RE: Trading update: an excellent quarter (full research report here)22 Feb 2024 10:05
Joker - Thanks for clarifying the gross profit thing, let me go through where I got all this from:
The £16m is from this timestamp, 23:40: https://youtu.be/c2Kq5hBN64Q?t=1420
It says £16.4m for ELFBar only for H1 24, it seems it's not just stock that the investment was for.
Judging from what the CFO said, it seems like this is one time thing, ELFBar is projected to produce £6m in Adjusted EBITDA1 for the next FY.
It seems like supreme has net profits around 61% of the Adjusted EBITDA1 metric
Converting this bs ebitda metric to net profit = £3.6m of net profit in the next FY from ELFBar.
The ban on disposables comes in on 2025.
So let's say they have 2 years of profit before they get banned and a surge in profit just before the ban.
Current: £3m~ profit (what they have already received from ELFbar)
Year 1: £3.6m profit (as stated above)
Year 2: £5m profit
Terminal: £0 due to it being banned
So that's a Net Present Value of £7.46m with a 10% discount rate.
£16m investment for a return of £7.46m is obviously value destruction. The above seem to be optimistic projections too for ELFBar.
What am I missing here? Any possible way I look at it means that a £16m investment for this little cash flow over a small amount of years is terrible for Supreme. Obviously it's great for ELFBar as they need to pump out as much $$ as possible before getting banned.