12 July 2010
The State Property Fund of Ukraine announced details for the privatization auction of Sumyoblenergo on June 14. As with last week’s Poltavaoblenergo (UX: POON UK) sale, the SPF will sell the 25% stake in lots: 25 (14 lots of 1.02% stake and 1 lot of 0.61% stake) for a starting price of UAH 2.44 per share. Yegor Samusenko: This starting price implies valuation at 0.25n on EV/RAB (Russian peer median of 0.46x) and 4.3x on EV/EBITDA ‘11E (Russian peer median of 4.9x), according to our estimates.