RE: my view26 Jun 2020 13:41
Monday 29th for the results.
As a reminder from the Jan trading update;
“Equals Group plc, the e-banking and international payments group, announces the following trading update related to the full year 2019.
Full year turnover for the Group was GBP2.91 billion, an increase of 23% on the prior year (2018: GBP2.36 billion). Revenues for the full year 2019 were up approximately 20% over 2018, with revenues in the second half of the year comfortably exceeding the first half, reflecting the continued underlying growth of the business. Despite significant investment in branding, marketing and senior organisational hires to support future growth, adjusted EBITDA is expected to be 30% higher than 2018 and therefore increasing by a greater percentage than revenue. Cash at bank and liquidity providers, less customer liabilities, amounted to GBP16.4 million at 31st December 2019, putting the Group in a strong position to pursue further growth opportunities in 2020. These results have been achieved against a backdrop of challenging market conditions, caused by political and economic uncertainties which resulted in record-low currency volatilities.
The Group's stated strategy to focus on Corporate/B2B customers, which represent more profitable relationships with greater longevity than retail consumers, was successfully delivered with 52% of Group revenue generated from B2B during the year, compared to 37% in 2018. Furthermore, approximately 71% of Group turnover was derived from Corporate/B2B in 2019, up from 57% in 2018, which points to stronger B2B revenue growth in 2020. This shift towards B2B has been driven by investments into the Group, providing Equals with substantial product advantages over its competitors. These include the Equals Spend corporate expenses platform, which integrates bank-grade capabilities and connectivity to payments networks both in the UK and overseas. The assembled product suite increasingly enables Equals to access a greater share of B2B customer wallets and to service larger corporate customers as well as SME size businesses.“
Share price was 80p when they released this & it fell to 60p during the week after as it was a slight miss versus aggressive forecasts. Very happy to buy at 33p now, especially knowing they had £16.4m in cash at year end.