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We are reiterating our Buy rating and $0.25 price target for Starco Brands with the company announcing 4Q23 (December) results after the close on Monday. We believe 2024, with a full compliment of unique, value-added brands which leverage Starco's aerosol and marketing infrastructure in hand, and a laser focus on adding key categories and new relationships, is shaping up as another year of material progress for Starco. We believe there are also continued margin expansion opportunities from both
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Small Cap Consumer Research LLC
We are reiterating our Buy rating and $0.25 price target for Starco Brands after the company announced basically inline preliminary 2023 results and provided initial 2024 guidance for Adjusted EBITDA which bracketed our projection; as such, we are tweaking higher both our 2023 and 2034 Adjusted EBITDA projections. We believe Starco is ideally positioned to register material top and bottom line growth in 2024 (and beyond) and believe management has remained conservative on multiple levels in thei
We are initiating coverage of Starco Brands, Inc. ("Starco" or the "Company"), an emerging owner and marketer of branded consumer goods, with a Buy rating and price target of $0.25, or 26X our December 2024 Adjusted EBITDA. Starco's stable of brands includes: 1) Art of Sport body and skincare products, 2) Skylar hypoallergenic fragrance and beauty products; 3) Soylent plant-based food products, 4) Whipshots vodka infused whipped cream aerosols and 5) Winona butter flavored popcorn spray. Leverag
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Over the past 3 months the market believed that, with its best-in-class profile, Diageo would have been less affected by the overall industry slowdown. Today’s profit warning shows the opposite. We prefer Pernod Ricard in the short term due to the U.S. normalization and its ability to capitalize on the rebound in China. There are still some downside risks for Diageo, but the significant setback today might create an attractive entry point for the stock.
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AlphaValue
Despite a weak US performance, organic net sales growth reached the street’s expectations, driven by strong price/mix. In general, consumers have shown resilience in bearing the price increases. Excluding pressure on African beer volumes, organic volume growth was up +1%. The US distributor inventory levels returning to historical levels provide comfort.
Diageo delivered an operating profit and organic top-line growth above the medium-term guidance of the company. Despite the challenging economic environment, organic net sales grew. Net sales were up across all regions. As the company implemented strategic price increases, volume grew. The free cash flow generated shows continued investment in long-term growth. The Super Premium Plus brands of Diageo grew organic net sales. Also, there was strong growth in Guinness, tequila, and scotch. Organic
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Baptista Research
North America looks to be a concern following what seems to be a clear slow down. Nevertheless, overall organic net sales exceeded the consensus, as did operating profit. Tomorrow’s report from Remy tomorrow will help to draw some conclusions.
This is our first report on global alcoholic beverage major, Diageo. The company has had a relatively rough patch over the past few quarters and has failed to meet analyst expectations as a result of strong headwinds, supply chain problems, and geopolitical issues. The past quarterly result was decent as its sales increased by 21%, and every region saw double-digit growth. Volume increased by 10%, while price/mix growth increased by 11 points, with pricing contributing to the balanced growth of
A reassuring end to the year, with a FY22 beat. The cautious tone for FY23 had been expected given the elevated levels for 2022, but the mid-term (FY23-25) guidance was reiterated. In our view, Diageo remains a core holding given its superior execution and capital allocation.
The slight sales and EBIT beat is praised. The absence of FY21 guidance slightly darkens the picture but, overall, the figures send a good signal for the industry.
We were impressed with Diageo’s presentation as it once again demonstrated its ability to outperform the spirits market, which is itself in a strong position to outperform the drinks industry. Buy and hold.
It seems that Diageo’s solid FY21 wasn’t enough to keep the share price up (-2.5% at the opening), but this does not extinguish our confidence in the group. Admittedly, the guidance, which is only qualitative, may seem insufficient and, yes, Diageo is the first spirits group to express concerns about a future decline in the off-trade (ultimately not very surprising!), but we believe that the current positive momentum should continue to drive sales levels above those of 2019 in the months to come
The H1 results came in ahead of consensus, helped by Greater China and an exceptional US performance. No FY21 guidance for now, but H2 should show positive growth thanks to strong comparables. We reaffirm our strong confidence on the stock.
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Shore Capital
Ocean Harvest Technology (OHT) report FY2023 results in-line with expectations. Product revenues of €3.0m grew at 21% versus FY2022A despite an (expected) H2 2023A decline of 7%, and was a function of lower margin single seaweed sales, which can be volatile. H2 2023 OceanFeed blended sales of €1.3m grew at 21% versus H2 2022. The H2 2023 gross margin of 39.5% supported this and showed a sharp acceleration versus the 35.3% seen in H2 2022. 15 new customers were added across FY2023, and with a ver
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Cavendish
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AG Barr’s (BAG’s) FY23 results highlighted the strength of the brand portfolio as group volumes (+2.4%) outperformed the UK soft drinks category decline of 2.9%. Key brands IRN-BRU (33% of FY24 revenue) and Rubicon (19% of FY24 revenue) grew 8% and 15%, respectively, as flavour innovation and format mix helped to drive volume growth. Management anticipates margin enhancement initiatives to yield a 100bp operating margin uplift in FY25, aided by greater in-sourcing and other efficiency gains. M&A
Edison
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The Hardman & Co Healthcare Index (HHI) has been running since 2009. Its main function is to highlight the attractions of life sciences investments over the long term. For the second year running, apart from global economic influences affecting world markets, performance in 2023 was dented by the capital-intensive nature of the sector. The HHI fell 3.7%, to 483.8, underperforming the main London markets – FTSE 100 (+3.8%) and FTSE All-Share (3.8%) but outperforming the FTSE AIM All-Share Index (
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Hardman & Co
Cyclical weakness in Carr’s Group’s Speciality Agriculture business has affected the company’s fortunes of late. However, the new management team, a strong net cash balance sheet and a record order book in the Engineering division offer optimism. Operational progress, particularly a reversal of fortunes in Speciality Agriculture, should rebuild confidence and a reduction in the current discount to our view of the underlying value.
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FY23 results are much in line with overall expectations, helped by a much stronger H2 production and higher purchases of independent crops helping to fill the group’s rising mill capacity. A marginally higher than expected average CPO price mill-gate price of $729/tonne drove the revenue outperformance, but the change in production mix impacted gross margins while slightly higher than anticipated interest, tax and minority charges resulted in EBIT, PBT (Adj.) and EPS (Adj.) just below our foreca
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Greggs (GRG) enjoyed a stronger-than-expected end to FY23 with sales ahead of our estimates and consensus forecasts, enabling GRG to meet its profit expectations for the year. GRG’s strong revenue growth and an improved profit performance in FY23 means it has fared better than many other consumer-facing names during the year. With lower inflationary pressures, the company enters FY24 in a better place with respect to its selling price versus cost inflation than at the start of FY23, when it was
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Liberum
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Capital Access Group
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Better than expected to date: The January trading update season has been better than expected, with the ratio of upgrades to downgrades running at 26:16 out of the 101 trading updates that we have analysed. It’s a surprisingly positive start to the New Year which reflects (1) realistic expectations captured in consensus forecasts, (2) consumers’ determination to enjoy Christmas and protect important areas of personal expenditure and (3) a reduction in supply as competitors exit.
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