Company Valuation: Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited

Data adjusted to current consolidation scope
Fiscal Period: December 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028
Capitalization 1 576,163 426,739 339,171 372,776 515,169 535,702 - -
Change - -25.93% -20.52% 9.91% 38.2% 3.99% - -
Enterprise Value (EV) 1 395,228 244,010 329,332 358,183 332,843 506,955 506,843 500,104
Change - -38.26% 34.97% 8.76% -7.07% 52.31% -0.02% -1.33%
P/E ratio 46x 42.4x 28.6x 28.6x 29.1x 28x 27.1x 25.8x
PBR 11.6x 8.58x 6.61x 6.92x 8.89x 8.92x 8.58x 8.12x
PEG - -2.2x 1.6x 2.88x 0.8x 3.47x 8x 5.36x
Capitalization / Revenue 27.5x 23.1x 16.5x 16.7x 17.7x 17.3x 16.7x 15.9x
EV / Revenue 18.9x 13.2x 16.1x 16x 11.4x 16.4x 15.8x 14.8x
EV / EBITDA 24.3x 18.5x 22.2x 22x 14.6x 20.8x 20.3x 19.1x
EV / EBIT 26.5x 20.8x 24.6x 24.1x 15.7x 22.3x 21.9x 20.9x
EV / FCF 35.1x 17.7x 32.5x 32.1x 16x 29.6x 31x 28.9x
FCF Yield 2.85% 5.64% 3.07% 3.12% 6.23% 3.37% 3.22% 3.45%
Dividend per Share 2 8.87 7.14 8.41 9.26 12.52 13.5 13.87 14.62
Rate of return 1.95% 2.12% 3.14% 3.14% 3.07% 3.19% 3.27% 3.45%
EPS 2 9.89 7.95 9.36 10.29 14.01 15.14 15.65 16.41
Distribution rate 89.7% 89.8% 89.9% 90% 89.4% 89.2% 88.6% 89.1%
Net sales 1 20,950 18,456 20,516 22,374 29,161 30,925 32,165 33,732
EBITDA 1 16,269 13,185 14,828 16,281 22,796 24,315 24,985 26,175
EBIT 1 14,915 11,726 13,385 14,879 21,228 22,735 23,136 23,926
Net income 1 12,535 10,078 11,862 13,050 17,754 19,222 19,915 20,933
Net Debt 1 -180,935 -182,729 -9,839 -14,593 -182,326 -28,747 -28,858 -35,597
Reference price 2 455.40 337.20 268.00 294.80 407.60 423.80 423.80 423.80
Nbr of stocks (in thousands) 1,265,179 1,265,538 1,265,563 1,264,506 1,263,907 1,264,044 - -
Announcement Date 24/02/22 23/02/23 29/02/24 27/02/25 26/02/26 - - -
1HKD in Million2HKD
Estimates

P/E ratio, Detailed evolution

P/E (Y) EV / Sales (Y) EV / EBITDA (Y) Dividend Yield (Y) Capi.($)
27.99x16.39x20.85x3.19% 68.43B
21.93x9.71x14.39x1.36% 88.26B
35.45x5.51x10.97x1.78% 61.93B
20.53x7.7x12.9x1.85% 53.34B
26.76x10.14x17.23x1.32% 50.61B
31.74x14.83x23.51x2.12% 17.73B
20.03x7.84x12.62x2.49% 16.86B
24.61x8.54x15.29x1.77% 10.96B
17.34x-3.15x-5.36x1.76% 7.44B
Average 25.15x 8.61x 13.60x 1.96% 41.73B
Weighted average by Cap. 26.08x 9.88x 15.16x 1.93%

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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