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Valuation Discussion
Stansted Airport
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Valuation Considerations
■ Market for airports of all types almost disappeared with the credit crunch as buyers retreated
- High returns were achievable only with "excess" leverage
- Significant cyclicality of leisure traffic became evident
- Listed infrastructure fund business model collapsed, e.g. Babcock & Brown
■ Activity in the sector has returned (Liverpool, Gatwick) but prices are likely to be below previous highs
- Uncertainty about timing and scale of recovery
- High oil price and consumer issues continue to overhang low-cost carrier ("LCC') market
- Debt available but lower quanta and worse terms
- Assumed exit multiples for infrastructure funds lower
■ Gatwick offers the best comparison
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Stansted Airport Limited: Statutory Financial Information
2008 2009 2010 Mean
Revenue £258.8 £243.0 £229.6 £243.8
EBITDA 117.4 102.4 86.2 102.0
Margin 45% 42% 3804
EBIT 84.3 63.8 45.9
Margin 33% 26% 20%
PBT 53.0 42.8 20.6
Net profit 40.0 40.7 13.8
Margin 15% 17% 6%
RAB £1,231.1 £1,291.0 £1,327.3 £1,283.1
Nole: Numbers &Paled to exclude txtrptional items
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Regulated Asset Base ("RAB")
• The "Regulated Asset Base is a common tool for regulating returns in the UK's utility and infrastructure sectors where an
owner has a monopoly or quasi-monopoly position.
Starting RAB
• The RAB represents the accumulated cost of the assets used by the business, net of depreciation. It is used as the base
amount against which charges can be made to ensure an agreed rate of return on investment for the owner.
• For UK regulated airports, the RAB is determined and reviewed every five years by the Competition Commission and the
Capex Civil Aviation Authority. Maximum charges are then set by the regulators.
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• The RAB is a proxy for the enterprise value of regulated assets
- Charges are set to provide a return on capital equal to an assumed weighted average cost of capital
- Includes all airport operational assets: runways, terminals, shops, car parks, cargo, maintenance etc.
Depreciation 1
• Stansted's RAB stood at £1,327 million as of December 2011
Stansted's RAB Evolution (1997 - 2010)
1,400
1,300
Inflation / I 1,200
Adjustments 1,100
1,000
900
800
700
600
500
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
SWIM': Shunted Finantiair
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Trading Comparables Analysis
■ Most airport companies are either privately-held or government owned. The universe of publicly-traded comparable
companies is limited.
■ The two major quoted companies, Aeroports de Paris and Fraport, are slow growth airports because they have few Low Cost
Carriers
■ The Comparable companies analysis concludes that the universe of peers are valued at 11.7x EV / 2010A EBITDA
Trading Comparables - Airport
Comparable Company Analysis
(in EURO millions &yapfirptribee 'kw
Trading Comparables
Market Enterprise EV / Sales EV / EBITDA EV / EBIT
Company Name Capitalisation Value CY2010A CY201IE CY2012E CY2010A CY201IE CY2012E CY2010A CY201IE CY2012E
Aeroports de Paris C 6,394 E 8,761 3.2x 3.1x 2.9x 9.5x 9.0x 8.4x 16.1x 15.3x 14.2x
Fraport AG C 5,002 C 7,619 33x 33x 3.0x 10.7x 9.4x 83x 171x 15.1x 13.4x
Shanghai International Airport Co., Ltd. C 2,859 C 2,991 6.6x 6.6x 6.0x 13th 122x 10.8x 21.1x 18.9x 15.9x
Beijing Capital International Airport Co. Ltd. C 1,757 C 3,703 6/x 5.6x 5.1x 11.7x 10.2x 8.9x 24.1x 18.9x 15.9x
Auckland International Airport Ltd. C 1,661 C 2,245 10.7x 10.0x 9.4x 13.9x 13.1x 123x 17/x 16.0x 14.8x
Mean 6.0x 5.7x 5.3x 11.7x I0.8x 9.7x 19.3x 16.8x I4.8x
Median 6.Zx 5.6x 5.1x 11.7x 10.2x 8.9x 17.7x 16.0x 14.8x
Sown: Capital12, news net, broker reports.
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Precedent Transactions Analysis
• Financial details on many precedent transactions are not publicly disclosed — the only listed company which has been the
subject of a transaction is BAA
• Valuation multiples from Precedent Transactions Analysis greatly vary, depending mainly on the growth profile of the target
airport
• Most targets have either been regional airports with very high growth from LCCs or capital city airports with a high LCC
component; most are unregulated whereas listed companies are usually regulated
35x
30x X Leeds Bradford/Bridgepoint
X Budapest/BAA
X LonclonCity/AIG&GIP
25x
Bratislava/Vienna Airport
EV / EBITDA
X
Consortium (abandoned) X George Best Belfast/ARIA AMRO
X Bristol/Ontario Teachers' Pension
20x Budapest/I-lochtief Consortium
Bristol/Ferrovial-Macquarie
X X Belfast City/Fermvial Birmingham/Ontario Teachers
BAA/Ferroviai Cgnsorritniaion Consortium
I 5x X Rome/Macquarie X TBI/Abertis
X Naples/P2i
X Brussels/Macquarie
Consortium
10x X Copenhagen/Nlacq unicX Rome/Leonardo
X Gatwick/GIP
5x
2001 2002 2004 2005 2006 2008 2009 2010 2012
Soberly Capital IQ, nen not, broker reports.
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Selected Transactions - BAA/Ferrovial
Sale of Gatwick Airport Sale of Belfast City Airport
Transaction Overview Transaction OVenic‘‘
• BAA sold Gatwick in October 2009 for £1.5bn to Global Infrastructure ■ In September 2008 Ferrovial sold Belfast City Airport to a subsidiary of
Partners ABN AMRO Global Infrastructure Fund for a consideration of £133m,
valuing the asset at 22.4x EV/LTM EBITDA
• Unusually for a regulated asset, Gatwick was valued at a discount (5%) to
its RAB, equating to a 2008 EV/EBITDA of 9.5x • Belfast City Airport was serving more than two million passengers a year
at the time of the transaction, thanks to the rapid growth from LCCs
RAB EBITDA Discount EBITDA Val • The Belfast sale was part of Ferrovial's strategy to focus on its BAA
(2008) (2008) to RAB Mu]. '
airport business
Gatwick £I,578m 59m 9.5x £l.5bn
Sale of Budapest Airport
Development to-date Transaction Overview
• Shareholders who have later bought stakes in the airport include: Abu ■ In June 2007 BAA sold its non-core Budapest Airport to a consortium
Dhabi Investment Authority, National Pension Service of Korea, led by German Hochtief AirPort for £1.3bn, valuing the asset at 20.3x
California state fund Calpers and Future Fund of Australia, leaving GIP EV/LTM EBITDA
with 42%
■ The sale came 18 months after BAA acquired the airport in a
■ In June 2010 the airport's owners announced a £lbn investment and government privitisation, valuing the asset at the same price
development programme over the next two years
■ Budapest airport has attracted high offers due to its potential for high
■ In 2011 Gatwick launched two £300m bonds and a new £620m debt future traffic growth supported by the growth of LCCs, the largely
facility to refinance its acquisition debt raised in 2009 unexploited property and retail opportunities, and its big reserves of both
runway and terminal capacity
■ In March the five new owners have announced a payment of £330m
special dividend to themselves, 15 months after the acquisition ■ Post the transaction Hochtief initiated a €261m five-year investment
programme for the expansion and development of the airport
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Valuation Summary
■ Using EBITDA multiple and discount to RAB (£ in millions)
methods, our preliminary valuation range of Stansted
Stansted Financial Metrics Parameters Resulting Valuation
is between £750m and £1.2bn
RAB Metric Discount
■ For the full valuation of Stansted we would prepare a FY 2008A 1,231 10% 20% £1,108 £985
detailed financial model with a long term (10+ years) FY 2010A 1,327 10% 20% £1,195 £1,062
traffic forecast and detailed cost structure FY08-10 Avg. 1,283 10% 20% £1,155 £1,027
This is a valuation methodology commonly used in Min £1,108 £985
Max £1,195 £1,062
private treaty deals
- It is to be done once both sides are engaged in the EBITDA Metric EV / EBIT
transaction and more detailed financials are FY 2008A 117 8.5x 9.5x £998 £1,115
obtained from BAA
FY2010A 86 8.5x 9.5x £733 £819
FY08-10 Avg. 102 8.5x 9.5x £867 £969
- The preparation of a long term traffic forecast Min £733 £819
would further demonstrate the buyer's credibility to Max £998 £1,115
Ferrovial/BAA
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Purchase Price Ratio Analysis
• The table below summarises the various valuation multiples at different price levels
l0 in millions)
Entc .rise Value [8511.0 L900.0 050.0 fl,MH).0 f1,050.0 1;1,1110.0 01,150.0
RAB Discount Metric
FY 2008A 1,231.1 (31%) (27%) (23%) (19%) (15%) (11%) (7%)
FY 2010A 1,327.3 (36%) (32%) (28%) (25%) (21%) (17%) (13%)
FY08-10 Avg. 1,283.1 (34%) (30%) (26%) (22%) (18%) (14%) (10%j
Enterprise Value / EBITDA Metric
FY 2008A 117.4 7.2x 7.7x 8.1x 8.5x 8.9x 9.4x 9.8x
FY 2010A 86.2 9.9x 10.4x 11.0x 11.6x 12.2x 12.8x 13.3x
FY08-10 Avg. 102.0 8.3x 8.8x 9.3x 9.8x 10.3x 10.8x 11.334
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