Like Taylor Maxwell before it, management's patience and persistence has landed another prized target, this one HBS NE Limited trading as HBS New Energies and UPOWA, giving Brickability a platform into the fast-growing renewables energy products market. It is Brickability's 13th acquisition in the past three years, will cost a maximum £5.5m and falls within the group's target 4-6x EV/EBITA purchase range thus enhancing earnings whilst broadening the product offering to its core housebuilder customer base and, of course, helping with the group's own sustainability agenda. We remain Buyers against a pre-HBS model ‘fair value' of 128p.
