Valuation & Thoughts on RNS28 Jul 2014 14:36
Great update today where it was confirmed that AEO are working on some high profile events, and have started work on their 3 year contract with Cannes Lions aswell as secured some contracts with companies in the financial services sector. Along with the announcement in April that AEO have secured a 3 year contract with a technology company worth £2m this is very promising, for a tiny company with revenues of £3.99m in the 2013 FY!
Both the forward PE ratio and EV/EBIT are looking cheap (8ish and 6 to 8 respectively), and when you factor in the fact this is a high growth company where profit before tax will grow 40% – 90% this year (40% as confirmed in April RNS, 90% based on my conservative upper estimate), those multiples are mouth-wateringly superb
Additionally the company’s cash exceeds their debt. Today they confirmed that they still have £1.5m cash in the bank equalling over 30% of the MC
So, in summary:
1) AEO is looking very cheap
2) It’s balance sheet is superb with cash exceeding liabilities and equating to 30.5% of MC
3) The company has announced contracts worth over 50% of last year’s revenues in the last few months, and the outlook seems very confident
4) The company seems to be going through quite a transformative period, it’s growing very fast and this shows no signs of slowing up
The sentiment isn’t there at the moment but I truly think AEO is a bit of a gem really.