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Pittards EBITDA dropped on 255% in 2016 and EBITDA Margin dropped on 17.2 pp from 6.2% to -10.9%

21 Mar 2017 • About Pittards ($PTD) • By InTwits

Pittards reported FY2016 financial results today. Overall the company's long term financial model is characterised by the following facts:
  • Pittards is a company in decline: FY2016 revenue growth was -11.5%, 5 years revenue CAGR was -6.7%
  • EBITDA Margin is quite volatile: -10.9% in FY2016, 6.2% in FY2015, 6.9% in FY2014, 6.6% in FY2013, 4.6% in FY2012
  • Pittards has low CAPEX intensity: 5 year average CAPEX/Revenue was 4.6%. At the same time it's a lot of higher than industry average of 3.8%.
  • CAPEX is quite volatile: 1.2 in FY2016, 4.4 in FY2015, 0.61 in FY2014, 0.36 in FY2013, 0.64 in FY2012
  • The company has unprofitable business model: ROIC is at -12.0%
Below you can find a comprehensive analysis of the key data driving the company's performance and stock price.

Pittards ($PTD) key annual financial indicators

mln. £201220132014201520162016/2015
P&L
Revenue37.02935.81334.72930.52327.009-11.5%
Gross Profit6.4397.3267.0336.6212.148-67.6%
SG&A5.3225.0625.1945.73910.5%
EBITDA1.7052.3642.3901.905-2.951-254.9%
Net Income0.2701.4491.1150.474-4.146-974.7%
Balance Sheet
Cash0.8170.5220.5290.4850.206-57.5%
Short Term Debt5.3736.1966.8773.8066.78178.2%
Long Term Debt1.1061.4171.2533.1373.53412.7%
Cash flow
Capex0.6390.3580.6074.3501.181-72.9%
Ratios
Revenue growth-3.1%-3.3%-3.0%-12.1%-11.5%
EBITDA growth-50.0%38.7%1.1%-20.3%-254.9%
Gross Margin17.4%20.5%20.3%21.7%8.0%-13.7%
EBITDA Margin4.6%6.6%6.9%6.2%-10.9%-17.2%
Net Income Margin0.7%4.0%3.2%1.6%-15.4%-16.9%
SG&A, % of revenue14.9%14.6%17.0%21.2%4.2%
CAPEX, % of revenue1.7%1.0%1.7%14.3%4.4%-9.9%
ROIC4.7%9.1%8.2%5.2%-12.0%-17.2%
ROE1.7%9.0%6.4%2.2%-18.3%-20.5%
Net Debt/EBITDA3.3x3.0x3.2x3.4x-3.4x

Revenue and profitability


The company's Revenue dropped on 11.5% in FY2016. Having declining revenue the company managed to increase EBITDA margin. EBITDA Margin increased slightly on 0.88 pp from 7.2% to 8.1% in FY2016.

Gross Margin dropped on 13.7 pp from 21.7% to 8.0% in FY2016. SG&A as a % of Revenue increased on 4.2 pp from 17.0% to 21.2% in FY2016.

Net Income marign dropped on 16.9 pp from 1.6% to -15.4% in FY2016.

Capital expenditures (CAPEX) and working capital investments


In FY2016 Pittards had CAPEX/Revenue of 4.4%. CAPEX/Revenue increased on 3.4 pp from 1.00% in FY2013 to 4.4% in FY2016. It's average CAPEX/Revenue for the last three years was 6.8%.

Return on investment


The company operates at negative ROIC (-11.96%) and ROE (-18.25%). ROIC dropped on 17.2 pp from 5.2% to -12.0% in FY2016. ROE dropped on 20.5 pp from 2.2% to -18.3% in FY2016.

Leverage (Debt)


Company's Net Debt / EBITDA is -9.2x and Debt / EBITDA is . Net Debt / EBITDA dropped on 3.4x from 3.4x to in FY2016. Debt surged on 48.6% in FY2016 while cash dropped on 57.5% in FY2016.

Appendix 1: Peers in Personal Goods


Below we provide Pittards benchmarking against other companies in Personal Goods 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  FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016
Swallowfield ($SWL)-16.0%3.0%-1.2%10.1%
Creightons ($CRL)6.1%11.7%4.2%4.1%
Svenska Cellulosa Ab-Sca ($0MCK)8.7%12.0%10.8%1.7%
Bagir Grp Ltd ($BAGR)14.8%-2.5%-22.5%-14.8%
 
Median (4 companies)6.1%3.0%-1.2%2.9%
Pittards ($PTD)-3.3%-3.0%-12.1%-11.5%


Top companies by Gross margin, %

Top  FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016
Creightons ($CRL)42.1%42.8%40.8%39.2%42.2%
Svenska Cellulosa Ab-Sca ($0MCK)24.2%24.8%25.1%25.9%26.9%
Bagir Grp Ltd ($BAGR)17.0%19.1%17.4%9.8%16.4%
Swallowfield ($SWL)10.6%8.2%10.3%11.8%14.8%
 
Median (4 companies)18.7%19.5%20.3%23.2%21.7%
Pittards ($PTD)17.4%20.5%20.3%21.7%8.0%


Top companies by EBITDA margin, %

Top  FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016
Svenska Cellulosa Ab-Sca ($0MCK)12.6%15.0%15.2%14.6%15.3%
Swallowfield ($SWL)4.9%1.8%4.0%4.5%6.7%
Creightons ($CRL)4.0%4.6%4.7%5.0%4.7%
Bagir Grp Ltd ($BAGR)3.9%6.1%3.4%-3.9%2.2%
 
Median (4 companies)4.9%6.1%4.7%5.0%5.7%
Pittards ($PTD)4.6%6.6%6.9%6.2%-10.9%


Top companies by CAPEX/Revenue, %

Top  FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016
Svenska Cellulosa Ab-Sca ($0MCK)6.6%6.1%5.5%6.6%8.0%
Creightons ($CRL)1.9%0.6%1.1%0.8%3.7%
Swallowfield ($SWL)2.1%1.5%1.8%3.1%2.2%
Bagir Grp Ltd ($BAGR)0.2%0.3%0.2%0.1%0.6%
 
Median (4 companies)2.1%1.5%1.8%3.1%2.9%
Pittards ($PTD)1.7%1.0%1.7%14.3%4.4%


Top companies by ROIC, %

Top 5 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016
Swallowfield ($SWL)10.9%-3.1%5.1%8.4%18.7%
Svenska Cellulosa Ab-Sca ($0MCK)5.5%8.2%8.7%9.0%9.1%
Creightons ($CRL)6.3%7.0%8.4%8.8%6.7%
Bagir Grp Ltd ($BAGR)4.7%18.8%1.9%-24.8%-1.6%
Far Eastern New Century Corp ($FETD)4.3%3.6%2.6%3.0%
 
Median (5 companies)5.5%7.0%5.1%8.4%7.9%
Pittards ($PTD)4.7%9.1%8.2%5.2%-12.0%


Top companies by Net Debt / EBITDA

Top  FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016
Svenska Cellulosa Ab-Sca ($0MCK)2.9x2.6x2.2x1.7x1.8x
Swallowfield ($SWL)-0.0x-0.8x-0.3x0.3x-0.1x
Creightons ($CRL)1.2x1.2x0.7x0.1x-0.8x
Bagir Grp Ltd ($BAGR)16.9x8.5x4.0x-5.9x
 
Median (4 companies)2.7x2.6x2.2x1.0x-0.4x