Especially at this price!
Fundamentally, unbelievably stupid, but I agree on the chart does not look pretty, and has not done for a while.
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So their result to 31/12/2016 was excellent.
Then on 2nd May at Macquarie Australia Conference they downgraded ? their projected NPAT from $90mil to $97mil down to $90mil to $93mil,and the sp went into a nose dive.?
From 4-traders.com.
.................................2017............. .2018..................2019
Net Income...............92.3mil............98.5m..... ............105m
eps.............................24.9.............. 26.6...................29.1
eps growth.............................6.8%........... ....9.3%
PE..............................7.13.............. .6.67...................6.11
yield............................4.92%............ 5.51%...............6,2%
Maybe the eps growth is not as high as I would have expected ,yet the yield is good and the PE is low.
I will watch with interest.
such a minor downgrade, such a major reaction... and 2m of that 4m downgrade was due to a timing of cash flow payment for growth in Oxipay and Ireland, so a $2m trim off the top end, no trim off the bottom end of guidance, and Flexi loses 25% of market cap in a few weeks?
4 traders clearly still expect top end of their current guidance... which if it was true would make flexi even cheaper than already extremely cheap.
With such a low PE market must be expecting there to be very little or no EPS growth
In NZ they brought FPF,a very sound finance company,who are successful financiers to the likes of The Farmers' customers.
They appear to be starting up their own business in Ireland, rather than buying an existing successful financier.Is this the case? Their Australian business appears to be under some pressure ie both solar panel and retail financing.
In NZ I guess their retail financing will also be a bit slower with the downturn in retail.
I notice in Australia they are looking to grow their business via brokers.Maybe online would be more profitable?
Apparently Aussie cards business was a 'bright spot' recently, while NZ cards (ie Q card, farmers card etc) wern't so flash (although some have said this is due to a transition from Q card to Q MasterCard, along with other 'transition' stuff which are likely responsible for any 'lag' - afterall nearly 1 in 3 NZ'ers have a Q Card, but only 2% of the spend is on Q Cards - huge opportunity!). Analysts seemed more concerned with FXL's certegy - particuarly how a slow down in solar purchases effects certegy's profitability. I believe NZ leasing is going well, an AU leasing is turning around.
Partnership with flight centre, further push into ireland (they have been in ireland for a while I believe but only now making a real push - I think after they gained some sort of license), Oxipay (FXL's online offering) and a step into brokers will all require up front investment - with growth followng a year, or a few years after (as with any quality new investment)... the 'good' news is, none of these growth initiatives are things that are 'new' or FXL - consumer and business financing is their business - they know it and want to own it.
Some people think they paid a heavy premium for FPF, although the share price reaction immediately following would indicate otherwise (nearly twice as high as it is now!), and I believe there will be significant synergies with aussie business, likely to begin showing through this and the following years.
They have the solid foundation, they made the hard calls last year (discontinuing low RoE or 'old' parts of the business, and the write offs that follow), now they need to execute: and with the founder, also the chairman, holding a 25% or so share (who has not sold a cent at all in the past few years)... will likely not want to see it go pear shaped long term!
TJ.
Thank you for filling in the gaps for us.
FPF.If they had not paid too much for it, someone else would have brought it,because it was a great company.
Reassuring to hear your thoughts on FPF... onwards and upwards till June 22!?
Aussie GDP data tomorrow, consensus is 0.1% growth, some (like NAB) are even saying negative... at 0.1% or above will be considered a 'job well done' by me, and hopefully the market - should benefit FXL (and vice versa)
FXL down big time at open... even at current price of $1.60, trading at a PE of just 6.6 (yes, six point six!)... yet has grown profit every year since listing... if you think SUM other stocks have been hit a bit harder than they should have, look no further than FXL!
Likely due to tax loss selling, and (hopefully) not related to this Thursday's update... tempting to go into an xxxl position
(the 8 - 9 or so cent dividend likely to pay this full year is attractive in itself... regardless of the stupidly low PE)