Morningstar | Link's Underlying Fund Administration Growth Remains Strong Despite Short-Term Headwinds
We expect Link's narrow economic moat to protect its reasonably large market shares in the Australian and U.K. financial services administration markets, underpinned by customer switching costs, a marginal cost advantage, and contractual terms of three to five years. The acquisition of U.K.-based Capita Asset Services, or CAS, in 2017 reduced the proportion of revenue from Link's Australian businesses to around 60% of group revenue. We expect the key earnings driver for both the U.K. and Australian businesses to be cost reductions over the next three years, underpinning an EPS CAGR over the next decade of around 7%. We are comfortable with Link’s financial leverage, despite an increase in net debt to fund the CAS acquisition, and expect the net debt to be repaid by fiscal 2020.Link Administration Holdings provides technology-enabled outsourced administration services to companies, asset owners, and trustees in Australia. Co. operates through Fund Administration, Corporate Markets, and Information, Digital, and Data Services segment. The Fund Administration segment provides administration services to superannuation funds; Corporate Markets offers a comprehensive and integrated corporate market offering that connects issuers with their stakeholders; and Information, Digital, and Data Services provides core services of development and maintenance of proprietary IT systems and platforms.
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