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ForFarmers price falls through the 3 euro limit

28 April 2022 - Wouter Baan - 4 comments

The share price of ForFarmers dropped through the psychological limit of €26 on Tuesday 3 April, which is also a new low. This continues the downward trend.

Last Wednesday, the price received a significant knock, the day after the dividend of €0,29 per share was paid. That is a logical phenomenon. In the days that followed, the downward trend continued, which has actually been going on since the summer of 2018. At that time, ForFarmers was still trading above €12 per share. by both internal and external factors results have come under pressure and investor confidence has ebbed away. ForFarmers also has its own purchasing program in mid-March on hold put.

The share of ForFarmers was previously labeled as undervalued by stock market analyst Nico Inberg of De Aandeelhouder, but judging by the continuously falling share price, bargain hunters are not (yet) stepping in en masse. Private investor Dirk Lindenbergh van Blikkenburg BV from Zeist has expanded its interest to 5%, as was announced this month due to the so-called notification obligation of the AFM on the basis of the Financial Supervision Act.

New CEO
Next Thursday (May 5) ForFarmers will publish a trading update on the first quarter. Due to the increased raw material prices – as a result of the war in Ukraine – it is not immediately obvious that the results show an improvement. From July 1, the new CEO to, in the person of Chris Deen who comes over from Aviko. Some time after that, the animal feed group comes with an update of the new strategy.

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Wouter Job

Wouter Baan is editor-in-chief of Boerenbusiness. He also focuses on dairy, pig and meat markets. He also follows (business) developments within agribusiness and interviews CEOs and policymakers.
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28 April 2022
This is in response to it Boerenbusiness article:
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Why would you buy FF shares at all? If they want to grow, they have to expand abroad. For these companies, the growth of production volume abroad goes hand in hand with investing in the primary sector in order to 'buy' sales. Growth of the primary sector abroad competes with the position of the Dutch farmer (FF customer). After all, the Dutch farmer is highly dependent on export. FF always invests in the waterbed effect. As a result, the volume that is added abroad will disappear in the Netherlands.

Moreover, the strategy of the Dutch feed suppliers does not fit the foreign sectors. An organization has to work much flatter there. This means that these companies have difficulty with organic growth in sales. That is why these companies choose to buy sales, which is far too expensive.

In addition, Dutch customers no longer like that money earned from Dutch farmers is invested by these companies with their competitors abroad. In the long run, this state of affairs costs more and more domestic customers and volume.
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Piet 28 April 2022
That is a clear analysis. Buying more turnover remains difficult because customers often leave. This was also the case with the takeover of De Hoop and Vleuten Stijn.
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anna 28 April 2022
Still, it is unimaginable that at the time it was decided to want to be a listed company. A listed company has shareholders, these shareholders shout every day: we want more profit. And that is precisely where the shoe pinches with farmers' interests. The peasant interest is a moderate profit. A lot of profit means high prices!!
Kees 28 April 2022
Buying sales is always too expensive, you saw that at the time with Friesland Campina, it was about purchasing supplies. When building a yogurt factory in Russia, they had to realize the dairy farms themselves, because otherwise there would be too little supply. These companies now have a large pot of money at their disposal for this, but it is of course not ideal and costs intensive.
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