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Real Good Food revenue jumped on 20.5% while EBITDA Margin dropped on 11.3 pp from -2.6% to -13.9%

28 Sep 2018 • About Real Good Food ($RGD) • By InTwits

Real Good Food reported FY2018 financial results today. Overall the company's long term financial model is characterised by the following facts:
  • The company operates at negative EBITDA Margin: -13.9%
  • Real Good Food motivates its personel by high Stock Based Compensation (SBC): average SBC/Revenue for FY2014-FY2018 was 0.0% while average EBITDA Margin was -1.1% for the sames years
  • Real Good Food has medium CAPEX intensity: 5 year average CAPEX/Revenue was 6.5%. At the same time it's in pair with industry average of 6.5%
  • CAPEX is quite volatile: £11m in FY2018, £11m in FY2017, £6m in FY2016, £1m in FY2015, £7m in FY2014
  • The company has unprofitable business model: ROIC is -22.8%
Below you can find a comprehensive analysis of the key data driving the company's performance and the stock price.

Revenue and profitability


The company's Revenue jumped on 20.5%. Revenue decline was slowing down on average by 17.0 pp per annum in FY2014-FY2018. Having declining revenue the company managed to increase EBITDA margin. EBITDA Margin jumped on 10.4 pp from 2.2% to 12.6% in FY2018. EBITDA Margin stuck to a declining trend at -4.6 pp per annum in the last 5 years.

Gross Margin decreased on 5.3 pp from 24.4% to 19.2% in FY2018. During the last 5 years Gross Margin topped in FY2016 at 26.6% and was declining since that time. SG&A as a % of Revenue decreased slightly on 0.59 pp from 25.7% to 25.1% in FY2018. SG&A as a % of Revenue followed a growing trend at 2.0 pp per annum in FY2014-FY2018.

Net Income margin dropped on 15.3 pp from -5.5% to -20.9% in FY2018.

Investments (CAPEX, working capital and M&A)


Real Good Food's CAPEX/Revenue was 8.4% in FY2018. The company's CAPEX/Revenue increased on 7.1 pp from 1.4% in FY2015 to 8.4% in FY2018. For the last three years the average CAPEX/Revenue was 8.3%.

Return on investment


The company operates at negative ROIC (-22.8%) and ROE (-37.7%). ROIC dropped on 17.4 pp from -5.4% to -22.8% in FY2018. ROE dropped on 31.1 pp from -6.6% to -37.7% in FY2018. During FY2014-FY2018 ROIC topped in FY2015 at 2.3% and was declining since that time.

Leverage (Debt)


Company's Net Debt / EBITDA is 0.7x and Debt / EBITDA is . Net Debt / EBITDA didn't change in FY2018. Debt surged on 143% while cash surged on 489%.

Real Good Food has short term refinancing risk: cash is only 11.3% of short term debt.

Financial and operational results


FY ended 31 Mar 2018

Real Good Food ($RGD) key annual financial indicators

mln. £201420152016201720182018/2017
P&L
Revenue110.2104.6100.4107.7129.820.5%
Gross Profit22.025.626.726.324.9-5.4%
SG&A19.322.423.627.732.617.8%
EBITDA5.55.53.8-2.8-18.0
Net Income-0.7-3.412.8-6.0-27.1
Balance Sheet
Cash8.66.72.90.52.7488.6%
Short Term Debt31.717.48.012.024.2101.4%
Long Term Debt8.56.70.14.716.4248.6%
Cash flow
Capex6.91.46.410.811.01.3%
Ratios
Revenue growth-58.5%-5.1%-4.0%7.3%20.5%
EBITDA growth-45.4%-1.2%-30.6%-173.9%545.8%

Gross Margin19.9%24.4%26.6%24.4%19.2%-5.3%
EBITDA Margin5.0%5.2%3.8%-2.6%-13.9%-11.3%
SG&A, % of revenue17.5%21.4%23.5%25.7%25.1%-0.6%
Net Income Margin-0.6%-3.3%12.8%-5.5%-20.9%-15.3%
CAPEX, % of revenue6.3%1.4%6.4%10.0%8.4%-1.6%

ROIC2.3%2.3%1.7%-5.4%-22.8%-17.4%
ROE-0.8%-4.0%14.5%-6.6%-37.7%-31.1%
Net Debt/EBITDA5.7x3.2x1.3x

Peers in Food Producers


Below we provide Real Good Food benchmarking against other companies in Food Producers 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 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018
Ukrproduct Group ($UKR)-38.9%-36.8%0.2%51.2%
Narborough Plantations ($NBP)3.5%0.5%38.2%
R.E.A.Hldgs ($RE.B)13.9%-28.1%-12.4%26.5%
Tate & Lyle ($BD15)-15.0%0.6%16.9%-1.6%
Mhp Sa ($MHPC)-14.2%-4.0%13.4%
 
Median (19 companies)0.0%1.3%0.6%7.0%-1.6%
Real Good Food ($RGD)-5.1%-4.0%7.3%20.5%


Top companies by Gross margin, %

Top 5 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018
Narborough Plantations ($NBP)59.7%54.6%56.1%63.0%
Walcom Group Ltd ($WALG)62.2%60.5%58.8%54.6%
Kakuzi ($KAKU)33.0%49.2%46.4%44.7%
Unilever ($ULVR)41.4%42.2%42.7%43.1%
Produce Investments ($PIL)33.5%36.4%37.9%35.7%
 
Median (17 companies)32.7%24.9%24.3%26.0%14.6%
Real Good Food ($RGD)19.9%24.4%26.6%24.4%19.2%


Top companies by EBITDA margin, %

Top 5 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018
Narborough Plantations ($NBP)39.6%37.4%40.8%48.6%
Mhp Sa ($MHPC)37.0%38.8%37.0%35.3%
Kakuzi ($KAKU)11.8%29.4%31.8%32.7%
R.E.A.Hldgs ($RE.B)33.2%31.1%22.9%20.7%
Unilever ($ULVR)19.4%16.8%18.0%19.8%
 
Median (19 companies)11.8%13.8%11.2%13.7%10.7%
Real Good Food ($RGD)5.0%5.2%3.8%-2.6%-13.9%


Top companies by CAPEX/Revenue, %

Top 5 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018
R.E.A.Hldgs ($RE.B)11.8%17.4%39.3%32.8%
Ros Agro ($AGRO)7.3%15.3%19.7%21.9%
Cherkizovo Group OJSC ($CHE)9.7%12.2%10.4%10.9%
Kakuzi ($KAKU)22.0%24.9%13.7%10.3%
Mhp Sa ($MHPC)8.2%12.3%8.1%7.9%
 
Median (19 companies)4.1%5.0%3.5%4.6%2.7%
Real Good Food ($RGD)6.3%1.4%6.4%10.0%8.4%


Top companies by ROIC, %

Top 5 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018
Unilever ($ULVR)29.9%26.0%24.3%24.6%
Mhp Sa ($MHPC)17.6%17.6%16.1%17.6%
Kakuzi ($KAKU)4.3%17.4%15.8%15.6%
Tate & Lyle ($BD15)13.2%1.8%7.2%12.1%14.4%
Kerry Group ($KYGA)16.6%15.8%12.8%11.9%
 
Median (20 companies)12.4%9.7%8.1%9.1%10.6%
Real Good Food ($RGD)2.3%2.3%1.7%-5.4%-22.8%


Top companies by Net Debt / EBITDA

Top 5 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018
Avangardco Investments Public Ltd ($AVGR)1.7x241.4x29.9x
R.E.A.Hldgs ($RE.B)3.9x7.2x10.6x10.8x
Ukrproduct Group ($UKR)3.4x17.7x6.2x
Zambeef Products ($ZAM)4.8x3.0x2.1x4.0x
Ros Agro ($AGRO)0.6x1.8x1.9x3.7x
 
Median (18 companies)1.4x1.6x1.8x1.9x0.9x