Initiate at Overweight; IPO’ed at a heavy discount
Our 12-month target price of SAR162 implies 45% upside. SACO, KSA’s latest retailer to go public, offers an attractive growth play as Saudi’s only full-fledged hardware and home improvement retailer. It trades on a 2016e P/E of 15.1x, 20% below peers, despite offering a 27% 2014-16e EPS CAGR vs. peers’ 11% and boasting a more contained cost base (2014 RoE 34%) with limited risk of higher Saudisation quotas and rent inflation.
Saudi Company for Hardware SJSC (SACO) is a Saudi Arabia-based company engaged in the hardware retail and wholesale business. Its household improvement products fall under different departments, such as lightings, automotive, bed and bath, electrical appliances, lawn and garden, toys, storage and organization, building materials, sports equipment, plumping supplies, pain and sundries, outdoor living, indoor furniture, house wares and hardware. It offers a group of home solutions, such as paints, floor and wall, bathroom accessories, power, keep your garden beautiful, electrical device holder, washing and ironing, cars travel, storage, dust, water and moving. The Company operates more than 20 stores in different cities and offers over 45,000 products. Furthermore it has warehouses in Central and Western region, as well as maintenance centers in Central, Eastern, and Western regions. Its subsidiary, Medscan Terminal Co, is a provider of long-distance freight trucking services.
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.
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