GlobalData Plc provides business information in the form of proprietary data, analytics, and insights in Europe, North America, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers performance advertising services. It serves aerospace, defense, and security; apparel; automotive; banking and payments; construction; consumer; foodservices; healthcare; insurance; medical devices; mining; oil and gas; packaging; pharmaceutical; power; retail; technology; travel and tourism; and sport industries, as well as public sectors.
GlobalData Fundamentals Summary
How do GlobalData's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
Is DATA undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?
Valuation Score
2/6
Valuation Score 2/6
Price-To-Earnings vs Peers
Price-To-Earnings vs Industry
Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio
Below Fair Value
Significantly Below Fair Value
Analyst Forecast
Key Valuation Metric
Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for DATA?
Other financial metrics that can be useful for relative valuation.
The above table shows the n/a ratio for DATA. This is calculated by dividing DATA's market cap by their current
preferred multiple.
What is DATA's n/a Ratio?
n/a Ratio
0x
n/a
n/a
Market Cap
UK£1.42b
DATA key valuation metrics and ratios. From Price to Earnings, Price to Sales and Price to Book to Price to Earnings Growth Ratio, Enterprise Value and EBITDA.
Price-To-Earnings vs Industry: DATA is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (58.3x) compared to the UK Professional Services industry average (17.7x)
Price to Earnings Ratio vs Fair Ratio
What is DATA's PE Ratio compared to its Fair PE Ratio? This is the expected PE Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.
DATA PE Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PE Ratio
58.3x
Fair PE Ratio
n/a
Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate DATA's Price-To-Earnings Fair Ratio for valuation analysis.
Share Price vs Fair Value
What is the Fair Price of DATA when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.
Below Fair Value: DATA (£12.6) is trading below our estimate of fair value (£13.97)
Significantly Below Fair Value: DATA is trading below fair value, but not by a significant amount.
Analyst Price Targets
What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?
Analyst Forecast: Target price is more than 20% higher than the current share price and analysts are within a statistically confident range of agreement.
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Future Growth
How is GlobalData forecast to perform in the next 1 to 3 years based on estimates from 3 analysts?
Future Growth Score
2/6
Future Growth Score 2/6
Earnings vs Savings Rate
Earnings vs Market
High Growth Earnings
Revenue vs Market
High Growth Revenue
Future ROE
7.7%
Forecasted annual revenue growth
Earnings and Revenue Growth Forecasts
Analyst Future Growth Forecasts
Earnings vs Savings Rate: Insufficient data to determine if DATA's forecast earnings growth is above the savings rate (0.9%).
Earnings vs Market: Insufficient data to determine if DATA's earnings are forecast to grow faster than the UK market
High Growth Earnings: Insufficient data to determine if DATA's earnings are expected to grow significantly over the next 3 years.
Revenue vs Market: DATA's revenue (7.7% per year) is forecast to grow faster than the UK market (4.4% per year).
High Growth Revenue: DATA's revenue (7.7% per year) is forecast to grow slower than 20% per year.
Earnings per Share Growth Forecasts
Future Return on Equity
Future ROE: DATA's Return on Equity is forecast to be very high in 3 years time (47.6%).
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Past Performance
How has GlobalData performed over the past 5 years?
Past Performance Score
2/6
Past Performance Score 2/6
Quality Earnings
Growing Profit Margin
Earnings Trend
Accelerating Growth
Earnings vs Industry
High ROE
61.6%
Historical annual earnings growth
Earnings and Revenue History
Quality Earnings: DATA has high quality earnings.
Growing Profit Margin: DATA's current net profit margins (11.6%) are lower than last year (15.3%).
Past Earnings Growth Analysis
Earnings Trend: DATA's earnings have grown significantly by 61.6% per year over the past 5 years.
Accelerating Growth: DATA's has had negative earnings growth over the past year, so it can't be compared to its 5-year average.
Earnings vs Industry: DATA had negative earnings growth (-13.2%) over the past year, making it difficult to compare to the Professional Services industry average (49.8%).
Return on Equity
High ROE: Whilst DATA's Return on Equity (29.07%) is high, this metric is skewed due to their high level of debt.
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Financial Health
How is GlobalData's financial position?
Financial Health Score
2/6
Financial Health Score 2/6
Short Term Liabilities
Long Term Liabilities
Debt Level
Reducing Debt
Debt Coverage
Interest Coverage
Financial Position Analysis
Short Term Liabilities: DATA's short term assets (£96.7M) do not cover its short term liabilities (£157.4M).
Long Term Liabilities: DATA's short term assets (£96.7M) do not cover its long term liabilities (£259.0M).
Debt to Equity History and Analysis
Debt Level: DATA's net debt to equity ratio (227.9%) is considered high.
Reducing Debt: DATA's debt to equity ratio has increased from 43.6% to 277.5% over the past 5 years.
Debt Coverage: DATA's debt is well covered by operating cash flow (27.2%).
Interest Coverage: DATA's interest payments on its debt are well covered by EBIT (3.5x coverage).
Balance Sheet
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Dividend
What is GlobalData current dividend yield, its reliability and sustainability?
Dividend Score
1/6
Dividend Score 1/6
Notable Dividend
High Dividend
Stable Dividend
Growing Dividend
Earnings Coverage
Cash Flow Coverage
1.66%
Current Dividend Yield
Upcoming Dividend Payment
Dividend Yield vs Market
Notable Dividend: DATA's dividend (1.66%) isn’t notable compared to the bottom 25% of dividend payers in the UK market (1.8%).
High Dividend: DATA's dividend (1.66%) is low compared to the top 25% of dividend payers in the UK market (5.11%).
Stability and Growth of Payments
Stable Dividend: Whilst dividend payments have been stable, DATA has been paying a dividend for less than 10 years.
Growing Dividend: DATA's dividend payments have increased, but the company has only paid a dividend for 6 years.
Earnings Payout to Shareholders
Earnings Coverage: With its high payout ratio (96%), DATA's dividend payments are not well covered by earnings.
Cash Payout to Shareholders
Cash Flow Coverage: With its reasonably low cash payout ratio (38.1%), DATA's dividend payments are well covered by cash flows.
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Management
How experienced are the management team and are they aligned to shareholders interests?
5.5yrs
Average board tenure
CEO
Mike Danson (58 yo)
6.58yrs
Tenure
Mr. Michael Thomas Danson, also known as Mike, is an Investment Partner at PROFounders Capital. Mr. Danson is the Owner of Progressive Capital Limited. He was with Strategic Planning Associates, where he w...
CEO Compensation Analysis
Compensation vs Market: Insufficient data to establish whether Mike's total compensation is reasonable compared to companies of similar size in the UK market.
Compensation vs Earnings: Mike's compensation has been consistent with company performance over the past year.
Board Members
Experienced Board: DATA's board of directors are considered experienced (5.5 years average tenure).
Ownership
Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?
Insider Trading Volume
Insider Buying: Insufficient data to determine if insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.
Recent Insider Transactions
Ownership Breakdown
Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.
Top Shareholders
Company Information
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All financial data provided by Standard & Poor's Capital IQ.
Data
Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis
2022/08/13 00:00
End of Day Share Price
2022/08/12 00:00
Earnings
2022/06/30
Annual Earnings
2021/12/31
Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more here.