Shaver Shop is a specialist personal grooming retailer that has successfully operated in Australia for 30 years. Shaver Shop is an Australian retailer that operates in Australia and New Zealand & online with 110 stores.
Shaver Shop Group Ltd (ASX: SSG) share price was beaten down in morning trade on the 28th of September 2017.
At the time of writing the specialty retailer’s shares are down a whopping 32% to 42.5 cents. Why have its shares been beaten down recently?
This morning Shaver Shop provided the market with a trading update. As you might have guessed from the share price decline, it wasn’t a positive one.
According to the release, management expects FY 2018 EBITDA to be in the range of $13 million to $15 million. This compares to the pro forma EBITDA of $14.9 million it delivered in FY 2017 and comes despite same-store sales growth coming in at 11.9% for the first 12 weeks of the new financial year.
I believe the market has overreacted to bring down the price more than 42% at one stage to close to 40.5% end of the day. Valuation criteria include
They paid 4c of fully franked dividends this year with an upcoming dividend of 2.4c coming on October 24th with an ex date of 10th Oct.
EX DATE
AMOUNT
FRANKED
FRANKING CREDIT
BOOKS CLOSE
DATE PAYABLE
1
14-Mar-2017
0.016
100%
0.007
15-Mar-2017
06-Apr-2017
2
09-Oct-2017
0.024
100%
0.01
10-Oct-2017
24-Oct-2017
We also can see below SSG’s chairman Brodie Arnhold loaded up 500,000 shares on open market transactions the day of the dip at $0.423 and bought $211,480 worth of shares. There could many reasons a chairman/insider to sell shares but only 1 reason to buy them. Chairmen usually have more knowledge of the inside of the company and inside buying is a good sign, as no director buys shares expecting them to fall. Such a big share purchase gives me confidence as the larger the purchase, the stronger the signal to buy.
Trading below book value of $0.47, the value discrepancy is too much to ignore. Also with an extremely low P/E ratio of 5.97 as well as TTM dividend yield of 4c (9.3%). There is also an upcoming fully franked dividend of 2.4c with an ex-date of 10th of Oct. I believe the market overreacted to the trading update and predict the share price will track back upwards to its original price and have set a fair price target of $0.84.