Topps Tiles — Share gains with easing cost pressures in FY23

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Topps Tiles — Share gains with easing cost pressures in FY23

Topps Tiles’ (TPT’s) FY23 trading update indicates the company has delivered on consensus market profit expectations with a third consecutive year of record revenue. Management’s stated ‘significant outperformance’ versus the UK tiling market is testimony to its strategy of developing and diversifying its operations. It believes there has been rapid progress towards the early delivery of its ‘1 in 5 by 2025’ market share target. Of equal importance is the contribution from the expected increase in the Topps Tiles brand’s (Omnichannel) gross margin through the year as inflationary cost pressures eased.

Russell Pointon

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Russell Pointon

Director of Content, Consumer and Media

Consumer

Topps Tiles

Share gains with easing cost pressures in FY23

FY23 trading update

Retail

4 October 2023

Price

48p

Market cap

£94m

Net cash (£m) at 1 April 2023 (excluding IFRS 16 liabilities)

19.9

Shares in issue

196.7m

Free float

70.2

Code

TPT

Primary exchange

LSE

Secondary exchange

N/A

Share price performance

%

1m

3m

12m

Abs

(3.8)

(0.2)

22.4

Rel (local)

(3.2)

1.1

14.2

52-week high/low

56.4p

38.1p

Business description

Topps Tiles is the market-leading specialist retailer and distributor of wall and floor tiles, and associated products such as tools, grouts and adhesives, to its retail, trade and commercial customers in the UK.

Next events

FY23 results

28 November 2023

Analysts

Russell Pointon

+44 (0)20 3077 5700

Milo Bussell

+44 (0)20 3077 5700

Topps Tiles is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

Topps Tiles’ (TPT’s) FY23 trading update indicates the company has delivered on consensus market profit expectations with a third consecutive year of record revenue. Management’s stated ‘significant outperformance’ versus the UK tiling market is testimony to its strategy of developing and diversifying its operations. It believes there has been rapid progress towards the early delivery of its ‘1 in 5 by 2025’ market share target. Of equal importance is the contribution from the expected increase in the Topps Tiles brand’s (Omnichannel) gross margin through the year as inflationary cost pressures eased.

Year end

Revenue (£m)

PBT*
(£m)

EPS*
(p)

DPS
(p)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

09/21

228.0

16.5

6.7

3.1

7.1

6.5

09/22

247.2

16.4

6.4

3.6

7.5

7.5

09/23e

263.0**

13.2

4.8

3.6

10.1

7.5

09/24e

272.9

14.2

5.0

3.6

9.5

7.5

09/25e

286.4

15.6

5.7

3.6

8.5

7.5

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

FY23 revenue marginally ahead of our estimates

Group revenue grew by 6.4% y-o-y to c £263m (FY22: £247.2m), marginally ahead of our prior estimate of £261.3m. The year-on-year growth rate for total revenue reduced as the year progressed, as it did for the core Topps Tiles brand (we estimate 88% of total revenue), which finished the year with like-for-like growth of 3.1% (H123: 4.3%). While the deteriorating macroeconomic backdrop was likely not helpful, we believe lower price inflation accounts for some of the lower revenue growth offset by an improvement in volume trends through the year. Online Pure Play’s growth continued to be very strong at approximately 50% for the year on an underlying basis, which is pleasing in the first full year of ownership. Commercial’s revenue was not quantified but management points to a reassuring move back to profitability in Q423 following the business improvement plan, as guided.

FY23 profit guidance reiterated

Management has reiterated that TPT’s FY23 adjusted profit before tax will be in line with current market expectations of £11.3–12.3m, unchanged since the Q323 trading update, for which the range narrowed upwards from £10.6–12.3m at the H123 results. This includes the guided improvement in Omnichannel’s gross profit through every quarter of the year. Note that our definition of PBT differs slightly to consensus as we exclude estimated share-based payments of c £1.4m in FY23. We have nudged up our revenue figure for FY23 to be consistent with the trading update, but make no other changes to our FY23–25 estimates.

Valuation: Discount to historical EV/sales multiples

Sentiment on the macroeconomic environment continues to weigh on the share price. The prospective FY24 EV/sales multiple of 0.3x remains at a significant discount to prior periods, excluding COVID, when similar rates of revenue growth and profitability as we forecast in FY24 and FY25 were delivered – see Exhibits 15 and 16 of our initiation note.

Exhibit 1: Financial summary

£m

2021

2022

2023e

2024e

2025e

Year end 30 September

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

INCOME STATEMENT

Revenue

 

 

228.0

247.2

263.0

272.9

286.4

Cost of Sales

(97.3)

(111.8)

(123.0)

(126.7)

(133.8)

Gross Profit

130.7

135.4

140.0

146.2

152.6

EBITDA

 

 

47.6

44.6

40.8

42.1

43.9

Operating profit (before amort. and excepts.)

 

 

20.6

20.3

16.8

17.7

19.1

Amortisation of acquired intangibles

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Exceptionals

(1.9)

(5.0)

(5.4)

(1.6)

0.0

Share-based payments

(0.7)

(0.5)

(1.4)

(1.4)

(1.4)

Reported operating profit

18.0

14.8

10.1

14.8

17.8

Net Interest

(4.1)

(3.9)

(3.6)

(3.6)

(3.5)

Exceptionals

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Adjusted Profit Before Tax (company)

 

 

15.0

15.6

11.8

12.8

14.3

Profit Before Tax (norm)

 

 

16.5

16.4

13.2

14.2

15.6

Profit Before Tax (reported)

 

 

14.0

10.9

6.4

11.2

14.3

Reported tax

(3.3)

(1.8)

(2.4)

(3.6)

(3.9)

Profit After Tax (norm)

13.3

12.8

9.9

10.3

11.3

Profit After Tax (reported)

10.7

9.2

4.0

7.7

10.3

Minority interests

(0.0)

(0.2)

(0.4)

(0.2)

0.0

Net income (normalised)

13.3

12.6

9.5

10.0

11.3

Net income (reported)

10.6

9.0

3.6

7.4

10.3

Average Number of Shares Outstanding (m)

195

196

197

198

199

EPS - basic normalised (p)

 

 

6.81

6.44

4.80

5.07

5.69

EPS - normalised fully diluted (p)

 

 

6.73

6.37

4.77

5.04

5.66

EPS - basic reported (p)

 

 

5.46

4.60

1.81

3.76

5.19

EPS - adjusted (company) (p)

 

 

6.02

6.14

3.86

4.34

5.19

Dividend (p)

3.10

3.60

3.60

3.60

3.60

Revenue growth (%)

18.2

8.4

6.4

3.8

5.0

Gross Margin (%)

57.3

54.8

53.2

53.6

53.3

Normalised Operating Margin

9.0

8.2

6.4

6.5

6.7

BALANCE SHEET

Fixed Assets

 

 

122.5

119.0

118.7

118.4

117.9

Intangible Assets

0.5

7.5

7.0

6.5

6.0

Tangible Assets

119.1

109.4

109.6

109.8

109.9

Investments & other

2.9

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

Current Assets

 

 

65.6

61.8

64.8

62.6

68.5

Stocks

32.8

38.6

42.5

43.7

46.2

Debtors

4.5

6.4

6.6

6.7

6.9

Cash & cash equivalents

27.8

16.2

15.2

11.6

14.9

Other

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.5

Current Liabilities

 

 

(69.3)

(63.3)

(67.0)

(69.6)

(72.6)

Creditors

(47.4)

(43.7)

(47.7)

(50.2)

(53.2)

Tax and social security

(2.0)

(1.2)

(1.2)

(1.2)

(1.2)

Short term borrowings

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Leases

(19.5)

(18.2)

(18.2)

(18.2)

(18.2)

Other

(0.4)

(0.4)

(0.0)

(0.0)

(0.1)

Long Term Liabilities

 

 

(93.8)

(88.4)

(89.7)

(82.9)

(80.9)

Long term borrowings

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Leases

(91.8)

(84.7)

(82.8)

(80.8)

(78.8)

Other long term liabilities

(2.0)

(3.7)

(6.9)

(2.1)

(2.1)

Net Assets

 

 

25.0

29.0

26.8

28.5

33.0

Minority interests

0.0

2.5

2.9

0.0

0.0

Shareholders' equity

 

 

25.0

31.5

29.8

28.5

33.0

CASH FLOW

Operating Cash Flow

47.6

44.6

40.8

42.1

43.9

Working capital

(14.6)

(11.0)

(0.0)

1.1

0.3

Exceptional & other

(0.8)

(3.4)

(2.6)

(0.2)

0.0

Tax

(1.5)

(3.5)

(2.4)

(3.6)

(3.9)

Net operating cash flow

 

 

30.6

26.8

35.7

39.5

40.3

Capex

(2.3)

(3.0)

(6.0)

(6.4)

(6.6)

Acquisitions/disposals

(0.2)

(4.0)

0.0

(6.3)

0.0

Net interest

(4.1)

(3.9)

(3.6)

(3.6)

(3.5)

Equity financing

0.1

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0

Dividends

0.0

(8.0)

(7.5)

(7.1)

(7.2)

Other

(27.4)

(19.6)

(19.6)

(19.7)

(19.8)

Net Cash Flow

(3.2)

(11.5)

(1.0)

(3.6)

3.3

Opening net debt/(cash)

 

 

(26.0)

(27.8)

(16.2)

(15.2)

(11.5)

FX

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Other non-cash movements

5.1

(0.1)

0.0

0.0

0.0

Closing net debt/(cash)

 

 

(27.8)

(16.2)

(15.2)

(11.5)

(14.8)

Closing net debt/(cash) including leases

 

 

83.5

86.7

85.8

87.4

82.1

Source: Topps Tiles accounts, Edison Investment Research

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