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ITE Group plc (lon:hyve)
Hyve – A Rights Issue After All
ITE Group plc Financials
Item
Current Period
Previous Period
Year
2020
2019
Period
6 Months
6 Months
Revenue
£96m
£108m
Earnings
Adjusted Earnings
EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA
Statutory Profit
(£168m)
£2m
Adjusted Profit
£20m
£24m
Total Debt
Net Debt
£157m
£109m
Commentary History
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Tue 12 May 2020
Hyve – A Rights Issue After All
Fri 24 Apr 2020
Hyve Group PLC – FTSE 250 Event Organiser.
ITE Group plc Share Price
Grade:
The Orange Grade - Shares That I Think Show Promise With A Few Caveats.
Title:
Hyve – A Rights Issue After All
Company:
HYVE - ITE Group plc
Share Price Then:
15p
Author:
Ian Smith
Date:
Tue 12 May 2020
Comments:
Hyve have just announced a £127m rights issue along with a share consolidation.
Fully underwritten rights issue of up to 9 New Ordinary Shares at 69 pence each for every 40 Existing Ordinary Shares, equivalent to 9 New Ordinary Shares at 69 pence each for every 4 Consolidated Ordinary Shares
I dislike share consolidations even though they don’t actually do anything, all too often they are a way to hide previous mistakes that hit the share price.
The plan in this case is to do a 10 for 1 consolidation taking the share price to around 150p which would be twice its typical value over the last 5 years and then roughly double the number of shares in circulation bringing it back to a price that the companies share holder’s are used to.
In other words they are hiding a "real" share price of around 7p.
The interim accounts look terrible but they do include £166.8m of non-cash impairments as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
A £146m of the impairments were Impairment of goodwill £124m and Impairment of intangible assets £42m which seems like a very tidy tax loss for the future.
Post the rights issue it seems likely that the company will be reporting COVID has shut down or reduced attendance at their events for quite a while.
This suggest to me a share price that could easily just drop and drop yet if 2021 starts with all scheduled events taking place then the company seems well placed.
Monitoring the share price along with COVID 19 seems to suggest that there may be a time towards the end of the year where buying would make sense.
Read Count/ID:
632/10134
Buy/No Buy In A Nutshell
Negatives
Is the day of the large trade show over? By being forced to cancel events the exhibitors may have found better ways of achieving the same thing.
Positives
I suspect that vanity shows like motor shows with concept cars are finished but more basic events where the cost to operate a stand are more reasonable are not over.
Initial Review Price
86p
Last Review Price
86.08p
Last Review Date
02-Sep-2020
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