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Lavendon - Trading at close to book value (131p)

March 2016

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  • Epic Code:
  • LVD
  • Price:
  • 138p
Lavendon’s revenues increased by 1% to £248.6m in 2015, driven by strong growth in the Middle East region and France and a notable margin improvement in UK business. Pretax profit increased by 13% to £38.5m. Eps increased by 15% to 18p on a 21% tax rate.There was substantial expansion of its hire fleet with c.3,100 rental machines added or £85m invested, including £20m that had originally been planned for 2016. Quite a lot came in the final few months of the year and the investment leaves net debt at £119m, which represents a modest 1.4x EBITDA.The swing factor is going to be the Middle East with its superlative margins (37% group ebitda; 32% margins). Of the capacity increase 700 machines ...

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