Saga Plc · LSE:SAGA

Saga — H1 FY2015 Earnings Presentation

44 slides from Saga's earnings presentation, September 2014

  1. Slide 1: Interim results for the six months ended 31 July 2014

    Interim results for the six months ended 31 July 2014 1

  2. Slide 2: The Team

    The Team Lance Batchelor Stuart Howard Chief Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer 2

  3. Slide 3: Introduction

    Introduction • Strong first half, on track to meet market expectations for the financial year to January 2015 • Structural advantages enhanced • Continued commitment to quality – both in what we offer and the business we do • Innovation team set up and creation of ‘fast pilots’ • Progress made on ne

  4. Slide 4: Stuart Howard, Chief Financial Officer

    Stuart Howard Chief Financial Officer 4

  5. Slide 5: Overview

    Overview Group on track to deliver for the financial year to January 2015 • Group Trading EBITDA increased by 9.7% to £130.4m (2013: £118.9m) • Group Operating profit increased by 15.2% to £110.0m (2013: £95.5m) • Group profit before tax up 14.9% to £106.5m (2013: £92.7m) Cash generation shows the s

  6. Slide 6: Trading EBITDA Growth High Cash Conversion

    Trading EBITDA Growth High Cash Conversion Trading EBITDA (£m) & Trading EBITDA Margin (%)1,2 Available Cash Flow (£m) and Conversion (%)1,3 20% 22% 102% 110% 144 130 122 119 2 2 15 9 17 19 31 29 63 67 6m to July 2013 6m to July 2014 6m to July 2013 6m to July 2014 Motor Home Other Financial Service

  7. Slide 7: Group Income Statement Highlights

    Group Income Statement Highlights 6m to 6m to 6m to Jul 2013 6m to Jul 2013 £m Jul 2014 Growth Jul 20131 Reported Adjustment Revenue £583.5m (3.9%) £607.1m £632.0m (£24.9m) Trading EBITDA £130.4m 9.7% £118.9m £122.4m (£3.5m) Operating profit £110.0m 15.2% £95.5m £94.9m £0.6m Exceptional expenses (£4

  8. Slide 8: Group Cash Flow & Liquidity Highlights

    Group Cash Flow & Liquidity Highlights £m July 2014 July 2013 Change (%) Trading EBITDA 130.4 118.9 9.7 Less Restricted Businesses (42.3) (36.4) Working Capital & Non-Cash items 62.8 43.3 Net Capex (7.2) (4.1) Available Operating Cash Flow 143.7 121.7 18.1 Available Operating Cash Flow (%) 110.2 102

  9. Slide 9: Motor

    Motor

  10. Slide 10: Motor – Revenue and Trading EBITDA

    Motor – Revenue and Trading EBITDA Trading EBITDA 32.1% 38.3% Margin 182.2 160.0 66.6 62.9 6m to July 2013 6m to July 2014 Revenue (£m) Trading EBITDA (£m) 10

  11. Slide 11: Motor Policy Volumes

    Motor Policy Volumes LTM Core Policies Sold LTM Add-on Policies Sold 1.75m 1.63m 1.47m 1.09m 1.06m 1.01m Jul-13 Jan-14 Jul-14 Jul-13 Jan-14 Jul-14 11

  12. Slide 12: Motor Combined Ratio

    Motor Combined Ratio Reported Combined Ratio for Saga Core Motor Pure Combined Ratio for Saga Core Motor 101.6% 91.8% 76.4% 65.6% 6m to July 2013 6m to July 2014 6m to July 2013 6m to July 2014 12

  13. Slide 13: Motor

    Motor £m 6m to Jul 2014 Growth 6m to Jul 20131 Saga core business £113.6m (13.3%) £131.0m Ancillary income £23.0m (13.5%) £26.6m Other trading activity £23.4m (4.9%) £24.6m Third party premiums £13.9m 0.7% £13.8m Gross revenue £173.9m (11.3%) £196.0m Third party premiums (£13.9m) 0.7% (£13.8m) Reven

  14. Slide 14: Reserve Releases

    Reserve Releases £ (m) As a % of Net Earned Premium 1 1.0% 33.0 29.8 26.2% 25.2% 6m to July 2013 6m to July 2014 6m to July 2013 6m to July 2014 1 Saga core Motor business only. 14

  15. Slide 15: Home

    rrr y 108 ie aS Span iitv esi ih) 3"

  16. Slide 16: Home – Revenue and Trading EBITDA

    Home – Revenue and Trading EBITDA Trading EBITDA 32.2% 31.3% Margin 44.3 43.7 31.4 29.0 6m to July 2013 6m to July 2014 Revenue (£m) Trading EBITDA (£m) 16

  17. Slide 17: Home Policy Volumes

    Home Policy Volumes LTM Core Policies Sold LTM Add-on Policies Sold 1.31m 1.30m 0.58m 0.62m 0.54m Jul-13 Jan-14 Jul-14 Jul-13 Jan-14 Jul-14 17

  18. Slide 18: Other FS - Revenue and Trading EBITDA

    Other FS - Revenue and Trading EBITDA Trading EBITDA 28.2% 26.8% Margin 48.2 49.0 18.9 16.9 6m to July 2013 6m to July 2014 Revenue (£m) Trading EBITDA (£m) 18

  19. Slide 19: Other FS Policy Volumes

    Other FS Policy Volumes LTM Core Policies Sold 0.33m 0.33m 0.34m Jul-13 Jan-14 Jul-14 19

  20. Slide 20: Travel

    Travel

  21. Slide 21: Travel

    Travel Revenue (£m) Trading EBITDA (£m) Trading EBITDA 5.6% 8.6% Margin 176.5 15.2 161.7 43.3 38.1 9.1 133.2 123.6 6m to July 2013 6m to July 2014 6m to July 2013 6m to July 2014 Holidays Revenue (£m) Cruising Revenue (£m) 21

  22. Slide 22: Healthcare

    Healthcare

  23. Slide 23: Healthcare Services

    Healthcare Services 161.9 145.5 6m to July 2013 6m to July 2014 Revenue (£m) Trading EBITDA (£m) 23

  24. Slide 24: Media

    Media

  25. Slide 25: Media and Central Costs

    Media and Central Costs £m 6m to July 2014 6m to July 2013 Change (%) Revenue 13.7 13.4 2.2 Gross profit 5.7 4.7 21.3 Gross Profit % 41.6 35.1 6.5 Trading EBITDA (1.2) (3.1) 61.3 Trading EBITDA % (8.8) (23.1) 14.3 Operating Profit (4.5) (6.6) 31.8 Operating Profit % (32.8) (49.3) 16.5 2013 presented

  26. Slide 26: Summary

    Summary • Group on track to meet expectation for the financial year to January 2015 • Strong cash generation • Robust balance sheet • Dividend in line with expectations 26

  27. Slide 27: Lance Batchelor, Chief Executive Officer

    Lance Batchelor Chief Executive Officer 27

  28. Slide 28: A Busy First Half

    A Busy First Half • Admission to the London Stock Exchange on 29 May, joined the FTSE 250 on 22 September 2014 • 200,000 retail shareholders took up the offer, over 80% customers • Continued growth in the database. Access to 10.6m people, 46% of those over 50 in the UK • 2.7m customers were buyers i

  29. Slide 29: The Saga Fundamentals

    The Saga Fundamentals Saga is committed to making life better for the over 50s • Customers at the heart of everything we do • Proprietary data driven insight • Delivering the best possible products and services • Creating a culture of innovation • Delivering everything with exceptional customer serv

  30. Slide 30: Structural Advantages

    Structural Advantages Structural advantages across the business: • Ability to shift resources around the Group to generate the greatest possible returns • Our access to data, insight and contact with the 10m+ customers means lower cost of acquisition than the industry average • Flexibility of the in

  31. Slide 31: Insurance

    Insurance Motor • A good first half despite challenging market conditions • Flexibility provides many ways to access the market to provide what our customers need • Options that allow us to account for changing market dynamics whilst maintaining and protecting our performance Home • Solid performanc

  32. Slide 32: Other Financial Services

    Other Financial Services Encouraging performance in an important area for Saga going forward Travel insurance • Policy numbers up • New routes to market • Important source of names for the database Private Medical Insurance • Policy numbers up • Enhanced use of third party lead generators 32

  33. Slide 33: Travel

    Travel Travel • Very good start to the year • Growth in like-for-like passenger volumes and margin • Acquisition of a majority shareholding in Destinology Ltd • Helping to unlock the affluent younger age group (50-60) • Extension of the Saga brand into Third Party Cruising • 30% of initial demand fr

  34. Slide 34: Healthcare

    Healthcare Private Pay Care Offering • Acceleration in development • Dedicated management team appointed • Small scale trial taking place this winter Allied Healthcare • Continued focus on margin • Efficiency and quality gives competitive advantage • Continue to win new contracts • Market is challen

  35. Slide 35: Innovation

    Innovation • New dedicated innovation team • Use data to drive insight into products and services customers will value most in the future • Instigation of ‘fast pilot’ programme • Test findings quickly in real world environment • Look at many more areas in a highly efficient and focussed way 35

  36. Slide 36: New Opportunities

    New Opportunities Progress made in two important areas 1. Wealth Management: Comprehensive review of marketplace and Saga’s options to enter it - start up, acquisition or partnership • Decision made to partner • Advanced negotiations with a number of providers 2. Retirement Villages: Partnership sig

  37. Slide 37: Summary and Outlook

    Summary and Outlook • Solid first set of interim results, which put us on track to meet market expectations for the financial year to January 2015 • Excellent cash generation shows strength of the model • Debt reduction ahead of schedule • Continued focus of making life better for the over 50s 37

  38. Slide 38: Q&A

    Q&A 38

  39. Slide 39: Appendices

    Appendices 39

  40. Slide 40: Exceptional Expenses

    Exceptional Expenses £m H1 2015 H1 2014 P&L charge consists of: - Share-based Payment Costs 41.1 0.0 - Flotation and Other Costs 3.3 0.0 - Staff bonuses 6.7 0.0 - Stabilisation profits (0.3) 0.0 - Restructuring Costs 3.7 4.1 - Cost of Cancelled and Curtailed Cruises 0.6 0.6 - Other Exceptional Expen

  41. Slide 41: Financing

    Financing Available Leverage £m Gross Debt Cash Net Debt LTM EBITDA Ratio New Debt raised on 17th April 2014 1,250 Proceeds from IPO (550) As at 29th May 2014 700 (10) 690 225 3.1x Available cash generation post IPO (94) (94) As at 31st July 2014 700 (104) 596 242 2.5x £m H1 2015 H1 2014 FY 2014 Fin

  42. Slide 42: Available Operating Cash Flow Rec

    Available Operating Cash Flow Rec £m 6m to July 2014 6m to July 2013 Net Cash Flows from Operating Activities (Reported) 110.9 196.7 Exclude cash impact of: - Trading of restricted divisions (31.6) (25.1) - Cash released from restricted divisions 26.5 0.0 - Exceptional Expenses 20.4 6.0 - Costs of n

  43. Slide 43: Pro Forma Operating Earnings Rec

    Pro Forma Operating Earnings Rec £m H1 2015 H1 2014 Profit Before Tax (Reported) 32.8 92.1 Add back: - Exceptional Expenses 55.1 4.7 - Exceptional Finance Costs 12.9 - Less Non-controlling Interests (0.2) (0.7) Pre-tax Operating Earnings 100.6 96.1 Tax at effective rate of 21.33% (FY14 23.17%) (21.5

  44. Slide 44: Tax

    Tax £m H1 2015 H1 2014 Profit Before Tax 32.8 92.7 Add back: - Underlying Adjustments - (0.6) Deduct: - Profit charged to ROI Tax - - - Non-deductible / Non-taxable Items 17.2 2.8 Taxable Profits 50.0 94.9 Underlying Tax Rate 21.3% 23.2% Tax Expense excluding Prior Year Adjustments 10.7 22.0 Retrans

Saga — H1 FY2015 Earnings Presentation on 6ix