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Essentra - Huge dividend growth expected from FY’24

July 2023

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  • Epic Code:
  • ESNT
  • Price:
  • 185p
Essentra’s first AGM update since becoming a pure play components manufacturer & distributor showed some resilience. Whilst like-for-like sales fell 9% in the first four months with destocking by distributors, trading was resilient and since the beginning of Q2 the group saw improving trends, with activity in China also off the sick list. Peel Hunt reiterates management’s target to double top line (40% organic, 60% m&a) and triple bottom line profit. Its forecasts are for £40.6m pretax profit and 10p eps, rising to £49.5m and 12.3p in FY’24, dropping next year’s PE to 15.0. Its price target (unchanged) is 315p. I am a strong holder.   ...

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