Asia Aviation Outperform (18E TP Bt6.20)
Company Update
Close Bt6.15
Transport & Logistics August 15, 2017
Earnings upgrade/Earnings downgrade/Overview unchanged
More favorable 2H outlook Price Performance (%)
Maintain “Outperform” with TP rolled over to the 18E TP at Bt6.20 Although we lower AAV’s earnings in 2017‐18E owing mainly to cost adjustments, our view that AAV’s earnings will improve in 2H17E remains unchanged, especially for 4Q17E due to the seasonal pattern and the benefit from the government’s policy to encourage domestic travel. We thus maintain our “Outperform” rating with the TP rolled over to 2018E at Bt6.20 (based on 20x PER, +0.5SD). Personnel and airport service costs increased in 2Q17 In 2Q17, AAV’s earnings missed our expectation due to an increase of costs related to personnel and airport operations. AAV increased benefits to employees, especially for pilots and engineers, in an attempt to retain valued employees in the face of intense competition in the airline industry. Meanwhile, airport service benefits from many airports in China have ended, resulting in higher costs related to airport operations. Seeking to enhance ancillary income In 2Q17, ancillary income per passenger continued declining (‐3% YoY to Bt307/pax). AAV is seeking to enhance this revenue using dynamic pricing for pre‐booked baggage and seat selections. However, we believe this revenue will improve after an increase in international passengers, which may be seen in 2018E or after Thai Air Asia X (TAAX) can feed more passengers to AAV.
Source: SET Smart
FY17
FY18
Consensus EPS (Bt)
0.383
0.439
KT ZMICO vs. consensus Share data
‐32.1%
‐29.4%
Reuters / Bloomberg
AAV.BK/AAV TB
Paid‐up Shares (m)
4,850.00
Par (Bt)
0.10
Market cap (Bt bn / US$ m) Foreign limit / actual (%)
30.00/897.00 0.10/0.09
52 week High / Low (Bt)
7.80/5.35
Avg. daily T/O (shares 000)
33,563.00
NVDR (%)
7.78
Estimated free float (%)
63.94
Beta
1.33
URL
www.aavplc.co.th
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n.a.
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[email protected] 66 (0) 2695‐5836
Good response to new destinations In 3Q17, AAV will add three new routes, two in India and another to the Maldives, scheduled to operate this month. According to AAV, the Maldives destination is quite good (high load factor). Including new destinations, the number of routes to India will increase to six vs. four currently. In the longer term, AAV plans to lower China’s contribution to the route network, especially from charter flights, owing to competition. Revise down norm. profit projections in 2017‐18E by 23% and 12% We revise down AAV’s earnings in 2017‐18E by 23% and 12%, respectively, owing mainly to cost adjustments as occurred in 2Q17. We maintain passenger volume and average ticket fares in 2017‐18E, but lower average ancillary income/pax as we do not yet expect it to improve significantly. We revise up the cabin factor for both years owing to AAV’s effective route network and fleet utilization, which resulted in a higher‐than‐ expected cabin factor in 1H17. Financials and Valuation FY Ended 31 Dec Revenues (Btmn) Net profit (Btmn) EPS (Bt) Norm. profit (Btmn) Norm. EPS (Bt) Norm. EPS growth (%) DPS (Bt) BV (Bt) FY Ended 31 Dec Norm. PER (x) EV/EBITDA (x) P/BV (x) Dividend yield (%) ROE (%) Net gearing (%)
2015 30,345 1,078 0.22 1,181 0.24 882.68 0.10 4.15 2015 25.26 9.61 1.48 1.63 5.95 32.00
2016 33,054 1,869 0.39 1,909 0.40 61.68 0.15 4.39 2016 15.62 7.86 1.40 2.44 9.22 41.00
2017E 36,793 1,259 0.26 1,157 0.24 (39.40) 0.09 4.54 2017E 25.78 9.89 1.35 1.51 5.34 46.28
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2018E 40,541 1,507 0.31 1,507 0.31 30.22 0.12 4.73 2018E 19.80 8.22 1.30 1.97 6.70 42.70
2019E 43,453 1,667 0.34 1,667 0.34 10.63 0.13 4.94 2019E 17.89 7.40 1.24 2.17 7.10 38.81
Figure 1: AAV’s PER band and sensitivity of market prices based on PER at different standard deviation levels (X)
2017E +1.5SD +1.0SD +0.5SD Average ‐0.5SD ‐1.0SD ‐1.5SD ‐2.0SD
45 40 35 +1.0 S.D.
30 25
Avg.
20
-0.50S.D.
15
-1 .0S.D.
Apr-17
Dec-16
Sep-16
Feb-16
May-16
Jul-15
Oct-15
Apr-15
Dec-14
Sep-14
Feb-14
May-14
Nov-13
Jul-13
Apr-13
Dec-12
May-12
Sep-12
10
PER (x) 32.1 29.0 25.9 22.8 19.7 16.6 13.6 10.5
Implied market price (Bt) 7.70 6.96 6.22 5.48 4.74 4.00 3.25 2.51
Upside/Downside vs. current market price (%) 25.2 13.2 1.1 (10.9) (23.0) (35.0) (47.1) (59.1)
Source: Bloomberg, KT ZMICO Research
Figure 2: Key changes to our assumptions and revision to the earnings forecasts of AAV
2017E
Ended Dec
Current
Passengers carried (mn)
19.5
Change (% YoY)
13.0
Average fare (Bt/passenger) Change (% YoY) Average ancillary (Bt/passenger) Change (% YoY) Cabin factor (%) Revenue (Btmn) Norm. profit (Btmn) Net profit (Btmn)
2018E
Previous 19.5 13.0
% chg
Current
Previous
% chg
0.0
21.4
21.4
10.0
10.0
0.0
1,534
1,534
0.0
1,534
1,534
0.0
(2.0)
(2.0)
0.0
0.0
316
336
(6.0)
313
332
(5.7)
(3.0)
3.0
0.0
1.0
87.0
85.0
40,541
40,776
(0.6)
86.0
85.0
36,793
37,003
(0.6)
1,157
1,494
(22.6)
1,507
1,717
(12.2)
(20.4)
1,507
1,717
(12.2)
1,259
1,581
Source: KT ZMICO Research
Figure 3: Network development
Source: AAV
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Financial tables PROFIT & LOSS (Btm) Revenues Cost of sales and service Gross profit SG&A expense EBITDA Depreciation & amortization EBIT Interest expense Equity earnings Other income / exp. EBT Corporate tax Minority interests Net profit Reported EPS Fully diluted EPS Core net profit Core EPS Dividend (Bt) BALANCE SHEET (Btm) Cash and equivalents Inventories PP&E‐net Other assets Total assets ST debt & current portion Long‐term debt Total liabilities Minority interests Shareholder equity Total liab. & shareholder equity CASH FLOW (Btm) Net income Depreciation & amortization Change in working capital FX, non‐cash adjustment & others Cash flow from operations Capex (Invest)/Divest Others Cash flow from investing Debt financing (repayment) Equity financing Dividend payment Others Cash flow from financing Net change in cash Free cash flow FCF per share (Bt) PROFITABILITY Revenue growth (%) EBITDA growth (%) Core EPS growth (%) Gross margin (%) EBITDA margin (%) Operating margin (%) Net margin (%) Core profit margin (%) Effective tax rate (%) FINANCIAL QUALITY Total debt to capital employed (x) Net debt to equity (x)
2014 25,981 (23,708) 2,273 (1,925) 1,166 (818) 348 (313) 0 231 267 1 (85) 183 0.04 0.04 120 0.02 0.00
2015 30,345 (25,315) 5,030 (2,377) 3,775 (1,122) 2,653 (457) 0 16 2,212 (151) (982) 1,078 0.22 0.22 1,181 0.24 0.10
2016 33,054 (26,688) 6,366 (2,636) 4,907 (1,177) 3,730 (521) 0 37 3,246 191 (1,568) 1,869 0.39 0.39 1,909 0.39 0.15
2017E 36,793 (30,938) 5,855 (3,146) 4,049 (1,341) 2,709 (668) 0 165 2,206 0 (947) 1,259 0.26 0.26 1,157 0.24 0.09
2014 6,298 97 16,033 27,073 49,502 959 11,118 22,486 7,482 19,534 49,502
2015 7,591 94 18,216 26,926 52,827 1,261 12,775 24,743 7,941 20,142 52,827
2016 6,733 118 20,425 29,323 56,599 1,792 13,664 26,479 8,850 21,271 56,599
2017E 5,061 143 23,698 29,331 58,232 1,273 13,988 26,396 9,796 22,040 58,232
2014 183 818 654 194 1,848 (980) 3,004 2,025 (1,043) 0 0 0 (1,043) 2,830 3,873 0.80
2015 1,078 1,122 722 1,152 4,074 (452) 268 (184) (2,073) 0 (483) 0 (2,556) 1,334 3,890 0.80
2016 1,869 1,177 1,282 53 4,382 (1,320) (2,203) (3,522) (2,336) 0 (722) 0 (3,058) (2,198) 860 0.18
2017E 1,259 1,341 (264) (102) 2,234 (2,248) 0 (2,248) (194) 0 (728) 0 (921) (935) (14) 0.00
2014 8.3 (57.0) (86.9) 8.7 4.5 1.3 0.7 0.5 (0.5)
2015 16.8 223.7 882.7 16.6 12.4 8.7 3.6 3.9 6.8
2016 8.9 30.0 61.7 19.3 14.8 11.3 5.7 5.8 (5.9)
2017E 11.3 (17.5) (39.4) 15.9 11.0 7.4 3.4 3.1 0.0
2014 0.38 0.30
2015 0.41 0.32
2016 0.42 0.41
2017E 0.41 0.46
2018E 40,541 (33,731) 6,809 (3,494) 4,823 (1,508) 3,316 (635) 0 58 2,739 0 (1,233) 1,507 0.31 0.31 1,507 0.31 0.12
2018E 5,888 157 25,982 29,552 61,579 1,420 14,271 27,590 11,029 22,960 61,579
2019E 6,729 169 28,277 29,739 64,914 1,567 14,469 28,543 12,393 23,978 64,914
2018E 1,507 1,508 62 0 3,076 (2,229) 0 (2,229) 430 0 (450) 0 (20) 827 847 0.17
2019E 43,453 (36,051) 7,402 (3,788) 5,288 (1,675) 3,614 (650) 0 67 3,031 0 (1,364) 1,667 0.34 0.34 1,667 0.34 0.13
2019E 1,667 1,675 48 0 3,389 (2,306) 0 (2,306) 344 0 (586) 0 (242) 842 1,083 0.22
2018E 10.2 19.1 30.2 16.8 11.9 8.2 3.7 3.7 0.0
2019E 7.2 9.6 10.6 17.0 12.2 8.3 3.8 3.8 0.0
2018E 0.41 0.43
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2019E 0.40 0.39
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Anti‐corruption Progress Indicator Source: Sec, Thailand's Private Sector Collective Action Coalition Against Corruption programme (Thai CAC)
Level 1 (Committed) : Organization’s statement or board's resolution to work against corruption and to be in compliance with all relevant laws. Level 2 (Declared) : Public declaration statement to participate in Thailand's private sector Collective Action Coalition Against Corruption (CAC) or equivalent initiatives Level 3 (Established) : Public out preventive measures, risk assessment, communication and training for all employees, including consistent monitoring and review processes Level 4 (Certified) : Audit engagement by audit committee or auditors approved by the office of SEC, and receiving certification or assurance by independent external assurance providers (CAC etc.) Level 5 (Extended) : Extension of the anti‐corruption policy to business partners in the supply chain, and disclosure of any current investigations, prosecutions or closed cases Insufficient or not clearly defined policy Data not available / no policy
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