Sunday, November 6, 2011

OHLB3 - My View

In the first half of 2011, when all concessions were yielding money, OHLB generated BRL 290 mi in cash (earnings + depreciation + others adjustments). I don't know if there is some seasonality, but let's consider a cash generation of BRL 600 mi in cash per year (15% mkt value).
Now we have to discount normal investments. On page 12 of 2Q11 report they say that they spent BRL 90 mi in maintenance. For the sake of prudence, let's say that they will spend BRL 200 mi in investments regularly. So FCF would be BRL 400 mi (10% of mkt value).
That's too good to be true. And it is. I see at least 2 problems:
  • They're considering investments (not maintenance) something that will not yield cash in the future, like spends to make footbridge.
  • They also say that they will spend BRL 3.3 billions between 2012-2015. That's more than BRL 800 millions annually, more than its cash generation. In other words, OHLB won't have FCF until there (2015).
So, unless I misunderstood something, I'm not interested in.

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3 comments:

cessna said...

That's what we tought in 2008. They already own a lot of money and must invest more billions BRL in the next years to come. The FCF, however huge it will be, won't be available to stakeholders formany years.

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