Company: Electrica
ISIN US83367Y2072 | WKN A116CN
Business: A Romanian electricity company. They are working with three things: Electric Power Distribution (simply operating the electricity grid), Electric Power Supply (client supply as well as import/export and trading of electricity) and finally Services (maintenance etc).
Active: Romania
P/E: 14.3
This company was analysed due to a request from Falk posted on the Analysis Requests page.
The P/E of Electrica is so, so with 14.3 but the P/B is excellent which gives a clear buy from Graham. Their earnings to sales are ok with 6% but the ROE is not so good with only 5.2%. The book to debt ratio is excellent with 3.0 and they are sitting with plenty of cash since the IPO.
In the last five years they have had a very poor yearly growth rate of -1.2% which gives us a motivated P/E of 8 to 10 which means that Electrica is today a bit overvalued on the market.
They pay a tiny (almost silly) dividend of 0.9% which only represents 13% of their earnings so plenty of space to improve upwards. They did spend a bit more of their earnings on share buy back program so on one hand they had an IPO and on the other hand they buy back shares. Hmmm....
Conclusion: Graham and Falk says yes to Electrica but I am less up beat on this one. My blog colleague valueandopportunity (you can find him in the blogroll) have written about Electrica and also initiated a position. To me there is no value that makes me really excited besides from the P/B and that is not enough for me. Sure they can make plenty of interesting things with the cash but will they? Or will they only continue to buy back shares?
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4 comments:
Hi Fredrik,
thank you for your analysis. How did you calculate the stock yield? The company distributes 85 percent of its profits. The dividend of 2014/2015 is 0.7217 RON per share, so based on the current share price of 11.88 RON the yield should be about 6 percent:
http://www.electrica.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ELSA_RO_EN_AGOA_OGMS_item_04.pdf
Regards
Falk
Hi Falk,
I was having some trouble with the dividend payment. I did read about the 85% but I only found that information on pages outside of their homepage so I did not use it. I therefore, in the end, included the dividend that they paid out during 2014 for year 2013.
The link you included very clearly shows that they do indeed pay out 85% of their earnings in dividends.
Do you know how much taxes they withhold in Romania?
They withhold 16 percent. 15 percent are deductable from german Kapitalertragsteuer. So you pay 1 percent additional to a german company dividend.
Ok, that is not a bad deal at all! Thanks for the information!
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