RE: Value30 May 2014 16:29
Jolly,
I’ve been looking into RBN a bit this afternoon and I think RBN is cheap on an EV/EBIT basis.
Here’s my working:
I worked out the current EV (using my harsh method which is Current + Non-current Liability minus Cash & Cash equivalents only) as £32.7m and I divided that by the true 2013 PBT figure (pre-Madrox deal) of £2.64m. This came to 12.4 and is not very good.
I then added the £13.2m being spent on the Madrox acquisition to the EV to get £45.9m and divided that by the post-Madrox deal PBT of £4.64m. The EV/EBIT then dropped to 9.9 which is still not great.
However I then decided to look at the other assets and I feel like it’s fair to include the £2.1m inventory, the £1.25m non-current assets held for sale, and the £10.8m value of their property & equipment. This brought the EV right down to £31.7m. The EV/EBIT then dropped to 6.8 which is superb!
However Paul Scott, an accountant & well-respected AIM analyst, says that “their substantial property assets in Chesterfield are probably undervalued by a considerable margin, as they are only recorded in the books at "cost or deemed cost". Hence open market value is probably considerably more than book value, so there is hidden value here.”
So the real EV/EBIT is even lower
…and that’s before you even consider the growth both Robinson and Madrox are likely to have over the next 12 months.
What do you think?