APA Group (APA.AX)
Utilities · ASX · Australia
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
APA Group trades at A$10.16, which is 55% above the A$4.62 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 42 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 82.9 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
About APA Group
APA Group engages in the energy infrastructure business in Australia. The company operates through Energy Infrastructure, Asset Management, and Energy Investments segments. It operates gas transmission and interconnected grids, gas-fired power stations, solar and wind farms, and battery energy storage systems, as well as provides gas storage, processing, and compression facilities. It also provides asset management and operating services to its energy investments and third parties; and invests in energy infrastructure. In addition, the company engages renewables projects; project construction process, such as horizontal directional drilling construction, pipeline construction process, open-trench construction, and pipeline construction process; and bundled energy systems. Further, it engages in electricity generation. The company also has interests in approximately 15,000 kilometers of gas transmission pipelines; approximately 29,500 kilometers of gas mains and pipelines; and 1.5 million gas consumer connections; and approximately 800 kilometers high-voltage electricity transmission, including 290 kilometers deep-sea cable. The company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
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Common questions
Is APA Group (APA.AX) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of A$4.62, APA.AX at A$10.16 is 55% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
What is APA.AX's P/E ratio?
APA.AX trades at 82.9 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
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