Off Over 30% from its High Despite Continued Record Results
- Despite record EPS projected for FY18 and FY19, the shares are off 32% from the all-time high of $77 set in January 2017.
- Our EPS estimates could prove conservative as new U.S. tax laws may increase spending by U.S. consumer packaged goods companies and the industrial customers, introduction of the unspecified, but long-anticipated, new industrial product which is expected to launch later this fiscal year, improving European brand business, and potentially higher-than-anticipated growth in Memorialization due to the recent severe flu season.
- Free cash flow (estimated at $106 million in FY18), currently yielding around 8%, consistently in excess of net income, can be used to pay down debt, for share repurchases and dividend increases (raised for 23 consecutive years and compounding at 14% over the last five).
Matthews International is a provider of brand solutions, memorialization products and industrial technologies. The company's reporting segments are: SGK Brand Solutions, which includes brand development, deployment and delivery; Memorialization, which includes a line of memorialization products used primarily in cemeteries, funeral homes and crematories; and Industrial Technologies, which designs, manufactures and distributes a range of marking and coding equipment and consumables, industrial automation solutions, and warehouse automation systems, as well as manufactures and markets products and systems that employ different marking technologies, including laser and ink-jet printing.
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