Company Valuation: Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited

Data adjusted to current consolidation scope
Fiscal Period: December 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027
Capitalization 1 537,449 576,163 426,739 339,171 372,776 515,169 515,169 -
Change - 7.2% -25.93% -20.52% 9.91% 38.2% 0% -
Enterprise Value (EV) 1 379,876 395,228 244,010 329,332 358,183 403,129 370,152 298,531
Change - 4.04% -38.26% 34.97% 8.76% 12.55% -8.18% -19.35%
P/E ratio 46.8x 46x 42.4x 28.6x 28.6x 29.6x 29.4x 27.5x
PBR 11x 11.6x 8.58x 6.61x 6.92x 9.18x 8.85x 8.39x
PEG - 5.23x -2.2x 1.6x 2.88x 0.9x 38.68x 3.95x
Capitalization / Revenue 28x 27.5x 23.1x 16.5x 16.7x 18x 17.6x 16.8x
EV / Revenue 19.8x 18.9x 13.2x 16.1x 16x 14.1x 12.6x 9.72x
EV / EBITDA 25.9x 24.3x 18.5x 22.2x 22x 18.1x 16.5x 12.5x
EV / EBIT 28.3x 26.5x 20.8x 24.6x 24.1x 19.4x 17.8x 13.8x
EV / FCF 28.3x 35.1x 17.7x 32.5x 32.1x 37.2x 22.7x 16.5x
FCF Yield 3.53% 2.85% 5.64% 3.07% 3.12% 2.69% 4.4% 6.06%
Dividend per Share 2 8.17 8.87 7.14 8.41 9.26 12.36 12.32 13.24
Rate of return 1.92% 1.95% 2.12% 3.14% 3.14% 3.03% 3.02% 3.25%
EPS 2 9.09 9.89 7.95 9.36 10.29 13.76 13.86 14.83
Distribution rate 89.9% 89.7% 89.8% 89.9% 90% 89.8% 88.9% 89.3%
Net sales 1 19,190 20,950 18,456 20,516 22,374 28,658 29,270 30,713
EBITDA 1 14,641 16,269 13,185 14,828 16,281 22,255 22,384 23,933
EBIT 1 13,444 14,915 11,726 13,385 14,879 20,792 20,779 21,711
Net income 1 11,505 12,535 10,078 11,862 13,050 17,443 17,609 18,863
Net Debt 1 -157,573 -180,935 -182,729 -9,839 -14,593 -112,040 -145,017 -216,638
Reference price 2 425.00 455.40 337.20 268.00 294.80 407.60 407.60 407.60
Nbr of stocks (in thousands) 1,264,586 1,265,179 1,265,538 1,265,563 1,264,506 1,263,907 1,263,907 -
Announcement Date 24/02/21 24/02/22 23/02/23 29/02/24 27/02/25 - - -
1HKD in Million2HKD
Estimates

P/E ratio, Detailed evolution

P/E (Y) EV / Sales (Y) EV / EBITDA (Y) Dividend Yield (Y) Capi.($)
29.62x14.07x18.11x3.03% 65.93B
27.07x10.26x15.37x1.24% 95.97B
35.13x4.85x9.96x1.9% 51.6B
29.5x11.1x19.1x1.23% 48.44B
19.65x7.23x12.38x1.98% 46.44B
17.49x8.66x12.44x4.57% 16.75B
27.18x12.09x19.6x2.54% 14.79B
18.06x7.21x11.52x2.74% 13.81B
26.25x8.4x15.15x1.85% 9.26B
18.57x-2.52x-4.24x1.57% 8.17B
Average 24.85x 8.13x 12.94x 2.27% 37.12B
Weighted average by Cap. 27.06x 9.47x 14.67x 2.02%
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Y-o-Y evolution of P/E

Historical PBR trend

Evolution Enterprise Value / Sales

Change in Enterprise Value/EBITDA

Year-on-year evolution of the Yield

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