Zytronic reported results for FY18 in line with its October guidance, with adjusted PBT down 16%. This was driven by a decline in gross margin, due to operating inefficiencies resulting from lower revenues to its Financial end market, and yield problems as new designs for the Gaming market, requiring new processes, moved into production. We have made no changes to our forecasts for adjusted PBT and EPS, which assume modest sales growth and no uplift in margin while the group works to improve yields. These put the shares on an EV/EBITDA multiple of 7.6x for calendar 2019, which represents a c.13% discount to the smaller cap goods stocks.
