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Does Megaport's Strong Share Price Growth Make It Too Expensive?

Jordan Baird

Jordan Baird is the head ASR Wealth Advisers client services desk and has been with the organisation since 2017. He first started investing in his early years. While he believes that investors should leave no stone unturned he has a particular interest in trading based on broad macroeconomic trends along with specific analysis of innovative up-and-coming companies.

Megaport Limited (ASX: MP1) is an elastic interconnection services provider to enterprises in Australia, Asia-Pacific, North America and Europe. Megaport represents high growth potential with a strong balance sheet composition and has begun FY20 with strong quarterly financial performance. They’ve recently reported a 10% increase in revenue from the previous quarter and Monthly Recurring Revenue of $4.1 million (up 13% quarter on quarter and a 71% increase over the previous corresponding period). Consequently, it comes as a surprise to many that Megaport Limited’s share price is down over 5% in the past day. However, this recent bearish behaviour represents only a small dip in an overwhelmingly positive 2019 for Megaport, which has seen a 160% increase in share price YTD.

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Megaport, the interconnection services provider, is down nearly 5% despite the recent announcement of strong quarterly financial performance to start FY20 (Credit: Megaport).

The key drivers for the FY20 revenue growth are the expansion into new markets whilst simultaneously deepening its reach into existing markets. During said quarter, Megaport reached 304 installed locations and 535 enabled data centres globally. Furthermore, key partnerships with CyrusOne and EdgeConnex in Europe and the expansion of its Megaport Cloud Router (MCR) service footprint (which enables greater reach to cloud-to-cloud traffic and virtual routing capabilities).

Despite being unprofitable, Megaport Limited has seen strong share price growth for a number of reasons, namely, a financially healthy balance sheet (with assets vastly exceeding liabilities both in the short and long-term), strong leverage (debt to equity ratio of 2.3%) and satisfactory free cash flow, resulting in continuous outperformance of the market in terms of both revenue and share price growth. If revenue continues to grow at the current rate, Megaport is set to break even in 2022, at which point the stock’s return on equity and return on assets will become positive and its EPS and P/E ratio can be compared to that of industry competitors.

 


 

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