Time Finance (LON:TIME) – given more time and these shares will double
Yesterday’s results from the alternative finance provider, for the year to end May, were very much as expected.
Ed Rimmer, CEO, and his management team have cleared down the near £16.0m capitalised group’s decks of its consumer vehicle brokerage side and are now looking to focus upon its three main areas of lending.
It is now concentrating upon its core products of Asset Finance, Invoice Finance and Commercial Loans.
Analyst Andrew Renton, at the company’s brokers Cenkos Securities, is understandably rating the group’s sharers as a Buy.
He is estimating a small lift in total revenues in this current year to end May 2023 of £25.0m (£23.6m), upon which he sees adjusted pre-tax profits rise to £3.5m (£3.0m), increasing earnings to 3.0p (2.6p) per share.
However, it is the following 2024 year when he envisages the most progress – to £29.0m revenues, £5.0m profits and 4.1p in earnings per share.
I spoke at length with Ed Rimmer early yesterday morning and certainly liked what I heard from him about how the company is moving forward again.
Having followed this company for some years, I now consider that given some more time Rimmer will really bring the profits through.
He has a 12.44m share stake (13.4%) riding on his success.
I have profiled the company twice, looking for its shares to rise to 30p, achieved just once so far, but I am sticking firmly to my current price aim and see them rising from the current 17p to around 22p within the next few months, before achieving my price goal within the year.
(Profile 23.12.20 @ 21.5p set a Target Price of 30p*)
(Profile 07.01.22 @ 23.5p set a Target Price of 30p)
Billington Holdings (LON:BILN) – strong structure and undervalued
Next Tuesday morning this construction industry steel structure and safety solutions provider will declare its interim results for the six months to the end of June this year.
The UK fabricator makes some 90% of its money by providing its services to the construction sector and is one of the largest such companies doing so.
In a note published on Wednesday, analyst David Buxton, at the group’s new brokers finnCap, initiated his research on the companI clearly stating that he considered the shares as being undervalued.
His estimates for the current year to end December are for £90.0m (£82.7m) of revenues and a near tripling in its adjusted pre-tax profits at £3.0m (£1.3m), lifting earnings up to 20.1p (8.1p) and an over 50% rise in its dividend from 3.0p to 4.6p per share.
For the coming year he sees £100.0m sales, £4.0m profits, 24.8p earnings and a handsome 7.0p per share dividend.
Taking it a stage further for 2024 his estimates are for £107.0m revenues, £5.1m profits, earnings of 32.1p and a 9.0p dividend per share.
His price objective is 270p – which I consider to be conservative.
My current Target Price holds very firm, with the group’s shares currently at just 185p I reckon that there is a lot of upside left to play for over the next few months.
(Profile 02.04.19 @ 266p set a Target Price of 314.5p*)
(Profile 13.06.22 @ 217.5p set a Target Price of 295p)
And finally …..
Next week we have The Brighton Pier Group (LON:PIER) announcing its finals (Monday).
On Tuesday Cohort (LON:CHRT) holds its AGM, then Card Factory (LON:CARD) and AG Barr (LON:BAG) both announce their interims.
Avingtrans (LON:AVG) declares its finals on Wednesday and Zinc Media (LON:ZIN) informs its interims.
Thursday sees both Coral Products (LON:CRU) and Van Elle Holdings (LON:VANL) holdings their AGMs, McBride (LON:MCB) declaring its finals and Bango (LON:BGO) reporting its interims.
And rounding off a busy week, on Friday CMO Group (LON:CMO) will announce its latest interim results.
(Asterisks * denote that Target Prices have been achieved since Profile publication)