Speedy Hire is the UK and Ireland’s leading provider of tools, specialist equipment and services operating from a nationwide network of c.180 depots. Its activities comprise: Hire (59% FY23 revenue); generated from a broad range of plant, equipment and tool assets as well as transportation & repair income), Services (40%); includes third party asset re-hire, training, testing and the sale of fuel & other consumables, and Other (c.1%); asset disposals. During FY24, Speedy transitioned its trade/retail presence with B&Q to a digital fulfilment model. SDY also has two JV operations: Speedy Zholdas (in Kazakhstan, since 2013) and Speedy Hydrogen Services (UK, launched in H224).

07 Aug 2024

Speedy Hire plc: Working smarter, aiming higher - Initiation

During a period of less favourable market conditions, Speedy Hire has taken a progressive approach to strategic business improvement and this programme is gathering momentum. As a result, we consider it to be much more than a cyclical recovery story.

Having traded at or below its 34p per share NAV for much of calendar 2023, Speedy’s share price broke through this level in the last month and has since sustained this momentum. It is now up c.14% YTD (versus c.3% for the FTSE All-Share Index).

On our estimates, Speedy is trading on low conventional forward multiples, particularly so by FY27, and that is before factoring in more ambitious company goals. With a 6.8% dividend yield, Speedy shares offer both income and growth. Taking a simple average of selected peer group multiples and our hybrid DCF/JV approach gives a mid-point fair value of 51.1p per share for the company which is c.34% above the current share price.

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