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Etteplan - Upgrade to BUY
Expect stable development
Our estimates ahead of Q1 remain largely intact, with some minor adjustments mainly to incorporate the transition from EBIT from business operations to EBITA as Etteplan’s measure for operational profitability following updated strategic and financial targets in April. Our group level Q1 revenue and EBITA estimates are at EUR 63.5m and EUR 5.8m respectively. We expect continued good margins in Engineering Solutions and Software and Embedded Solutions while still remaining cautious to margin improvement in Technical Documentation Solutions due to project delivery challenges in Germany.
Uncertainty has decreased but remains a key topic
The uncertainty relating to the development of the global economy remains a key topic as the development of macroeconomic indicators and sentiment has been mixed but in general more positive considering the uncertainty during the latter half of 2018. Both customer engineering companies’ and peers’ valuation have been on the rise during 2019. The order intake among engineering companies has also been positive, with the aggregate value for a selection of customer companies up some 7% y/y.
BUY (HOLD) with a target price of EUR 9.0
The valuation of peer companies has been on the rise during 2019, while Etteplan has been largely unaffected, and as such trades on a discount compared to peers. On 2019E P/E Etteplan trades at an in our view unjustifiably large discount of ~20%. We retain our target price of EUR 9.0 but upgrade our rating to BUY (HOLD).