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a few things: 1. I think you are only counting 1500 of Trent XWB engines, but there are other engines (Trent 1000, 700) etc. that are being sold. 2. it's 14 airplanes, so it's 28 engines, so per engine profit will actually be even less than your number, I guess? 3. The $580m revenue seems is for service contract only, which has very high profit margin. i think something like 50%. but they loss money on the engine, so the final margin is like 35%..

 

 

 

It is really hard to understand the profitability here.

http://www.rolls-royce.com/news/press-releases/yr-2015/pr-29-07-2015-rr-signs-580m-totalcare-engine-support-agreement-with-vietname-airlines.aspx

 

340M Pounds for 14 engines. That's 24 M per engine. Assuming a 20% profit margin, it will be 4.8 M per engine profit. How long is this total care contract? 10 years? 20 years? That can change the valuation drastically. Does anyone know?

 

Assuming it is 10 years contract. Each year it will make 0.48 Million pounds per engine. There are 1500 engines sold. So that's 740 Million pounds per year profit. Giving it a 10 PE, and we get 7.4 Bn valuation. Today's market cap is 13 bn.

 

Is my assumption reasonable? Of course they have other lines of businesses, but not that profitable. It puzzle me as to why the author claims it is way undervalued.

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Rolls to Pay $807 Million to End U.K., U.S. Bribery Probes

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-16/rolls-royce-will-pay-807-million-in-settlement-of-bribery-cases

 

The British penalty is the biggest-ever sanction issued against a company by the U.K.

"It’s a very large fine which we didn’t see coming: it’s something of a bolt from the blue," said Nick Cunningham, an aerospace and defense equity analyst at Agency Partners in London. "Usually these settlements are relatively moderate compared to the size of the company."

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Goldman upgraded Rolls-Royce to Buy and Add to conviction list.

But be warned, I have noticed that Goldman's "Buy Conviction list" tend to have negative returns after announcements :)

Price target is 1030p

 

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Source of opportunity

 

We upgrade Rolls-Royce to Buy and add it to the Conviction List. Cash

performance at Rolls-Royce has been disappointing as underlying earnings

performance has fallen and the investment burden has risen. We believe the

diversified nature of the group and the impending accounting changes

warrant a cash flow based valuation approach. We expect company-defined

FCF to improve from £120 mn this year to £495 mn in 2018, £1,018 mn in

2019 and £1,547 mn in 2020. Our 12m price target of 1030p implies 55%

upside and an 8% FCFe yield in 2020; adding in the substantial (£985 mn) FX

benefit implied beyond 2020 would increase this to 12%.

 

Catalyst

Aside from 1H results (date TBC) the key catalyst will be program

performance, i.e., continued deliveries of Trent XWB on time and continued

in-service performance of the engine.

 

Valuation

Our 12m price target is now 1030p (from 743p). We value Rolls-Royce on

11.4x 2018E EV/DACF; our target multiple is based on our 2018E CROCI

forecast of 15.6% (+100 bp vs. our previous estimates) and assumes a 1:1

relationship between EV/GCI and CROCI/WACC. This compares to the

average target multiple of 11x for our coverage. In our view, a cash flow

and returns based valuation captures the underlying drivers of economic

value. Our previous multiple was 12.1x, which was based on a 2x premium

to Rolls-Royce’s historical average EV/DACF. We expect DACF (debt-adj.

cash flow) growth to outpace earnings; over 2016-20, we forecast an

underlying EBIT CAGR of 21% but improving cash conversion should result

in a DACF CAGR of 27%. Our EPS estimates for 2017/18 increase by 8%/6%

 

Key risks

 

1) FX, a weaker USD. 2) Negative momentum in defence markets, where

visibility is lower. 3) Further declines in sanctioned offshore capex. 4)

Program risk (Trent XWB, Trent 1000). 5) US Tax reform.

 

 

 

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Anyone know what caused the drop on Friday? The Fitch downgrade?

 

I think since they reported ER, it has been selling off everydat.

The headline earning is awful, but it's mostly from accounting loss on the hedging and one time bribery settlement.

I actually feeling better about RR now after listening to Mungers comments about deferring etc..

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-air-france-canada/air-france-flight-with-engine-damage-makes-emergency-landing-in-canada-idUSKCN1C50PV

 

Scary pictures from this Air France engine failure.

 

"The aircraft involved in the incident was an Airbus 380 that was about seven years old, according to airfleets.net, an aircraft database. The engine was made by Engine Alliance, a joint venture between General Electric Co and United Technologies Corp’s Pratt & Whitney unit."

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Earnings came out a few days ago. Still weak but improving. Looking ahead they are talking 450m pounds fcf this year and 1b fcf in 2020.  However the target fcf seems fully priced in relative to 17b market cap.  Anyone see value here?

 

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-07/rolls-royce-to-deepen-restructuring-following-earnings-surge

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Yes. FCF is depressed as new programs are ramping up. Right now that depression is pretty bad and likely to last for a while as they have a lot of orders coming to be filled. But it won't last forever and when it normalizes it will do so in a powerful way.

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Earnings came out a few days ago. Still weak but improving. Looking ahead they are talking 450m pounds fcf this year and 1b fcf in 2020.  However the target fcf seems fully priced in relative to 17b market cap.  Anyone see value here?

 

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-07/rolls-royce-to-deepen-restructuring-following-earnings-surge

 

I struggle with this one. I have a small position.

 

RR trades at a little over 1x sales. That seems super-cheap for a duopoly player in a growing, R&D intensive, highly regulated industry. Obviously, margins and FCF and very poor for many reasons. You'd hope that the new CEO would be able to significantly increase margins and cash flow, which would make the current price attractive. But you are already paying for significant improvement.

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Looking at this one too  and have been for a while. It‘s  trading around 1.1x sales (~15GBP revenue) and their largest business (civil aerospace engines) responsible for almost half the revenues is still losing money. balance sheet looks Ok, but there are LT customer commitments and pension issues.

 

The turnaround is taking years and the Trent 1000 issues and cost to fix seem to be getting worse. It’s an interesting business, but the two top players in it GE and Rolls Royce are both struggling for different reasons. No position.

 

https://www.rolls-royce.com/~/media/Files/R/Rolls-Royce/documents/annual-report/2018/2018-full-annual-report.pdf

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Does it trade in decent volumes in the US ADR ? or better to buy on LSE ?

 

Volume seems plenty (200k/ day per yahoo finance) and bid ask I soften down to a penny or two.

 

The cash tsunami from service seems like it’s pushed out further and further in the future. They lose money on the problematic Trent engines X1000 Nd a recent credit downgrade is a problem too. They can’t really afford to go non- investment grade and probably would have to raise equity via a rights offering in this case. That’s my biggest concern.

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Does it trade in decent volumes in the US ADR ? or better to buy on LSE ?

 

Volume seems plenty (200k/ day per yahoo finance) and bid ask I soften down to a penny or two.

 

The cash tsunami from service seems like it’s pushed out further and further in the future. They lose money on the problematic Trent engines X1000 Nd a recent credit downgrade is a problem too. They can’t really afford to go non- investment grade and probably would have to raise equity via a rights offering in this case. That’s my biggest concern.

 

And they make money from servicing these engines, which used to be very reliable and long life.

Now the new engines are under incredible stress and who knows how long they can last.

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