Growth Focus: Helloworld Travel Ltd (HLO)

by Patrick Taylor



Date of Data Capture: 13/9/2018
 
Name: HELLOWORLD TRAVEL LTD (HLO)
      
Classification: Travel – Consumer Services
 
Current Price: $5.41
 
Market Capitalisation: $665 M
 
Forecast EBITDA Growth: 21.47%
 
Yield Estimate: 3.81%
 
Consensus Price Target: $6.01
 
# Covering Analysts: 4
 
Discount at Current Price: 11.09%
 
Price Target Trend: Increasing
 
Signal Timeframe: Monthly-Weekly-Daily
 
TrendBias: Up-Flat/Medium-Short

Indicators:
Short-term: Positive-Neutral
Medium-term: Positive
Long-termPositive

Recommendation: Buy
 
Focus:(Dividend Income &) Capital Growth
 
Set up Notes:
·    HLO continues its long-term recovery backed by strong performance and forecasting as pricing pushes against overhead resistance at $5.50.
·    A strong performer since 2016 with analysts forecasting further robust growth to 2021 on expanding sales, margins and earnings.
·    A decent dividend is a nice bonus and should pass 4% by 2020 but we like the potential for further capital growth and the majority positive analyst recommendations should help that.
·    Pricing is pushing against minor resistance at $5.50 through with signalling turning positive here we should see that tested soon with old price targets much higher above and good support layered from $5 to $4 below.


Growth Focus: Helloworld Travel Ltd (HLO)
 

Our primary focus here is capital gain, we will select our stocks from the ASX Top 500 All Ordinaries Index.

After nearly a decade of underperformance and falling prices, long-suffering investors could be about to enjoy a well-earned change of scenery with Helloworld Travel Ltd (HLO) as the travel agent looks to continue its recovery on the back of strong performance, exciting forecasts and a compelling technical outlook that we believe is packed with potential.

Starting out in 2000 this travel distribution company provides international and domestic travel services to clients around the world, with 2000 staff members in Australia, New Zealand, US, India, Europe and Asia Pacific. The company operates retail, wholesale and travel management segments through a wide array of brands including Helloworld Travel, Harvey World Travel, Travel scene, Jetset Travel, My Travel and the newly acquired Magellan Travel. The recent addition of the latter group nicely maps out the combined prospects for further expansion via both organic and acquisitive growth.

Performance has shown steady and sizable gains for the last few years, with earnings up 18% last year and similar growth expected ahead with strong forecasts showing increasing sales, margins and profits out to 2021. This growth profile stacks up nicely with the current 12% discount to sharply rising consensus price targets and carries a strong majority positive outlook. It should be mentioned that HLO can be a low volume stock at times so patience may be needed on entries and exits.

Apart from that little bit of extra baggage, there is also a decent 3.8% dividend yield here, which is expected to increase towards 5% in the same timeframe, but really we are here for growth and there should be plenty of scope with strong sector performance backing them up. A similar growth trend is seen across travel generally with airline passenger numbers showing strong enough growth that we can be reasonably sure that the growth expectations are well grounded.

Pricing history shows HLO travelling through some incredible highs and lows as it navigated the dot.com boom and bust and again during the GFC. The strong rally leading up to the peak of 2007 gave way to a crushing bust and seven years of declining valuations before a new long-term uptrend began in 2014. In the time since we have seen the stock moving up through major resistance barriers and pushing higher backed by good performance.

Right now Helloworld Travel offers an attractive ticket, combining excellent fundamental performance and strong forecasting, with an exciting technical outlook and fresh positive signalling across major key timeframes. If strong analyst support and rising targets are correct, this will be no flight of fancy.


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