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Vistry — FY2019 Earnings Presentation

40 slides from Vistry's earnings presentation, Feb 27, 2020

  1. Slide 1: Vistry Group

    Vistry Group

  2. Slide 2: Full year results 2019

    Full year results 2019 Greg Fitzgerald Earl Sibley Graham Prothero Chief Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer 27 February 2020

  3. Slide 3: Agenda

    Agenda ● Full year highlights ● Financial review ● Vistry Group - Strategy - Operational priorities ● Outlook ● Q&A

  4. Slide 4: Bovis Homes full year highlights

    Bovis Homes full year highlights ● Another year of record profits with profit before tax increasing by 12% to £188.2m ● Operating margin progression to 17.0% despite backdrop of market uncertainty ● Sustained step up in average sales rate to 0.58 per outlet per week, up from 0.50 ● Controlled and di

  5. Slide 5: Vistry Group - a leading UK housebuilder

    Vistry Group - a leading UK housebuilder ● Transformational acquisition of Linden Homes and renamed Vistry Partnerships ● Firmly positions Group as a top five UK housebuilder ● Market leading position in attractive, high growth partnerships sector ● Focus for 2020 is on successful integration and co

  6. Slide 6: Financial review

    Financial review Earl Sibley Chief Financial Officer

  7. Slide 7: Income statement

    Income statement (£m) FY18 FY19 Change Revenue 1,061.4 1,130.8 7% Adjusted gross profit(1) 230.9 253.4 10% Administrative expenses (56.7) (60.8) 7% Operating profit before exceptional items 174.2 192.6 11% Finance cost before exceptional items (6.1) (6.1) 0% Share of profit of equity accounted entri

  8. Slide 8: Development revenue analysis

    Development revenue analysis FY18 FY19 Change Volume ● JVs in FY19 are gross completions Private 2,567 2,625 2% at Stanton Cross and Sherford Affordable 1,192 1,184 (1%) ● Proportion of affordable 31%, JVs - 58 - following natural construction routes Total inc. JVs 3,759 3,867 3% ● 23% of total comp

  9. Slide 9: Analysis of profit

    Analysis of profit FY18 FY19 Development Land Total Development Land Total £m unless otherwise stated sales sales Revenue 1,047.3 14.1 1,061.4 1,124.0 6.8 1,130.8 Adjusted gross profit(1) 229.7 1.2 230.9 253.4 0.1 253.4 Administrative expenses (56.7) (60.8) Operating profit pre exceptional items 174

  10. Slide 10: Sales prices and construction costs

    Sales prices and construction costs FY18 FY19 Change Sales price per home (£000’s) 273.2 280.2 3% Sales price per sq ft (£’s) 261.5 264.4 1% Private sales price (£000’s) 337.4 341.7 1% Private sales price per sq ft (£’s) 287.9 290.5 1% Construction cost per home (£000’s)(1) 135.2 134.8 0% Constructi

  11. Slide 11: Cash generation

    Cash generation (£m) FY18 FY19 ● Cash expenditure on land Development receipts 1,054.8 1,094.4 relates to the settlement of Construction expenditure (708.5) (753.1) creditors in the 12 months Overheads (55.1) (59.9) of £105.4m (2018: £126.9m) and new land investment of Operating cash flow 291.2 281.

  12. Slide 12: Land activity in the year

    Land activity in the year ● Continue to see good opportunities in the land market ● 4,531 plots acquired across 18 developments Shrewsbury - Only 7 units with an ASP >£600k Wombourne ● High quality conversion from valuable strategic Kidderminster Beaconside Warwick Thurston Cambourne land bank total

  13. Slide 13: Net assets

    Net assets (£m) 31 Dec 2018 30 June 2019 31 Dec 2019 ● Land creditors at 36% of gross land Land 858.7 769.8 716.3 ● WIP includes investment in a Land creditors (293.3) (249.4) (260.7) number of our large strategically Land net of creditors 565.4 520.4 455.6 sourced developments, including Wokingham,

  14. Slide 14: Vistry Group strategy

    Vistry Group strategy Greg Fitzgerald Chief Executive

  15. Slide 15: A uniquely positioned top 5 UK house builder

    A uniquely positioned top 5 UK house builder Housebuilding Partnerships • High quality housing provider • Leading provider of partnership housing • Two leading housing brands • Excellent reputation and firmly established relationships • National scale and coverage • National scale and coverage • Val

  16. Slide 16: Vistry Group's strategic priorities

    Vistry Group’s strategic priorities People satisfaction Customer satisfaction • Committed, motivated and engaged workforce • Increasing the supply of new homes in England • Culture of ‘doing the right thing’ across all housing tenures • Hands-on leadership • Delivering high quality homes and custome

  17. Slide 17: Highly experienced operational management team

    Highly experienced operational management team Housebuilding Partnerships Stephen Teagle Darrell White Andrew Hammond CEO Partnerships Divisional Chairman Divisional Chairman North division South division Stuart Brodie Stuart Munro James Warrington Regional MD Regional MD Regional MD London & South

  18. Slide 18: Housebuilding - strategic priorities

    Housebuilding - strategic priorities ● Maximise output through controlled volume growth - 13 business units - c. 550 - 625 units per business unit p.a. - Capacity to deliver more than 8,000 housebuilding units p.a. ● Maximise benefits from dual branding - Leverage opportunities from two housing rang

  19. Slide 19: Vistry Partnerships - strategic priorities

    2000 400 2,100 431 Vistry Partnerships - strategic priorities 1000 200 0 0 FY19 Potential FY19 ● Accelerate revenue growth - potential to deliver 6,000 units p.a Revenue (£m) Operating margin Units - Increase development revenues 5000 to 50% of 1000 1,000+ 10 total Partnerships’ revenues 5,000+ 10%+

  20. Slide 20: High quality land supply

    High quality land supply ● Total proforma owned plots as at 31 Dec 2019 of 40,135 Bovis Linden Vistry ● Continuing to target 3.5 to 4.0 year owned As at 31 Dec 2019 Homes Homes Partnerships land bank for house building Owned land plots 13,541 9,768 3,392 Joint Venture plots ● Increase land supply fo

  21. Slide 21: Significant opportunity from strategic land

    Significant opportunity from strategic land ● Well positioned with strategic land Total Total As at 31 Dec 2019 sites plots - 31,965 strategic land bank plots across the Group Planning agreed 13 5,287 - Good progress on a number of significant land projects Planning application 14 3,588 during 2019

  22. Slide 22: Operational priorities

    Operational priorities Graham Prothero Chief Operating Officer

  23. Slide 23: Integration process well underway

    Integration process well underway ● Housebuilding reorganised ● Vistry Partnerships rebranded and already bolstered with additional developments ● Divisional Chairs and MDs oppointed; majority of business unit Boards confirmed ● Consultations under way and will be concluded by early March ● Procurem

  24. Slide 24: Regional map - Housebuilding

    Regional map - Housebuilding 1 Yorkshire ● 13 regions, closing 4 offices 2 Mercia 3 East Midlands ● Divisional Chairs and MDs appointed 4 West Midlands 5 Cotswolds 6 Northern Home Counties 1 ● Majority of business unit Boards confirmed 7 Eastern ● BU team structures confirmed and 8 Kent 9 South East

  25. Slide 25: Regional map - Partnerships

    Regional map - Partnerships 1 1 North East ● No change to Regional MDs 2 Yorkshire 3 North West 2 ● Business unit MDs and teams largely 4 East Midlands 3 continuing; some teams expanding 5 West Midlands 6 London Contracting ● Mixed tenure developments 7 London Development 4 transferred into Partners

  26. Slide 26: Customer service

    Customer service ● Delivering high quality homes and excellent customer service remains at the core of the business ● Vistry Group is trending at a 5-star HBF customer satisfaction rating - Increased focus internally on HBF 9-month survey ● Roll-out of ‘Keys’ CRM platform across Linden Homes - Furth

  27. Slide 27: House types and dual branding

    Linden Homes - Rainham House types and dual branding ● Brand and marketing reporting to a single Group Director ● Two excellent ranges in Phoenix and Linden Collection ● Optimise breadth and depth of product Bovis Homes - Chinnor offering to best meet consumer demand ● Each housebuilding regional of

  28. Slide 28: Key principles

    Key principles ● Best of both businesses ● Decide quickly and execute efficiently ● Adherence to Group principles ● Genuine sense of one team

  29. Slide 29: Outlook

    Outlook Greg Fitzgerald Chief Executive

  30. Slide 30: Market environment

    Market environment ● Increased market certainty ● Strong demand in YTD - Political stability - Increased consumer interest - Progress on Brexit - Strengthened sales rates ● Strong market fundamentals ● Sustained demand from Housing - Historic low interest rate Associations environment - Private bulk

  31. Slide 31: Outlook

    Outlook ● Integration progressing well - Confident of delivering significant benefit from exciting combination ● Good start to the year - Underlying average sales rate per week up 15% - Positive momentum on underlying pricing ● Strong forward sales position - 48% of consensus housebuilding revenues

  32. Slide 32: Q&A

    Q&A

  33. Slide 33: Disclaimer - important notice

    Disclaimer - important notice ● Certain statements in this presentation are forward looking statements. ● Forward looking statements involve evaluating a number of risks, uncertainties or assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by those statem

  34. Slide 34: Appendices

    Appendices

  35. Slide 35: Key metrics

    Key metrics Revenue (£m) Operating profit margin (%)(1) Profit before tax (£m)(1) 1,130.8m 17.0% 188.2m 1130.80 17.300 188.20 17.3 188.2 1,130.8 17.0 16.4 1,061.4 1,054.8 1,028.2 168.1 15.2 904.64 160.1 946.5 12.975 141.15 154.7 12.5 678.48 114.0 8.650 94.10 452.32 4.325 47.05 226.16 0.00 0.000 0.00

  36. Slide 36: Land bank

    Land bank 31 Dec 2018 2019 Owned land bank plots 17,328 17,328 Joint venture plots 1,496 3,787 Total consented land bank 15,832 13,541 Land bank years(1) 4.0 yrs 3.9 yrs Average plots per site(2) 135 133 Average sales price(2) £305k £299k Average land cost per plot £55k £46k Plot cost / ASP 18% 16%

  37. Slide 37: Work in progress and other assets

    Work in progress and other assets (£m) 31 Dec 2018 30 June 2019 31 Dec 2019 Stock (including show homes) 28.6 28.9 30.5 Housing WIP infrastructure 416.6 453.4 445.0 Part exchange 16.3 17.5 15.9 Total work in progress 461.5 499.8 491.4 Debtors - Help to Buy 1.2 4.0 2.1 - HA 24.2 41.4 42.8 - Other rec

  38. Slide 38: Net finance costs

    Net finance costs (£m) FY18 FY19 Net bank interest and commitment fees (1.9) (1.9) Issue cost amortisation (0.8) (0.9) Imputed interest on land (3.6) (3.4) Pension financing 0.2 0.1 IFRS 16 interest on leases - (0.6) Interest receivable on JV loans - 0.6 Total before exceptional items (6.1) (6.1) Ex

  39. Slide 39: Other liabilities

    Other liabilities (£m) 31 Dec 2018 30 June 2019 31 Dec 2019 Creditors 169.2 199.3 214.6 Lease liabilities - 22.4 23.0 Corporation tax liability 18.1 14.3 20.9 Deferred tax liability 0.7 2.2 - Provisions 4.8 3.8 4.0 Other liabilities 192.8 242.0 262.5

  40. Slide 40: Vistry Group

    Vistry Group

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