RE: Short thesis9 Aug 2024 09:16
I would never say we have reached the bottom any incremental bad news and it will fall further why wouldn’t it. Also market is composed of all different trading motives - quants contribute much more to the trading volume.
As for the analyst estimates those are point estimates and usually pretty bad ones specifically for anything 18 months +. You can show that previously high estimates for Wizz of 1200m where basically unreachable because you know what the fleet would look like and the RASK they would have to reach was completely unrealistic. Now it is turning the other way. Looking at FY27 estimates at call it 7800 Rev/580 NI. This would imply a 10% reduction vs. the delivery implied revenue of 8700 at somewhat softer pricing. Now if this would happen trough Airbus delays this is a positive, if you model this on pricing entirely this is completely unrealistic and does not match the modeling of any other airline yet the pricing is fairly consistent within the short-medium haul market. On profitability - analyst do not model EU ETS, they do not model the impact of different fleet compositions on overall pricing sensitivity. Sell-side is a lot about covering your ass - you usually don't want to be out there with a 150%+ price target (like Bernstein) and you want to be right on next quarter, half year or FY numbers.
Lastly Wizz not wanting to compete with Ryanair. I would defiantly not say they want to compete with Ryanair, but I strongly disagree with your comment. They are moving east because the market is under penetrated, the aviation market is opening up (which has been the point where LCC/ULCCs enter the market looking at the US/EU history) they want to have different seasonality patterns etc. Also they don't avoid Ryanair. If you look at where they expanded most over the last couple of years it is Italy a Ryanair stronghold. And both are doing well there. Actual capacity deployment in east is fairly low as of now.