Le Noble Age

Written by Petrean on August 6th, 2009

Le Noble Age is a company managing retirement homes for OAP in France. They are a new company who has been in operation for 4 years and clearly very successful.

You will find below calculations carried out on the 6th of August to determine whether Le Noble Age was a bargain trading at €14.7.

I created this spreadsheet after hearing about their 3rd trimester results. What I started doing was to extrapolate the 3rd and 4th trimester progression with regard to current market conditions and specifically answering “What is a reasonable growth rate for these two trimesters?”. I only worried about these two trimesters because – for once – I took a short-term view of the company’s growth and value. Assuming constant margins and constant float, you can calculate the PER as it will be at the end of the year if the market decided not to reflect the new results (rendering a decrease in PER). However, it is safe to assume that the market will take into account the new results and that the PER will at least be that of today. Using this assumption you can calculate a share value for the end of 2009 of about 18. Given today’s price of €14.7, this could be a real bargain.


2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004
CA 1er trimestre 35 900€ 28 200€ 20 800€ 13 300€ 19 600€ -
CA 2ème trimestre 39 350€ 33 400€ 23 000€ 15 900€ 12 500€ -
CA 3ème trimestre 40 248€ 34 400€ 24 500€ 17 700€ 12 500€ -
CA 4ème trimestre 74 280€ 61 900€ 52 100€ 27 300€ 21 500€ -
Chiffre d’affaires 189 778€ 157 840€ 120 499€ 74 151€ 66 072€ 46 128€
Résultat opérationnel 12 336€ 10 260€ 7 766€ 4 211€ 3 090€ 4 185€
Résultat net(partdugroupe) 5 693€ 4 760€ 3 433€ 2 345€ 1 396€ 1 950€
Marge d’exploitation 6,50% 6,50% 6,44% 5,68% 4,68% 9,07%
Marge nette 3% 3,02% 2,85% 3,16% 2,11% 4,23%
Gearing - 146,95% 52,17% 80,23% 52,55%
Effectifmoyen - - - 803 662
2009/2008 2008/2007 2007/2006 2006/2005 2005/2004
CA 1er trimestre 27,30% 35,58% 56,39% -32,14%
CA 2ème trimestre 17,81% 45,22% 44,65% 27,20%
CA 3ème trimestre 17,00% 40,41% 38,42% 41,60%
CA 4ème trimestre 20,00% 18,81% 90,84% 26,98%
Chiffre d’affaires 30,99% 62,50% 12,23% 43,24%
Résultat opérationnel 20,23% 32,11% 84,42% 36,28% -26,16%
Résultat net(partdugroupe) 19,61% 38,65% 46,40% 67,98% -28,41%
Capitalisation constante €118 860 €118 860
2009 2008
PER (Culculé) 20,87702473 24,97058824
Capitalisation for same PER 142 166€ 118 860€
P/Share 18€ 14,77€

Update : You learn something new every day and today’s lesson is: “Always make sure you order went through”. I placed a purchase order at €14,9 and unfortunately, it did not go through so LNA will not be appearing in my portfolio.

 

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