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We know a lot of the headline numbers for easyJet’s full year results. Management expect to report losses no greater than £1,175m, which is slightly better than the market was expecting. That comes as the group’s performance perked up in the fourth quarter. That’s a case of rising tides lift all ships though, as short haul carriers are faring better than long-haul, business-focussed peers.
There are some easyJet specific things we’ll be looking out for.
Most of these centre around the outlook statement – which is something we’ll be reading with great interest. The fourth quarter saw easyJet fly 58% of its total capacity, and we’d like some detailed ideas of when it could climb back to normal levels. With new COVID variants on the rise, that might not be as soon as we’d hoped.
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Future’s been busy in the last 12 months. February saw the GoCompare acquisition complete while the group has subsequently bought Money Week and The Week owner Dennis for £300m.
The work to integrate all these new businesses could make full year results a bit messy. Not only will there likely be restructuring costs, but sifting genuine year-on-year growth from acquired businesses will be key to understanding how the core business is performing.
Management have pointed to improving digital advertising momentum when guiding for ''adjusted operating profit to be at the top end of expectations.'' If that’s been sustained even as consumers return to a more normal pace of life that bodes well for the future.
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Pennon will probably show reasonable progress on outcome delivery incentives in the first half, essentially the markers of success for which water companies can earn bonuses. Otherwise the hope is that the water utility will carry on doing what water utilities do best, ticking along generating boring returns which are paid back to shareholders.
One potential fly in the ointment is the effect of rising inflation and changing interest rates on the balance sheet.
Because utilities earn inflation-linked revenues, they often also issue inflation-linked debt. That’s great when inflation’s low, keeping finance costs down, as it has been recently, but can cause an upset when inflation rises. Pennon’s exposure is relatively low, but not irrelevant. With inflation gathering pace that will complicate results – but in the long run we don’t think it will derail things. The group has relatively little debt maturing in the near future, and should be capable of weathering some disruption.
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