Barclays picks reasonably valued, aftermarket-focused businesses among mining equipment stocks
** Barclays expects mining equipment growth to be "unexciting" and sees that reliable but slow brownfield-driven growth favours reasonably valued, aftermarket-focused businesses
** The broker sees only low single-digit volume growth for the addressable market (global ore processing), and little sign of a capex cycle
** It expects secular drivers limited to copper (and counterbalanced by risks), and slowing momentum behind electrification/automation
** Barclays double upgrades Sandvik SAND.ST to "overweight" from "underweight" following underperformance of about 11% relative to industrial goods and & services STOXX 600 index .SXNP over the past three months, and sees risk to consensus estimates to be the smallest across its coverage of the sector
** The brokerage downgrades Metso METSO.HE to "equal-weight" from "overweight" as high net working capital (including inventory) is a risk to margins and CEO succession suggests a better entry point is possible later in the year
** It keeps "overweight" rating on Weir WEIR.L seeing the company's EBITA margin expansion profile as the most compelling among its coverage
** It maintains "underweight" on Epiroc EPIRa.ST as potentially softening electrification and automation trajectories make it hard to justify capital allocation towards M&A in those areas
Reporting by Marta Frąckowiak
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