Daily Brief Financials: Kolte Patil Developers, Standard Life UK Smaller Co Trust, Coinshares International and more

• Kolte Patil Developers (KPDL IN) reported a decent Q3FY24 led by record sales value and improved realization. It is on track to achieve its guided INR 2800cr sales value for FY24.
• Demand environment continues to be robust. Kolte Patil has guided for 25%+ sales value growth even for FY25. Realization also has room to improve and should aid the growth.
• New business development activity is strong. Kolte Patil is in advances stages of discussion for projects with sales value worth INR 8000-10000cr, INR 3000-4000cr of which could close soon.

abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust’s (AUSC’s) managers, Abby Glennie and Amanda Yeaman, are looking forward to further improvement in the trust’s relative performance, as investors’ focus is now more on company fundamentals rather than macroeconomic developments. The managers are continuing to use the Matrix, a proprietary screening tool, to search for companies exhibiting high-quality, growth and positive momentum features. Despite a difficult period of performance during 2022, when rising interest rates led to a derating of growth stocks, the strategy employed by abrdn’s small-cap team has proved very successful over the last 25+ years across multiple business cycles.

CoinShares International (CS) avslutade sitt senaste räkenskapsår med justerad EBITDA för Q423 på 25,7 miljoner pund, vilket ökade vinsten för FY23 till 56,9 miljoner pund (det näst bästa resultatet i företagets historia). Bolaget inför nu en utdelningspolicy med målsättningen att utbetala 20–40 % av totalresultatet justerat för valutakursdifferenser. Vi beräknar att detta, baserat på resultatet för räkenskapsåret 2023 och nuvarande aktiekurs, innebär en god direktavkastning på ca 3,4–6,8 %. CS vill expandera till USA genom att utnyttja sin option att förvärva Valkyrie Funds (som har en bitcoin-ETF i USA i sitt erbjudande) och genom sin nyligen lanserade Hedge Fund Solutions-verksamhet.