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XP Power - 2008 Results
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Agenda
  • 1. The Company and its Markets
  • 2. Product development
  • 3. Financials
  • Outlook and Summary


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1. The Company and its Markets
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Introduction to XP Power
  • One of the world’s leading developers and manufacturers of mission critical power control solutions
  • Supplies industrial, healthcare and technology sectors
  • Blue chip client list
  • Zero exposure to consumer products
  • Historic and ongoing investment in R&D has built a market leading product portfolio
  • Focus on higher margin own IP sales
  • Significant manufacturing capacity established – ongoing investment will increase capacity by 400%
  • Network of 27 offices (and 19 distributors) across North America, Europe and Asia
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Market Size and Share
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Blue Chip Customer Base
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Growth Drivers
  • Penetration - The Blue Chip customer base provides good opportunities to  win new product programs from their multiple engineering teams


  • Healthcare - Global population growth and ageing is increasing the demand for medical equipment which is electrically safe for the users


  • Efficiency - Legislation for our customers’ products to consume less energy and reduce harmful environmental impacts, drives the need to develop more efficient power controllers


  • Innovation - The competitive needs of our customers to offer products giving the users increased productivity and functionality create fresh opportunities for our products


  • New Products – Customers’ diverse product requirements provide opportunities for XP to enter new niches


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Industry Consolidation
  • XP Power operates in a $2 Billion sector of the power control market.
  • The No. 1 competitor (Lambda) was acquired by TDK of Japan.
  • The No. 3 competitor (Cherokee) was recently acquired by private equity (Gores Corp).
  • The No. 4 competitor (Astec) is owned by Emerson who have been a serial acquirer in other sectors of the power control market.
  • Three of the remaining top 30 competitors have been sold in the past 12 months.
  • XP Power has been an active acquirer since 2000 – investing more than £40 Million on 13 acquisitions. The current share price negates further acquisitions.
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2. Product Development
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New Products Pipeline
  • Driven by sales experts collecting intelligence from:
    • Pending legislation
    • Global sales offices
    • Industry directors
    • Huge customer database which records all projects
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Our Product Development Resources
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Product Development
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Product Examples
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Own IP Revenues Drive Gross Margin Increase
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Kunshan – New Factory
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3. Financials
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2008 Financial Highlights – record results
  • Own IP revenue £53.9M + 11%


  • Gross margin 44.2% +5%


  • Earnings per share* 34.8 pence +11%


  • Operating cash flow +23%


  • Dividend 21p per share +5%
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Currency Movements
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Income and Expenditure Statement
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Summary Balance Sheets
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Cash Flow Statements
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Dividend History
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4. Outlook
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Revenue Outlook
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Gross Margin Outlook
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Expenses Outlook
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Summary
  • Exploit market leading sales resource
  • Increase pace of new product releases
  • Improve penetration of top accounts utilising new production facility
  • Improve the massively undervalued share price
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