M&C Saatchi Balance Sheet Health

Financial Health criteria checks 3/6

M&C Saatchi has a total shareholder equity of £29.5M and total debt of £15.9M, which brings its debt-to-equity ratio to 54%. Its total assets and total liabilities are £247.3M and £217.8M respectively. M&C Saatchi's EBIT is £25.8M making its interest coverage ratio 5.6. It has cash and short-term investments of £24.3M.

Key information

54.0%

Debt to equity ratio

UK£15.94m

Debt

Interest coverage ratio	5.6x
Cash	UK£24.33m
Equity	UK£29.54m
Total liabilities	UK£217.76m
Total assets	UK£247.30m

Recent financial health updates

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Recent updates

CEO & Director Moray MacLennan Just Bought 160,056% More Shares In M&C Saatchi plc (LON:SAA)

Feb 06

Is M&C Saatchi plc (LON:SAA) Potentially Undervalued?

Dec 08

Financial Position Analysis

Short Term Liabilities: SAA's short term assets (£153.1M) do not cover its short term liabilities (£167.2M).

Long Term Liabilities: SAA's short term assets (£153.1M) exceed its long term liabilities (£50.5M).

Debt to Equity History and Analysis

Debt Level: SAA has more cash than its total debt.

Reducing Debt: SAA's debt to equity ratio has reduced from 76.1% to 54% over the past 5 years.

Balance Sheet

Cash Runway Analysis

For companies that have on average been loss-making in the past, we assess whether they have at least 1 year of cash runway.

Stable Cash Runway: Insufficient data to determine if SAA has enough cash runway based on its current free cash flow.

Forecast Cash Runway: Insufficient data to determine if SAA has enough cash runway if its free cash flow continues to grow or shrink based on historical rates.

M&C Saatchi Balance Sheet Health

Financial Health criteria checks 3/6

Key information

Recent financial health updates

Recent updates

M&C Saatchi plc Approves Final Dividend

Upcoming dividend of UK£0.016 per share

M&C Saatchi plc, Annual General Meeting, May 16, 2024

Full year 2023 earnings: EPS misses analyst expectations

The local leadership team of Cometis, Australie, and M&C Saatchi Little Stories agreed to acquire an unknown minority stake in Cometis SARL, Australie SAS and M&C Saatchi Little Stories SAS from M&C Saatchi plc (AIM:SAA) for €1 million.

M&C Saatchi plc to Report Fiscal Year 2023 Results on Apr 10, 2024

Price target increased by 13% to UK£2.15

M&C Saatchi plc Appoints Zaid Al-Qassab as Chief Executive Officer, Effective May 13, 2024

M&C Saatchi plc Announces Appointment of Dame Heather Rabbatts as Senior Independent Non-Executive Director to the Board

M&C Saatchi plc Provides Earnings Guidance for the Year Ended 31 December 2023

Management team, including Max Bon de Veire, Linda Elers and Daniel Sundin, directors of M&C Saatchi Sweden acquired M&C Saatchi Ab and M&C Saatchi Spencer Hong Kong Limited from M&C Saatchi plc (AIM:SAA).

Executive Chair recently bought UK£89k worth of stock

First half 2023 earnings released: UK£0.052 loss per share (vs UK£0.034 loss in 1H 2022)

M&C Saatchi plc to Report First Half, 2023 Results on Sep 14, 2023

Less than half of directors are independent

M&C Saatchi plc Announces the Retirement of Moray MacLennan as Chief Executive Officer, Effective 30 September 2023

Price target decreased by 19% to UK£2.13

M&C Saatchi plc Announces Confirmation of Director Appointments

Upcoming dividend of UK£0.015 per share at 0.9% yield

Full year 2022 earnings: EPS misses analyst expectations

Price target increased by 8.7% to UK£2.50

High number of new and inexperienced directors

M&C Saatchi plc Provides Earnings Guidance for the Year Ended December 31, 2022

Next Fifteen Communications Group plc (AIM:NFC) cancelled the acquisition of M&C Saatchi plc (AIM : SAA) from AdvancedAdvT Limited (LSE:ADVT), Independent Directors and others.

Price target increased to UK£2.47

High number of new and inexperienced directors

M&C Saatchi plc to Report First Half, 2022 Results on Sep 07, 2022

AdvancedAdvT Limited (LSE:ADVT) cancelled the acquisition of M&C Saatchi plc (AIM:SAA) from Paradice Investment Management LLC and others

M&C Saatchi plc, Annual General Meeting, Jun 30, 2022

Consensus forecasts updated

Next Fifteen Communications Group plc (AIM:NFC) made an offer to acquire M&C Saatchi plc (AIM:SAA) from AdvancedAdvT Limited (LSE:ADVT), Independent Directors and others approximately £300 million.

Investor sentiment improved over the past week

Now 21% undervalued after recent price drop

Full year 2021 earnings released: EPS: UK£0.10 (vs UK£0.091 loss in FY 2020)

High number of new and inexperienced directors

Is Now The Time To Look At Buying M&C Saatchi plc (LON:SAA)?

High number of new and inexperienced directors

M&C Saatchi Receives A Preliminary Approach from AdvancedAdvT

AdvancedAdvT Limited (LSE:ADVT) acquired 9.82% stake in M&C Saatchi plc (AIM:SAA) for £24 million.

Investors Could Be Concerned With M&C Saatchi's (LON:SAA) Returns On Capital

Price target increased to UK£2.17

Is M&C Saatchi plc (LON:SAA) Trading At A 28% Discount?

Full year 2020 earnings released: UK£0.091 loss per share (vs UK£0.13 loss in FY 2019)

Investors Could Be Concerned With M&C Saatchi's (LON:SAA) Returns On Capital

Consensus forecasts updated

Price target increased to UK£2.11

Full year 2020 earnings released

M&C Saatchi plc Provides Earnings Guidance for the Full Year 2021

Calculating The Intrinsic Value Of M&C Saatchi plc (LON:SAA)

Is Now An Opportune Moment To Examine M&C Saatchi plc (LON:SAA)?

New 90-day high: UK£1.59

M&C Saatchi plc Announces the Appointment of Vinodka (Vin) Murria OBE as A Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chair of the Board

M&C Saatchi (LON:SAA): Are Investors Overlooking Returns On Capital?

Board Member recently bought UK£64k worth of stock

CEO & Director recently bought UK£500k worth of stock

CEO & Director Moray MacLennan Just Bought 160,056% More Shares In M&C Saatchi plc (LON:SAA)

New 90-day high: UK£0.98

M&C Saatchi plc Confirms the Appointment of Moray MacLennan as Chief Executive Officer

M&C Saatchi plc Announces Directorate Changes

Is M&C Saatchi plc (LON:SAA) Potentially Undervalued?

M&C Saatchi plc to Report Fiscal Year 2019 Results on Dec 04, 2020

M&C Saatchi plc Omits Final Dividend Payment for the Year 2019

New 90-day high - UK£0.65

Dhar & Hoon Parts with M&C Saatchi and Launches Serum to Provide Out-of-the-box Services to their Clients

New 90-day high - UK£0.65

Financial Position Analysis

Debt to Equity History and Analysis

Balance Sheet

Cash Runway Analysis

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