Whole Foods: EBITDA Multiples Trading At A Discount
Finbox io | Feb 07, 2017 10:40PM ET
Whole Foods Market Inc (NASDAQ:WFM) is expected to report earnings on Wednesday after the market closes. The company’s shares last traded at $28.98 as of Tuesday, slightly above its 52 week low. Finbox.io fair value data implies that the stock is currently 22% undervalued while Wall Street’s consensus price target of $30.50 implies 5% upside.
Whole Foods’ revenue growth looks highly attractive when compared to its publicly traded peer group: Ingles Markets Incorporated (NASDAQ:IMKTA), The Kroger Co. (NYSE:KR), SuperValu Inc (NYSE:SVU) and Weis Markets Inc (NYSE:WMK).
The company’s 5yr revenue CAGR of 9.2% is above all of the comparable companies: IMKTA (1.2%), KR (6.0%), SVU (0.2%), and WMK (1.9%). Furthermore, when comparing Wall Street’s consensus forecast for each company, Whole Foods’ projected 5yr revenue CAGR of 5.3% is also above all of the comparable companies: IMKTA (2.2%), KR (4.3%), SVU (5.2%), and WMK (2.0%) .
Whole Foods’ EBITDA growth and margins also look compelling…
Outside of SUPERVALU, Whole Foods EBITDA growth has outperformed the entire peer group and is expected to continue over the next five years. The company also boasts top EBITDA margins of 8.6%.
Typically, higher growth stocks will trade at higher multiples of EBITDA but this isn’t the case for Whole Foods. The company’s multiples are currently trading at a discount to this comparable company group as illustrated in the chart below.
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Whole Foods’ LTM EBITDA multiple of 7.0x is only above SVU (3.4x) and below IMKTA (7.6x), KR (7.6x), and WMK (8.8x).
h3 Final Notes/h3Whole Foods appears fundamentally undervalued relative to its comparable companies. Share prices also appear undervalued when inputting consensus Wall Street projections into various discounted cash flow (DCF) analyses and dividend discount models (DDM).
Value investors may want to take a closer look at the stock prior to earnings.
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