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Will The Brambles (ASX:BXB) Share Price Recovery Continue?

Will the Brambles Limited (ASX:BXB) share price recovery continue after it reported its third quarter trading result?

Will the Brambles Limited (ASX: BXB) share price recovery continue after it reported its third quarter trading result?

Brambles is a pooling solutions company specialising in the provision of reusable pallets, crates, containers and associated logistics services through the CHEP and IFCO brands.

Here’s What Brambles Revealed

The logistics business reported that sales revenue from continuing operations for the first nine months of FY19 grew by 7% at constant foreign exchange rates to US$3.41 billion. This growth comprised of 7% volume growth and price increases of 2%.

However, the actual reported growth was only 2% because of a strong US dollar, which is the currency that Brambles reports in.

Diving into its divisions, CHEP Americas sales revenue was up 6% thanks to strong price increases and ongoing expansion with customers.

CHEP Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) sales revenue grew 8% due to net new business wins and price increases.

CHEP Asia-Pacific sales revenue increased by 4% from both volume growth and price increases.

Brambles CEO Graham Chipchase said: “Notwithstanding positive volume growth, we saw a moderate slowdown in the growth of like-for-like volumes during the third quarter, particularly in Europe which is consistent with broader macroeconomic conditions in that region.”

The IFCO division sale process continues, which was announced a couple of months ago. The proceeds of the sale are going to be used for an on-market share buy-back up to US$1.65 billion, a capital return of AU29 cents per share and to pay down debt.

FY19 Guidance

Brambles expects FY19 constant-currency underlying profit growth to show a modest improvement on the prior year with price increases and delivery of cost efficiencies offsetting the global cost inflation.

Cost generation is expected to improve in the second half compared to the first half and the company’s investing in efficiencies is expected to deliver profit margin improvements in the medium term.

Whilst this was a decent update from Brambles, it is a relatively slow growth business and not a particularly ‘moaty’ one. I think there are plenty of other large caps that could be better picks, such as the ASX shares outlined in the free report below.

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