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Proact: Acquires ahd in Germany for EUR 26.2m - ABG

Adds 8% to 2022e sales and 12% to EBITA
Acquisition multiple 9.0x EV/EBITA vs Proact ‘22e 9.4x
Improves services mix and raises margin, positive

Today Proact has signed an agreement to acquire German IT company ahd GmbH & Co. KG (ahd), a specialist in managed services, offering cloud solutions, consulting and on-premises services for its customers. ahd will be the fourth acquisition over a two-year period wherein Proact acquired PeopleWare in the Netherlands, Cetus Solutions in the UK and Conoa in Sweden. ahd is headquartered in Düsseldorf with 120 employees, meaning that there is little cost overlap to Proact which is located in southern Germany, but we estimate potential synergies to come from cross selling being a larger provider. ahd has a strong offering in managed services and has made the transition from system sales to service sales to a larger extent than Proact. Enterprise value for the acquisition is EUR 26.2m.

We find it positive that Proact lands another acquisition, which improves services share of sales on an all else equal basis from 41% 2022e to 43%. It also raises the group margin, taking a small step towards the 8% EBITA target. The only caveat in this deal is that Proact itself trades at 9.4x 2022e EV/EBITA, which generates no multiple arbitrage, but still adds a good asset at an attractive price in our view.
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