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"4Q21 was a large profit warning compared to our estimates
*We downgrade from Buy to Neutral and lower our target from NOK30 to NOK20
First, XPLRA delivered a strong 4Q21 were despite revenues 4% below, OpFCF came in close to 84% above driven by solid operation scalability (as we saw last year, but even better than expected) and 48% gross margin in the quarter with higher share of Services at accretive gross margins (~75% vs. hardware at ~35% we believe). Despite this, the main reason for our
changed recommendation was the comments in the outlook section, which lead to significant negative estimate changes.
Indeed, on slide 30 in the quarterly presentation, the company comment that they expect revenues in 2022 up at least 50% with improved profitability and continued scaling of the operations. This is discouraging as 1) the company will get full year effect from the margin accretive Xplora Mobile Holding that was fully consolidated from 2Q21 and hence, 2) the
run-rate sale on smartwatches needs to be lowered considerably.
Therefore, we lower our revenues with 30% for 2022e and 2023e (50% growth in 2022 and 20% growth in 2023), but with higher gross margin from higher share of services revenues (i.e., mobile subscriptions), EBITDA is down the same percentage-points and not more. We model EBITDA margins to increase from 6.5% in 2021 to 10% in 2022e and 12.6% in 2023e. However, on the same slide, the company sees capex of NOK30-35m taking capex to sales to 5%, above our 3%
estimate and hence, OpFCF is lowered 50% and 45% in 2022e and 2023e, respectively. Thus, with the share price flat to today, we are compelled to lower our recommendation from Buy to Neutral and lower our target from NOK30 to NOK20 driven by the negative estimate changes. The company do not look to expensive on 2023 estimates given the growth (18.5x P/E), so to upgrade from here we need to see 1) more distribution agreements including meaningful visibility in the US such that we can prolong the growth trajectory and get more comfort to our 2023 estimates (which still is a question mark as we witnessed with our lowered estimates for 2022 following guidance from the company) and 2) more datapoints on the revenue contribution from GoPlay, which as of now has provided limited additional sales (services sales is currently only reported under one line and consist primarily of mobile subscriptions).
Consequently, the company trade at 2022e EV/OpFCF and P/E of 22x and 44x (and here it is further downside), respectively, which we find demanding. Even though that the company is set for ~50% YoY growth in 2022 (43%organically) we must remind investors that both hardware revenue streams (smartwatches) and mobile subscriptions(Xplora Mobile Holding) in general are low multiple revenue streams. Therefore, our rec. is to re-allocate capital and look elsewhere in the TMT & Small cap universe for better risk/reward (such as the likes of Zalaris, Link Mobility and Webstep).