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https://www.reddit.com/r/ASX_Bets/comments/mxf6g8/dd_dusk_more_than_just_candles/DUE DIDDLYGENCE ON DUSK
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SK Share price: $3.63 SOI: 62.2M MC: $226M
Why should you care
Capital light business with strong cashflows
Scalable business model with low ROCE (see two points down) on new stores
High gross margins and a differentiated business model
Relatively low evaluation on an EV/EBIT and EV/FCF basis
Tailwinds heading into 2H FY2021 from AUD/USD exchange
No debt, $35M cash representing 56c of cash per share
Why could this be mispriced
Recently IPO’d in November 2020 when there was lots of positive vaccine news
As it is new, its financials don’t show up on many websites yet but will after the FY21 results
Strong guidance updates given which haven’t fully been digested by the market
Uncertainty around post-pandemic normalised revenues and how a post-covid world will affect sales
Q3 FY21 Trading Update
Q3 Sales: $27.7M ; Q3 EBIT: $4.9M ; Q3 EBIT Margin: 17.6%
1H FY21 Results
FY21 9-month YTD (June-March) Sales: $118.7M; EBIT: $33.2M ; EBIT Margin: 28.0% (Important later)
Risks
Cyclical nature of retail and changes in consumer trends
Expansion in NZ or elsewhere could fail
Excess cash on balance sheet could result in poor acquisitions if they eventuated
The 2020 shitstorm and stimulus bringing forward sales
Stores and Operations
Dusk currently operates and owns 118 companies as of December 2020.
The ROCE on stores is less than 12 months
Top 20 Holders
. However, this is now inaccurate as we know:
WAM have been buying and hold 3,346,461 shares (~5.37%)
Catalyst Buyout Fund 2A have reduced from 25.4% to 14,296,049 shares (23.0%)
Based upon this we know approximately ~86% of the SOI are held via the top 20.
Peer Comparisons
Shaver Shop I’m sure you’ve all heard of. Personal grooming products for your pubes.
Adairs is an Australian home furniture and homewares retailer, similar to Nick Scali as well.
CompanyMarket CapEVSalesEV / SGMEBITEBIT MarginEV / EBITDivvie Yield %ASX:SSG$132M$91M$123.6M0.73x44.7%$28.0M22.6%3.25x5.73%ASX:LOV$1600M$1659M$146M11.36x77.8%$30.520.7%54.3x1.35%ASX:ADH$828M$806M$243M3.21x66.1%$60.2M24.8%13.3x4.9%ASXSK$226M$191M$90.9M2.10x67.7%$28.3M28.0%6.74x8.26%ASX
SK FY21 Guidance$226M$191M$150M1.27x67.7%$38M28.0%5.0x8.26%
If you can put two and two together, it would seem that assuming Dusk can maintain close to 25% EBIT margins and grow sales at more than 5-10% per annum, that this is materially undervalued compared to its peers. ASX:LOV does get the exception that it is international, however. So, if Dusk were to reach a point where they expand overseas, I would expect to see a similar material raise in evaluation.
Evaluation
We’re using EV/EBIT and not EBITDA due to pre-lease expenditures (AASB16). Market cap – Cash + Debt = Enterprise Value
So $226M – (~$35M) + $0 = $191M EV
FY21 Sales Guidance of $147-151M and EBIT Guidance of $38-40M
$191M EV / $38.5 EBIT = 4.96EV / EBIT
We’ll also assume an evaluation using NPAT.
Sales guidance of $147-151M as outlined by company.
EBIT Margin for the YTD to the March update was 28%.
Net income of $147-151M * 0.28% = $41.1M-$42.2M * 0.7 (30% income tax) = $28.7M-$29.5M
FY21 EV/Net income = $191M / $28.5M = 6.7PE
Dividends
Management have stated payout ratio of 60-80% so we’re assuming 70% payout ratio = $19M / 62.2M SOI = $0.305c FY21 Dividend
Yield = 0.305 / $3.63 = 8.4% fully franked, grossed up to 12%.
We should get an increase in evaluation as dividend hunters come into buy. They could push this anywhere up to a 5% yield resulting in a $6.10 share price which is a 68% upside.
Why the FY21 Q4 and 2H FY21 update is going to be stellar
Q4 2020 was a shitstorm. They had numerous store closures (20 stores in Melbourne which is 17% of their store totals were closed for 3 months) across April and didn’t reopen until the first week of May, where they had reduced trading hours and a progressive reopening.
Q4 of FY21 includes Mother’s Day (tell her you love her you dog and get her a Dusk candle)
Q4 2020 would have had reduced foot traffic in general. Now as most things are now reopened you have more generalised customer foot traffic and higher likelihood of spontaneous sales
Increase in Dusk rewards members (630k) driving repeat sales ($54M). Dusk members account for 59% of sales
New web platform going live in April and increased data analytics hopefully driving increased online sales
Stronger gross margins to 67.6%
Higher average transaction value (average spend $54)
AUD appreciation should provide a material tailwind to gross profit growth
10 more new stores compared to same time last year. Resulting decreased in cost of doing business (CODB) from 45.7% in 1H FY20 to 34.7% in 1H FY21, so we can expect CODB% to be lower on 2H HY20 as well
Jobkeeper wage subsidy may be a risk here as they are repaying $2.8M in 2H 2021
TA for the chart dickheads
Looking for buys at $3.20-$3.40
Looking Ahead to FY2022
Let’s assume $150M FY21 sales and a sales drop of 10% or only increases by ~5% in FY2022, resulting in $135M and $157M sales respectively. Assuming $191M EV. Assuming gross profit margins hang around 66% still and EBIT margins remain around 22% (This is a 21% decrease in EBIT margins, so we are hopefully assuming worst case scenario here). This EV calculation also assumes no additional cash; however, this is very unlikely to be true.
Scenario 1: 10% drop in sales = $29.7M EBIT and $20.7M in NPAT
Scenario 2: 5% increase in sales = $34.5M EBIT and $24.1M in NPAT
1: $20.7M NPAT @ 70% payout ratio = 23c dividend at $3.63 = 6.3% yield
2: $24.1M NPAT @ 70% payout ratio = 27c dividend at $3.63 = 7.4% yield
1: 10x EV/EBIT = $4.21 share price
2: 10x EV/EBIT = $4.98 share price
Now let’s do the same assumption with 28% margins for FY2022:
1: $5.51 share price
2: $6.50 share price
Final Evaluations
High-quality capital-light business offering with strong gross profit and EBIT margins. In excess of 50% upside in 12 months and likely in excess of 100% over 3 years. Suck my dick ETF boys. DYOR. GLTAH. Not financial advice. I’m just a retard on the internet.
FY21:
10x EV/EBIT evaluation = $5.62 (+54.8%)
EV/NPAT evaluation @ 10PE = $4.01 (+10.4%)
EV/NPAT evaluation @ 15PE = $6.31 (+73.8%)
5% dividend yield evaluation = $6.10 (+68.0%)
FY22
Anywhere from $5.51 - $6.50
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