Business Updates:
β’ Contributor for this year was the robust product basket.
β’ Formulation contribution of 39%.
β’ See product filing in image
β’ Continue investing in infrastructure.
β’ De-bottle-necking the plant continuous to remain online.
β’ Expanding capacities in key API.
β’ See the segment revenue breakup in the image.
β’ Dedicated a special plant location for CRAMS Facility.
β’ Richcore will be named as Lauruas Bio and acquired 100% in Richcore
TLE to TLE transaction
β’ Majority of the sales coming from TLD.
β’ However company has more molecules filed in TLE which make more growth available in TLE segment
β’ ARV margins- Gross margins was less in Q3 due to delay of of export incentives. However this quarter margins remain on line.
Capacity:
β’ Currently company is at optimum utilization and de-bottlenecking of the plant will be finished in Q4.
β’ There are 8 formulation player active who have filed for Doltagrovate molecule while there are no player who is WHO certified for the API division.
HIV:
β’ Doubling the segment is impossible as the patients in the disease are not that higher.
β’ Growth in HIV will come from demand moving from weak players to strong players.
Diabetic and Cardiovascular
β’ Strong product basket in Diabetic, while Cardiovascular will be another growth driver.
β’ There are not much development left in ARV segment for Laurus, hence in future major growth driver non ARV.
β’ After 3-5 year, growth driver will be Laurus Bio
Investment in Laurus Bio
β’ Co. don't see any challenges to invest over there
β’ Bio is high margin business and is expected to deliver good cash flow for the business. Hence mgmt expect most of the investment to be internally funded.
β’ Not much of CAPEX is allocated now to Bio.
Nutraceuticals and Cosmoceuticals
β’ It was added in CDMO product. As it also commodity business company is not much in the business but there are tie ups with big customer.
Long Active Injectables
β’ Co. is watching ARV business since past many years, hence any new disruption will be in close eyes of Laurus.
β’ Injectables is currently not signed by WHO and and company don't expect it till 2025
β’ Co. have molecules in the pipeline for injectables.
"We are witnessing a huge investment in manufacturing sector consequent to domestic demand growth and localization under atma Nirbhar bharat programme."
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Financial highlights
- Business continued to stage and encouraging recovery and has almost scaled up to last year's qiarter level
- An improved customer buying sentiment continued in Q3 supported by more stable business environment
- Casflows remain stable
- Revenue from operations recovered 90.9%
- Ebitda was Rs. 81.56 crores. Driven by improved profitability across all segments
- Tax expense was Rs. 12.96 crores
- Net profit grew 86% compared to last year quarter.
Business Updates:
β’ Closed with 300 customer.
β’ Plants started in phases. Recovery of textile sector in pandemic was slow.
β’ Price of certain products has reach to pre-covid level.
β’ With new capacity company is going to do filaments yarn and spurt yarn.
β’ Bio-degradable fibre has capable of bio-degrade in land and ocean within an year.
β’ company will be also starting short cut fibre which have application in cement industry.
β’ Company is also working on re-cycle footprint which will have edge in the market over long term.
Munger: What was interesting was how talented they were and then also got in so much trouble. It also demonstrates general system of finance involving derivatives is irresponsible.
Warren: Here you had extremely experienced people operating with their own money.
β’ They went broke. Why do people risk losing something very important to gain something thatβs totally unimportant? The added money has no utility whatsoever.
- MDF segment has margin of 24% during the quarter. There was price hike during the quarter as some raw material prices also went up. Company is planning 200 bps improvement in margins
- The current quarter looks good so the company is planning for 100 percent to 110 percent capacity utilization for both plants.
- The company have divided forex loss in 2 parts: 7 crore in interest and 1 crore above EBITDA.