SPARK NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
stock AU:SPK (SYDNEY)

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Exchange: SYDNEY
Sector: Services
Industry: Telecom Services
Market Cap: Mid (9.38B)
Data in AUD

EPS: 0.21
Current PE: 24.63
BVPS: 1.33
Price/BVPS: 3.78
Dividend: 0.25 / 5.1%

Hist Grade: F (12.39)
YOY Grade: F (14.75)
Debt/FCF: 3.21
ROIC: 10.7%
PEG: 5.38
PEGY: 2.55

Value Price: 0.98
MOS Price: 0.49
MOS %: -80.6%
Graham Number: 2.48
Graham MOS %: -50.9%
IRT: 21.93

Market Price

5.05

0.13 2.6%

as of Dec 15 '22

52 Week Range:

4.05 5.07

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General Info

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Financial Statements

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Explains information presented in the Financial Statements section of the S2O Stock Analyzer: financial statements charts, absolute values and growth rates.

Growth Grade and Financial Ratios

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Demonstrates how to use Growth Grade & Financial Ratios section; shows the difference between historical and year-over-year Growth Grade on the real life example.

Demonstrates how to use Value Price (intrinsic value) and the Graham Number, MOS (margin of safety) and IRT - Investment Recovery Time; explains 3 different projection models used to compute value price - pessimistic, moderate and optimistic.

Price Charts

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Demonstrates basic rules of how to read a candlestick chart, long and short term moving averages, stochastic, MACD and relative strength (RS) charts. Explains how bull or bear market condition is computed.

General Info

Exchange: SYDNEY
Sector: Services
Industry: Telecom Services
Market Cap: Mid (9.38B)
Inst. Ownership: 30.10%
Insider Ownership: 1.10%
Full Time Employees: 4924

Spark New Zealand Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides telecommunications and digital services in New Zealand. It offers telecommunications, information technology, media, and other digital products and services, including mobile services; voice services; broadband services; internet sports streaming services; cloud, security, and service. The company also provides IT infrastructure, business cloud, business and outsourced telecommunications, software, big data analytics, data center, and international wholesale telecommunications services. In addition, it offers local, national, and international telephone and data services; finance products; group insurance products; and mobile phone repair services. Further, the company retails telecommunications products and services; and distributes equipment. It serves consumers, households, small businesses, government, and large enterprises. The company was formerly known as Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited and changed its name to Spark New Zealand Limited in August 2014. Spark New Zealand Limited was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.

Financial Statements

The charts below show selected Annual and Quarterly Financial Data.

The purpose of these charts is to discover long and short term change dynamics. When numbers are growing year after year in the annual statements chart, the business become stronger and stronger and this is a good sign.

Quarterly Data Chart can be used to do a short term analysis. It makes sense to pay attention to the quarterly dynamics and do not wait for the next yearly statement. We should be alerted if we see that quarterly numbers are going down.

You can check "Annual Financial Statements" and "Quarterly Financial Statements" sections for exact numbers and growth rates.

Annual Statements

On a charts below the Line shows absolute values and the Bar chart shows Year-Over-Year Growth Rate for selected financial statement item. A consistent GROWTH is generally considered necessary to fund future growth from within a business.
NOTE: Growth Rate is not provided if either the latest period or the year-ago period contains a net loss. (source: WSJ Digest of Earnings)
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Financial Statements

Income Statement

Cash Flow Statement

Balance Sheet

Liquidity Ratios

Current Ratio

Current Ratio measures the ability to meet short term obligations. Generally accepted standard is 2 (current assets should be 2 times or 200% of current liabilities).

Quick Ratio

Measures immediate liquidity or the cash available to cover immediate liabilities. A safe margin would be at least 1 (100%).

Financial Leverage

Defined as total assets divided by total shareholders' equity. The higher the ratio, the more debt a company uses in its capital structure.

Profitability Ratios

ROA

Return on Assets (ROA) measures the income (profit) that is generated by the use of the assets of the business.

ROE

Return on Equity (ROE) is a measure of profitability that calculates how many dollars of profit a company generates with each dollar of shareholders equity. ROE is sometimes called "return on net worth."

ROIC

The Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) measure gives a sense of how well a company is using its money to generate returns. Some investors use this figure as a final evaluation to determine whether or not to invest in a company.

Annual Statements

Item Name	Jun '12	Jun '13	Jun '14	Jun '15	Jun '16	Jun '17	Jun '18	Jun '19	Jun '20	Jun '21	Jun '22
Equity (BVPS)	0.79	0.68	0.75	0.82	0.90	0.86	0.79	0.77	0.72	0.72
growth rate		-13.9%	10.3%	9.3%	9.8%	-4.4%	-8.1%	-2.5%	-6.5%	0.0%
Earnings BIT	381.59	537.00	485.00	523.00	545.00	592.00	555.00	611.00	627.00	600.00	632.00
growth rate		40.7%	-9.7%	7.8%	4.2%	8.6%	-6.3%	10.1%	2.6%	-4.3%	5.3%
Avg.PE	14.88	17.36		10.01	23.40	22.69	25.35	28.47	29.93	29.93	22.40
growth rate		16.7%		-24.1%	133.8%	-3.0%	11.7%	12.3%	5.1%	0.0%	-25.2%
ROA	22.96	6.59	13.60	11.57	11.49	12.73	11.41	10.89	10.12	9.08
growth rate		-71.3%	106.4%	-14.9%	-0.7%	10.8%	-10.4%	-4.6%	-7.1%	-10.3%
ROE	58.82	15.59	29.46	21.44	21.37	25.07	24.12	27.21	28.87	25.63
growth rate		-73.5%	89.0%	-27.2%	-0.3%	17.3%	-3.8%	12.8%	6.1%	-11.2%
ROIC	34.50	10.58	20.11	16.30	15.58	16.86	15.17	13.76	12.85	11.38
growth rate		-69.3%	90.1%	-19.0%	-4.4%	8.2%	-10.0%	-9.3%	-6.6%	-11.4%
Cur. Ratio	0.81	0.77	1.09	0.93	0.99	0.96	1.12	0.96	1.19	0.98
growth rate		-4.9%	41.6%	-14.7%	6.5%	-3.0%	16.7%	-14.3%	24.0%	-17.7%
Quick Ratio	0.59	0.55	0.83	0.59	0.74	0.73	0.85	0.76	0.88	0.75
growth rate		-6.8%	50.9%	-28.9%	25.4%	-1.4%	16.4%	-10.6%	15.8%	-14.8%
Leverage	2.26	2.48	1.91	1.80	1.92	2.02	2.22	2.80	2.91	2.74
growth rate		9.7%	-23.0%	-5.8%	6.7%	5.2%	9.9%	26.1%	3.9%	-5.8%
Balance Sheet	Jun '12	Jun '13	Jun '14	Jun '15	Jun '16	Jun '17	Jun '18	Jun '19	Jun '20	Jun '21	Jun '22
Acct.Receivable	369.13	483.00	437.00	438.00	433.00	529.00	549.00	615.00	621.00	588.00	652.00
growth rate		30.9%	-9.5%	0.2%	-1.1%	22.2%	3.8%	12.0%	1.0%	-5.3%	10.9%
Acct.Payable		550.00	392.00	349.00	277.00	271.00	283.00	258.00	267.00	270.00	260.00
growth rate			-28.7%	-11.0%	-20.6%	-2.2%	4.4%	-8.8%	3.5%	1.1%	-3.7%
Cur.Assets	888.12	838.00	841.00	666.00	649.00	756.00	807.00	911.00	958.00	916.00	1,221.00
growth rate		-5.6%	0.4%	-20.8%	-2.6%	16.5%	6.8%	12.9%	5.2%	-4.4%	33.3%
Total Assets	3,350.54	3,493.00	3,243.00	3,206.00	3,237.00	3,331.00	3,844.00	4,095.00	4,358.00	4,100.00	4,189.00
growth rate		4.3%	-7.2%	-1.1%	1.0%	2.9%	15.4%	6.5%	6.4%	-5.9%	2.2%
Cash	169.03	118.00	208.00	80.00	52.00	52.00	55.00	54.00	53.00	72.00	71.00
growth rate		-30.2%	76.3%	-61.5%	-35.0%	0.0%	5.8%	-1.8%	-1.9%	35.9%	-1.4%
Inventory	44.77	53.00	50.00	70.00	81.00	94.00	79.00	100.00	96.00	64.00	107.00
growth rate		18.4%	-5.7%	40.0%	15.7%	16.1%	-16.0%	26.6%	-4.0%	-33.3%	67.2%
Cur.Liabilities	1,100.09	1,086.00	773.00	717.00	653.00	791.00	759.00	944.00	811.00	939.00	940.00
growth rate		-1.3%	-28.8%	-7.2%	-8.9%	21.1%	-4.1%	24.4%	-14.1%	15.8%	0.1%
Liabilities	1,869.43	2,080.00	1,535.00	1,428.00	1,553.00	1,680.00	2,361.00	2,630.00	2,884.00	2,608.00	2,714.00
growth rate		11.3%	-26.2%	-7.0%	8.8%	8.2%	40.5%	11.4%	9.7%	-9.6%	4.1%
LT Debt	552.79	773.00	603.00	564.00	754.00	737.00	1,011.00	1,073.00	1,400.00	1,121.00	1,310.00
growth rate		39.8%	-22.0%	-6.5%	33.7%	-2.3%	37.2%	6.1%	30.5%	-19.9%	16.9%
Equity	1,481.11	1,285.58	1,702.00	1,778.00	1,684.00	1,651.00	1,483.00	1,465.00	1,474.00	1,492.00	1,475.00
growth rate		-13.2%	32.4%	4.5%	-5.3%	-2.0%	-10.2%	-1.2%	0.6%	1.2%	-1.1%
Common Shares	1,918.00	1,845.00	1,823.00	1,834.00	1,830.00	1,832.00	941.00	945.00	949.00	1,084.00	1,105.00
growth rate		-3.8%	-1.2%	0.6%	-0.2%	0.1%	-48.6%	0.4%	0.4%	14.2%	1.9%
Cash Flow Statement	Jun '12	Jun '13	Jun '14	Jun '15	Jun '16	Jun '17	Jun '18	Jun '19	Jun '20	Jun '21	Jun '22
Capital Expenditures	603.96	396.00	490.00	592.00	424.00	404.00	422.00	423.00	401.00	336.00	433.00
growth rate		-34.4%	23.7%	20.8%	-28.4%	-4.7%	4.5%	0.2%	-5.2%	-16.2%	28.9%
Cash Dividends	310.66	298.78	271.00	298.00	402.52	403.04	403.04	403.92	403.92	330.00	449.00
growth rate		-3.8%	-9.3%	10.0%	35.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	-18.3%	36.1%
Cash From OA	899.99	885.00	614.00	630.00	716.00	717.00	820.00	777.00	903.00	853.00	841.00
growth rate		-1.7%	-30.6%	2.6%	13.7%	0.1%	14.4%	-5.2%	16.2%	-5.5%	-1.4%
FCF per Share	0.21	0.20	0.09	0.01	0.18	0.14	0.20	0.17	0.16	0.29
growth rate		-4.8%	-55.0%	-88.9%	1,700.0%	-22.2%	42.9%	-15.0%	-5.9%	81.3%
FCF	322.00	496.00	131.00	44.00	298.00	325.00	363.00	362.00	510.00	472.00	408.00
growth rate		54.0%	-73.6%	-66.4%	577.3%	9.1%	11.7%	-0.3%	40.9%	-7.5%	-13.6%
Income Statement	Jun '12	Jun '13	Jun '14	Jun '15	Jun '16	Jun '17	Jun '18	Jun '19	Jun '20	Jun '21	Jun '22
Sales	4,181.09	3,735.00	3,638.00	3,531.00	3,497.00	3,614.00	3,533.00	3,533.00	3,623.00	3,593.00	3,720.00
growth rate		-10.7%	-2.6%	-2.9%	-1.0%	3.4%	-2.2%	0.0%	2.6%	-0.8%	3.5%
Op.Income	459.59	537.00	485.00	523.00	545.00	592.00	555.00	611.00	627.00	600.00	632.00
growth rate		16.8%	-9.7%	7.8%	4.2%	8.6%	-6.3%	10.1%	2.6%	-4.3%	5.3%
IBT	386.50	340.81	454.00	482.00	512.00	560.00	505.00	579.00	568.00	550.00	581.00
growth rate		-11.8%	33.2%	6.2%	6.2%	9.4%	-9.8%	14.7%	-1.9%	-3.2%	5.6%
Net Income	1,055.32	236.00	458.00	373.00	370.00	418.00	365.00	409.00	420.00	381.00	410.00
growth rate		-77.6%	94.1%	-18.6%	-0.8%	13.0%	-12.7%	12.1%	2.7%	-9.3%	7.6%
EPS	0.60	0.13	0.25	0.20	0.20	0.23	0.21	0.22	0.23	0.20
growth rate		-78.3%	92.3%	-20.0%	0.0%	15.0%	-8.7%	4.8%	4.6%	-13.0%
Gross Profit	2,392.98	1,067.00	1,005.00	1,054.00	1,068.00	1,091.00	1,126.00	1,181.00	1,201.00	1,198.00	1,219.00
growth rate		-55.4%	-5.8%	4.9%	1.3%	2.2%	3.2%	4.9%	1.7%	-0.3%	1.8%
R&D
growth rate

Quarterly Statements

Item Name	Jun '21	Sep '21	Dec '21	Mar '22	Jun '22
Earnings BIT	182.00	141.50	141.50	174.50	174.50
growth rate		-22.3%	0.0%	23.3%	0.0%
Balance Sheet	Jun '21	Sep '21	Dec '21	Mar '22	Jun '22
Acct.Receivable	588.00	751.00	751.00	652.00	652.00
growth rate		27.7%	0.0%	-13.2%	0.0%
Acct.Payable	270.00			260.00	260.00
growth rate				-1.3%	0.0%
Cur.Assets	916.00	940.00	940.00	1,221.00	1,221.00
growth rate		2.6%	0.0%	29.9%	0.0%
Total Assets	4,113.00	4,150.00	4,150.00	4,189.00	4,189.00
growth rate		0.9%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
Cash	72.00	93.00	93.00	71.00	71.00
growth rate		29.2%	0.0%	-23.7%	0.0%
Inventory	64.00	93.00	93.00	107.00	107.00
growth rate		45.3%	0.0%	15.1%	0.0%
Cur.Liabilities	939.00	910.00	910.00	940.00	940.00
growth rate		-3.1%	0.0%	3.3%	0.0%
Liabilities	2,610.00	2,673.00	2,673.00	2,714.00	2,714.00
growth rate		2.4%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%
LT Debt	1,121.00	1,239.00	1,239.00	1,310.00	1,310.00
growth rate		10.5%	0.0%	5.7%	0.0%
Equity	1,503.00	1,477.00	1,477.00	1,475.00	1,475.00
growth rate		-1.7%	0.0%	-0.1%	0.0%
Common Shares	1,084.00	1,095.00	1,095.00	1,105.00	1,105.00
growth rate		1.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
Cash Flow Statement	Jun '21	Sep '21	Dec '21	Mar '22	Jun '22
Capital Expenditures	62.00	109.50	109.50	107.00	107.00
growth rate		76.6%	0.0%	-2.3%	0.0%
Cash Dividends	81.50	112.50	112.50	112.00	112.00
growth rate		38.0%	0.0%	-0.4%	0.0%
Cash From OA	247.00	229.00	229.00	191.50	191.50
growth rate		-7.3%	0.0%	-16.4%	0.0%
FCF	185.00	119.50	119.50	84.50	84.50
growth rate		-35.4%	0.0%	-29.3%	0.0%
Income Statement	Jun '21	Sep '21	Dec '21	Mar '22	Jun '22
Sales	898.50	945.00	945.00	915.00	915.00
growth rate		5.2%	0.0%	-3.2%	0.0%
Op.Income	182.00	141.50	141.50	174.50	174.50
growth rate		-22.3%	0.0%	23.3%	0.0%
IBT	170.00	128.50	128.50	162.00	162.00
growth rate		-24.4%	0.0%	26.1%	0.0%
Net Income	118.00	89.50	89.50	115.50	115.50
growth rate		-24.2%	0.0%	29.1%	0.0%
Gross Profit	328.50	287.00	287.00	322.50	322.50
growth rate		-12.6%	0.0%	12.4%	0.0%

Growth Grade & Financial Ratios

All financial ratios below are calculated based on latest annual statements available and present the most up to date snapshot of a company finances.

Growth Grade

Historical Growth Grade:

F (12.39)

YOY Growth Grade:

F (14.75)

Click on buttons above for detailed yearly growth rates.

Market Ratios

Dividend Yield: 5.1%
Beta: 0.20
Beta of 0.1973 suggests that the asset is less volatile than the rest of the market.
PE: 24.63
EY: 4.1%
PEG: 5.38
PEG Ratio of 5.38 suggests that stock is overpriced.
PEGY: 2.55
PEGY Ratio of 2.55 suggests that stock is overpriced.
Price/BVPS: 3.78

Profitability Ratios

ROE: 25.6%
Return on Equity (ROE) of 25.6% suggests that a company is doing well.
ROS: 17.0%
The value of Return on Sales depends on the business and/or industry. Usually the higher ratio the better.
ROA: 13.9%
Return on Assets (ROA). Low ratio usually means poor performance, or ineffective use of assets by management. High ratio usually means good performance.
ROI: 39.4%
Return on Investment (ROI) of 39.4% suggests that a company is doing well.
ROIC: 10.7%
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) of 10.7% suggests that management is inefficient or it could reflect a highly capitalized, conservatively operated business with little long term debt.

Liquidity Ratios

Current Ratio: 1.30
Current Ratio of 1.30 suggests that a company may not be able to pay off bills as rapidly as it should.
Quick Ratio: 0.77
Quick Ratio of 0.77 suggests that a company may not be able to pay off bills as rapidly as it should.
Cash Turnover: 13.24
Turnover Of Cash Ratio of 13.24 suggests that a company may be vulnerable to creditors. As a result it may be unable to pay wages or utility bills.
Equity Ratio: 35.2%
Equity Ratio of 35.2% suggests that a company has high financing and debt service costs, not very attractive to investors.
Debt/Equity: 184.0%
Debt to Equity Ratio of 184.0% suggests that greater risk assumed by creditors, hence greater interest by them in the way the company is being managed.
Debt/FCF: 3.21
Debt/FCF of 3.21 suggests that a company does not have enough cash to pay off its long term debt within three years.

Efficiency Ratios

Avg Collection Period: 63.97
Average Collection Period of 63.97 days suggests a slow turnover, which may be the result of a number of bad accounts, or a tax collection policy or perhaps credit is being used to generate sales.
Inventory Turnover: 23.37
Inventory Turnover Ratio of 23.37 suggests that a company is doing well.
Cash Flow Ratio: 2.92
Cash Flow Ratio of 2.92 suggests a company is doing OK, but lower inventory is generally viewed as a positive trend.
Profit Margin: 11.0%

Value Price

PE and EPS

	Historical	Current	Forward
PE	24.34	24.63	26.26
EPS / Growth	-46.4%	0.21	4.6%

Value Price & Investment Recovery Time

Read more about Stock2Own value price in Stock Market: Fundamental Analysis.

Equity Growth Rate: 1.0%

Estimates	Pessimistic	Moderate	Optimistic
Rate of Return	15.0%
MOS Price %	50 %
Future EPS Growth	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%
Future PE	2.00	17.53	17.53
Future EPS	0.23	0.23	0.23
Value Price MOS %	0.11 -97.8%	0.98 -80.6%	0.98 -80.6%
MOS Price	0.06	0.49	0.49
IRT	21.93	21.93	21.93

Graham Number:

NOTE: The Graham Number applies only to certain types of stocks in combination with a number of other criteria.

Read more about Graham Number in Stock Market: Fundamental Analysis.

Graham Number: 2.48
Graham MOS: -50.9%

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