84,060)

(77,140)

(86,552)

(91,092)

(95,866)

Gross Profit

25,265

27,756

28,657

31,876

36,636

39,487

42,548

EBITDA

 

 

15,049

16,627

15,785

17,862

23,322

28,048

30,495

Operating Profit (before amort., except and sbp.)

 

 

13,650

15,108

14,226

16,053

19,413

21,539

23,855

Intangible Amortisation

(137)

(124)

(90)

(75)

(64)

(54)

(46)

Share based payments

(966)

(1,040)

(637)

(886)

(1,186)

(1,318)

(1,464)

Other

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Operating Profit

12,547

13,944

13,499

15,092

18,163

20,166

22,345

Net Interest

(851)

(1,302)

(199)

(291)

(14)

2

53

Exceptionals

0

(1,105)

(755)

(1,060)

0

0

0

Profit Before Tax (norm)

 

 

12,799

13,806

14,027

15,762

19,399

21,540

23,908

Profit Before Tax (FRS 3)

 

 

11,696

11,537

12,545

13,741

18,149

20,168

22,398

Profit Before Tax (company)

 

 

11,696

12,642

13,300

14,801

18,149

20,168

22,398

Tax

(3,129)

(2,284)

(2,673)

(2,896)

(3,630)

(4,034)

(4,480)

Profit After Tax (norm)

9,670

11,392

11,263

12,762

15,769

17,507

19,428

Profit After Tax (FRS 3)

8,567

9,253

9,872

10,845

14,519

16,135

17,918

Discontinued operations

978

2,976

(1,084)

0

0

0

0

Average Number of Shares Outstanding (m)

52.2

56.8

59.1

59.8

59.8

59.8

59.8

EPS - normalised (p)

 

 

18.5

20.1

19.0

21.3

26.4

29.3

32.5

EPS - adjusted (p)

 

 

18.3

18.0

17.8

19.7

24.3

27.0

29.9

EPS - (IFRS) (p)

 

 

16.4

16.3

16.7

18.1

24.3

27.0

29.9

Dividend per share (p)

4.8

5.1

5.5

6.0

7.5

8.3

9.3

Gross Margin (%)

25.0

24.7

25.4

29.2

29.7

30.2

30.7

EBITDA Margin (%)

14.9

14.8

14.0

16.4

18.9

21.5

22.0

Operating Margin (before GW and except.) (%)

13.5

13.5

12.6

14.7

15.8

16.5

17.2

BALANCE SHEET

Fixed Assets

 

 

19,532

21,863

31,730

54,048

62,250

61,146

61,536

Intangible Assets

3,331

752

845

1,358

1,294

1,240

1,194

Tangible Assets

14,821

20,038

29,485

50,159

59,598

58,548

58,984

Investments

1,380

1,073

1,400

2,531

1,358

1,358

1,358

Current Assets

 

 

68,230

102,401

98,158

69,472

75,291

78,953

91,617

Stocks

42,878

39,642

36,799

36,050

40,490

42,658

44,941

Debtors

19,973

28,828

23,020

24,167

27,062

28,555

30,130

Cash

4,748

32,304

37,187

7,739

7,739

7,739

16,545

Other

631

1,627

1,152

1,516

0

0

0

Current Liabilities

 

 

(27,003)

(35,781)

(28,905)

(15,989)

(20,693)

(13,930)

(13,201)

Creditors

(19,266)

(16,479)

(11,784)

(12,640)

(12,981)

(13,107)

(13,201)

Short term borrowings

(7,680)

(19,244)

(16,860)

(3,203)

(7,712)

(823)

0

Provisions

(57)

(58)

(261)

(146)

0

0

0

Long Term Liabilities

 

 

(14,281)

(6,858)

(13,876)

(16,411)

(17,617)

(13,973)

(13,361)

Long term borrowings

(7,293)

(3,001)

(4,369)

(3,450)

(3,856)

(412)

0

Other long term liabilities

(6,988)

(3,857)

(9,507)

(12,961)

(13,761)

(13,561)

(13,361)

Net Assets

 

 

46,478

81,625

87,107

91,120

99,232

112,196

126,591

CASH FLOW

Operating Cash Flow

 

 

4,683

3,580

20,544

15,677

16,326

24,312

26,532

Net Interest

(913)

(609)

(199)

(191)

(14)

2

53

Tax

(2,822)

(2,978)

(2,208)

(2,191)

(3,630)

(4,034)

(4,480)

Capex

(5,111)

(6,190)

(10,392)

(23,909)

(13,348)

(5,459)

(7,076)

Acquisitions/disposals

(1,667)

8,357

855

(1,041)

0

0

0

Financing

270

21,090

622

(69)

0

0

0

Dividends

(3,025)

(2,876)

(3,080)

(3,378)

(3,590)

(4,488)

(4,987)

Net Cash Flow

(8,585)

20,374

6,142

(15,102)

(4,256)

10,334

10,041

Opening net debt/(cash)

 

 

1,654

10,225

(10,059)

(15,958)

(427)

3,829

(6,504)

HP finance leases initiated

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Other

14

(90)

(243)

(429)

(0)

0

(0)

Closing net debt/(cash)

 

 

10,225

(10,059)

(15,958)

(427)

3,829

(6,504)

(16,545)

Source: Edison Investment Research, company data


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