2023 Revenue Aspirations9 Feb 2023 20:33
Just a reminder of what we are invested in here in the short term (with FSS being the mid to longterm case).
On August 16th JW released a business update stating the following:
"With significant levels of revenue contracted, the relative stability of the cruise & ferry and ship repair markets and confidence around potential orders within the defence and renewables markets, management has an aspiration of generating revenues of between £100 million - £115 million for FY23."
" Consequently, the Company believes that annualised cashflow break-even is achievable on revenues of between £80 million - £100 million depending on the mix of contract wins."
December 30th RNS then tells us that:
M55:
"As a result, management expects approximately £20m of revenues from the M55 contract to be deferred into H1 FY 2023. "
Cruise and ferry:
"Ongoing geo-political uncertainties and global inflation have also caused certain other clients within the cruise and ferry market to either defer their contracts into 2023 or reduce the scope of works. As a result, management estimates the loss of revenues on this account for the fourth quarter for FY 2022 to be between £8m and £10m. The Company expects this amount to be deferred to H1 2023 when clients are scheduled to place contracts for dry docking in Belfast with new FY23 budgets."
On Saipem:
"The estimated revenue for Q4 2022 against this project was c£5m, part of which the Company expects to recover on final settlement during H1 2023."
So let's be conservative here and say 30m of deferred revenue will be recovered in H1 2023. That means if we go off the August 16th RNS then we should expect revenue aspirations to be between 130-145m. This gives a profit of between 30m and 65m depending on which end of the range both variables sit.
Was the 25m of revenue FSS will generate in 2023 included in this aspiration in August? JW must have had some idea of the contract split back then if Team Resolute were to win the contract.
My point here is that whilst certain individuals may try to scaremonger on Twitter over revenue and debt (2022 accounts will look poor), the market is forward looking and 2023 is what matters right now. Everyone is so focused on FSS right now that they're forgetting that the company is doing a tonne of other work. This isn't a one trick pony and it's this other work that is important until 2025.
What we need from JW is a new revenue guidance figure for 2023 as the last one is 6 months old now. Perhaps this will be included when they post the full year results to counter the bad that will be included in it.