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BExcellent Group Holdings (HKSE:01775) Earnings Power Value (EPV) : HK$-0.82 (As of Jul24)


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What is BExcellent Group Holdings Earnings Power Value (EPV)?

As of Jul24, BExcellent Group Holdings's earnings power value is HK$-0.82. *

* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.

Margin of Safety is N/A.

The basic concept of EPV is that one should value a stock based on the current free cash flow of a company and not on future projections which may, or may not, come true. It is arguably a better way to analyze stocks than Discounted Cash Flow analysis that relies on highly speculative growth assumptions many years into the future. Assumption: Current profitability is sustainable.


BExcellent Group Holdings Earnings Power Value (EPV) Historical Data

The historical data trend for BExcellent Group Holdings's Earnings Power Value (EPV) can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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BExcellent Group Holdings Earnings Power Value (EPV) Chart

BExcellent Group Holdings Annual Data
Trend Jul15 Jul16 Jul17 Jul18 Jul19 Jul20 Jul21 Jul22 Jul23 Jul24
Earnings Power Value (EPV)
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.25 -0.20 -0.59 -0.89 -0.84

BExcellent Group Holdings Semi-Annual Data
Jul15 Jul16 Jul17 Jan18 Jul18 Jan19 Jul19 Jan20 Jul20 Jan21 Jul21 Jan22 Jul22 Jan23 Jul23 Jan24 Jul24
Earnings Power Value (EPV) Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -0.59 - -0.89 - -0.84

Competitive Comparison of BExcellent Group Holdings's Earnings Power Value (EPV)

For the Education & Training Services subindustry, BExcellent Group Holdings's Earnings Power Value (EPV), along with its competitors' market caps and Earnings Power Value (EPV) data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


BExcellent Group Holdings's Earnings Power Value (EPV) Distribution in the Education Industry

For the Education industry and Consumer Defensive sector, BExcellent Group Holdings's Earnings Power Value (EPV) distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where BExcellent Group Holdings's Earnings Power Value (EPV) falls into.



BExcellent Group Holdings Earnings Power Value (EPV) Calculation

Earnings Power Value also known as just Earnings Power is a valuation technique popularised by Bruce Greenwald, an authority on value investing at Columbia University. It is arguably a better way to analyze stocks than Discounted Cash Flow analysis that relies on highly speculative growth assumptions many years into the future.

The basic concept of EPV is that one should value a stock based on the current free cash flow of a company and not on future projections which may, or may not, come true. This valuation tool excludes the potential growth that a company may have so that needs to be looked at separately. Since future growth is excluded from the analysis, only the maintenance capital expenditures are subtracted from after-tax EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) and growth capex is ignored.

BExcellent Group Holdings's "Earning Power" Calculation:

Average of Last 5 Years Last Year
Revenue 178.9
DDA 28.4
Operating Margin % -18.48
SGA * 25% 1.4
Tax Rate % 3.00
Maintenance Capex 6.9
Cash and Cash Equivalents 96.2
Short-Term Debt 93.8
Long-Term Debt 5.4
Shares Outstanding (Diluted) 507.6

1. Start with "Earnings" not including accounting adjustments (one-time charges not excluded unless policy has changed). "Earnings" are "Operating Income.

2. Look at average margins over a business/Industry cycle: Average Operating Margin = -18.48%

To normalize margins and eliminate the effects on profitability of valuing the firm at different points in the business cycle, it is usually best to take a long-term average of operating margins. Ideally this would be as long as 10 years and include at least one economic downturn. However, since most of companies do not have as long as 10-year history, here GuruFocus uses the latest 5 years data to do the calculation. To smooth out unusual years but reflect recent developments, we take an average of the 5 year margin.

3. Multiply average margins by sustainable revenues and then adjust for maintenance SGA. This yields "normalized" EBIT:

To be conservative, GuruFocus uses an average of the 5 year revenues as the sustainable revenue.
EPV analysis recognises that part of SG&A expenditure is made to maintain and replace the existing assets, while part is made to grow sales. Since EPV is only interested in what it costs a going concern to maintain its existing asset base, it adds back a percentage of SG&A (between 15% and 50% - this is a matter of judgment and industry knowledge) to make up for the fact that some of this expenditure went to fund growth and shouldn't be accounted for. To start off, we assume 25% for the sake of prudence.
Sustainable Revenue = HK$178.9 Mil, Average Operating Margin = -18.48%, Average Adjusted SGA = 1.4,
therefore "Normalized" EBIT = Sustainable Revenue * Average Operating Margin + Average Adjusted SGA = 178.9 * -18.48% +1.4 = HK$-31.626508712 Mil.

4. Multiply by one minus Average Tax Rate (NOPAT):

Same as average operating margin calculation, GuruFocus takes an average of the 5 years tax rates.
Average Tax Rate = 3.00%, and "Normalized" EBIT = HK$-31.626508712 Mil,
therefore After-tax "Normalized" EBIT = "Normalized" EBIT * ( 1 - Average Tax Rate ) = -31.626508712 * ( 1 - 3.00% ) = HK$-30.676448390292 Mil.

5. Add back Excess Depreciation (after tax at 1/2 average tax rate). This yields "normalized" Earnings:

Excess Depreciation = Average DDA * % of Excess Depreciation (after tax at 1/2 average tax rate) = 28.4 * 0.5 * 3.00% = HK$0.426063328 Mil.
"Normalized" Earnings = After-tax "Normalized" EBIT + Excess Depreciation = -30.676448390292 + 0.426063328 = HK$-30.250385062292 Mil.

6. Adjusted for Maintenance Capital Expenditure:

First, calculate the revenue change regarding to the previous year. If the revenue decreased from the previous year, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive).
Second, if the revenue increased from the previous year, then calculate the percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue.
Third, calculate Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase.
If [Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase] was negative, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive).
If [Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase] was positive, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase.
Fourth, GuruFocus uses an average of the 5 year maintenance capital expenditures as maintenance CAPEX.
BExcellent Group Holdings's Average Maintenance CAPEX = HK$6.9 Mil *.
* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.

7. Investors require a return of "WACC" for the risk they are taking: WACC = 9%

8. BExcellent Group Holdings's current cash and cash equivalent = HK$96.2 Mil.
BExcellent Group Holdings's current interest bearing debt = Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation = 5.4 + 93.8 = HK$99.149 Mil.
BExcellent Group Holdings's current Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) = 507.6 Mil.

BExcellent Group Holdings's Earnings Power Value (EPV) for Jul24 is calculated as:

EPV = ( ( Norm. Earnings-Maint. CAPEX *) / WACC + CashandEquiv - Int. Bearing Debt ) / Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
= ( ( -30.250385062292 - 6.9)/ 9%+96.2-99.149 )/507.6
=-0.82

Margin of Safety (EPV)=( Earnings Power Value (EPV)-Current Price )/Earnings Power Value (EPV)
=( -0.81901970680185-0.17 )/-0.81901970680185
= N/A

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.


BExcellent Group Holdings  (HKSE:01775) Earnings Power Value (EPV) Explanation

Assumption: Current profitability is sustainable.

Earnings power value (EPV) uses a very basic equation which assumes no growth, although it does rely on an assumption about the cost of capital as well as the fact that current earnings are sustainable. It also involves several adjustments to clean up the underlying Earnings figures.


Be Aware

Though using today's earnings in calculating Earnings Power Value, GuruFocus is normalizing these earnings to the business cycle. This eliminates the effects on profitability of valuing the firm at different points in the business cycle. This means that we are considering the average earnings over 5 years.


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BExcellent Group Holdings Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
9 Sheung Yuet Road, Unit 02, 3rd Floor, Tower 3, Enterprise Square Phase I, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, HKG
BExcellent Group Holdings Ltd is an investment holding company. The Company and its subsidiaries are engaged in the provision of private supplementary secondary school education services, the operation of private secondary day schools and offer ancillary education services and products in Hong Kong. Its Ancillary education services and products represent education-related income including interview preparation, language and supplementary primary school education, and tutorial services under Diverse Learning Club, Beacon Childhood, BeConfident, Glocal Education, and Mathgic brands. The company generates maximum revenue from private supplementary secondary school education services.
Executives
Beacon Enterprise Limited 2101 Beneficial owner
Leung Ho Yan Irene 2201 Interest of corporation controlled by you
Ng King Hang 2201 Interest of corporation controlled by you
Lam Yat Ming 2101 Beneficial owner
Leung Ho Ki June 2101 Beneficial owner
Tam Wai Lung 2101 Beneficial owner
Max Wisdom Development Limited 2101 Beneficial owner
Lam Yat Yan 2201 Interest of corporation controlled by you

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