Netcare (NTC.JO)
Healthcare · JSE · South Africa
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Netcare trades at R18.76, which is 118% below the R40.92 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a DCF is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 55 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. 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 12.9 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 Netcare
Netcare Limited, an investment holding company, operates private hospitals in South Africa. It operates through Hospital and Emergency Services, and Primary Care segments. The Hospital and Emergency Services segment engages in the hospital and pharmacy operations. Its operations covers its private acute hospital network and day clinics; and non-acute services, including emergency medical services, mental health clinics operation, diagnostics support services, and cancer care services, as well as sells healthcare products. The Primary Care segment offers healthcare services, and employee health and wellness services, as well as administrative services to medical and dental practices. It also engages in the financing, property owning, and pharmaceutical services. It operates through a network of acute hospitals, netcare 911 sites, cancer care centres, haematology centres, renal dialysis facilities, dialysis stations, point of care devices, mental health hospitals, primary health care facilities, and occupational health service contracts, as well as insurance products, and prepaid procedures and healthcare vouchers. Netcare Limited was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Sandton, South Africa.
NTC.JO passes 6 of our 30 screens today
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Common questions
Is Netcare (NTC.JO) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of R40.92, NTC.JO at R18.76 is 118% below 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 NTC.JO's P/E ratio?
NTC.JO trades at 12.9 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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