Trifast – CEO appointment and how’s it coping with the “challenging” macroeconomic environment?

Industrial fastenings and components company Trifast (TRI) has announced the appointment of Iain Percival as CEO, emphasising his 30-year career experience including divisional leadership positions within a number of international manufacturing businesses and recently as Packaging divisional Chief Executive at FTSE 250 Essentra (ESNT). What of this appointment and the outlook from a currently little-changed around 80p share price?

Trifast (#TRI) – FY update, intends to propose 1.5p DPS and targeting “marked improvement in performance” this year

Trifast – having been looking for second-half improvements, “Trading Update and Directorate Change”…

Industrial fastenings and components principally for major global assembly industries company, Trifast (TRI) has issued a “Trading Update and Directorate Change” announcement commencing that “since the half year results in November 2022, the group has recorded further year on year revenue growth, led by the European and North American businesses. In addition, Trifast has secured a further £10m of new contract wins since 30 September 2022, increasing the year-to-date total to £22m. During January, we also concluded negotiations with significant customers resulting in contractual pricing uplifts which were in line with our expectations”. So what of a current share price slump?

Trifast (#TRI) – destocking in Asia trading warning, CEO Mark Belton “resigned”

Trifast – set for second-half improvements?

Industrial fastenings and components principally for major global assembly industries business, Trifast (TRI) has recently announced results for its half-year ended 30th September 2022 including earnings per share down to 3.33p, increased net debt and noted continuing macro challenges. However, it also noted various “significant progress” which encourages for the second half of the year and beyond and suggests share price recovery potential.

Trifast (#TRI) – adj. “revenues up c.5% year-on-year in the four-month period to the end of Jan”

Trifast – trading “slightly ahead” of its base case assumptions… so why further share price decline?...

Trifast (TRI) has updated that it “is pleased to report that trading… has continued to be slightly ahead of our FY2021 base case assumptions” and “we have a robust balance sheet and are actively pursuing commercial, operational and strategic initiatives that, despite the necessary COVID-19 related caution, will allow us to take advantage of the significant growth opportunities we see”. However, and despite already being down from above 190p in February, the shares are currently slightly further lower below 120p...

Trifast (#TRI) – “H1 revenue has been slightly ahead of our FY2021 base case assumptions (previously reported as FY2021 revenue c.16% below prior year)”

Trifast (#TRI) – broker option exercised, raising approximately £1m

Trifast (#TRI) – notes “a significant impact on trading” though activity levels improvement during May and into June, proposed placing

Trifast (#TRI) – notes “a continued pipeline of new wins and opportunities”, though “current difficult trading conditions”

Trifast (#TRI) – FY “now expected to be at the lower end of analysts' forecasts”

Trifast (#TRI) – warns amidst “continued… challenging market environment”, though argues “pipeline of new wins remains reassuringly solid”

Trifast (#TRI) – FY adj. profit “slightly ahead of management expectations”, remains optimistic despite more challenging macro-economic environment

Trifast (#TRI) – FY “slightly ahead of management expectations”, “confident”

Trifast (#TRI) – “remain confident that the group will deliver its expectations”

Trifast (#TRI) – visibility & order pipeline “very encouraging”, confident will deliver FY expectations

Trifast (#TRI) – expects FY “slightly ahead of its previous expectations”

Trifast (#TRI) – “remains solidly on track”, confident in future prospects

Trifast (#TRI) says FY PTP will be at upper end of range