RE: Revenue13 Jan 2021 17:32
TSL does not receive any revenues. They have a 10% share of Clearpay which is therefore valued according to the Afterpay share value. Taken from Simon Thompson, Investors Chronicle
Afterpay’s stock price is material to ThinkSmart because the Australian technology group has a call option to buy out the UK company’s minority 10 per cent (6.5 per cent fully diluted) stake in Clearpay, a fast-growing UK payment platform that enables consumers to split the cost of their retail purchases into manageable interest-free payments. The agreed principle in determining the valuation is Afterpay’s market capitalisation. ThinkSmart has a put option to sell to Afterpay, too.
Bearing this in mind, Afterpay’s first-quarter trading update to 30 September 2020 revealed that Clearpay’s sales increased by 346 per cent year on year to A$300m. The growth of new customers has accelerated since then in both the US and the UK as the pipeline of new merchants goes live on its platforms. In fact, the UK business quadrupled sales to A$200m in November, a fourfold rise year on year, the segment accounting for around 10 per cent of both Afterpay’s record A$2.1bn monthly sales and the group’s customer base. Analysts at Sydney broking house Bell Potter tweaked up their target price on Afterpay’s shares to A$140.
The point is that the carrying value of ThinkSmart’s holding in Clearpay is set to materially increase in the UK’s company’s next accounts. The fully diluted stake was last valued at £53.7m (50p a share) at 30 June 2020 based on Afterpay’s stock price of A$61 and after applying a 20 per cent liquidity discount. It’s now A$110, implying a read-through valuation of £97m (91p a share) to which you can add cash and other net assets (mainly finance lease receivables) worth a combined 10p a share. On this basis, my sum-of-the-parts valuation is 101p a share.