- Costs increased from 20% to 31% due to poor Indian operations.
- Indian operations were not up to the mark due to observations found and #covid.
- They had to move out from the fixed expenses which could not be capitalized.
- #Employee costs were increased by ~20 crs due increase in employee strength.
- #Other expenses include main loss on account of forex.
- Due to Indian operations overall consolidated #loss is 21 crs.
- On cash basis, cash profit is 43 cr & expects this profit to increase further.
- Switzerland entity's revenue grew by 20%.
- France, UK businesses were non linear to material issue.
Margins:
- #CRAMS - India reported loss
- CRAMS UK had margins of 32% due to more contribution from cholesterol sales.
Financing:
- Capex in Switzerland and France
- Net debt should not increase drastically. It would be in the range of 1.25 -1.5 x
Markets:
- Europe is near to complete the reassessment and by Q4 it should be normalized.
- From India stand point second half should be much better than first half. All the losses would be mitigated in the second half.
- Demand coming from development segment (Positive trend of 17-18% growth but the margins are low)
- Significantly enhancing capacities in Switzerland and France
- At least 2 products are expected to be approved which are currently in phase1 & 2.
- Formulation biz-successful (continue to grow with additional investments)
- Focus on niche liquids and solids products
- #Carbogen has lot of opportunity want a land near the existing facility
- Expecting to leverage on the markets which can go higher in near future.
- Focusing on securing supply chain by working on efficiency issues
Indian Operations:
- Restructuring operations from next month
- Investing a lot in technology so that it will require less people to work more efficiently in India
- In 2nd half of the year it would be better, Company has orders and will be able to deliver.
-Production of #D3 this month on wards would be more with good orders.
-Marketable molecule which are coming out of New Zealand will be part of #Carbogen
-It will take time to sort the material issue
EBITDA% improvement:
-CRAMS to replace pipeline phase projects, waiting for commercial approvals.
-More money in commercial along with better project mix
-There's no significant change in antibiotics & biologic, however niche insecticides opportunity(good efficacy in ph1 trial)
-18 products close to commercialization
-2 products - one in breast cancer and other in cardio vascular, waiting for approval.
-All the process has been done
-Products are small scale but very specialized
-Using internal investments to develop pipeline
- #Vitamin D plant - Small contribution this year. Facilities of vitamin D analogues will be starting soon in 6-9 months
Contribution:
-Switzerland to contribute more in API
-Oncology projects are abt to complete with approvals which can ramp up Sales
-If pipe line continues to strengthen then co. will have to ramp up the production
Manufacturing formulation in France is mainly for niche molecules
-Company is going through Technology complexity
-Observations were mainly in 7-8 products (4-5 mn market), this has impacted not only generics but also crams in India,
backlog which has been created will be cleared till next year in Crams
#NIRA no noise in coming years in this product. Market for this is 20 mn.
#API
Cost of API is somewhere between 0.5 to 24%. Out of which 24% of API cost is branding.
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Jindal Saw conducted Q3 FY24 conference call on 17 January 2024
Here are the key highlights from the call👇👇👇
Business Overview:
- Co. was able to deliver highest results for the quarter & from past few quarters co. is able to breach its benchmark performance.
- Subsidiaries are also performing very well especially the Abu Dhabi is doing exceptionally well.
- Q4 is usually the strongest quarter for the co.
Financial Performance:
- Compared to Q3 FY23 there was other income of 113 crores however, this quarter this other income of 113 cr is not there that tells that development has been more steeper.
- Main factor that is helping in growth of co. is that the commodity prices have stabilised.
- Water sector contributes around 68% of income, oil & gas sector contributes 28% while other sector contributes 4-5%.
Here are the key highlights from the Earnings conference call👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
• Key Highlights:
- Continues to rank amongst the top 3 life insurance amongst the individual and group businesses
- QoQ sequential APE growth was 8%, which is lower than expectations due to slower pace of recovery in ticket sizes above 5L but ticket sizes upto 5L has grown well at 17%
- Massive allocation in equity market due to the buoyant market
- Co. witnessed postponement in demand for specific cohorts due to the prevalence of high short term interest rates
- No. of policies sold continues to clock a healthy growth of 9%
- Ticket sizes above 5L saw a significant drop in wealth channel but the percentage of wealth channel overall is low and co. is seeing a reversal in all their bank partners channels for this ticket size growth
- Avg ticket size remained stable despite the impact on high ticket size business
- Growth from tier 2 and tier 3 markets remain strong witnessing double growth of the co.
- Product mix remains balances with non savings and participating products at 28% each, ULIP at 32%, Annuity and Protection at 7% and 6% respectively
- Private market share stood at 19% overall for 9 months FY24
- LIC has been very calibrated in the way they’ve approached pricing and underwriting for all categories of product and co. believes they would continue on that path
• Click 2 Achieve - New product introduced in FY23
- Product has been received well across channels
- Garnered INR 100cr within 4 weeks of its launch
- This is co. 2nd 100cr in a month blockbuster product co. launched this year
@RajeevThakkar Sir on the recent FoF meeting at @PPFAS has shared his learning on recently listed IPO's
Key highlights and our Inputs
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Most of loss making IPO, after their debut has shown huge wealth destruction. Investors post correction are now skeptical on how to take these companies in their portfolio.
Whether to hold or average down the share?
Whether to make new investment?
How to Value these Business?
Valuing New Age Tech IPO:
Old School Thought will think of it better avoiding, as these companies are already loss making with poor financials & near term future doesn't looks to be changing
However these industry is sort of a Big Pond, with few of the Big Fish alive in future.