Report
Alia El Mehelmy
EUR 26.12 For Business Accounts Only

More value as the story unfolds, Overweight

A cheap play on current themes, yield overlooked. Themes in play are: return of gas supply, export competitiveness, energy reforms, and improved FCY supply (was a drag as EKH is a USD-listing). The story got an extra boost this month after two non-core, and non-profit generating, assets were sold (at 1.9x book), boosting 2017e net cash to c2.5x EBITDA. Such liquidity is sufficient to support a 60% higher 2017e DPS of USD0.05/share, yielding 6.7%. An unchanged DPS y-o-y would still provide a 4.1% yield. Excluding 1H17 attributable net cash of USD167mn from EKH’s market cap implies a 2018e P/E of 4.5x, while our valuation implies 7.8x.

Underlying
Egypt Kuwait Holding Co

Egypt Kuwait Holding is a long-term-term private equity holding firm in Africa and the Middle East. Co. has a portfolio of investments in the Fertilizers, Petrochemicals, Energy, Manufacturing, Insurance, Information Technology and Transport sectors. Co. generally acquires majority stakes and takes management control in most of its investments. As of Dec 31 2011, Co.'s investment portfolio inlcuded ALEXFERT; BKH; NFC; EHC; Sprea Misr; Plastichem; NATGAS; Shabakat; Nubaria Gas Company; Kahraba; Fayum Gas Company; Gas Chill; Tri-Ocean Energy; BMIC; African Paints; Al-Shrouk for Melamine and resins; GT; Delta Insurance; Nile General Takaful; Nile Family Takaful; ETC and MERT.

Provider
CI Capital
CI Capital

CI Capital is a diversified financial services group and Egypt’s leading provider of leasing, microfinance, and investment banking products and services.

Through its headquarters in Cairo and presence in New York and Dubai, CI Capital offers a wide range of financial solutions to a diversified client base that include global and regional institutions and family offices, large corporates, SMEs, and high net worth and individual investors.

CI Capital leverages its full-fledged investment banking platform to provide market leading capital raising and M&A advisory, asset management, securities brokerage, custody and research. Through its subsidiary Corplease, CI Capital offers comprehensive leasing solutions, including finance and operating leases, and sale and leaseback, serving a wide range of corporate clients and SMEs. In addition, CI Capital offers microfinance lending through Egypt’s first licensed MFI, Reefy.

The Group has over 1,700 employees, led by a team of professionals who are among the most experienced in the industry, with complementary backgrounds and skill sets and a deep understanding of local market dynamics.

CI Capital has been recognized as the “Best Investment Bank in Egypt” by EMEA Finance for four years running from 2013-2016, and by Global Finance in 2014 and 2015.

Analysts
Alia El Mehelmy

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