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Volex

December 2023

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  • Epic Code:
  • VLX
  • Price:
  • 310p
Volex has reported in-line interims for the six months to end September and it confirmed a high degree of confidence in meeting full year expectations. This implies a pretax profit of US$72.6m representing M&A assisted growth of 22%. With Murat Ticaret contributing for two months of the year, sales came in +11% to US$398m (4% organic) and adjusted profit was up 16% to US$37m. Sales would have been greater than the reported but for the fact that the copper price has fallen and as a passthrough has impacted the top line. And despite Murat being 3.5x bigger than anything else it has ever bought, free cashflow meant net debt to EBITDA only increased from 1x to 1.3x. The period was marked by some big end-market swings but th ...

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