Cohort
Ticker: CHRT Exchange: AIM www.cohortplc.com/

Cohort is the parent company of seven innovative, agile and responsive businesses providing a wide range of services and products for British and international customers in defence, security and related markets. Its objective is to deliver value to shareholders through the operating subsidiaries: Chess, EID, ELAC SONAR, MASS, MCL, SEA and EMS.

Closing FY23 orders highlight group attractions

Finland joining NATO; the leak of classified US documents relating to the war in Ukraine; recent Chinese military drills around Taiwan: defence-related news flow has remained prominent in areas of present military tension.  

Following a strong first half, Cohort PLC itself is closing FY23 with contract extensions at MASS and CHESS totalling c. £30m over periods of up to 7 years, with a focus on e-warfare.

We noted at the Interim that over £80m of orders deliverable in the second half equates to 95% coverage of our FY23 year revenue outlook of £165.0m, and order intake of £88.6m resulted in a record closing order book of £304.2m. Following that strong H1 performance, we raised our FY23 outlook by 3% to £165m (+20%YoY) and maintained our (adj.) EBITDA outlook of £22.0m (+13.1%YoY).

Cohort trades on a current FY EV/EBITDA of 8.1x, and for FY24 (E) just 7.5x and our Fair Value remains at 650p/share.

 

 

 
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