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Intact Financial Corp reports 9.7% Net Income decline

10.02.2016 • About Intact Financial Corp ($IFC) • By InTwits

Intact Financial Corp reported 2015 financial results today. Overall the company's long term financial model is characterised by the following facts:
  • Intact Financial Corp has low CAPEX intensity: 5 year average CAPEX/Revenue was 1.1%. At the same time it's in pair with industry average of 4.4%.
  • CAPEX is quite volatile: 426 in FY2015, 292 in FY2014, 159 in FY2013, 144 in FY2012, 110 in FY2011
  • The company has potentially unprofitable business model: ROIC is at 4.8%
Below you can find a comprehensive analysis of the key data driving the company's performance and stock price.

Intact Financial Corp ($IFC) key annual financial indicators

mln. CAD201120122013201420152015/2014
P&L
Revenue5,4877,0747,3717,9618,0921.6%
Net Income465571431782706-9.7%
Balance Sheet
Cash206172998914158.4%
Short Term Debt00000
Long Term Debt1,2931,1431,1431,1431,1430.0%
Cash flow
Capex5673989789-8.2%
Ratios
Revenue growth15.5%28.9%4.2%8.0%1.6%
Net Income Margin8.5%8.1%5.8%9.8%8.7%-1.1%
CAPEX, % of revenue1.0%1.0%1.3%1.2%1.1%-0.1%
ROIC4.6%4.4%2.8%5.4%4.8%-0.6%
ROE13.4%13.3%9.2%16.1%13.4%-2.7%

Revenue and profitability


Intact Financial Corp's Revenue increased slightly on 1.6% in 2015.

Net Income marign decreased slightly on 1.1 pp from 9.8% to 8.7% in 2015.

Capital expenditures (CAPEX) and working capital investments


In 2015 the company had CAPEX/Revenue of 1.1%. CAPEX/Revenue showed almost no change from 2012 to 2015. It's average level of CAPEX/Revenue for the last three years was 1.2%.

Return on investment


The company operates at good ROE (13.43%) while ROIC is low (4.79%). ROIC decreased slightly on 0.63 pp from 5.4% to 4.8% in 2015. ROE decreased on 2.7 pp from 16.1% to 13.4% in 2015.

Leverage (Debt)


Debt didn't change in 2015 while cash surged on 58.4% in 2015.

Management team


Charles Brindamour is a the company's CEO. Charles Brindamour is a founder and has spent 10 years at the company. Louis Marcotte is a Intact Financial Corp's CFO. Louis Marcotte has spent 4 years at the company.

Appendix 1: Peers in Financial


Below we provide Intact Financial Corp benchmarking against other companies in Financial industry for the last 5 years. We show data for the top-5 companies by key financial metric together with the median value for all the companies in the industry.

Top companies by Revenue growth, %

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Westaim Corp/The ($WED)35.7%-99.9%38.0%5,680.8%
Wall Financial Corp ($WFC)35.2%-74.1%285.4%-75.3%
Element Financial Corp ($EFN)206.6%189.1%
DealNet Capital Corp ($DLS)-73.3%4,437.5%540.4%112.7%
Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc ($GS)-39.1%60.6%97.9%-33.5%
 
Median (73 companies)9.9%8.5%7.4%8.9%0.5%
Intact Financial Corp ($IFC)28.9%4.2%8.0%1.6%


Top companies by Gross margin, %

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Olympia Financial Group Inc ($OLY)85.3%80.9%82.6%83.2%
Morguard Corp ($MRC)74.8%74.0%69.9%68.6%
DealNet Capital Corp ($DLS)14.9%36.7%45.6%
Brookfield Asset Management Inc ($BAM.A)34.3%25.6%30.7%28.6%
Onex Corp ($OCX)20.0%20.1%26.2%27.9%
 
Median (11 companies)25.2%22.6%25.7%20.5%27.7%


Top companies by EBITDA margin, %

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Firm Capital Mortgage Investment Corp ($FC)88.7%87.6%87.9%88.8%
Equitable Group Inc ($EQB)89.7%88.1%87.4%86.0%
Alaris Royalty Corp ($AD)97.0%81.3%61.8%81.8%
Brookfield Real Estate Services Inc ($BRE)77.1%77.7%77.9%78.4%
First National Financial Corp ($FN)66.1%67.8%76.5%77.1%
 
Median (49 companies)35.8%32.5%32.1%31.5%46.5%


Top companies by CAPEX/Revenue, %

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Killam Properties Inc ($KMP)73.6%80.7%114.1%143.5%
Dundee Corp ($DC.A)10.3%14.1%88.8%123.6%
StorageVault Canada Inc ($SVI)29.6%150.5%73.3%79.1%
Mainstreet Equity Corp ($MEQ)152.4%115.8%62.3%75.8%56.3%
First Capital Realty Inc ($FCR)102.8%127.9%76.1%73.8%
 
Median (75 companies)1.3%1.6%0.7%1.0%1.0%
Intact Financial Corp ($IFC)1.0%1.0%1.3%1.2%1.1%


Top companies by ROIC, %

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc ($GS)71.3%21.0%82.9%153.9%63.6%
Brookfield Real Estate Services Inc ($BRE)17.1%26.0%31.0%47.0%
Redishred Capital Corp ($KUT)-3.9%-24.5%6.5%15.8%
IGM Financial Inc ($IGM)15.3%14.2%14.2%13.7%
Street Capital Group Inc ($SCB)2.3%10.9%11.0%13.4%
 
Median (77 companies)5.3%4.8%4.6%4.8%5.4%
Intact Financial Corp ($IFC)4.6%4.4%2.8%5.4%4.8%


Top companies by Net Debt / EBITDA

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
First National Financial Corp ($FN)37.6x34.3x33.7x40.9x
Element Financial Corp ($EFN)140.2x31.9x37.6x
Gazit-Globe Ltd ($GZT)14.8x12.8x12.7x15.3x
Morguard Corp ($MRC)7.5x8.9x14.2x
StorageVault Canada Inc ($SVI)6.0x11.2x9.7x13.6x
 
Median (41 companies)4.1x5.2x4.8x4.3x1.9x