AFT Pharmaceuticals — Improving profitability

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AFT Pharmaceuticals — Improving profitability

AFT recently announced an agreement with Baxter Healthcare to divest to Baxter some of its non-core and low-margin hospital products in New Zealand. An agreement for similar products is expected in Australia in the coming weeks. Once both are complete, the company expects the divestments to represent approximately 7.5% of operating revenue (likely between NZ$5m and NZ$6m). The divestments are expected to generate NZ$5m in cash and make a positive contribution of “several million dollars” to EBITDA. Whatever is lost in revenues is likely to be made up in higher overall gross margin, and lower sales and marketing expenses.

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AFT Pharmaceuticals

Improving profitability

Business update

Pharma & biotech

28 March 2018

Price

NZ$2.50

Market cap

NZ$243m

NZ$0.69/US$

Net debt (NZ$m) at 30 September 2017

16.1

Shares in issue

97.3m

Free float

21.2%

Code

AFT

Primary exchange

NZX

Secondary exchange

ASX

Share price performance

%

1m

3m

12m

Abs

4.6

4.6

(5.7)

Rel (local)

3.8

4.0

(18.7)

52-week high/low

NZ$2.8

NZ$2.2

Business description

AFT Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company that operates primarily in Australasia but has product distribution agreements across the globe. The company’s product portfolio includes prescription and over-the-counter drugs to treat a range of conditions and a proprietary nebuliser.

Next events

Additional Maxigesic launches

2018

Analysts

Maxim Jacobs

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Nathaniel Calloway

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AFT Pharmaceuticals is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

AFT recently announced an agreement with Baxter Healthcare to divest to Baxter some of its non-core and low-margin hospital products in New Zealand. An agreement for similar products is expected in Australia in the coming weeks. Once both are complete, the company expects the divestments to represent approximately 7.5% of operating revenue (likely between NZ$5m and NZ$6m). The divestments are expected to generate NZ$5m in cash and make a positive contribution of “several million dollars” to EBITDA. Whatever is lost in revenues is likely to be made up in higher overall gross margin, and lower sales and marketing expenses.

Year end

Revenue (NZ$m)

PBT*
(NZ$m)

EPS*
(NZ$)

DPS
(NZ$)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

03/16

64.0

(10.8)

(0.11)

0.0

N/A

N/A

03/17

69.2

(18.5)

(0.19)

0.0

N/A

N/A

03/18e

80.6

(12.2)

(0.13)

0.0

N/A

N/A

03/19e

98.0

(0.5)

(0.01)

0.0

N/A

N/A

Note: *PBT and EPS are normalised, excluding amortisation of acquired intangibles, exceptional items and share-based payments.

Increasing focus on Maxigesic

With the divestment of some of its hospital products in Australia and New Zealand, AFT will be achieving two things: it will improve its overall profitability and generate cash to fund its plans for Maxigesic across the globe which, if successful, would be transformative for the company.

Codeine rescheduling in Australia paying dividends

The company recently announced that the rate of Maxigesic sales has roughly doubled since the beginning of the year, thanks to the 1 February 2018 rescheduling of codeine. As a reminder, market research conducted by the company suggests that 40-47% of current consumers who buy 710 million OTC codeine analgesics each year in Australia would switch to another OTC analgesic, suggesting an enormous opportunity for AFT.

New Zealand set to follow Australia’s lead on codeine

In January, the New Zealand Medicines Classification Committee announced a recommendation that all codeine combination medicines be up-scheduled from over the counter to prescription-only status from 2020. This should boost Maxigesic sales in AFT’s home market considerably once enacted.

Valuation: NZ$460m or NZ$4.73 per share

We are maintaining our valuation of NZ$460m or NZ$4.73 per share. We will update our valuation after the closure of the hospital product divestments (New Zealand by the end of March and Australia in the May/June time frame) and following the FY18 annual results in May, which will provide us with an update on the company’s base business and the status of Maxigesic’s international launches.

Continuing to transform itself

AFT recently announced an agreement with Baxter Healthcare to divest some of its non-core and low-margin hospital products in New Zealand. An agreement for similar products is expected in Australia in the coming weeks. Once both are complete, the company expects the divestments to represent approximately 7.5% of operating revenue (likely between NZ$5m and NZ$6m). Based on results from the first half of FY18, AFT’s hospital products represent 20% of its New Zealand business and 33.6% of its Australia business (see Exhibit 1), which means that around one-third is likely to be divested. The divestments are expected to generate NZ$5m in cash and make a positive contribution of “several million dollars” to EBITDA. The company expects the New Zealand divestment to close by the end of March and the one in Australia to close in the May/June time frame.

Exhibit 1: AFT geographic and product type diversification

Region

Number of products launched

% of operating revenue

% growth from H117 to H118

Sales channel mix

Australia

102

55.3%

38%

OTC: 55.6%, hospital: 33.6%, prescription: 10.8%

New Zealand

55

38.6%

5%

OTC: 41.2%, hospital: 20%, prescription: 38.8%

South-East Asia

8

1.7%

14%

OTC: 33.3%, hospital: 65.2%, prescription: 1.5%

Rest of World

4

4.4%

38%

OTC: 95.9%, hospital: 4.1%, prescription: 0%

Total

>130

100%

23%

OTC: 51.5%, hospital: 27.6%, prescription: 21%

Source: AFT Pharmaceuticals. Note: Number of products launched is as of 31 March 2017.

With regard to Maxigesic, the company announced in March that the rate of Maxigesic sales has roughly doubled since the beginning of the year, thanks to the 1 February 2018 rescheduling of codeine to prescription-only by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). This is especially impressive as it is on top of the 133% growth seen in FY17 for Maxigesic in Australia.

Market research conducted by the company suggests that 40-47% of current consumers who buy 710 million OTC codeine analgesics each year in Australia would switch to another OTC analgesic rather than get a doctor’s prescription. As AFT sold 13m Maxigesic tablets in Australia in FY17, this represents a significant opportunity for the company; we estimate it could be worth NZ$20-30m annually (although we do not include this in our valuation yet).

Following the TGA decision, pressure built up for New Zealand to do the same and the country is on the road to doing just that. In January, the New Zealand Medicines Classification Committee announced a recommendation to the New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority (Medsafe) that all codeine combination medicines be up-scheduled from over the counter to prescription-only status from 31 January 2020. This should help provide AFT with a tailwind in its home market.

On the licensing front, AFT announced in December that it had licensed Maxigesic in its first North American market (it is now licensed in 125 overall), Mexico, to Expanscience Mexico, a wholly owned subsidiary of Laboratories Expanscience, which licensed the product in France. According to IMS, the market for paracetamol and ibuprofen tablets in Mexico is almost US$200m.

Valuation

We are maintaining our valuation of NZ$460m or NZ$4.73 per share. Our DCF-based valuation is based on a WACC of 10%. We assume a 22% CAGR for revenues over the next five years, from FY18 through FY22, fading to 2% terminal growth post 2026 and a terminal EBIT margin of 34%. With these assumptions, the terminal value represents 68% of the calculated DCF value of the company. The growth rate and margin expansion are highly dependent on high growth in royalties from distribution relationships outside Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia, driven in large part by Maxigesic.

Exhibit 2: DCF sensitivity table (NZ$/share)

Terminal EBIT margin

Terminal revenue growth

15%

25%

34%

38%

42%

-2%

2.26

2.98

3.62

3.90

4.19

-1%

2.34

3.12

3.82

4.13

4.44

0%

2.44

3.29

4.06

4.41

4.75

1%

2.55

3.50

4.36

4.74

5.12

2%

2.70

3.77

4.73

5.16

5.58

3%

2.88

4.10

5.20

5.69

6.18

4%

3.13

4.55

5.84

6.41

6.98

5%

3.48

5.18

6.72

7.41

8.09

Source: Edison Investment Research

We will update our valuation after the closure of the hospital product divestments (New Zealand by the end of March and Australia in the May/June time frame) and following the FY18 annual results in May, which will provide us with an update on the company’s base business and the status of Maxigesic’s international launches.

Financials

AFT’s FY18 results (through 31 March 2018) are expected in late-May. As of 30 September 2017, AFT had NZ$7.2m in cash and NZ$23.2m in debt that matures at the end of FY20. In September, the company entered into a new loan facility of US$10m and should net another NZ$5m from the divestitures. Based on current estimates, we do not believe the company will require additional financing.

Exhibit 3: Financial summary

NZ$000

2015

2016

2017

2018e

2019e

March

NZ GAAP

NZ GAAP

NZ GAAP

NZ GAAP

NZ GAAP

PROFIT & LOSS

Revenue

 

 

56,241

64,014

69,205

80,580

98,023

Cost of Sales

(35,083)

(40,435)

(43,207)

(45,329)

(51,266)

Gross Profit

21,158

23,579

25,998

35,251

46,757

EBITDA

 

 

(9,659)

(7,821)

(15,125)

(9,385)

1,316

Operating Profit (before amort. and except.)

(9,530)

(7,667)

(14,982)

(9,242)

1,459

Intangible Amortisation

99

114

183

183

183

Exceptionals

0

0

0

0

0

Other

(546)

(618)

2,245

2,712

1,179

Operating Profit

(9,977)

(8,171)

(12,554)

(6,348)

2,821

Net Interest

(1,908)

(3,145)

(3,531)

(3,000)

(2,000)

Profit Before Tax (norm)

 

 

(11,438)

(10,812)

(18,513)

(12,242)

(541)

Profit Before Tax (reported)

 

 

(11,885)

(11,316)

(16,085)

(9,348)

821

Tax

282

42

(58)

(300)

0

Profit After Tax (norm)

(11,156)

(10,770)

(18,571)

(12,542)

(541)

Profit After Tax (reported)

(11,603)

(11,274)

(16,143)

(9,648)

821

Average Number of Shares Outstanding (m)

1.2

96.8

97.1

97.3

97.3

EPS - normalised (NZ$)

 

 

(9.46)

(0.11)

(0.19)

(0.13)

(0.01)

EPS - normalised fully diluted (c)

 

 

(945.74)

(11.12)

(19.12)

(12.89)

(0.56)

EPS - (reported) (NZ$)

 

 

(9.84)

(0.12)

(0.17)

(0.10)

0.01

Dividend per share (c)

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

Gross Margin (%)

37.6

36.8

37.6

43.7

47.7

EBITDA Margin (%)

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

1.3

Operating Margin (before GW and except.) (%)

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

1.5

BALANCE SHEET

Fixed Assets

 

 

2,488

3,249

4,171

5,268

7,236

Intangible Assets

1,669

2,111

2,548

2,744

4,516

Tangible Assets

411

407

386

374

570

Investments

408

731

1,237

2,150

2,150

Current Assets

 

 

30,725

62,055

54,060

46,770

52,678

Stocks

14,686

17,686

18,718

21,137

23,607

Debtors

11,251

16,288

19,362

16,640

21,741

Cash

4,700

28,055

15,980

8,993

7,330

Other

88

26

0

0

0

Current Liabilities

 

 

(10,148)

(13,511)

(15,019)

(13,795)

(17,029)

Creditors

(10,148)

(13,511)

(15,019)

(13,795)

(17,029)

Short term borrowings

0

0

0

0

0

Long Term Liabilities

 

 

(20,739)

(23,161)

(23,426)

(28,244)

(33,244)

Long term borrowings

(20,739)

(23,161)

(23,426)

(28,244)

(33,244)

Other long term liabilities

0

0

0

0

0

Net Assets

 

 

2,326

28,632

19,786

9,999

9,641

CASH FLOW

Operating Cash Flow

 

 

(11,479)

(11,326)

(15,473)

(7,519)

(2,368)

Net Interest

(1,908)

(3,145)

(3,531)

(3,000)

(2,000)

Tax

282

42

(58)

(300)

0

Capex

(483)

(694)

(1,598)

(2,179)

(2,294)

Acquisitions/disposals

0

0

0

0

0

Financing

12,859

38,357

9,042

877

0

Dividends

(763)

(1,652)

0

(132)

0

Net Cash Flow

(1,492)

21,582

(11,618)

(12,253)

(6,662)

Opening net debt/(cash)

 

 

11,889

16,039

(4,894)

7,446

19,251

HP finance leases initiated

0

0

0

0

0

Other

(2,658)

(649)

(722)

448

0

Closing net debt/(cash)

 

 

16,039

(4,894)

7,446

19,251

25,914

Source: AFT Pharmaceuticals accounts, Edison Investment Research

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