The Zip Co Ltd (ASX: Z1P) share price is down despite the buy now, pay later business revealing a lot of growth in its FY21 result.
Zip’s big FY21 result
Management said that this year was a transformational one that saw the company emerge as a truly global player.
The buy now, pay later business reported that it grew revenue by 150% to $403.2 million. This was driven by a 176% increase of transaction volume to $5.8 billion and 293% growth of transaction numbers to 41.3 million.
Zip saw a cash EBTDA (earnings before tax, depreciation and amortisation) for FY21 of $22.9 million.
Customer numbers surged 248% to 7.3 million and merchants went up 109% to 51,300.
Zip said that it maintained strong unit economics while investing (and delivering) a lot of growth. The cash transaction margin was 3.5%.
Management were pleased with the strong credit performance in light of the COVID-19 environment. Zip attributed the strong performance to repeat usage and investments in its proprietary decisioning capabilities. Net bad debts as a percentage of transaction volumes were 1.28%.
During the year, it raised more than $676 million in capital to support its global growth.
International
The UK is a new growth area for the business where it generated $1.8 million of revenue from $25.2 million of transaction volume.
The US saw revenue of $176 million (pro forma growth of 269%) from transaction volume of $2.45 billion. The US growth could be a key driver of the Zip share price in the coming years.
Zip is now operating in 12 markets across five continents with the additions of places like Canada and Mexico. There have also been regional market entries in Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
It has also agreed to acquire the remaining shares in the South African buy now, pay later provider of Payflex.
FY22 growth so far
Zip told investors that its growth is accelerating in FY22. In the financial year to date, it has seen volumes growth 58% year on year in Australia and 240% year on year in the US.
Is the Zip share price good value?
Over the last six months the Zip share price has fallen by 35%. So that may mean it’s good value now. Or it was simply overvalued six months ago and now it’s fair value? Who knows. It depends how much Zip can grow, what its future market share will be and what its future margins will be. It’s hard to value the BNPL players.
There’s so much competition entering the BNPL space now like Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA), Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PYPL) and even potentially Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL). It’s not the sectors I’m looking at right now.
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