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Fletcher reiterates FY operating earnings guidance at lower end of $650M to $690M range
By Jonathan Underhill
May 5 (BusinessDesk) - Fletcher Building,
whose shares have missed the rally on New Zealand's bourse
in the past five years, has reiterated its forecast for
full-year earnings and capital spending to be at the lower
end of its guidance range.
Operating earnings before one-time items would be at the lower end of the range of $650 million to $690 million in the 12 months ending June 30, the Auckland-based building products and construction group said in a statement, repeating the guidance it gave with its first-half results in February. Capital expenditure is expected to be at the bottom of its guidance range of $275 million to $325 million.
Fletcher shares have
barely budged from where they were five years ago, achieving
a 0.5 percent gain, excluding dividends, while the NZX 15
Index has soared 91 percent. Chief executive Mark Adamson,
tapped for the top job in 2012, has been forced to deal with
the high-priced purchase of Crane Group, a downturn in
Australia's mining sector, and has been selling assets while
embarking on a cost-cutting programme and overhauling his
management team.
In presentation slides for a Macquarie Australia Conference this week, the company said residential building consents in New Zealand, its biggest market by sales, were above their long-run trend and the outlook for commercial construction was "encouraging", with civil infrastructure driven by government spending.
Residential construction in Australia was
expected to remain strong while the outlook for
non-residential work was "challenging", with declining
investment in the resources sector and uncertainty over
government infrastructure spending. Conditions in the North
American market were "expected to track higher," while
Europe was mixed with a weak economic outlook. Further
volume growth was seen in Asia although the Chinese market
was "increasingly competitive."
The company said its performance in 2015 will be impacted by the sale of businesses last year and the substantial completion of the Canterbury home repair programme. Earnings from its Fletcher Living residential development business were now forecast to be up year on year, it said. A decline in first-half earnings partly reflected charges to close plants and writedown goodwill.
Its shares last traded at $8.31 on
the NZX and are rated a 'hold' based on the consensus of 11
analysts polled by Reuters, with an average price target of
$9.01.
(BusinessDesk)
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