StatPro Group — In-line trading, underpinned by Infovest contract

StatPro Group — In-line trading, underpinned by Infovest contract

In an in-line Q3 trading update, StatPro says that its annualised recurring revenue (ARR) rose by 3% at constant currencies over the past 12 months to £54.8m. Additionally, earlier this week StatPro announced a c £1.0m five-year Infovest contract, which highlights the quality of the group’s Infovest data management solution. The main focus for growth remains the fund administrator channel and, in January, the group will operate a new structure with three divisions (Revolution for analytics, StatPro: Source for data, and Infovest for integration and data management) to drive the business. Following the recent de-rating, we believe the shares look increasing attractive on 15x our maintained FY19 earnings, especially in light of the active M&A backdrop in financial software and the scope for revenue acceleration and margin expansion.

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StatPro Group

In-line trading, underpinned by Infovest contract

Q3 trading update

Software & comp services

25 October 2018

Price

122.50p

Market cap

£80m

Net debt (£m) at 30 June 2018

23.2

Shares in issue

65.6m

Free float

82%

Code

SOG

Primary exchange

AIM

Secondary exchange

N/A

Share price performance

%

1m

3m

12m

Abs

(11.4)

(27.4)

(17.8)

Rel (local)

(4.5)

(19.4)

(11.1)

52-week high/low

186.5p

114.0p

Business description

StatPro Group provides cloud-based portfolio analytics solutions to the global investment community.

Next events

Trading update

January 2019

Final results

March 2019

Analysts

Richard Jeans

+44 (0)20 3077 5700

Dan Ridsdale

+44 (0)20 3077 5729

StatPro Group is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

In an in-line Q3 trading update, StatPro says that its annualised recurring revenue (ARR) rose by 3% at constant currencies over the past 12 months to £54.8m. Additionally, earlier this week StatPro announced a c £1.0m five-year Infovest contract, which highlights the quality of the group’s Infovest data management solution. The main focus for growth remains the fund administrator channel and, in January, the group will operate a new structure with three divisions (Revolution for analytics, StatPro: Source for data, and Infovest for integration and data management) to drive the business. Following the recent de-rating, we believe the shares look increasing attractive on 15x our maintained FY19 earnings, especially in light of the active M&A backdrop in financial software and the scope for revenue acceleration and margin expansion.

Year
end

Revenue (£m)

PBT*
(£m)

EPS*
(p)

DPS
(p)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

12/16

37.5

2.7

3.3

2.9

36.6

2.4

12/17

49.3

3.3

5.8

2.9

21.1

2.4

12/18e

56.8

5.0

7.0

2.9

17.6

2.4

12/19e

59.5

6.2

8.0

2.9

15.3

2.4

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

Q3 trading: Underlying ARR grows 3% in 12 months

The group’s ARR rose by 3% to £54.8m over the 12 months to 30 September. This includes c £1.4m from the managed risk service of ODDO that was acquired in July. Importantly, StatPro Revolution’s underlying ARR growth (excluding the impact of acquired revenue and including conversions from StatPro Seven) was 16%. The migration of Delta is progressing well. While the underlying ARR number was broadly in line with the 30 June level, management remains confident that growth will accelerate, largely driven by the reseller (fund administrator/outsourcing) channel, outsourced managed services, the exploitation of under-utilised data assets and value-enhancing acquisitions. Further, profitability will be enhanced from disciplined management of costs. We have maintained all of our forecasts.

Sizeable c £1m Infovest contract in South Africa

StatPro has signed a ZAR19.5m (c £1.0m) Infovest contract with a large unnamed South African financial institution that is an existing StatPro customer. The customer will use Infostore to provide a consolidated view of all its positions in the market on a daily basis. In addition, the solution will enable business intelligence and analytics. This contract is among the largest Infovest contracts to date.

Valuation: Highly scalable cloud computing upside

StatPro’s stock trades on c 18x our maintained FY18 EPS, which falls to c 15x in FY19 and to c 13x in FY20. Alternatively, the shares trade on c 1.7x FY19 EV/sales, around half of the level of StatPro’s larger US peers and around one-third of US-based pure software-as-a-service companies. When incorporating 10-year organic revenue growth of c 3.6%, a terminal growth of 2%, a long-term margin target of 24.0% and a WACC of 9%, our DCF model values the shares at 222p, c 81% above the current share price.

Exhibit 1: Financial summary

£000s

2015

2016

2017

2018e

2019e

2020e

Year-end 31 December

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

PROFIT & LOSS

Revenue

 

 

30,187

37,545

49,260

56,751

59,501

62,123

Cost of Sales

0

0

0

0

0

0

Gross Profit

30,187

37,545

49,260

56,751

59,501

62,123

EBITDA

 

 

4,044

5,104

6,838

8,743

9,511

10,455

Adjusted Operating Profit

 

 

2,852

3,461

4,917

6,818

7,642

8,643

Amortisation of acquired intangibles

(32)

(1,060)

(2,243)

(3,243)

(3,243)

(3,243)

Exceptionals

0

(11,378)

(3,934)

0

0

0

Share based payments

(121)

(361)

(626)

(650)

(675)

(700)

Operating Profit

2,699

(9,338)

(1,886)

2,925

3,724

4,700

Net Interest

(290)

(786)

(1,585)

(1,839)

(1,414)

(1,214)

Profit Before Tax (norm)

 

 

2,562

2,675

3,332

4,980

6,228

7,429

Profit Before Tax (FRS 3)

 

 

2,409

(10,124)

(3,471)

1,087

2,310

3,486

Tax

(788)

(489)

563

(354)

(934)

(1,404)

Profit After Tax (norm)

1,774

2,843

4,505

4,626

5,294

6,025

Profit After Tax (FRS 3)

1,621

(10,613)

(2,908)

733

1,376

2,082

Minority interests

0

(94)

(131)

(40)

0

0

Net income (norm)

1,774

2,186

3,764

4,586

5,294

6,025

Net income (statutory)

1,621

(10,707)

(3,039)

693

1,376

2,082

Average Number of Shares Outstanding (m)

67.6

65.3

64.8

65.7

66.0

66.3

EPS - normalised (p)

 

 

2.6

3.3

5.8

7.0

8.0

9.1

EPS - FRS 3 (p)

 

 

2.4

(16.4)

(4.7)

1.1

2.1

3.1

Dividend per share (p)

2.90

2.90

2.90

2.90

2.90

2.90

Gross Margin (%)

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

EBITDA Margin (%)

13.4

13.6

13.9

15.4

16.0

16.8

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

9.4

9.2

10.0

12.0

12.8

13.9

BALANCE SHEET

Fixed Assets

 

 

51,857

59,088

70,864

68,960

67,074

65,182

Intangible Assets

48,613

55,696

64,793

63,282

61,479

59,536

Tangible Assets

2,233

2,742

3,303

2,910

2,827

2,878

Other assets

1,011

650

2,768

2,768

2,768

2,768

Current Assets

 

 

10,665

19,081

20,912

20,684

22,861

25,167

Stocks

0

0

0

0

0

0

Debtors

8,462

14,725

16,601

19,125

20,052

20,936

Cash

2,203

4,356

4,311

1,559

2,809

4,231

Current Liabilities

 

 

(19,778)

(35,686)

(38,171)

(41,296)

(43,465)

(45,635)

Creditors

(19,660)

(27,227)

(30,720)

(33,845)

(36,014)

(38,184)

Short term borrowings

(118)

(8,459)

(7,451)

(7,451)

(7,451)

(7,451)

Long Term Liabilities

 

 

(1,227)

(9,897)

(22,989)

(22,290)

(19,363)

(16,437)

Long term borrowings

(801)

(5,961)

(17,076)

(16,377)

(15,677)

(14,978)

Other long term liabilities

(426)

(3,936)

(5,913)

(5,913)

(3,686)

(1,459)

Net Assets

 

 

41,517

32,586

30,616

26,058

27,106

28,277

CASH FLOW

Operating Cash Flow

 

 

6,548

7,454

10,676

14,600

15,713

17,090

Net Interest

(84)

(500)

(1,227)

(1,839)

(1,414)

(1,214)

Tax

(832)

(1,294)

(144)

(1,227)

(304)

(872)

Capex

(4,999)

(6,445)

(7,213)

(8,043)

(8,336)

(8,694)

Acquisitions/disposals

0

(4,786)

(10,269)

(3,663)

(1,803)

(2,274)

Equity financing

64

(2,079)

926

0

0

0

Dividends

(1,960)

(1,877)

(2,012)

(1,879)

(1,907)

(1,915)

Net Cash Flow

(1,263)

(9,527)

(9,263)

(2,052)

1,950

2,121

Opening net debt/(cash)

 

 

(2,680)

(1,283)

10,065

20,217

22,269

20,319

Other

(134)

(1,821)

(889)

()

0

0

Closing net debt/(cash)

 

 

(1,283)

10,065

20,217

22,269

20,319

18,198

Source: StatPro accounts, Edison Investment Research

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