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An economy battered by COVID has forced Australian businesses to adapt – and for Southern Cross Electrical Engineering (ASX: SXE), this has meant diversifying its services.
In the past few years, SCEE has evolved into a group of electrical, instrumentation, communications and maintenance services companies operating through six main entities over three broad sectors: infrastructure, commercial and resources.
This reworked model has created new avenues of growth for the company, and in doing so caught the eye of Australian billionaire investor Alex Waislitz, who quoted it in August last year to Reach Markets as one of his favourite stocks.
“It’s really well positioned to win a lot of work into that thematic,” Mr Waislitz said, referring to the three sectors.
Following Mr Waislitz’s recommendation, CEO Graeme Dunn joined us on The Insider: Meet the CEOs to discuss SCEE’s reorganised company structure and its outlook for FY22 and beyond.
“SCEE electrical is the original operating business historically focused on resources and industrial, but more recently diversified into transport, infrastructure, defence, utilities and renewables,” he said.
The 40-year-old company has opened up further opportunities for itself through the acquisition of its six main entities to increase its leverage in the health, education, government, transport, retail, commercial and transport sectors.
SCEE has also had to adapt to the shifting market focus in FY21, which saw resources activity increase and the transport and infrastructure sectors decline from the previous year’s peak.
“Although revenue ($370 million) fell short of target, our second half was a record half of activity and was up 73.4% on the first half,” Mr Dunn said. “Our workforce doubled in the year to a record 1800 employees.”
The company’s FY21 numbers speak for itself with profits ahead of target at an EBITDA of $29.6 million (up 37%) and an NPAT of $13.8 million (up 26.6%) in the prior year. SCEE ended the year with $51 million in cash and zero debt.
Mr Dunn said he was confident SCEE would continue its growth trajectory, targeting ~$500 million in revenue and strategic acquisitions across the resources, commercial and infrastructure sectors.
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