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Smart Metering Systems

July 2020

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The shares have recovered towards £6 after Smart Metering Systems, which installs and manages smart gas and electricity meters for private and commercial businesses, completed the sale of a minority stake in its I&C meter assets division to Equitix for £291m in cash (useful 16.5x EBITDA). At a stroke this smart piece of business (no pun intended) completely deleverages its balance sheet, repaying gross debt of c.£270m, drawn down from the previous £420m facility. This deal will leave SMS with cash of c.£45m and an undrawn £300m borrowing facility. Further good news, which came in on 29th May, is that it will re-start all non-essential field work from 1st June.SMS is one of the few ...

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