EQTEC provides project development, engineering and design services – with its leading-edge Advanced Gasification Technology at the centre of sustainable waste-to-value plants – to operators and investors. EQTEC’s solutions produce a pure high-quality synthesis gas (syngas), capable of being used for the widest applications including generating green electricity, heat, biofuels and hydrogen. The company works with and co-ordinates multiple parties for its projects, including developers, waste owners, EPCs and contractors and funders with a view to ultimately providing its gasification technology, associated engineering & design services and O&M services.

• Total £16 million raised in May in over-subscribed placing

  The money was raised at 1.5p per share, an 11.24% discount to the previous day’s closing price. As our previous updates have highlighted, EQTEC has over the past few months developed a significant pipeline of projects. Between July 2020 and February 2021, non-contracted tender opportunities worth a total potential of €316 million were added for a total potential pipeline value of €657 million. With this in mind, the company will use the proceeds of the fund raise to take full advantage of a number of near-term opportunities and to prepare itself for further long-term growth.

• Q2 trading update confirmed that progress continues in 2021

  A July trading update confirmed that EQTEC has continued to make progress across its pipeline of opportunities in the three months to end-June. The company also confirmed that it is on track to meet its target of achieving c.€15 million of revenues for 2021 and a maiden year of profitability. This assumes that revenues are weighted towards the second half of the year as deals reach financial close and fees are received.

• Forecasts revised to consider pipeline acceleration & target price raised

  Following the fundraise we have revised our expectations for the 2021 to 2023 financial years and used these as a basis for providing a valuation for the company. In 2023, as more projects are progressed and the substantial non-contracted pipeline is translated into commercial success, we are now looking for revenues to more than double to €149.3 million (up from €118.5 million previously) and EBITDA to grow by 142% to €36.6 million. Using our updated 2023 forecasts, and on an EV/EBITDA multiple basis discounted back to end 2021, we derive a new target price of 3.47p per share. Conviction Buy.

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