Genuit Group — Positive trading momentum continues ytd

Genuit Group (LN: GEN)

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Genuit Group — Positive trading momentum continues ytd

FY21 has started well both in underlying terms and for recent acquisitions, especially Adey. Genuit is strategically well positioned given regulatory and environmental drivers in its markets, and the proposed management transition is being well flagged in advance. A strong expected earnings recovery from a COVID-19 affected FY20 is being reflected in support for Genuit’s share price.

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Positive trading momentum continues ytd

AGM update

Building & construction

28 May 2021

Price

642.0p

Market cap

£1,464m

€1.16/£

Net debt (£m) at end December 2020
(excluding IFRS 16 lease liabilities)

14.8

Shares in issue

228m

Free float

93%

Code

GEN

Primary exchange

LSE

Secondary exchange

N/A

Share price performance

%

1m

3m

12m

Abs

12.0

17.1

51.2

Rel (local)

10.8

8.0

28.0

52-week high/low

645p

396p

Business description

Genuit Group (formerly Polypipe Group) is a leading supplier of largely plastic building products and systems. Operations in the UK (c 90% of revenue) address a broad range of sectors including residential, commercial and civil building demand and a number of subsectors within them. Overseas revenues are generated through exports, particularly to the Middle East, and a small Italy-based specialist fittings business.

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Toby Thorrington

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Genuit Group is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

FY21 has started well both in underlying terms and for recent acquisitions, especially Adey. Genuit is strategically well positioned given regulatory and environmental drivers in its markets, and the proposed management transition is being well flagged in advance. A strong expected earnings recovery from a COVID-19 affected FY20 is being reflected in support for Genuit’s share price.

Year end

Revenue (£m)

PBT*
(£m)

EPS*
(p)

DPS
(p)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

12/19

447.6

70.8

29.2

4.0

22.0

0.6

12/20

398.6

35.7

13.3

4.8

48.2

0.7

12/21e

534.6

81.0

26.9

9.0

23.9

1.4

12/22e

568.7

87.8

29.1

10.0

22.0

1.6

Note: *PBT and EPS are normalised, excluding amortisation of acquired intangibles and exceptional items. FY19 dividend represents the H1 payment only; no final dividend was declared.

Revenue growth and robust margins

The good momentum seen at the end of FY20 has continued into the new financial year and, compared to pre-pandemic FY19, like-for-like revenues (for the first four months to end April) are ahead by 13.5% (or +31.7% including acquisitions). Input cost pressures do not appear to have dented margins, which are broadly in line with management expectations, and this is partly attributable to forward buying by merchants ahead of price increases, notably in Residential Systems. Therefore, it seems that volume effects/operating efficiencies are largely offsetting optically dilutive margin effects arising from higher input costs and selling prices. Management notes ongoing challenges in the polymer input market, but these have been effectively managed to date with no disruption. Divisional revenue comments are at the headline level (vs FY19: Residential +c 44%, Commercial & Infrastructure +c 15%); both have benefited from acquisitions made in February – Nu-Heat and Adey in Residential, Plura in Commercial & Infrastructure – and the largest (Adey) is performing ahead of expectations, with the others in line.

Confident of progress, guidance raised

In a familiar sector refrain, outlook comments are confident regarding the remainder of H1, with a note of caution beyond this in FY21. In reality, H2 visibility is typically not strong for Genuit at this stage in the year anyway, but how the UK housing market performs once incentives step down and employment conditions begin to normalise adds additional uncertainty, as others have commented. Nevertheless, management retains its expectation of strong progress for the year, which is also evidenced by the upward guidance tweak, and our revised FY21 estimates are in line with this (ie EBIT of c £88m) with slightly smaller uplifts to subsequent years.

Valuation: Approaching all-time highs

Genuit’s share price has regained levels earlier in the year (prior to the February equity raise) and has recently attained an all-time high. Estimates have also increased (organically and via acquisitions) in FY21 and the net result is forward P/E and EV/EBITDA multiples of 23.9 and 14.5x respectively for the current year.

Exhibit 1: Financial summary

£m

2016

2016*

2017*

2018

2019

2020

2021e

2022e

2023e

December

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

PROFIT & LOSS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenue

 

 

436.9

387.2

411.7

433.2

447.6

398.6

534.6

568.7

592.7

Cost of Sales

 

 

(256.8)

(219.1)

(236.0)

(251.9)

(255.2)

(242.5)

(315.4)

(335.5)

(349.7)

Gross Profit

 

 

180.1

168.1

175.7

181.4

192.4

156.1

219.2

233.1

243.0

EBITDA

 

 

86.4

84.5

88.3

90.6

99.1

63.4

113.0

120.1

125.8

Operating Profit (underlying)

 

 

70.4

69.5

73.4

75.0

79.3

43.6

89.6

96.3

101.7

SBP

 

 

(1.0)

(1.0)

(0.8)

(1.0)

(1.2)

(1.4)

(1.4)

(1.4)

(1.4)

Operating Profit (reported)

 

 

69.4

68.5

72.6

74.0

78.1

42.2

88.2

94.9

100.3

Net Interest

 

 

(6.6)

(6.6)

(5.8)

(5.8)

(6.2)

(4.2)

(6.5)

(6.4)

(6.1)

Other finance

 

 

(1.0)

(1.0)

(1.1)

(1.1)

(1.1)

(2.3)

(0.7)

(0.7)

(0.7)

Intangible Amortisation

 

 

(6.8)

(6.8)

(5.5)

(5.9)

(7.5)

(7.8)

(7.8)

(7.8)

(7.8)

Exceptionals

 

 

(0.6)

(0.6)

(4.6)

(2.7)

(3.2)

(4.1)

0.0

0.0

0.0

Profit Before Tax (norm)

 

 

61.8

60.9

65.7

67.1

70.8

35.7

81.0

87.8

93.5

Profit Before Tax (statutory)

 

 

54.4

53.5

55.6

58.5

60.1

23.8

73.2

80.0

85.7

Tax

 

 

(11.8)

(10.1)

(11.8)

(10.5)

(11.9)

(6.3)

(14.6)

(15.8)

(16.8)

Profit After Tax (norm)

 

 

50.0

49.2

53.9

56.5

58.9

29.4

66.4

72.0

76.7

Profit After Tax (statutory)

 

 

42.6

43.4

43.8

49.1

49.6

18.5

60.0

65.6

70.3

Average Number of Shares Outstanding (m)

 

198.9

198.9

198.4

199.0

199.3

218.1

244.5

244.5

244.5

EPS - normalised (p)

 

 

25.0

24.6

26.9

28.1

29.2

13.3

26.9

29.1

31.0

EPS - statutory (p)

 

 

21.4

22.2

22.1

24.7

24.9

8.5

24.5

26.8

28.7

Dividend per share (p)

 

 

10.1

10.1

11.1

11.6

4.0

4.8

9.0

10.0

10.8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross Margin (%)

 

 

41.2

43.4

42.7

41.9

43.0

39.2

41.0

41.0

41.0

EBITDA Margin (%)

 

 

19.8

21.8

21.4

20.9

22.1

15.9

21.1

21.1

21.2

Operating Margin (underlying) (%) 

 

16.1

17.9

17.8

17.3

17.7

10.9

16.8

16.9

17.2

BALANCE SHEET

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed Assets

 

 

472.6

 

455.1

520.3

542.4

540.9

780.2

783.2

785.8

Intangible Assets

 

 

371.6

 

356.5

401.9

401.8

393.8

623.0

615.2

607.4

Tangible Assets

 

 

101.0

 

98.6

118.4

140.6

147.1

157.2

168.0

178.4

Investments

 

 

0.0

 

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Current Assets

 

 

119.5

 

147.7

141.7

148.2

158.9

179.7

225.1

271.0

Stocks

 

 

52.2

 

53.5

58.1

59.7

52.6

68.5

72.8

75.9

Debtors

 

 

38.9

 

32.6

37.2

40.5

54.8

61.2

64.8

67.3

Cash

 

 

26.5

 

35.7

46.2

47.7

44.1

41.1

76.8

115.5

Current Liabilities

 

 

(104.5)

 

(108.8)

(108.7)

(108.1)

(119.1)

(145.6)

(151.3)

(154.9)

Creditors

 

 

(104.5)

 

(108.8)

(108.7)

(108.1)

(119.1)

(145.6)

(151.3)

(154.9)

Short term borrowings

 

 

0.0

 

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Long Term Liabilities

 

 

(200.2)

 

(192.0)

(222.1)

(221.1)

(79.8)

(181.2)

(182.6)

(184.0)

Long term borrowings

 

 

(190.8)

 

(184.1)

(210.4)

(197.7)

(58.9)

(164.9)

(164.9)

(164.9)

Other long term liabilities 

 

(9.4)

 

(7.9)

(11.7)

(23.4)

(20.9)

(16.3)

(17.7)

(19.1)

Net Assets

 

 

287.4

 

302.0

331.2

361.4

500.9

633.1

674.3

717.9

CASH FLOW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating Cash Flow

 

 

86.5

 

79.2

90.0

89.4

61.5

102.6

116.5

122.6

Net Interest

 

 

(7.3)

 

(6.6)

(6.1)

(7.4)

(5.4)

(6.9)

(6.8)

(6.5)

Tax

 

 

(10.1)

 

(12.6)

(11.2)

(12.4)

(8.2)

(6.0)

(14.6)

(15.8)

Capex

 

 

(18.7)

 

(22.0)

(23.2)

(18.0)

(24.5)

(30.0)

(31.0)

(31.0)

Acquisitions/disposals

 

 

0.0

 

0.0

(42.5)

(12.2)

(1.8)

(237.0)

0.0

0.0

Financing

 

 

(2.9)

 

(0.7)

0.3

2.4

118.5

91.5

(1.5)

(1.5)

Dividends

 

 

(17.1)

 

(21.0)

(22.3)

(23.7)

0.0

(19.2)

(22.9)

(25.2)

Net Cash Flow

 

 

30.5

 

16.3

(15.1)

18.1

140.1

(105.0)

39.7

42.7

Opening net debt/(cash)

 

 

194.3

 

164.3

148.4

164.2

150.0

14.8

123.8

88.1

Finance leases initiated

 

 

0.0

 

0.0

(1.6)

(3.5)

(4.0)

(4.0)

(4.0)

(4.0)

Other

 

 

(0.5)

 

(0.4)

0.8

(0.4)

(0.9)

0.0

0.0

0.0

Closing net debt/(cash)

 

 

164.3

 

148.4

164.2

150.0

14.8

123.8

88.1

49.4

Lease finance (under IFRS 16) 

 

 

 

 

 

14.8

12.9

12.9

12.9

12.9

Source: Company accounts, Edison Investment Research. Note: *Continuing operations.

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