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Analyst

Pauli Lohi

HKFoods operates in the food industry. The group includes several subsidiaries with business activities in the sale, marketing and production of meat products from pork, beef and poultry. The group operates the entire value chain, from slaughtering, cutting to processing and resale of the raw materials. HKFoods has the largest operations in the Nordic market. The head office is located in Turku.

I’m responding a bit late to this question about the negative result for shareholders. HKFoods’ result for the current year is burdened by write-downs related to the conditional additional purchase price receivable from its Baltic business. This means the purchase price included uncertain items, the receipt of which now seems unlikely. It is certainly a shame that the additional purchase price will not be received, but it is still just an isolated issue that is not connected to HKFoods’ longer-term earning capacity. The value of a share is based on its long-term cash flows. In HKFoods’ case, the result is expected to turn positive for shareholders in the coming years (supported, for example, by the upward trend in adjusted operating profit and decreasing financing costs). Therefore, I do not believe that the negative result for shareholders in the current year would be a significant deterrent for investors as an isolated factor. If we consider negative factors from the perspective of institutions, these could relate, for example, to the capital-intensive and slow-growing industry and the company’s capital allocation (paying dividends before redeeming an expensive hybrid loan). Our forecasts roughly anticipate an adjusted operating profit for Q4 at the same level as the comparison period. My own expectations in this regard are relatively confident.

For the fourth quarter, there probably won’t be any write-downs related to international business operations anymore, so the full-year result might already be clearly positive, assuming the positive earnings momentum continues. In 2024, the fourth quarter’s operating profit was approximately 29% of the full year’s operating profit, and in 2023, about 21.7%. Q4 2023 is probably a somewhat poor comparison point, because at that time, more international units were still part of the group. If we now use that relative share of Q4/2024 operating profit as a base value, then 71% of the full year’s operating profit would have accumulated by 1-9/2025, and thus, with this calculation method, the operating profit for the last quarter would be approximately 8.9 million euros: (21.8 / 0.71) - 21.8 = 8.9. I was wondering that since -2.7 million euros of the 1-9/2025 fiscal year result is attributable to the parent company’s owners (of which -0.4 million euros is from the third quarter), and +2.1 million euros to non-controlling interests, how might that affect the investment calculations of larger investor entities (institutions and whatever else there is)? If it does affect, it might still keep some investors away from HKFoods’ stock, because the parent company’s owners are still incurring losses from the operations. Of course, I don’t know the accounting principles of the investment world, so this was more of a random chatterer’s musings aloud.

Inderes              HKFoods Oyj - Johdon liiketoimet - Tilli - Inderes    HKFoods Oyj, johtohenkilöiden liiketoimet, 7.11.2025 klo 10.30____________________________________________IlmoitusvelvollinenNimi: Mika TilliAsema: Talousjohtaja Liikkeeseenlaskija: HKFoods ...                             CFO making purchases, 20,000 shares at a price of €1.63/share. A nice small signal that the company’s daily operations have now stabilized and the crises have been overcome.

Pauli “Ora et labora” Lohi, as a diligent fellow, has already prepared a company report.  A largely unsurprising Q3 report led to moderate positive forecast changes, mainly due to a decrease in financing costs. We see the operational turnaround continuing, albeit at a more moderate pace than before, which, together with the gradual normalization of financing costs, rapidly lowers valuation multiples. We reiterate our Add recommendation and raise the target price to EUR 1.80 (previously EUR 1.70). Quoted from the report: Potential to become a defensive dividend company In the long term, HKFoods’ businesses have the potential to become defensive and dividend-paying, albeit with mediocre capital returns. The reduction in red meat consumption is slow, and the consumption of poultry and more processed foods is growing, so in the long term, we assume market growth will be close to general GDP growth. The meat industry and the food sector in general are competitive and capital-intensive industries where it is difficult to sustainably achieve returns on invested capital that exceed the required rate of return. On the other hand, in the short term, we see HKFoods as a turnaround company, whose earnings potential realization could support share price development.                   Inderes              HKFoods Q3'25: Tuloskäänne jatkuu ja rahoitusasema vakautuu - Inderes    Käänne jatkuu, mutta liiketuloksen osalta aiempaa maltillisemmin. Rahoituskuluissa on vielä runsaasti tehostumisvaraa.

Pauli interviewed HFoods’ CEO Juha Ruohola                    Inderes              HKFoods Q3'25: Myynnin rakenne parantui - Inderes    Aika: 05.11.2025 klo 13.05 HKFoodsin liikevaihto oli Q3:lla odotuksia matalampi, matalampikatteisten segmenttien kutistuessa. Vertailukelpoinen liiketulos kasvoi marginaalisesti vuodentakaiseen nähden.                             Topics: 00:00 Start  00:14 “Good performance in Q3”  01:09 Retail and Foodservice market  02:19 Impact of nutritional recommendations on demand  02:47 Increased price of beef weighed on profitability  04:25 Tariffs imposed by China on pork  05:58 Impact of pork oversupply on the Finnish market  06:32 Focus areas of the new strategy  08:10 Increase in operating profit target

Here are Pauli’s comments on the result.  HKFoods reported its Q3 interim report today, which was largely in line with our forecasts regarding operating profit. Revenue was lower than expected as lower-margin segments contracted. Net profit was surprisingly strong, influenced by lower-than-forecast net financial expenses and taxes. Overall, we consider the report to be quite neutral relative to expectations, unless other key points of note emerge at the company’s 10 AM press conference.                   Inderes              HKFoods Q3’25 -pikakommentti: Iso kuva odotusten mukainen - Inderes    Operatiiviset tulosrivit osuivat ennusteisiin ja ohjeistus säilyi ennallaan.

HKFoods Plc’s Interim Report January-September 2025: Growth in Comparable Operating Profit Continued in the Third Quarter - Inderes

HKFoods

HKFoods announced on Thursday that it would cancel treasury shares.

Translation: Original published in Finnish on 03/21/2025 at 08:43 am EET
HKFoods announced on Thursday that it would cancel treasury shares. The measure does not affect our estimates, as we have incorporated the treasury shares in our estimate model as if the shares did not exist. The number of shares decreases by 9.14%. The number of series A shares will decrease by 8.95% and the number of series K shares by 12.31%. After the cancellation, the total number of shares in HKFoods is 89,910,373 shares. The majority of the canceled shares ended up with the company when it sold its Swedish subsidiary to Lantm&#xe4;nnen in March 2024 and received a significant number of its own shares previously owned by Lantm&#xe4;nnen as part of the purchase price.

	2024	25e	26e
Revenue	1,001.8	1,047.3	1,068.3
growth-%	-13.9 %	4.5 %	2.0 %
EBIT (adj.)	27.7	28.8	29.6
EBIT-% (adj.)	2.8 %	2.8 %	2.8 %
EPS (adj.)	-0.05	0.02	0.07
Dividend	0.09	0.00	0.06
Dividend %	11.1 %		3.8 %
P/E (adj.)	neg.	93.2	21.4
EV/EBITDA	4.1	4.8	4.5

HKFoods: Cancellation of treasury shares has no impact on our estimates

Key Estimate Figures17.02

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