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.

15 Dec 2022

Record closing order book

For the six months to 31 October 2022, Cohort PLC reported a strong performance: revenue was up 29%YoY to £77.5m; an operating profit (adj.) of £5.0m was achieved (H1 22: £1.7m); and EBITDA (adj.) was £7.1m. Order intake of £88.6m resulted in a record closing order book of £304.2m. The interim dividend is raised 10% to 4.25p/share.

Absorption of working capital meant that H1 net debt was £0.6m; however, Cohort reports that as of 9^th December net funds were £7.6m. Added to H1 revenue, over £80m of orders deliverable in the second-half equates to 95% coverage of our revised full year revenue outlook of £165.0m.

A strong interim performance, in particular by MCL, supports an increase in our FY23 revenue outlook of 3%, to £165m, growth of 19.9%YoY; while our EBITDA (adj.) outlook remains at £22.0m (up 13.1%YoY).

We maintain our Fair Value of 650p/share.

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