Talenom - Share issue update, TP EUR 6.7
Share issue without payment to improve share liquidity
Talenom made a share issue without payment on the 28.2. to improve the liquidity of its share, with five new shares given for each existing share, upon which the number of shares increased to 41.836m (6x pre-issue). We have since our previous update adjusted our quarterly estimates due to the impact of the Income Register, which based on discussion with management should be just below double the Q4/19 impact and we have as such lowered our Q1/20 revenue and EBIT estimates by EUR 0.6m, while upward adjustments to the latter quarters in the year keep our full year estimates intact. Talenom announced the acquisition of Addvalue Advisors on the 28.2., a bookkeeping company with around EUR 0.5m in revenue. The acquisition has no material impact on our estimates.
Growth and profitability improvement in 2020
Talenom expects relative growth in net sales and relative profitability in 2020 to be in line with 2019. We expect revenue in 2020 to grow 18.7% to EUR 68.8m mainly due to organic growth in Finland, with revenue growth in Sweden in our view expected to start to show in 2021. We expect EBIT to amount to EUR 12.6m, with growth of ~21% y/y.
HOLD with a target price of EUR 6.7
We adjust our target price to EUR 6.7 (prev. split adj. EUR 6.83), taking into account the distribution of dividend (record date 27.2., split adj. EUR 0.125 per share). Our target price values Talenom at ~30x 2020E P/E. With valuation in line with our estimates we retain our HOLD-rating.