Risk factor
Resilient to price shocks
Profitability factor
Very strong margins and returns
About
CVC Capital Partners plc is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in middle market secondaries, infrastructure and credit, management buyouts, leveraged buyouts, growth equity, mature, recapitalizations, strip sales, and spinouts. The firm makes investments in medium to large sized companies. It seeks to invest in fintech, healthcare, industrial, Education, telecommunications, information technology, electronics, biotechnology, medical, energy, chemistry, new materials, industrial automatisms, tech-enabled businesses such as human resources software, data centers, software as a service, payments, industrial goods and services, real estate, other manufactured goods, financial services, manufacturing, services, distribution, media, retail, consumer goods, consumer services, sports, entertainment, buildings and construction, chemicals, gaming, oil and gas, and public works. For Growth Partners, the firm seeks to invest in growth-oriented companies operating in the software and technology-enabled business services sectors. The firm also seeks to make infrastructure investments in Europe in the following sectors: transport, public or business utilities, provision of government services, communications infrastructure, energy production and provision, and businesses providing related regulated services. It prefers to invest in companies based in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Bermuda, Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Korea, Malta, Middle East, North Africa, North America, United States, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Greater China, Taiwan, America, and Europe, with a focus on France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. For Asia private equity strategy, it seeks to invest in companies with enterprise value between USD 250 million and USD 1500 million. For CVC Catalyst, it seeks to invest in companies with equity investments of between 75 million ($86.36 million) and 250 million ($287.89 million). For Strategic Opportunities, it seeks to invest in companies with enterprise value between EUR 1000 million (USD 1067.05 million) and more than EUR 5000 million (USD 5727.4 million), with a longer holding period of around six to fifteen years. It seeks to invest in companies with enterprise value between USD 250 million and USD 5727.4 million. For Growth strategy, its equity investments are more than USD 50 million. It seeks to make equity investments between $50 million and $287.97 million. Asia private equity strategy is focused on control, co-control, structured minority, and majority investments. Europe and Americas strategy is focused on control or co-control investments. For minority stakes, it takes equity investments between 15% and 20%. For credit strategies, the firm focuses on investing in senior secured loans, bonds, corporate credit, private credit, direct lending, and private credit. CVC Capital Partners plc was founded in 1981 and is based in London, United Kingdom, with additional offices across Australia, Europe, South America, and Asia. CVC Capital Partners plc operates as a subsidiary of CVC Advisers Company (Luxembourg) S a r l.
Company Valuation
Based on key historical and expected multiples, the stock is overvalued relative to its peers. In particular, the stock is reasonably priced on P/E, of fair value on EV/E
Target Price
The average target price of CVC.AS is 17.4 and suggests 15% upside potential. Usually, this means a BUY recommendation among investment firms, or a recommendation to incr