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MotorK has completed the sale of its B2C e-commerce business unit DriveK to GEDI Gruppo Editoriale on 15 December (first stated on 18 October). DriveK will be combined with GEDI’s AutoXY consumer automotive portal, creating the largest European new car marketplace for consumers to select, compare and configure their next new car in Italy, France, Spain and Germany. Management expects that the transaction will unlock substantial synergies by leveraging their respective relationships with major OEMs, coupled with marketing savings and the sharing of best practices. The sale will enable MotorK to fully focus on its B2B software as a service (SaaS) business, namely its SparK platform, while continuing to benefit from any future value creation via a 20% shareholding in the new combined entity. No other transaction details were provided in the release.
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MotorK |
Progress through SaaS |
Disposal of DriveK |
Software and comp services |
19 December 2022 |
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MotorK has completed the sale of its B2C e-commerce business unit DriveK to GEDI Gruppo Editoriale on 15 December (first stated on 18 October). DriveK will be combined with GEDI’s AutoXY consumer automotive portal, creating the largest European new car marketplace for consumers to select, compare and configure their next new car in Italy, France, Spain and Germany. Management expects that the transaction will unlock substantial synergies by leveraging their respective relationships with major OEMs, coupled with marketing savings and the sharing of best practices. The sale will enable MotorK to fully focus on its B2B software as a service (SaaS) business, namely its SparK platform, while continuing to benefit from any future value creation via a 20% shareholding in the new combined entity. No other transaction details were provided in the release.
Year end |
Revenue |
ARR* |
PBT** |
Diluted |
DPS |
EV/sales |
EV/EBITDA |
12/20 |
19.3 |
10.0 |
(6.1) |
(0.19) |
0.00 |
1.3 |
N/A |
12/21 |
27.6 |
15.1 |
(8.2) |
(0.37) |
0.00 |
0.9 |
29.1 |
12/22e |
44.1 |
28.0 |
(0.2) |
(0.00) |
0.00 |
0.6 |
4.7 |
12/23e |
60.9 |
38.3 |
3.8 |
0.07 |
0.00 |
0.4 |
2.2 |
Note: *Annualised recurring revenue. **PBT and EPS are normalised, excluding amortisation of acquired intangibles, exceptional items and share-based payments.
DriveK has been included in the company’s ‘assets/liabilities available for sale’ since FY20 and had a net value of €2.7m at the time of its H122 results. While it is still a growing, profitable and cash-generative business, it is not aligned with the company’s SaaS-focused B2B strategy outlined at the time of its IPO in November 2021. MotorK will now be able to fully focus on new developments to its SparK platform, which is the only product in Europe that can provide an end-to-end stack of products to support the digitisation of the entire car sale process.
Despite the group’s strong performance in FY22 relative to peers, and higher-than-average forecast revenue growth, the group trades at a significant discount to our basket of small and mid-cap SaaS companies. MotorK is now trading on an FY22e EV/Sales multiple of 0.6x and EV/EBITDA of 4.7x, which is an average 83% discount to its peers. In FY23e, these multiples fall to 0.4x and 2.2x respectively, an average discount of 90%.
We believe weakness in the share price since our last note on 24 October reflects management’s latest guidance and general uncertainty in automotive retail. However, we note that MotorK’s role as a pure software provider provides robust protection against many of the sensitivities in the wider market as it has no direct involvement in the car sale process.
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