Major £135m contract award
Cohort announces that its subsidiary SEA (Systems Engineering and Assessment Ltd.) has been awarded a major contract by the UK’s Ministry of Defence to provide Electronic Warfare Counter Measures (Increment 1a) (EWCM 1a) to the Royal Navy with a total value of at least £135m. This includes provision and support of SEA’s Trainable Decoy Launcher System, Ancilia.At the FY 24 interim results Cohort had commented on an overall “increased tempo” of order intake. The Group reported a closing order book of £354m: we note that this latest contract takes the closing order book above the £0.5bn mark at £513.6m.
We have raised our FY25 revenue outlook by 2.5% (£5.0m). Thereafter we estimate a contribution from the SEA EWCM contract of c.£15.0m annually. Our FY25 E (adj.) EBITDA estimate is raised by £2.0m, +10%, with an estimated subsequent incremental annual c.£5.0m contribution. Our FY25 EPS outlook is raised from 36.7p to 41.8p. Accordingly, and in the light of additional recent contract wins (e.g. the 19 March Chess Australian Navy contract) our Fair Value is raised to 725p.
Cohort is a holding company. Co. operates through its subsidiaries: Empresa de Investigacao e Desenvolvimento de Electronica, S.A., which is engaged in the fields of electronics, tactical and naval communications, command and control; MASS Consultants Limited, which is an electronic warfare operational support, cyber security, secure ICT networks and support to operations business serving customers primarily in defense and security markets; and Marlborough Communications Limited, which is a supplier of electronic communications, information systems and signals intelligence technology to the defense and security sectors.
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