Corporate Travel Management
About the author:
- Author name:
- By Belinda Moore
- Job title:
- Senior Analyst
- Date posted:
- 29 August 2016, 2:34 PM
- Sectors Covered:
- Agriculture, Food & Beverage, Travel and Chemicals
FY16 - an impressive outcome
Corporate Travel Management (CTD) underlying EBITDA growth of 41% was largely driven by organic growth, an impressive result given the economic uncertainty and tough trading conditions in each of CTD's geographies. FY16 benefited from record client wins in all countries, a full year of the European operations, a full year of the Diplomat Travel acquisition, six months of Montrose Travel, margin expansion and a lower Australian dollar. Market share wins in all regions were due to CTD's superior technology offering, strong customer service and ROI focus. CTD won a regional client every four weeks. The US performance was a highlight of the result with EBITDA growth of 123%. The US EBITDA margin of 27.5% beat management's previous aspirational target of 25.0%. Management said that the US business is now scalable for high growth in the future. This gives us confidence in CTD's ability to scale its European operations in the future.
Strong cashflow generation was another highlight, up 187% on the previous corresponding period (pcp), with cashflow conversion of 121%.
FY17 - another big year for growth
FY17 EBITDA guidance is a range of A$85-90m, up 23-30% on the pcp. As usual, we expect that guidance has been conservatively set (CTD like to upgrade through the year). Guidance assumes no new acquisitions, flat client activity and an average AUD of 74c. CTD continues to look for further acquisitions in North America and Europe and said that multiples have become more attractive post Brexit. We have increased our FY17 forecast marginally to be at the top end of guidance. We have made larger upgrades to our outer year forecasts (EPS +5.7% in FY18 and 9.1% in FY19) to include Flybuys Travel, the growth of B2B in other regions and the scaling of the offshore business.
Investment view
The FY16 result demonstrates that Corporate Travel Management has a business model which can deliver under all conditions. CTD is a well-managed, quality growth company with a service and technological competitive advantage. Over coming years, there is plenty of market share it can win in big global markets which will continue to drive strong earnings growth.
We retain our Add recommendation with an upgraded share price target.
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