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Consti - Eyes on demand development

Consti will report Q1 results on April 30th. Our attention is drawn towards any comments on demand development. Following share price increase we downgrade to HOLD (BUY), target price of EUR 13.0 intact.

Looking for signs of growth
Consti will report Q1 results on April 30th. Consti posted stable profitability figures throughout 2020 after challenges in previous years and with the pandemic focus has shifted towards order intake and growth. The order backlog development has been on a slightly declining throughout 2020, while order intake development was essentially flat. With the housing company General Meeting season kicking off any comments thereto could give some indication of demand development within housing companies. In terms of top and bottom line figures Q1 is typically the seasonally slowest quarter and we expect sales of EUR 60.2m and EBIT of EUR 0.5m.

Expect slight growth and profitability improvement in 2021
Consti has not given a sales guidance for 2021 while the guidance for EBIT is at EUR 7-11, a wider range due to still present COVID-19 uncertainties. Consti indicated in conjunction with Q4 that the activity level going forward is expected to be higher compared with the same period a year ago despite no clear growth in the order backlog. Our estimates assume only a rather minor growth of 2.3%, quite in line with historic pre-COVID market growth. Focus has in the past been on organizational improvements and profitability, but we expect Consti to increasingly adding attention towards sales growth. In terms of profitability we expect a slight improvement in EBIT-margins, 20bps y/y, to 3.2%.

HOLD (BUY) with a target price of EUR 13.0
Consti’s valuation is currently rather in line with peers although still lower compared to building installations and services peers. Consti is a solid case in terms of cash conversion but on current growth outlook valuation appears quite fair. We have not made changes to our estimates and retain our target price of EUR 13.0. With Consti’s share price up slightly over 10% since our previous update we downgrade to HOLD (BUY).

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