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Added a month ago
Justification

I've spent the past few days pouring over the past 4 years' worth of annual reports and here's what I've come up with:

Fleetwood’s 2023 through to 2025 financial statements demonstrate overall revenue growth, EBITDA and NPAT have increased year-on-year, reflecting improved operating outcomes despite margin sensitivity to construction input costs and project timing.

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They've got 3 main income streams; in order of profitability: 1. community solutions (building regional housing), 2. building solutions (modular homes) and RV's (which suck) and are dragging the P&L down.

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Asset composition is concentrated in property, plant and equipment and contract-related assets, consistent with a modular construction and accommodation operating model.

They operate with a very conservative capital structure. Total liabilities remain low relative to total assets with a debt to asset ratio of only 0.3, and with non-current liabilities largely comprising lease provisions (less than 12% of total liabilities). Current assets exceed current liabilities by double, and are primarily composed of cash, cash equivalents and receivables - meaning they are incredibly liquid. If anything, they could take on some debt and use it to boost operations.

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Bottom line, the company is financially stable with strong liquidity and minimum debt. Revenue and profits are both trending upwards, with dividends following nicely behind.

Going above the numbers and recognising my un-empirical biases - I see continued growth in the future for FWD due to Australia's housing supply issue and more people throwing modular granny-flats out the back of their block. Add to this the Gov contracts for regional community housing and I don't think there's much risk of revenue slowing down, as long as they can keep up with demands.

I'd like to be a little more optimistic in my bull-case, but I'm also new around here and it's too early to be making a fool of myself, there's plenty of time for that ;)

Bear $1.82 / Base $2.34 / Bull $ 3.25

Disc: Held.

I would love to hear other's thoughts and if they can tell me what I'm missing.

Strawman
Added a month ago

Great analysis @Lisa_Llama

I held Fleetwood years ago, but havent taken a look at it for a long time.

You've prompted me to reach out to the newly appointed CEO and see if I can arrange an interview. We'll see what happens.

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Lisa_Llama
Added a month ago

That would be fantastic! Thanks.

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PortfolioPlus
Added a month ago

I think you have pretty well nailed it @Lisa_Llama

They've just got to get rid of the RV division - they cannot compete with RV's coming in from China.

Other weaknesses include bottlenecks and project delays in the Business Solutions division, as well as a stodgy product offering.

Plus, their margins in Business Solutions are wafer-thin; I have a feeling they aren't competing well (or maybe not fast enough) with private companies like Ausco Modular, Modscape, and Net Modular.

Management also appears rigid, and their communication with shareholders is not so good. Departures in management ranks don't thrill the market either. Perhaps I can lump all these together and say - execution has been ordinary.

Sure, the Karratha & Port Hedland community housing is shooting the lights out atm, but this is cyclical, and community rates can drop real fast as the appetite for our ore waxes or wanes.

That said, the opportunity is there, and the growth drivers are real and present: - Federal & State Government funding for modular housing (Albo needs to do something here as his big promise looks like P&W).

FWD do seem to have good Government contacts (with Qld in particular), and I'm hoping that the push for the 2032 Olympics might see some more housing allocations.

The reality is that we have no shortage of land, but a state government addiction to stamp duty, skyrocketing building prices, a lack of infrastructure, and NIMBY sentiment have bogged down housing construction.

On a dollar-for-dollar basis, modular housing on small allotments is a way forward. I am cautiously optimistic.


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