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Key Takeaways

• Major customer wins, deeper platform penetration, and investments in AI and automation set up SeSa for substantial revenue and margin growth above market expectations.
  
• Accelerated integration of acquired assets, recurring software revenue, and shareholder-friendly capital return could drive strong EPS expansion and valuation uplift.
  
• Margin compression, integration risks from M&A dependence, channel disintermediation, talent shortages, and regulatory pressures threaten SeSa's profitability, scalability, and revenue momentum.

Catalysts

Distributes value-added information technology (IT) software and technologies in Italy and internationally.

• Analyst consensus expects mid-single to high single-digit growth in Business Services, but with major new customer wins in both banking and insurance, plus increasing penetration of SeSa's proprietary vertical platforms, revenue and EBITDA in this segment could sustain growth above 15 percent annually, propelling a group-level margin uplift and accelerating earnings expansion.
  
• While consensus highlights the benefits of past M&A and transformation, ongoing re-engineering and deep integration of acquired assets-especially in Software and System Integration-offers additional, unaccounted operating efficiency gains and cross-segment synergies, setting up the potential for a surprise step-change in EBITDA margin and higher free cash flow.
  
• SeSa's increasing investments in AI, automation and digital platforms position it to not only outpace the expected market growth in Italian data and AI (which itself is forecast to expand over 30 percent annually), but potentially capture market share from slower-moving incumbents, resulting in outsized revenue growth and long-term margin expansion.
  
• Growing enterprise and public sector digitalization across Southern Europe, combined with SeSa's leadership as a solution integrator, create a multi-year runway of resilient, recurring revenue-enhancing earnings predictability and raising the prospects for a structural re-rating of valuation multiples.
  
• The group's rising recurring revenue base and ramp in software subscription and managed services, paired with a larger buyback program and payout ratio moving toward 45 percent, will drive EPS growth well beyond analyst estimates and serve as a powerful catalyst for upward stock rerating.

SeSa Future Earnings and Revenue Growth

Assumptions

• This narrative explores a more optimistic perspective on SeSa compared to the consensus, based on a Fair Value that aligns with the bullish cohort of analysts.
• The bullish analysts are assuming SeSa's revenue will grow by 6.4% annually over the next 3 years.
• The bullish analysts assume that profit margins will increase from 1.9% today to 2.5% in 3 years time.
• The bullish analysts expect earnings to reach €97.7 million (and earnings per share of €nan) by about July 2028, up from €62.2 million today. The analysts are largely in agreement about this estimate.
• In order for the above numbers to justify the price target of the more bullish analyst cohort, the company would need to trade at a PE ratio of 28.8x on those 2028 earnings, up from 16.5x today. This future PE is greater than the current PE for the GB Electronic industry at 14.3x.
• Analysts expect the number of shares outstanding to decline by 0.15% per year for the next 3 years.
• To value all of this in today's terms, we will use a discount rate of 13.2%, as per the Simply Wall St company report.

SeSa Future Earnings Per Share Growth

Risks

• Margin pressure is already evident in key segments such as Software and System Integration, where EBITDA margin declined to 10.8% from around 12% despite revenue growth, suggesting that continued technological commoditization and industry price competition could further compress net margins in future years.
  
• SeSa's reliance on M&A for past growth, with 66% of 2025's high-potential sector growth coming from acquisitions, raises concerns about integration risks, operational complexity, and the future scalability of organic expansion, which could threaten both revenue momentum and earnings as M&A is deprioritized in favor of organic growth.
  
• The ICT Value Added Solutions segment, a core business line, suffered a 3.4% annual revenue decline and margin stagnation, exposing SeSa to heightened risk from channel disintermediation by OEMs and cloud providers, which could accelerate further revenue erosion and weaken gross profitability if the trend persists.
  
• Increased investment and focus on AI, automation, and digital platforms may expose SeSa to talent shortages and execution risks in scaling specialized IT integration, potentially restricting its ability to capture anticipated service revenue and margin expansion despite bullish industry forecasts.
  
• Heightened ESG scrutiny, rising compliance obligations, and complex EU digital regulations could increase operating costs and limit product offerings, putting downward pressure on operating margins and resulting in higher long-term compliance expenditures that diminish net profit growth.

Valuation

• The assumed bullish price target for SeSa is €129.1, which is the highest price target estimate amongst analysts. This valuation is based on what can be assumed as the expectations of SeSa's future earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors from analysts on the bullish end of the spectrum.
  
• However, there is a degree of disagreement amongst analysts, with the most bullish reporting a price target of €129.1, and the most bearish reporting a price target of just €80.0.
  
• In order for you to agree with the bullish analysts, you'd need to believe that by 2028, revenues will be €3.9 billion, earnings will come to €97.7 million, and it would be trading on a PE ratio of 28.8x, assuming you use a discount rate of 13.2%.
  
• Given the current share price of €66.5, the bullish analyst price target of €129.1 is 48.5% higher.
  
• We always encourage you to reach your own conclusions though. So sense check these analyst numbers against your own assumptions and expectations based on your understanding of the business and what you believe is probable.