Scotiabank Raise Target Following its Investor Day event, Scotia’s Benoit Laprade raised his Stella-Jones Inc. target to $70 from $64 with a “sector outperform” rating. The average is $70.71.
“After achieving its 2022-2024 objective of $3.0-billion in sales early (TTM [trailing 12-month] sales of $3.1-billion in Q1/23), management now expects revenues to exceed $3.6-billion by 2025, solely on the back of organic growth (5.5-per-cent CAGR from 2022), and an EBITDA margin of 16 per cent (compared to previous 2022-2024 guidance of 15-per-cent-plus and 14.6 per cent in 2022),” he said. “This implies 2025 EBITDA of $576-million-plus (8.7-per-cent CAGR from 2022). The company expects to return $500-million-plus to shareholders over the period, while maintaining a net-debt to EBITDA ratio of between 2.0 times and 2.5 times (in the absence of acquisitions). We believe the company’s target are achievable.”