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Added 3 months ago
Justification

Just tweaking the valuation - Assuming EPS of 0.33 cents per share (current quarterly profit run rate, and a PER of just 10, I come up with a valuation of 3.3 cents...

Firstly, the negatives:

1) One major customer, General Motors Courtesy Transport Program. All the eggs are in one basket here.

2) Average investor relations communication.

Positives:

1) CXZ has been profitable for many years now, and will report about $3.7 M AUD PBT for 2024 (CXZ has a market cap. of $25M!) .

2) CXZ has been growing revenue over the last 3 quarters at a rate of 15% pa.

3) CXZ share count has been fairly stable. Share count inflation of 3% since 2021.

4) +90% of revenue is subscription based. The GM network is 22% of all US franchised LV dealerships in the US.

5) There is no optionality or growth priced in. So, CXZ drive to expand offerings of it's Connexion platform, and its direct to dealer strategy.

5) Capital management. Management is has implemented strict capital allocation policies as per 2023 AGM presentation, which has allowed them to remain profitable for many years.

Valuation. For the valuation, I am discounting future cashflows by 20% to take account of key customer risk. I am assuming marginal success in expanding its customer base, and product offering to existing customers.

Assuming CXZ achieves $26 M AUD revenue in 2029, and $4.4 M AUD profit, at a PER of 17, I come up with a valuation of 0.031....

DISC - HELD



mikebrisy
Added 3 months ago

@Rapstar on stable SOI, I note they are buying back a fair amount of shares but then also issued about 5% new shares as part of share-based compensation.

While revenue is growing strongly, so are costs. R&D I can understand and would expect, as it been well-signalled and explained. But sales and marketing and G&A also increasing so strongly? I guess its OK at this stage in their evolution, as they need to be developing the product and dversifying the customer base.

It's been a while since we had Aaryn at a SM Meeting - any interest in invting him back?

Disc: Not held

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lastever
Added 3 months ago

@mikebrisy @Strawman Mike I was also wondering about the spending and I'd be interested in hearing from Aaryn about it too. They are trying to branch out. Aaryn seems very sharp.

Discl: Small IRL holding.

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Strawman
Added 3 months ago

Actually somewhat serendipitously, I just heard from Aaryn this morning. We'll schedule a meeting for next month, and I'll get details up on the Meetings page once confirmed.

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mikebrisy
Added 3 months ago

@Strawman that's great. I've just listened back to the last SM Meeting with Aaryn, and I was really struck by the amazing candour and detail with which he spoke about the challenges the face in growing the customer base. Taking him back to each of those challenges in the next meeting would be a great gauge as to how much progress they've made over 18 months, and would surely be a leading indicator of future growth.

As it stands, I haven't (and won't) invest without a better understanding of progress, because too much of their destiny appears to lie in the hands of others and subject to change.

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UlladullaDave
Added 3 months ago

As it stands, I haven't (and won't) invest without a better understanding of progress, because too much of their destiny appears to lie in the hands of others and subject to change.

Yeah I tend to agree. But everything has a price!

It's been a while since I looked at this, but my approach at the time was to think of the two outcomes (continued GM contract v loss of GM contract) and then sum the values of those permutations based on a rubbery guesstimate of probability rather than trying to put everything through a single discount rate. From memory, the closest analogue I could think of was a company that faces the risk of nationalisation (or at least that was where my brain went) – a bit different to say a mining explorer/biotech in that these guys actually have a profitable business with potentially no real need to raise more cash. If they lose GM, there will be a rump of assets that can potentially be liquidated but it's going to effectively a zero. From that perspective, it didn't seem that cheap.

I'd be interested in hearing what Aaryn has to say though.


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Rapstar
Added 3 months ago

Hi @mikebrisy , Yes indeed. H2 Sales and market costs are up 37% yoy, compared to H2 revenue growth 13% yoy. I am not too worried, as revenue should be sticky & recurring, and they have flagged the ROI on S & M is normalising. Admin costs up 45%.......something to watch, but note the board has grown in size it seems.


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