Q3 Farming EBITDA was positive on another quarter with strong realised prices and a high superior share. Despite lower than expected 2025e volumes, strong biological KPIs and healthy biomass growth showcased stable operations, leaving us confident in the company’s long-term outlook. With small revisions to our phase-2 capex and volume estimates, we reiterate our BUY and NOK9.9 target price.
We remain positive on the sector, as we still find the valuation supportive at 2025–2026e P/E’s of 13-11x, with SalMar and Mowi as our top picks. For our 2025–2026 sector forecasts, we have increased global supply by 30–40kt on 3–4% growth, noting high regulatory risk in some regions, but have reduced our spot prices by EUR0.2/kg to EUR7.7–7.9/kg. We have also reduced production costs by NOK1.5–3.5/kg on prevailing feed input prices, and cut our 2025e EPS by 7% but raised 2026e by 6%.
This report provides an overview of the dynamics, companies, history, challenges and opportunities of the salmon farming industry. Biological challenges and stricter regulations over the past decade have curbed the supply of salmon, a globally consumed product with a strong ESG angle. Significant infrastructure investments made by the companies to solve these challenges have not yet yielded materially higher supply, leading to continued high salmon prices. Despite higher EBIT margins the sector ...
The largest opposition party (Høyre) has launched a new draft proposal for its next parliamentary election programme. One of the suggestions is a lower and less bureaucratic resource tax. In the event of a 15% resource tax (down from 25%), we calculate the following preliminary 2025–2026e EPS impacts on the companies we cover: Grieg Seafood (15%), SalMar (12%), Lerøy Seafood (9%), Måsøval (8%), Mowi (7%), and Bakkafrost (0%). While this is only a proposal, we believe it will likely materially li...
Q2 farming EBITDA/kg was NOK41, marking another profitable quarter for this land-based farmer. Harvest guidance for H2 was a bit softer due to the culling of smolt in May, but our main takeaway is that the factory at Indre Harøya is performing well, and we expect further improvements ahead. Land based is not easy, but these minor issues are far removed from the firefighting peers have had to deal with during the ramp-up phase. We reiterate our BUY and NOK9.9 target price.
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