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Karbon Homes Limited

29 November 2021

 
 Karbon Homes Group 
 29th November 2021 
 
 Karbon Homes Group trading update for the six-month period ending 30 September 2021 
 -- Karbon Homes Group (KHG) is today issuing its consolidated trading update for the period ended 
  30 September 2021. 
 -- These figures are unaudited and for information purposes only. 
 
 Highlights for the period ending 30 September 2021 
 -- KHG own and manage 29,490 homes 
 -- Turnover for the period was GBP76.6m (2020: GBP67.9m) 
 -- Operating surplus (including asset sales) for the period was GBP24.9m (2020: GBP20.8m) 
 -- Overall operating margin (including asset sales) was 30.7% (2020: 30.7%) 
 -- Overall operating margin (excluding asset sales) was 30.8% (2020: 29.9%) 
 -- The surplus before tax for the period was GBP15.4m (2020: GBP11.7m) 
 -- Gearing as at 30 September 2021 was 35.5% (2020: 36.9%) 
 -- Return on capital employed for the period was 2.2% (2020: 1.9%) 
 
 
 Commenting on the results, Scott Martin, Executive Director of Resources, said: 
 "We began this financial year with optimism, as Karbon, along with its customers, communities and 
  colleagues continued to weather the challenges posed by the after-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic 
  across our region of operation. 
 We have recently refreshed our Stronger Foundations Strategy 2021-2026, and in that we continue 
  to focus on providing as many good quality homes as we can, delivering an excellent customer experience 
  and shaping strong sustainable places for our communities. 
 
 As you can see, we have grown to almost 30,000 homes with the successful transfer of c.1800 homes 
  from the former Byker Community Trust (BCT) in April 2021. Bringing Byker into the Karbon family 
  was seen as a chance to develop our placeshaping expertise. 
 As part of the customer consultation, we developed a 'community pledge' and agreed a work plan 
  and suite of KPI's to monitor the quality of services on the estate. 
 We're also making progress on improvements to the external environment of the Byker estate, outlining 
  funding to modernise homes and exploring opportunities for new homes too, in line with our promises 
  to customers. 
 
 Continuing with the theme of new homes, were pleased to say that we have delivered 236 new homes 
  across the north in the period to 30 Sept 2021, and are on track to reach our year-end target of 
  507 by the 31 March 2022. 
 Furthermore, almost 93% of our customers were very or fairly satisfied with the quality of their 
  new home in Sept 2021, which is a great achievement for us and our various construction partners 
  in what has been a challenging economic environment in terms of skills and materials resource pressures. 
 
 In terms of our existing homes, we've invested over GBP18m so far this year across our planned, 
  responsive and cyclical repairs programmes, with almost 91% of our customers saying they were very 
  or fairly satisfied with our repairs services overall. 
 This has helped us maintain our strong performance in customer satisfaction with a Net Promotor 
  score of +46.7. This has a positive impact on our occupation and rent collection rates, with both 
  these metrics above 99% in the year to date too. 
 
 In October 2021, we also published our first report against the Sustainability Reporting Standard 
  for Social Housing. The report outlines the variety of good work we perform across Environmental, 
  Social and Governance areas. The report can be found on our website at: 
 https://www.karbonhomes.co.uk/about-us/corporate/ 
 
 We hope that you find this summary information about our performance useful and informative and 
  will be continuing with our well-established process of updating our stakeholders again this year, 
  either virtually or in person. 
 It is our intention to hold a webinar update on the 15th December 2021, whereby our stakeholders 
  can hear more detail about performance this year as well as our plans moving forward, from our 
  Group Chief Executive, Paul Fiddaman. 
 There will also be the opportunity to arrange one to one meetings, for those unable to attend the 
  webinar session. 
 To register an interest in this event, please get in touch with Andrew Thompson (AD Treasury), 
  at andrew.thompson@karbonhomes.co.uk" 
 
 Our unaudited 6 monthly Group results and other key indicators are displayed below 
 
 
 Unaudited Financial Metrics 
                                                     30-Sep     30-Sep 
                                                       2021       2020 
 
                                                     Actual     Actual 
                                                    GBP'000    GBP'000 
 Statement of Comprehensive Income 
 
 Turnover                                            76,647     67,865 
 
 Operating Surplus (including asset sales)           24,910     20,809 
 Surplus before tax                                  15,414     11,742 
 
 Margins 
 
 Overall operating margin (incl.asset sales) 
  (Note 1)                                            30.7%      30.7% 
 Overall operating margin (excl.asset sales) 
  (Note 2)                                            30.8%      29.9% 
 
 Key Financial Ratios 
 
 Interest cover (EBITDA MRI) (Note 3)                277.4%     280.1% 
 Gearing (Note 4)                                     35.5%      36.9% 
 Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) (Note 5)            2.2%       1.9% 
 
 
                                                     30-Sep 
                                                       2021 
 
 Liquidity 
 24 month liquidity requirement (GBP'000) (Note 
  6)                                                132,081 
 Cash and undrawn facilities (GBP'000) (Note 
  7)                                                231,944 
 Unencumbered stock (no of properties)                6,735 
 Value of unencmbered stock (Avg of EUV and 
  MV, GBP'000) (Note 8)                             201,491 
 Loan security excesses (Avg of EUV and MV, 
  GBP'000) (Note 9)                                 129,912 
 
 Credit Rating 
 
                                                   A (stable) : 21st 
 S & P                                              May 2021 
 
 
 Notes: 
 
 1) Operating margin including asset sales includes all activity 
 2) Operating margin excluding asset sales removes the gain or loss on disposal of housing properties 
 3) Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, major repairs included is 
  defined as: (Operating surplus - Disposal of assets - Outright sales and first tranche SO surpluses 
  + Depreciation & impairment - Grant amortisation - Capitalised major repairs) / Interest paid 
 (reflecting the 'S&P global methodology for rating public and non-profit social housing providers', 
  published 1st June 2021) 
 4) Gearing is defined as Group Net Debt / Group Housing assets at historic cost less depreciation 
  (RSH VFM Gearing definition). 
 Karbon have chosen to include cash held in non ring-fenced investment accounts as available 
  cash, Sept 2021: GBP83.7m (Sept 2020: GBP95.6m) 
 5) Return on capital employed is defined as Operating Surplus (incl asset sales) / Total Assets 
  less current liabilities 
 6) 24 month cashflow requirements 
 7) Cash, investments and undrawn RCF (Revolving Credit Facilities) 
 8) Value of stock not held by a lender or security trustee. 
 9) Value of excess security held with current lenders or Prudential Trustees 
 
 
 This trading update contains certain forward looking statements about the future outlook for 
  Karbon Homes Group. These have been prepared and reviewed by Karbon only and are unaudited. 
 Forward looking statements inherently involve a number of uncertainties and assumptions. Although 
  the Directors believe that these statements are based upon reasonable assumptions on the publication 
  date, any such statements should be treated with caution as future outlook may be influenced 
  by factors that could cause actual and audited outcomes and results to be materially different. 
 Additionally, the information in this statement should not be construed as solicitation/recommendation 
  to invest in Karbon's bonds 
 
 
 For further information, please contact: 
 Andrew Thompson, Assistant Director: Treasury 
 07917 642957 
 
 https://www.karbonhomes.co.uk/corporate/ 
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