3 Great Growth Picks For 2016: Redrow plc, Zoopla Property Group PLC, Paysafe Group Plc?

Can Redrow plc (LON: RDW), Zoopla Property Group PLC (LON: ZPLA) and Paysafe Group Plc (LON: PAYS) keep on growing in 2016?

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Do we have a new bull market coming for the FTSE 100? Over the medium term we really can’t tell, but shares generally look cheap to me and in the long run we’ll surely see London’s top index enjoying a steady rise. Good times to be looking for growth candidates then? I think so.

Down but upbeat

Look at Redrow (LSE: RDW), whose shares have bizarrely dropped 5.6% to 398p on the day the homebuilder released upbeat first-half results. With revenue up 8% to £603m, a half-year record, earnings per share gained 15% and the interim dividend was doubled to 4p per share. This came after legal completions rose by 18%, and the firm’s gross margin perked up to 24.2%.

So what’s the growth picture? Well, before today analysts were forecasting a 13% EPS rise for the full year to June 2016, which would put the shares on a PEG ratio of 0.6 — lower is better, and growth investors typically look for 0.7 or less. But with chairman Steve Morgan telling us that “demand for new homes remains robust” and that he’s “confident this will be another strong year of growth for Redrow“, I could see that 15% first-half gain carrying on through.

That would drop the PEG a fraction and put the shares on a P/E of only 7.8 — and that’s just got to be cheap!

Top property site?

Casting a growth eye on property website operator Zoopla (LSE: ZPLA) throws up a PEG ratio of 0.7 for the year to September 2016. Although the share price was pushed up in the first half of 2015, the later loss of sentiment has brought us a 24% fall since the end of June, to today’s 205p. Although we’re looking at a prospective P/E of 19.5, which is ahead of the FTSE’s long-term average of around 14, EPS forecasts make that seem not too stretching at all.

Zoopla recorded a 29% rise in EPS in 2015, and there’s the same again currently being predicted for this year. UK interest rates will be remaining low for longer than many of us expected and we might not even see a rise until 2017 now, the UK economy is gathering strength, and the housing market remains buoyant — and I can see another couple of strong growth years for Zoopla.

Online payments

The online payments business is risky, as we’ve seen with the sad decline of Monitise in the past couple of years. But things are looking very different for Paysafe (LSE: PAYS), formerly known as Optimal Payments, whose shares are up 61% over the past 12 months, to 342p. The recent FTSE retreat has pushed the price down, mind, and we’ve seen a 14% fall since 4 February. So does that give us a cheaper growth opportunity?

A fourth quarter update told us that revenue and earnings will be ahead of market expectations — and the markets had a 29% EPS rise penciled in. There’s a further 40% lift to EPS forecast for 2016, and that would put the shares on a distinctively average P/E of 14.5 and a PEG of just 0.4.

And if that doesn’t look like a decent growth opportunity, then I don’t know what does.

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