Tuesday 24 June 2014

New Taxes along with likely Gas Prices increase to Lower Aracemco's Target Price

 New Taxes along with likely Gas Prices increase to Lower Aracemco's Target Price

Aracemco - Egyptian Stock Exchange


New Taxes along with likely Gas Prices increase to Lower Aracemco's Target Price

New income tax of 5% on companies and individuals earning above EGP1.0 million annually to be applied on Aracemco for 3 years effective 2014, driving its effective tax rate to 30% in the period FY14-FY16. Meanwhile, the GoE is considering fuel products subsidy reforms including Natural Gas. Accordingly, we examined these two factors’ effect on Aracemco’s target price as follows:

Base Case Scenario
·         The GoE considers increasing natural gas prices for energy intensive industries to reach US$6/mmBtu, except for cement industry to pay US$8/mmBtu while increase it to US$4/mmBtu up from US$3/mmBtu for non-energy intensive industries, including the ceramics industry.
·         Given the fact that we already factored the increase to US$4/mmBtu in our last update on Aracemco dated April 30, 2014 effective second half FY14;
·         our new Base Case Scenario, which was affected only by the change in the effective tax rate results a 2.6% drop in the target price to EGP36.23/share, still offering 7.1% upside potential over the current market price of EGP33.83/share. Accordingly, we downgrade our recommendation to “Hold” based on this scenario.

 Financial Summary- Base Case Scenario

FY ending Dec.
2013a
2014f
2015f
2016f
2017f
2018f
Revenues (EGP mn)
453
527
658
693
720
747
EBITDA Margin
34.6%
35.4%
42.9%
43.1%
43.1%
43.1%
EPS (EGP)
2.45
3.19
5.23
5.70
6.41
6.72
DPS (EGP)
2.00
3.09
5.23
5.70
6.41
6.72
PER
12.9x
9.9x
6.0x
5.5x
4.9x
4.7x
DY
6.3%
9.8%
16.6%
18.1%
20.3%
21.3%
EV/EBITDA
5.8x
4.8x
2.9x
2.7x
2.5x
2.4x
Net Debt (EGP mn)
-
13
10
7
5
-
Net Income (EGP mn)
119
195
212
238
250
261


Worst Case Scenario
·         In this we scenario we conservatively assumed that the GoE will apply a unified natural gas price of USD6/mmBtu via a one-time adjustment for all industries except for cement industry at US$8/mmBtu; effective second half FY14.
·         Although a natural gas price of USD6/mmBtu doubles the energy price to Aracemco, the company already in place plan towards shifting the ceramic tiles production process to Dry Milling Technology is expected to significantly absorb a large portion of the expected increase in energy cost, leading to 58% increase and -4% drop in energy cost during FY14 and FY15, respectively compared to 23% increase and -18% drop in energy cost during FY14 and FY15, respectively in our latest update.
·         Accordingly, our target price drops to EGP31.75/share, a 6.1% lower than the current market price. Accordingly, we downgrade our recommendation to “Reduce” based on this scenario.

Financial Summary- Worst Case Scenario

FY ending Dec.
2013a
2014f
2015f
2016f
2017f
2018f
Revenues (EGP mn)
453
527
658
693
720
747
EBITDA Margin
34.6%
31.0%
37.8%
38.0%
38.0%
38.0%
EPS (EGP)
2.45
2.73
4.55
4.96
5.59
5.87
DPS (EGP)
2.00
2.65
4.55
4.96
5.59
5.87
PER
13.3x
12.0x
7.2x
6.6x
5.9x
5.6x
DY
6.1%
8.1%
13.9%
15.2%
17.1%
17.9%
EV/EBITDA
6.1x
5.8x
3.6x
3.3x
3.1x
2.9x
Net Debt (EGP mn)
-
13
10
7
5
-
Net Income (EGP mn)
102
169
185
208
218
228

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Mahmoud Mardishy
Financial Analyst
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