Tucked away just off the Post Road and I-95 in Greenwich, Conn., sits Valbella, an upscale Italian eatery popular with Wall Street analysts and hedge fund managers. In the wine cellar, up to 16 guests can talk stocks while dining on chicken paillard and sipping their chosen vintage around a granite table, one with a special heating system.
The heating system comes from a small industrial company called
nVent Electric
(ticker: NVT), and its stock is ready to heat up, too. NVent is an electrical component maker, and it makes surge and heat protectors for electrical infrastructure, as well as products corralling all the cables and wires running through homes and businesses. While its stock, at Friday’s close of $34.72, is down 8.6% this year, the company is benefiting from the growth of automation, data centers, and sensors for monitoring complex systems—anything, really, that is electrified.
“They have leverage to all of the themes/mega-trends that should be relatively long growth drivers, like the electrification of everything,” says RBC Capital Markets analyst Deane Dray.
NVent has only been a publicly traded company since 2018, when it was spun out of
មន្ទីរបញ្ចកោណ
(PNR), a move that was catalyzed, in part, by activist investor Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management. Investors likely hoped that more deals were in the works—perhaps even the sale of nVent to another company—but those hopes were dashed when Trian’s representative left the board in 2020.
Instead of financial engineering, nVent has been introducing new products in areas where the company is strong, such as thermal and electrical protection and electrical enclosures. It’s also been expanding globally, with non-U.S. and Canadian sales growing to about $900 million—37% of total sales—in 2021, up from $760 million or 34% in 2018.
| ទីស្នាក់ការកណ្តាល | ទីក្រុងឡុងដ៍ |
|---|
| តំលៃថ្មីៗ | $34.72 |
| ការផ្លាស់ប្តូរ YTD | -8.6% |
| តម្លៃទីផ្សារ (ប៊ីល) | $5.7 |
| ការលក់ឆ្នាំ ២០២២ អេ (ប៊ីល) | $2.7 |
| ចំណូលសុទ្ធ ២០២២E (មីល) | $362.8 |
| ឆ្នាំ ២០២២ អេ | $2.18 |
| ២០២២E ភី / អ៊ី | 15.9 |
អ៊ី = ប៉ាន់ស្មាន
ប្រភព: Bloomberg
“We’ve had a strategy since we became a new company, and I always like to say [that] our strategy has been working,” CEO Beth Wozniak said at an investor conference in February.
The balance sheet can support that strategy. In an emailed statement from the company, CFO Sara Zawoyski says: “We exited 2021 with a net debt to adjusted Ebitda [earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization] ratio of 2 times, at the low end of our target range of 2 to 2.5. Our robust balance sheet and cash generation puts us in a great position to invest in growth and continue to execute on our M&A strategy to drive attractive returns for shareholders.”
Coming into the year, investors feared supply-chain problems would hobble growth. But nVent is likely to generate almost $2.7 billion in sales in 2022, about 9% above 2021’s, with earnings per share set to grow 11%. The figures are likely to rise another 5% and 10%, respectively, in 2023. That compares with annual gains of 4% and 3% for sales and EPS from 2018 to 2021.
“Can you believe we used to worry about growth?” asked Wolfe Research analyst Nigel Coe back in February after the company reported its fourth-quarter numbers.
Nonetheless, nVent, with a market cap of $5.7 billion, trades around 16 times estimated 2022 earnings, a discount to the
អេស & ភី ៥០០របស់
20 times and the 18 of similarly sized industrials in the small-cap
Russell 2000
លិបិក្រម។
That’s also cheap for a company of nVent Electric’s quality. Its adjusted operating profit margin, at 15%, is about four percentage points better than those of other small- and mid-cap industrials. Coe argues that the company could ultimately fetch 20 times his 2022 EPS estimate of $2.20, or $44 a share. But even if the multiple doesn’t expand, the stock should still be worth at least $38 in a year.
ចុះឈ្មោះព្រឹត្តិប័ត្រព័ត៌មាន
ទស្សនាវដ្តីសប្តាហ៍នេះ
អ៊ីមែលប្រចាំសប្តាហ៍នេះផ្តល់ជូននូវបញ្ជីរឿងរ៉ាវនិងលក្ខណៈពិសេសផ្សេងទៀតនៅក្នុងទស្សនាវដ្តីសប្តាហ៍នេះ។ ព្រឹកថ្ងៃសៅរ៍អិល។
NVent also has a wild card—the possibility that it will be taken over. Investors hoping for more corporate actions to generate value were disappointed when Trian left, but some larger electrical-equipment suppliers might seek to fill out their product lines as electrification trends accelerate. NVent would slot in nicely inside some larger electrical companies, including
Eaton
(ETN),
អេប៊ីប៊ី
(ABB),
Schneider Electric
(SU.France), and
ហាប់ប៊ឺក
(HUBB), says RBC’s Dray.
It’s just one more reason nVent’s stock could electrify investors’ returns in coming years.
សរសេរទៅកាន់ អាល់ Root នៅ [អ៊ីមែលការពារ]
