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NFC Next Fifteen Communications Group Plc

799.00
0.00 (0.00%)
01 May 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Next Fifteen Communicati... Investors - NFC

Next Fifteen Communicati... Investors - NFC

Share Name Share Symbol Market Stock Type
Next Fifteen Communications Group Plc NFC London Ordinary Share
  Price Change Price Change % Share Price Last Trade
0.00 0.00% 799.00 01:00:00
Open Price Low Price High Price Close Price Previous Close
799.00 799.00
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Posted at 13/12/2021 07:38 by mammyoko
No mention of profits in today's trading update, I see.

"It remains our priority to accelerate investment in talent and product development" - so more costs then?

Judging by the lack of comments here, private investors seem suitably cautious about this one.

Disclosure: I no longer hold after having realised that this one's share price is based on revenue rather than profits and that the balance sheet is very weak - negative £60m of tangible NAV. Here merely because I am curious to see how this pans out
Posted at 30/9/2020 09:50 by energeticbacker
Management now expects to modestly exceed market expectations for the year, which seems a rather meaningless statement given the vast number of adjustments. Nevertheless, it remains an interesting business, and one that is clearly well-liked by mainstream institutional investors who dominate the share register.

More on the Investor's Champion website.
Posted at 10/10/2017 09:42 by aim_trader
Next Fifteen will be presenting to investors at the Tech CApital Conference on 24th October. For details and registration, click here:
Posted at 05/4/2017 10:29 by jeff h
Proactive Investors . co . uk have an interview with Tim Dyson on their site.

/companies/news/175909/next-fifteen-communications-posts-full-year-profit-growth-driven-by-us-businesses-175909.html
Posted at 21/3/2017 09:51 by adilzaidi786
Forgot to mention that I went to the shares investors evening and heard from the CFO. He thinks that they will earn £3m alone from favourable currency fluctuations. You should be able to see the recording of the presentation on the shares website.
Posted at 20/2/2017 17:23 by mfhmfh
happy to hold as well.

this is one of the companies presenting at a Shares Magazine Investor Evening on 7th March if anyone is interested in attending:
Posted at 09/10/2015 09:05 by darlocst
Interim results announcement: 13 October 2015
Posted at 02/7/2015 18:52 by gargleblaster
IC have made NFC one of their week's share tips;

Bull points
Benefiting from resurgent US economy
Strong sales and profit growth
Savvy investments and acquisitions
Shares are cheaply rated

Bear points
Peripheral businesses have struggled
Restructuring costs and write-downs

Next Fifteen Communications (NFC), a marketing company made up of 16 specialist agencies, is benefiting from the resurgent US economy and its focus on high-growth technology clients, such as Google and Amazon, that make up 70 per cent of revenues. Strong organic growth prospects in the UK and US are also being supplemented with savvy 'bolt-on' acquisitions. Meanwhile operations elsewhere have been revitalised through restructuring and focusing on key clients. Yet despite its stellar progress, the group's shares trade at just 12 times forecast earnings, leaving ample room for a re-rating.

Next Fifteen offers services such as digital marketing, PR and market research in 18 countries. Digital investments, the closure of underperforming offices and dropping unprofitable clients widened the group's underlying operating margins last year from 8.6 per cent to 11.7 per cent, while helping win new blue-chip clients, such as Twitter and Time Warner Cable. Next Fifteen also raised average return from clients by 10 per cent and increased the number of clients generating over $1m (£0.64m) in fees from 25 to 28.

All this fuelled a strong financial performance in 2014. Organic sales rose 11 per cent in the US, which accounts for 58 per cent of group turnover and 78 per cent of profit. Investment, reorganisation and acquisitions sent the UK operating margin soaring from 4.1 per cent to 10.6 per cent. And the group's other operations bounced back after widescale restructuring. For instance, its businesses in Europe and Africa swung from a loss in 2014 to an operating profit of £0.8m. The upshot was a 44 per cent rise in total adjusted operating profit to £12.7m.

Acquisitions have played a key role in allowing Next Fifteen to tap into growth markets and widen its digital offering. For example, it recently acquired Encore, an agency specialising in automated advertising technology. It also bought content-focused marketer Story Worldwide in 2014 and recently took a significant stake in digital agency Animl, whose clients include Unilever.
The combination of organic growth and acquisitions has strengthened Next Fifteen's prospects. Trading has remained strong this year and the business pipeline in the US and UK is bulging. Those trends should underpin broker Investec's expectations of 9 per cent compound annual earnings growth between 2015 and 2018, and based on recent trading and the likelihood of further acquisitions, there's good potential for upgrades to these forecasts.
Investors might be worried about the costs of Next Fifteen's transformation. Last year, the group wrote down £7m in goodwill, incurred a £1.8m restructuring charge, and cash outflow from investing more than tripled to £17.9m. But management's efforts have paid off handsomely so far. And fears about acquisitions driving up debt should be eased by Next Fifteen's improved cash generation, which together with £4.3m in net proceeds from a placing in January kept year-end net debt at just £8.6m.

IC VIEW:
Next Fifteen's streamlined operations, presence in multiple growth markets and taste for acquisitions should accelerate top-line growth and widen profit margins. We don't think its shares' depressed rating does justice to the company's revitalised potential. Buy.
Last IC view: Buy, 176p, 29 April 2015
Posted at 04/8/2009 12:55 by investinggarden
Hold recommendation from Growth Company Investor
Posted at 30/10/2008 15:51 by value viper
De-rated ahead of a recession but has decent value now emerged ?

Good luck investors.

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