In line with the pre-announcement, sales were cSEK5m in Q1, while the EBIT loss was less than we forecast on lower operating costs. The company reiterated its 2026 guidance and stated that its financial position after the rights issue should take it all the way to cash-flow positivity. We reinstate a recommendation with a BUY and SEK5.5 target price.
Q1 organic growth was a soft c3% YOY on tough comparables, reflecting growth of c4% for Hearing Aids and c7% for Diagnostics, but a weak c0% for Hearing Care due to slowing momentum in France. We expect 2024 to be back-end loaded and driven by Oticon Intent. The 2024 guidance was unchanged for key lines, including organic growth of 4–8%, EBIT of DKK4.6bn–5.0bn, and share buybacks of DKK2.0bn+. We reiterate our BUY and DKK400 target price.
>Q1 review – slower organic growth leads to miss on sales forecast - Demant’s Q1 revenues of DKK 5,423m (-1.5% y-o-y,) were driven by organic growth of 3% (vs ODDO BHF 6.2%/consensus 4.7%) and were -3%-2% vs ODDO BHF/consensus. The Communication business is excluded from the operating development as the asset is booked as discontinued operation. No bottom line was reported on a quarterly basis.Hearing aids impacted by flat growth in Europe - Hearing a...
We forecast Q1 organic revenue growth of 4.7% YOY (in line with consensus), driven by Hearing Care (we forecast 4.9%) and Diagnostics (we forecast 8.4%), while Hearing Aids faces a tough YOY comparable (we forecast 3.6%). We expect 2024 to be back-end loaded and driven by Oticon Intent. We expect maintained 2024 guidance of 4–8% organic growth, c1% M&A growth, c-1% FX, and EBIT of DKK4.6bn–5.0bn. We reiterate our BUY and DKK400 target price.
Oncopeptides this morning announced plans for a cSEK300m fully guaranteed rights issue. This should not come as a surprise to the market as the company was very clear in its Q4 report that it had financial resources to last into Q2 2024. Due to DNB Markets’ role in the rights issue, we have withdrawn our target price and recommendation.
At its CMD, Demant updated its long-term outlook. It now targets 8–10% LCY growth (7–10%) including 6–8%-points organic growth and c2%-points M&A growth, and still sees incremental EBIT margin expansion. It expects the hearing-aid market to grow 4–6% p.a. in value (2–5%), as ASP is now guided fairly flat. We are positive on the Sirius-based Oticon Intent launch. We reiterate our BUY, and have raised our target price to DKK400 (375).
In line with our base-case scenario, the FDA has withdrawn the accelerated approval for Pepaxto in the US. As a result, the focus is now growth in Europe, where it has full approval. Q4 earnings were weaker than we expected, but we believe the sales trend is moving in the right direction. We reiterate our HOLD, but have lowered our target price to SEK5.5 (7).
>Strong performance to continue - Demant’s Q4 results showed, with an organic growth of 10%, a continuation of the strong performance of previous quarters. On the back of the announced launch of the new hearing aid platform Oticon Intega, we expect that the market share gains in the hearing aid segment will continue also in 2024. Our organic growth forecast for 2024 stands at 7.4% (guidance 4-8%) for the company driven by an expected 8.0% for the hearing aid wholesale...
Today we are adding CRH to the ODDO BHF European Large Caps Convictions List. It is exposed to the US economy, which we believe will continue to outperform the European economy, as borne out by the very robust job creation figures released last Friday. CRH generates 75% of its EBITDA in the 10 fastest-growing US states, and also has positive technical catalysts such as its future inclusion in the S&P TMI and Russell 1000 indices. - ...
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