No-Moat ALS’ 1H Result Again Highlights Growth Concerns. AUD 3.50 FVE Unchanged.
We make no change to no-moat materials tester ALS Limited’s AUD 3.50 fair value estimate. Minor downgrades to some long-term assumptions are offset by time-value-of-money considerations. Underlying first-half fiscal 2018 NPAT rose 38% to AUD 70.1 million, marginally beating our AUD 65.8 million target, though on lower depreciation. Group EBITDA margin in line with the previous corresponding period’s, or pcp's, 19% was worse than expected with Life Sciences again disappointing. Full-year fiscal 2...ALS is a testing services provider. Co. operates four testing service divisions: Minerals, which provides assaying and analytical testing services and metallurgical services for mining and mineral exploration companies; Life Sciences, which provides analytical testing data to assist consulting and engineering firms, industry, and governments; Energy, which provides services to the black coal and oil and gas industries such as coal sampling, analysis and certification, hydrocarbon formation evaluation services, well services and related analytical testing; and Industrial, which provides the energy, resources and infrastructure sectors with testing, inspection and asset care services.
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