{"id":50126,"date":"2026-07-07T17:01:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/50126\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:01:32","slug":"deutsche-bank-warns-of-further-downgrades-at-travis-perkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/50126\/","title":{"rendered":"Deutsche Bank warns of further downgrades at Travis Perkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/74B8A56F6BD712AC8E862EF6FB7B3F2B836E984145F7B5BC105189CED645A318\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fproactive_uk_164%2Faf1ab5db03a602833857ecabc23e372b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"Deutsche Bank warns of further downgrades at Travis Perkins\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj loader\"\/><\/a> Deutsche Bank warns of further downgrades at Travis Perkins Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock           <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Deutsche Bank has repeated its &#8216;sell&#8217; rating on <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/TPK.l\" data-ylk=\"slk:Travis%20Perkins%20(LSE%3ATPK);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Travis Perkins (LSE:TPK)&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Travis Perkins (LSE:TPK)<\/a>, warning that market forecasts for the builders&#8217; merchant remain too high despite steep cuts already made this year.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Ben Wild, an analyst at the bank, set a price target of 470p, below the last close of 566.50p.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Since the bank downgraded the stock on 11 December, consensus earnings per share forecasts for 2026 and 2027 have fallen by around 26%.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The shares have dropped 8% over the same period.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Wild said there was still material downside risk to those forecasts.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">For the first half, the bank expects adjusted operating profit of \u00a350 million, 20% below the consensus figure compiled by Bloomberg.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Its estimates sit around 16% below consensus for the 2026 and 2027 financial years.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The shares trade on a forward price-to-earnings multiple of 20 times, more than two standard deviations above their long-run average.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Wild said further large downgrades were likely to drive the shares lower from here.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/TPK.l\" data-ylk=\"slk:Travis%20Perkins%20(LSE%3ATPK);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Travis Perkins (LSE:TPK)&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Travis Perkins (LSE:TPK)<\/a> supplies building materials and tools to the construction trade through a network of branches across the United Kingdom.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deutsche Bank warns of further downgrades at Travis Perkins Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock Deutsche Bank has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21213],"tags":[21214,41136,41135,41134],"class_list":["post-50126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-deutsche-bank","tag-deutsche-bank","tag-downgrades","tag-market-forecasts","tag-travis-perkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}