Yahoo Finance When Will Afterpay Touch Group Limited (ASX:APT) Breakeven?
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Afterpay Touch Group Limited's (ASX:APT): Afterpay Touch Group Limited operates as a payments company in Australia. The AU$6.5b market-cap posted a loss in its most recent financial year of -AU$9.0m and a latest trailing-twelve-month loss of -AU$30.3m leading to an even wider gap between loss and breakeven. The most pressing concern for investors is APT’s path to profitability – when will it breakeven? In this article, I will touch on the expectations for APT’s growth and when analysts expect the company to become profitable.
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APT is bordering on breakeven, according to the 6 IT analysts. They anticipate the company to incur a final loss in 2019, before generating positive profits of AU$17m in 2020. APT is therefore projected to breakeven around a few months from now. In order to meet this breakeven date, I calculated the rate at which APT must grow year-on-year. It turns out an average annual growth rate of 67% is expected, which signals high confidence from analysts. If this rate turns out to be too aggressive, APT may become profitable much later than analysts predict.
Given this is a high-level overview, I won’t go into details of APT’s upcoming projects, though, take into account that generally a high growth rate is not out of the ordinary, particularly when a company is in a period of investment.
Before I wrap up, there’s one issue worth mentioning. APT currently has a relatively high level of debt. Typically, debt shouldn’t exceed 40% of your equity, which in APT’s case is 53%. A higher level of debt requires more stringent capital management which increases the risk around investing in the loss-making company.
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There are too many aspects of APT to cover in one brief article, but the key fundamentals for the company can all be found in one place – APT’s company page on Simply Wall St. I’ve also put together a list of relevant aspects you should further research:
Historical Track Record: What has APT's performance been like over the past? Go into more detail in the past track record analysis and take a look at the free visual representations of our analysis for more clarity.
Management Team: An experienced management team on the helm increases our confidence in the business – take a look at who sits on Afterpay Touch Group’s board and the CEO’s back ground.
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