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MS International (LSE:MSI) has such a strong balance sheet – including £14m of cash and no debt – that it qualifies for my net current asset value portfolio as well as the Warren Buffett portfolio. This works if I’m prepared to overlook the fact that its collection of freehold property is allocated not to the current asset part of the balance sheet, but classified as non-current assets. I’m also ignoring the pension deficit, which is probably pushing my luck, but then, I’m not actually buying this share as a NCAV investment but as a Buffett-style value investment. Market capitalisation is currently 16.5m shares x 122p = £20.1m (it has fallen since I bought at 129.2p).
Net current asset value
| £m | Half year Oct 2020 | Yearend April 2020 | April 2019 | April 2018 | ||||
| Cash | 14.0 | 16.1 | 22.9 | 15.9 | ||||
| Inventories | 17.6 | 15.9 | 12.6 | 11.7 | ||||
| Receivables | 7.0 | 4.6 | 7.0 | 14.6 | ||||
| Other current assets | 3.0 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 1.2 | ||||
| Total current assets | 41.5 | 39.1 | 44.4 | 43.4 | ||||
| Minus current liabilities | -28.2 | -25.2 | -26.3 | -28.7 | ||||
| Minus non-current liabilities (excl pension deficit & leases) | -1.6 | -1.6 | -1.6 | -1.6 | ||||
| Current assets minus all liabilities except pension deficit | 11.7 | 12.3 | 16.5 | 13.1 | ||||
| Minus one-third of inventories | -5.9 | -5.3 | -4.2 | -3.9 | ||||
| Minus one-fifth of receivables | -1.4 | -0.9 | -1.4 | -2.9 | ||||
| Ben Graham NCAV (if we can ignore pension deficit) | 4.4 | 6.1 | 10.9 | 6.3 | ||||
| Freehold property | 17.7 | 17.7 | 17.0 | 17.2 | ||||
| NCAV plus property | 22.1 | 23.8 | 27.9 | 23.5 |
Can we ignore the pension deficit? Not really, at £9.1m. But that might be whittled away in a high-bond-yield-greater-inflation environment.
The pension scheme ceased being a defined benefit one in 1997 and is now a defined contribution scheme. The deficit could be wiped out should discount rate rise by two percentage points.
The cash
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