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Investment Snapshot
Valuation & Price Target
Business & Product Moat
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DPC Holdings Limited
Investment Snapshot
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DPC
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Total Shares Post-IPO
451.7M
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Company Description (Source)
We are a leading independent manufacturer of highly engineered engine products
which include complex precision cast components and nickel- and cobalt-based
superalloys primarily serving the high growth Aerospace and IGT end markets.
Both markets are supported by highly-attractive, long-term structural growth
drivers and are experiencing demand super cycles, which we expect to create a
very strong, long-term growth environment for our business. We believe we are
one of a limited number of companies worldwide with the cutting-edge
engineering, chemistry, and metallurgy expertise, along with the large-scale
specialized casting equipment required to manufacture these mission-critical
parts under strict environmental controls for the most demanding applications
within our end markets. In 2025, we maintained 14 principal facilities and
generated $837 million of revenue, of which approximately 70% was covered by
LTAs.
We primarily manufacture products that operate across some of the most in-demand
aeroengine and gas turbine platforms, as characterized by the large number of
installed units and the substantial amount of sales orders that have been
committed to by customers, or backlogs of our customers, which include the
world’s leading global Aerospace and IGT OEMs. Through decades of operations, we
have developed deep engineering expertise, technical know-how, and a
collaborative, customer-centric culture that provides solutions to our OEM
customers’ most complex casting challenges. Our capabilities and operational
expertise complement our advanced manufacturing assets, leading to best-in-class
quality assurance processes that allow us to deliver reliable performance at
scale.
We believe our unique, customer-oriented approach deeply entrenches us in our
customers’ manufacturing processes and has enabled our ongoing evolution from a
transactional, individual parts supplier to a true, strategic partner. In 2024,
we began expanding our existing strategic customer partnerships with a select
number of key customers in the Aerospace and IGT end markets, including
significant customer-funded investments to increase capacity at our
manufacturing facilities. We expect the four strategic customer partnerships
that have been fully agreed to date to deliver incremental annual revenue of
more than $200 million when operating at full run rate. We believe we are
currently the only competitor able to provide Aerospace and IGT OEMs with
dedicated capacity and visibility into increased production planning. As we
scale this approach, we believe it will drive larger portfolio-level awards and
extended contracts with improved commercial terms and increased share-of-work,
enabling us to win incremental business and take market share on priority
programs.
The key to being able to facilitate customer demand in these supply-constrained
markets is through owning our own supply chain. Our vertically integrated
business model includes three superalloy manufacturing facilities which fulfill
all our internal nickel- and cobalt-based superalloy requirements for Aerospace
and IGT castings. We also operate integrated ceramic core production units at
both of our large IGT facilities. High-performance nickel- and cobalt-based
superalloys are extremely difficult to develop and manufacture but are essential
to the casting production chain. Our vertical integration reduces our usage of
external supply chains, which are currently experiencing significant capacity
constraints, since our facilities produce the majority of the critical
components that we require. Additionally, we also supply superalloys to a
diverse set of external customers across the Aerospace and IGT end markets. Our
vertical integration also includes key post-cast processes such as Hot
Isostatic Pressing, heat treatment and X-Ray which are performed in-house at
certain facilities. We have opportunities to further develop these capabilities
and further reduce usage of external sub-contractors.
Our product portfolio includes critical components of nearly every major
commercial aircraft program, all categories of large and heavy-frame IGT
platforms currently in production, including aftermarket content on legacy IGT
platforms, and several defense and space programs, positioning us to capture a
meaningful share of the multi-billion-dollar total addressable market across the
Aerospace and IGT end markets. Many of the current and next-generation
aeroengine and gas turbine platforms we serve are experiencing some of the
highest build rates in the industry and our customers are actively working to
further increase production on key platforms to meet exceptional demand. We work
directly with the world’s leading Aerospace and IGT OEMs such as GE Aerospace,
Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, Safran, Ansaldo Energia, Doosan, GE
Vernova and Siemens Energy. The majority of our Aerospace and IGT engine
products operate in extreme environments, characterized by high temperature and
pressure, and as such are safety-critical, integral components of our customers’
supply chains. Our position as a key supplier is supported by our strong
relationships and consistent track record of on-time delivery of highly advanced
precision cast components across the world that enables our customers to fulfill
their multi-year orderbooks. Diversification by product, customer, and platform
provides resiliency across cycles and supports strong, recurring revenue. Our
content is embedded in the most in-demand aeroengine and gas turbine platforms
today. Within the Aerospace end market, our engine products are critical to CFM
International’s LEAP engine family and Pratt & Whitney’s GTF engine family,
which are two leading single aisle engine families in the world powering
Boeing’s 737 family and Airbus’ A320 and A321 families, and GE Aerospace’s GEnx
engine, which powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Within the IGT end market, our
content is critical to major heavy-frame gas turbine programs such as the
F-class and H-class turbines manufactured by Siemens Energy. Each of these
aeroengine and gas turbine platforms are in high demand, with multi-year
orderbook visibility.
Our nickel-based and cobalt-based investment castings are used in a wide range
of performance critical applications, including:
• Engine Products — Aerospace: We manufacture structural castings largely for
engines in the Aerospace end market and are actively expanding our Aerospace
capabilities. Stationary parts, including turbine center frames, bearing
housings, combustion diffusers, fins inducers, near flow path seals, blade
outer seals, combustion seal segments, injector housings and nozzles.
• Engine Products — IGT: We manufacture turbine airfoils (blades and vanes) for
the IGT end market. This includes rotating and stationary parts that operate
in the hot section of an aeroengine or industrial gas turbine, where they must
withstand extreme temperatures and pressures, which require exceptionally
tight dimensional and metallurgical control and are safety-critical.
• Hot-Side Turbocharger Wheels: We manufacture hot-side turbocharger wheels for
the transportation end market for off-highway, commercial, and passenger
vehicles. Turbocharging is one of the most powerful emissions reduction
solutions for internal combustion engines and is universally used in hybrid
powertrains.
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In 2025, approximately 70% of our revenue was covered by LTAs with our OEM
customers, including our strategic customer partnerships, which provide us
certainty on pricing and margin, and the remaining approximately 30% of our
revenue is generated under individual spot purchase orders not covered by an
LTA. This is by choice as it provides us with flexibility and the opportunity to
respond to market conditions and allows us to capture premium margins and
opportunity. The commercial terms of all our key end market Aerospace and IGT
LTAs have been renegotiated by our management team since 2020. Our LTAs are
framework agreements which set out the terms and conditions under which
customers place specific purchase orders for our parts. The LTAs set out
specific part pricing which is typically fixed but subject to escalation clauses
which allow for the pass through on movements in metal costs, in line with
industry standards, and our aerospace and IGT contracts have been significantly
strengthened to include specific protections against increases in energy costs,
labor costs, tariffs and general inflation through prices linked to published
indices. Aerospace and IGT LTAs typically guarantee us a minimum level of market
share for the applicable part but in certain cases, also include long-term
volume commitments for the life of the LTA as is the case in three of our
strategic customer partnerships. Other key terms in the LTAs include payment
terms, performance metrics and other terms of business. Our LTAs typically span
5 years or longer. Our LTAs provide us with significant visibility on future
volumes, revenue, and profitability with orders being placed under these LTAs.
As at December 31, 2025, our order Backlog was $725 million, representing
contractually firm purchase orders, which covers more than 12 months of
production of Aerospace and IGT castings. As at March 29, 2026, our order
backlog was $930 million, representing contractually firm purchase orders, which
covers more than 12 months of production of Aerospace and IGT castings.
In 2024, we began expanding our strategic customer partnerships with a select
number of key customers in the Aerospace and IGT end markets, including
significant investments by the customer to increase the capacity at our
manufacturing facilities. We expect the four strategic customer partnerships
that have been fully agreed to date to deliver incremental annual revenue of
more than $200 million when operating at full run rate. The structure of these
strategic customer partnerships demonstrates the long-term commitment our
customers are making to us and supports the capital investment necessary to
increase our capacity. We believe these strategic customer partnerships will
help us increase our market share of high-value content on key programs, which
will be accretive to our overall adjusted EBITDA margin profile. We continue to
build a pipeline of additional strategic customer partnerships which should
offer a meaningful additional growth avenue for us moving forward.
Our revenue from spot purchase orders provides us with a high degree of
flexibility in allocation of capacity and pricing. Given the current
supply-constrained market conditions, we believe our mix of LTAs and spot
purchase orders creates an optimal balance for our business.
We believe our OEM customers view us as a high-quality, scaled alternative to
the two large industry participants, Precision Castparts Corporation, or PCC,
and Howmet Aerospace, Inc., or Howmet. This is evidenced by our continued volume
growth across our Aerospace and IGT end markets, increased share capture on
major platforms within these end markets, and the strategic customer
partnerships including capital investment from major OEMs. We continue to
proactively collaborate with customers, prioritize timelines, and have deepened
trusted strategic customer partnerships that underpin our growth trajectory.
In 2025, approximately 40% of our castings revenue was generated from the
aftermarket, currently weighted more to the IGT end market given our leading
positions supplying airfoils which are routinely replaced over the typical
20-year lifecycle of a gas turbine. We expect our aftermarket revenue in the IGT
end market to benefit from significant growth in the installed base of
heavy-frame turbines and current robust OEM backlogs. We similarly expect our
aftermarket revenue derived from the Aerospace end market to increase by 2030
due to our strategic partnership with a key Aerospace customer. This partnership
includes an investment to substantially increase the capacity at two of our
Aerospace manufacturing facilities to apply our directionally solidified and
single crystal casting technologies to manufacture aerospace blades and vanes
for both OEM and aftermarket applications.
Over our nearly 250-year history, we have built unmatched technical know-how,
strong operational capabilities, collaborative relationships with our customers,
and a strategically invested asset footprint, resulting in an attractive market
position. In 2020, we underwent a change in ownership and initiated a
management-led turnaround designed to create operational and financial
improvements. Management drove this turnaround by focusing on the following four
key strategic pillars:
• To be customer-centric in all that we do, ensuring that customers receive the
best service in respect of quality, on-time delivery and working together to
achieve a mutually beneficial outcome;
• Renewal of both the asset base and talent within the workforce which is
fundamental to our successful operations;
• To implement a continuous improvement mindset across all of our manufacturing
facilities to drive operational performance;
• To achieve a set of stretching financial targets including revenue and
adjusted EBITDA growth, adjusted EBITDA margin improvement and improvements in
cash generation.
Current management includes a refreshed leadership team that has refocused our
business on operational excellence and customer centricity by implementing our
“operational toolbox” across all our sites. Our operational toolbox includes
daily and weekly monitoring of key performance indicators which help our site-
and divisional-level management identify operational improvements to implement.
Additionally, since 2020 we have deployed over $170 million in capital
expenditures to expand our capacity and modernize our assets, which has led to
an increase in productivity, reduction in scrap rates, and material improvement
to our quality and on-time delivery rates. This turnaround allowed for strong
margin expansion with an improvement in the net loss position from $193 million
in 2024 to $173 million in 2025 and an improvement in adjusted EBITDA margin
from the mid-single digits in 2020 to 16.5% in 2025.
For the year ended December 31, 2025, we generated $837 million of revenue, of
which $291 million or 35% was generated in our Aerospace end market,
$351 million or 42% was generated in our IGT end market, and $195 million or 23%
was generated in our Transportation end market. Since 2020 and under the
leadership of our current management team, our revenue has more than doubled,
from approximately $365 million revenue in 2020, reflecting strong volume and
price improvements supported by end market demand and stronger customer
relationships driving increased platform and part participation. In 2025, our
capital expenditures totaled $31 million, comprised of investment in capacity
expansion, capability expansion, productivity initiatives, equipment upgrades
across our manufacturing footprint, health and safety initiatives, and ordinary
course maintenance activities to sustain production continuity. These
investments are closely aligned with strategic customer partnerships and are a
core component of our operating model. We generated a net loss of $173 million
for the year ended December 31, 2025, and $138 million of adjusted EBITDA, the
former largely reflecting the high and predominantly non-cash interest charge on
the Shareholder PIK Loan. In 2025, our adjusted EBITDA margin of 16.5% was a
significant increase from our mid-single digit adjusted EBITDA margin in 2020.
In 2025, the segment adjusted EBITDA margins for our Engine Products — North
America and Engine Products — Europe segments, which comprise of our sales into
the Aerospace and IGT end markets, were 18.2% and 21.9%, respectively. The
segment adjusted EBITDA margin for our Turbo Wheels segment, which comprises of
our sales into the Transportation end market, was 6.5%. For a discussion of the
use of adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin, and a reconciliation to the
most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measures. We expect to achieve further margin
progression through operating leverage on higher volumes, improved operational
execution, and value-based pricing initiatives. We expect these factors and
strong demand across our major end markets to drive additional volume growth on
recent capacity investment, producing further operating leverage and
productivity gains.
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We were incorporated in Jersey, Channel Islands, as Alloy Topco Limited in
November 2019 and changed our name to DPC Holdings Limited in December 2025. We
are a holding company that indirectly holds all the equity interests of Alloy
Parent Limited, a limited company domiciled and incorporated in Jersey and its
subsidiaries. Alloy Parent Limited is an intermediate holding company within the
Doncasters Group, which operates under the “Doncasters” brand name. Prior to the
consummation of this offering, we intend to change the legal status of our
Company from a Jersey private company to a Jersey public limited company and our
name will be DPC Holdings PLC
Our principal executive offices are located at Donington Court, 2nd Floor,
Pegasus Business Park, Herald Way, Derby, DE742UZ, United Kingdom and our
registered office is located at 47 Esplanade, St. Helier, JE1 0BD, Jersey. Our
telephone number is +44 (0)115 663 0139. We maintain a website at
www.doncasters.com.