SCISYS Group — Confident, in line, on record opening order book

SCISYS Group — Confident, in line, on record opening order book

In an in-line update, SCISYS says it has made a positive start to FY19, with all divisions continuing to expand. Consequently, we are maintaining our forecasts. Management expects FY19 performance to revert to the traditional pattern of a significantly stronger H2 after the more balanced profile in FY18. Noting management’s new goal to achieve revenue of £75m and operating profit of £7.0m by the end of FY22, we believe the stock is attractive on c 14x our FY20e EPS.

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Confident, in line, on record opening order book

AGM trading update

Software & comp services

7 June 2019

Price

194.00p

Market cap

£57m

Net debt (£m) at 31 December 2018

3.1

Shares in issue

29.6m

Free float

64%

Code

SSY

Primary exchange

AIM

Secondary exchange

ESM

Share price performance

%

1m

3m

12m

Abs

0.5

22.4

14.2

Rel (local)

2.5

21.7

22.2

52-week high/low

213.00p

140.50p

Business description

SCISYS provides a range of professional services in support of the planning, development and use of computer systems in the space, media/broadcast and defence sectors, as well as to other public and private sector enterprises.

Next events

Interim results

September 2019

Analysts

Richard Jeans

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Dan Ridsdale

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SCISYS Group is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

In an in-line update, SCISYS says it has made a positive start to FY19, with all divisions continuing to expand. Consequently, we are maintaining our forecasts. Management expects FY19 performance to revert to the traditional pattern of a significantly stronger H2 after the more balanced profile in FY18. Noting management’s new goal to achieve revenue of £75m and operating profit of £7.0m by the end of FY22, we believe the stock is attractive on c 14x our FY20e EPS.

Year
end

Revenue
(£m)

PBT*
(£m)

EPS*
(p)

DPS
(p)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

12/17

53.2

3.6

9.3

2.16

20.8

1.1

12/18

58.4

4.6

13.1

2.38

14.8

1.2

12/19e

61.5

5.0

12.7

2.62

15.3

1.4

12/20e

63.5

5.4

13.4

2.88

14.4

1.5

Note: *PBT and EPS are normalised, excluding amortisation of acquired intangibles, exceptional items and share-based payments. IFRS 15 is applied from 1 January 2017.

Trading update: All divisions expanding

The Space division secured an additional €9.7m contract in April, taking the total Space contracts to €33.0m since mid-December. Media & Broadcast and Annova Systems now operate under a single management team as the SCISYS Media Solutions division and integration activities will continue to run throughout 2019. The Enterprise Solutions & Defence division has extended its support agreements with UK Power Networks to 2020 and Arqiva to 2021, while securing further orders to maintain its provision of onsite consultancy teams to key customers in the commercial and defence/security arenas.

Space division flying

In April, SCISYS announced it is extending its footprint in the EU-funded Galileo satellite navigation programme with a €9.7m order from Thales Alenia Space France. The latest order comes on top of the €23.3m of orders secured by the Space division in December and January and highlights the importance of the re-domiciliation to Ireland late last year, as five deals worth €30.2m (£26.7m) in aggregate would not have been awarded to SCISYS had it remained domiciled in the UK, even though Brexit has not yet been formalised.

Valuation: £100m order book underpins forecasts

The stock trades on 15.3x our maintained earnings in FY19e, falling to 14.4x in FY20 and 13.7x in FY21. Alternatively, the stock trades on 0.94x our FY20 sales and 8.5x EBITDA, which we believe is attractive if SCISYS can maintain the momentum. Our DCF model, which is based on our forecasts and organic CAGR of 3.7% over 10 years, a weighted average cost of capital of 10% and an 11.0% long-term margin target, values the stock at 194p (vs 187p previously, mainly due to rolling the model forward), in line with the current share price. A 1% reduction in the WACC to 9% increases the valuation to 224p. In our view, the 3.7% revenue CAGR is potentially conservative given that revenue growth was 9.8% in FY18 and that we forecast 5.3% in FY19.

Exhibit 1: Financial summary

£'000s

2016

2017

2018

2019e

2020e

2021e

Year end 31 December

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

PROFIT & LOSS

Revenue

 

 

45,744

53,204

58,405

61,525

63,477

65,125

Cost of Sales

0

0

0

0

0

0

Gross Profit

45,744

53,204

58,405

61,525

63,477

65,125

EBITDA

 

 

3,995

5,417

6,460

6,718

7,015

7,289

Adjusted operating profit

 

 

3,214

4,318

5,118

5,472

5,761

6,052

Amort'n of acq'd intangibles

0

(1,982)

(1,252)

(1,200)

(1,150)

(1,150)

Exceptionals

(458)

2,075

(1,337)

0

0

0

Share based payments

14

0

(36)

(50)

(55)

(60)

Operating Profit

2,770

4,411

2,493

4,222

4,556

4,842

Net Interest

(185)

(710)

(499)

(450)

(400)

(350)

Associates

17

39

0

0

0

0

Profit Before Tax (norm)

 

 

3,046

3,647

4,619

5,022

5,361

5,702

Profit Before Tax (FRS 3)

 

 

2,602

3,740

1,994

3,772

4,156

4,492

Tax

(380)

(593)

(558)

(1,243)

(1,327)

(1,410)

Profit After Tax (norm)

2,666

3,054

4,061

3,779

4,035

4,291

Profit After Tax (FRS 3)

2,222

3,147

1,436

2,529

2,830

3,081

Average Number of Shares Outstanding (m)

29.0

29.1

29.5

29.7

30.0

30.3

EPS - normalised (p)

 

 

9.2

9.3

13.1

12.7

13.4

14.1

EPS - FRS 3 (p)

 

 

7.6

10.8

4.9

8.5

9.4

10.2

Dividend per share (p)

1.96

2.16

2.38

2.62

2.88

3.17

Gross Margin (%)

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

EBITDA Margin (%)

8.7

10.2

11.1

10.9

11.1

11.2

Operating Margin (%)

7.0

8.1

8.8

8.9

9.1

9.3

BALANCE SHEET

Fixed Assets

 

 

31,955

30,465

30,119

28,904

27,769

26,685

Intangible Assets

22,441

21,086

20,056

18,856

17,706

16,556

Tangible Assets

9,057

9,261

9,411

9,396

9,411

9,477

Deferred tax asset & associates

457

118

652

652

652

652

Current Assets

 

 

27,895

27,580

29,710

32,233

33,309

34,385

Stocks

261

321

1,000

1,053

1,087

1,115

Debtors

19,621

18,788

20,545

21,642

22,329

22,909

Cash

6,915

8,021

8,065

9,438

9,793

10,261

Current Liabilities

 

 

(18,763)

(17,998)

(23,664)

(24,306)

(24,490)

(24,547)

Creditors

(14,959)

(15,708)

(18,386)

(19,278)

(19,712)

(20,019)

Short term borrowings

(3,804)

(2,290)

(5,278)

(5,028)

(4,778)

(4,528)

Long Term Liabilities

 

 

(18,374)

(14,603)

(9,631)

(8,420)

(6,209)

(3,998)

Long term borrowings

(13,355)

(11,667)

(5,886)

(4,675)

(2,464)

(253)

Other long term liabilities

(5,019)

(2,936)

(3,745)

(3,745)

(3,745)

(3,745)

Net Assets

 

 

22,713

25,444

26,534

28,411

30,380

32,524

CASH FLOW

Operating Cash Flow

 

 

3,442

10,369

5,642

6,411

6,698

6,963

Net Interest

(185)

(710)

(499)

(450)

(400)

(350)

Tax

(1,250)

147

(257)

(1,171)

(1,405)

(1,487)

Capex

(663)

(1,255)

(1,429)

(1,230)

(1,270)

(1,302)

Acquisitions/disposals

(7,521)

82

0

0

0

0

Financing

15

(131)

115

0

0

0

Dividends

(671)

(586)

(655)

(725)

(806)

(895)

Net Cash Flow

(6,833)

7,916

2,917

2,834

2,817

2,929

Opening net debt/(cash)

 

 

959

10,244

5,936

3,099

265

(2,551)

Other including foreign exchange

(2,452)

(3,608)

(80)

0

0

0

Closing net debt/(cash)

 

 

10,244

5,936

3,099

265

(2,551)

(5,480)

Source: Company data, Edison Investment Research. Note: IFRS15 is applied from FY17.


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