Topic: Growth Stocks

MITEL NETWORKS $11.40 – Toronto symbol MNW

MITEL NETWORKS $11.40 (Toronto symbol MNW; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk)(613-592-2122; www.mitel.ca; Shares outstanding: 120.3 million; Market cap: $1.4 billion; No dividends paid) develops and markets products centred on business telephone systems, including technology that integrates land lines and mobile phones. The company also offers call centre and videoconferencing products.

In the three months ended September 30, 2015, Mitel’s revenue rose 7.2%, to $293.7 million from $274.0 million a year earlier (all figures except share price and market cap in U.S. dollars).

However, earnings per share fell 33.3%, to $0.12 from $0.18, as the stronger dollar lowered the value of the company’s international sales. Even so, that beat the consensus estimate of $0.07 a share.

Mitel is increasingly moving from selling programs that are installed at its customers’ offices to a cloud model, where it keeps its software on its own servers and sells it by subscription. That provides steadier recurring revenue.

The company added 152,500 cloud subscriptions in the latest quarter. It now has 1.76 million cloud users, up 69.7% from 1.04 million a year ago.

In April 2015, Mitel acquired Mavenir Systems for $560 million U.S. This was an important move because Mitel’s current services are mainly over landline phones. Mavenir will help it move into the market for voice-over long-term evolution, or VoLTE, a technology that repackages voice calls as data and transmits them over wireless networks. VoLTE is quickly becoming the standard for high-speed wireless communications.

Mitel is a buy.

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