Trading Update: FY22 in line and FY23 encouraging
In a Trading Update today, Mpac Group reports performance for the year to 31 December 2022 in line with expectations, with a strong FY22 closing order book; the outlook for FY23 is “encouraging”. We have raised our FY22 (adj.) EBITDA outlook by 8% and FY23 by 13%.Reflecting resilient demand in the core Healthcare and Food & Beverage segments, order intake in the second half of FY22 was significantly above first half levels, leading to a healthy year-end closing order book of £69.0m (H1 22: £62.6m). In addition, Service order intake and contribution to revenue continued to grow. Mpac adds that, inclusive of modified specifications, the development and installation of the clean energy project for FREYR remains on track for completion in Q2 23.
Our fair value for Mpac remains 485p/share, indicative of a FY24 EV/EBITDA multiple of 7.9x compared to 4.6x at current EV.
Mpac Group is focused on its Packaging Machinery business, Mpac Langen, which designs, precision engineers and manufactures packaging solutions, machinery and high specification automation, secondary packaging equipment and end-of-line robotics and at-line instrumentation and testing solutions as well as providing solutions including the design and integration of packaging systems.
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