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Key Takeaways
- Mondelez International's strategic investments in branding, distribution, and acquisitions aim to drive growth and market share by leveraging brand equity.
- Emphasis on cost discipline and sustainable initiatives aligns with consumer preferences for responsible brands, supporting margin expansion and long-term growth.
- Mondelez faces cocoa cost inflation, market sensitivity, supply chain challenges, political unrest, and pricing negotiation issues impacting margins and revenue.
Catalysts
About Mondelez International- Through its subsidiaries, manufactures, markets, and sells snack food and beverage products in the Latin America, North America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.
- Mondelez International's significant investments in brands and capabilities, driving distribution gains and harnessing synergies from recent acquisitions indicate a strategic push towards leveraging strong brand equity and expanded distribution networks to drive top-line growth and market share gains, affecting revenue growth.
- The continued focus on cost discipline alongside sound pricing strategies mentions a sustainable approach towards managing operational costs and inflation, which is likely to support margin expansion and subsequently net margins.
- Strong free cash flow generation of more than $1 billion in a challenging operating environment reflects operational efficiency and financial health, suggesting an underlying strength that could support future growth initiatives, investments, and shareholder returns, impacting earnings positively.
- Mondelez's strategic investments in emerging markets, where they are observing strong consumer confidence and demand amidst global uncertainty, indicates a gateway for accelerated growth and market penetration, especially in high-growth regions. This is expected to contribute positively to revenue growth and earnings.
- The focus on sustainable snacking and environmental initiatives, including the achievement of significant sustainability milestones, aligns Mondelez with the growing consumer preference for responsible brands, potentially driving customer loyalty and brand equity, which in turn could influence long-term revenue growth.
Assumptions
How have these above catalysts been quantified?- Analysts are assuming Mondelez International's revenue will grow by 4.5% annually over the next 3 years.
- Analysts assume that profit margins will increase from 11.0% today to 12.4% in 3 years time.
- Analysts expect earnings to reach $5.1 billion (and earnings per share of $3.97) by about October 2027, up from $3.9 billion today. The analysts are largely in agreement about this estimate.
- In order for the above numbers to justify the analysts price target, the company would need to trade at a PE ratio of 23.4x on those 2027 earnings, down from 24.7x today. This future PE is greater than the current PE for the US Food industry at 18.8x.
- Analysts expect the number of shares outstanding to decline by 1.81% per year for the next 3 years.
- To value all of this in today's dollars, we will use a discount rate of 5.8%, as per the Simply Wall St company report.
Risks
What could happen that would invalidate this narrative?- The potential for continued and unprecedented levels of cocoa cost inflation could lead to higher production costs with subsequent impacts on Mondelez International's gross margins.
- Increasing elasticity and sensitivity to price points, especially in key markets like North America, could lead to volume declines affecting revenue growth if consumers trade down to private label or opt for smaller pack sizes.
- Ongoing supply chain challenges, including those from the integration of acquisitions like Ricolino, could disrupt production and supply, potentially impacting revenue and net margins in the short term.
- The risk of consumer boycotts in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, coupled with political unrest affecting markets, poses a threat to revenue growth in emerging markets.
- Customer disruption in Europe, due to pricing negotiations and other issues, could lead to revenue volatility and affect net margins, especially if volume declines are not offset by successful price increases.
Valuation
How have all the factors above been brought together to estimate a fair value?- The analysts have a consensus price target of $79.69 for Mondelez International based on their expectations of its future earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors. However, there is a degree of disagreement amongst analysts, with the most bullish reporting a price target of $88.0, and the most bearish reporting a price target of just $75.0.
- In order for you to agree with the analyst's consensus, you'd need to believe that by 2027, revenues will be $41.0 billion, earnings will come to $5.1 billion, and it would be trading on a PE ratio of 23.4x, assuming you use a discount rate of 5.8%.
- Given the current share price of $72.99, the analyst's price target of $79.69 is 8.4% higher. The relatively low difference between the current share price and the analyst consensus price target indicates that they believe on average, the company is fairly priced.
- 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.
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