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Gofore - Expect slightly lower margins in H2

Gofore will report H2 results on February 19th. Revenue in H2 amounted to EUR 30.6m based on reported monthly figures. We expect margin decreases compared to H1/19, driven by the weak development of Gofore’s UK operations and lower revenue, and expect an EBITA-margin of 9.0%. We expect a dividend proposal of EUR 0.20 per share. Growth will in our view slow down clearly in 2020 with a lower impact of inorganic growth and a weaker market outlook. We retain our HOLD-rating and TP of EUR 8.0.

Expecting weaker margins in H2 due to lower revenue

Gofore will report H2 results on February 19th. Revenue in H2 has based on monthly figures been EUR 30.6m, with a y/y growth of 18.4%, of which a majority will have been inorganic growth from the Silver Planet acquisition. Revenue development during H2 has been sub-par, affected partly by a weak development of Gofore’s UK operations, which were divested in early 2020. We expect the revenue development to have had a negative impact on margins and expect the EBITA-margin to decrease to 9.0% (H1/19: 15.1%). Our dividend proposal estimate is EUR 0.20 per share (2019: EUR 0.19).

Relative growth pace seen to slow down

Gofore revised its long-term financial target for growth in December 2019. Growth is still seen to be faster than the target market, but the market growth estimate was lowered from 15-25% to above the general ICT service sector growth but below 10%. Our growth estimate for 2020 is 10.8%, of which some 9% organic (not including possible new M&A activity). Cost savings from divesting the UK operations will have a slight net positive effect on profitability in 2020 and we expect an EBITA-margin of 13.5%.

HOLD with a target price of EUR 8.0

We have not made any notable changes to our estimates pre-H2 apart from adjustments based on monthly revenue figures. We retain our HOLD-rating and target price of EUR 8.0 ahead of the H2 results.

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