Reported EBITDA growth of 52% y/y due to lower ad spend and lower employee cost
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Prestige & Above segment reported a volume growth of 9% y/y. Growth was driven by off trade channel and strong demand for scotch.
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Popular segment volumes were down 2%y/y. Decline in volume was due to steep hike in taxes in West Bengal. Revenue declined by 3%.
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Gross Margin at 43.9% expanded 178 bps y/y due to benign input costs and better product mix.
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EBITDA margin of 18.5% expanded by 90 bps y/y due to lower adspend and lower employee cost. Quarterly EBITDA margins was amongst the highest in recent quarters despite significantly lower gross margin.
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CFO in FY21 at βΉ17.2 bn was significantly higher compared βΉ6.7 bn in FY20 largely driven by cash release from other liabilities and a significant increase in trade payables.
Strategic review of selected popular brands remain on track.
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Reported PAT βΉ1.6 bn was negatively impacted by exceptional cost and loss allowance on loans to subsidiary.
8/n
GS remains Buy with an unchanged price target of 676.
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Management Update β Hina Nagarajan will take charge as New MD & CEO from 1st July 2021. Prior to this, she was MD at Africa regional markets at Diageo, 30 years of experience in CPG businesses & worked with various organizations like Nestle, RB, Mary Kay India.
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P&A segmentβAdjusting for βΉ2.5bn revenue of Scotch in Q4FY20, revenue grew ~31% implying strong resiliency of the brands. Scotch segment grew double digit, fastest growing business in portfolio, offset by contraction of owned business in AP, unwinding of franchise business
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Consolidated Revenue +59% YoY to Rs 74940mn
EBIDTA +33% YoY to Rs 8170mn || EBIDTA margins 10.9% v/s 13% YoY
(Jewellery business has lower gross margins+ some one offs including lower studded share, sale bullion and higher gold coin sale impacted gross margins further) (2/n)
PBT +43% YoY to Rs 7300mn
PAT +66% YoY to Rs 5680mn (mainly on a/c of lower YoY tax rate at 22.2% v/s 32.6% YoY) (3/n)
UNSP, a unit of drinks major Diageo, has tasked investment bank Morgan Stanley to find potential buyers for select βpopularβ mass-priced brands as it looks to take on French rival Pernord Ricard and adopt a premiumisation strategy
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For the year ended 31 March 2020, UNSPs "prestige and above" segment represented 65% of its total net sales and 51% of total sales volume.
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Smaller players facing credit challenges. A few of the smaller jewelry players are seeing some stress in terms of bank limits, which has not increased for them commensurate to the gold price increase. Nevertheless, several players have done well in 3QFY21.
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Recent demand trends. Geographically, South saw the strongest growth, led by the state of Tamil Nadu. The West market (mainly Mumbai and Pune) was impacted the most. Delhi too was impacted but has largely bounced back.
Balanced product mix helped HDFC Life fare better than industry average in 9MFY21. The company increased its market share in individual APE by >210 bps in 9mFy21.
(2/n)
Usually, most companies have a diversified product bouquet but focus on select product segments only. However, HDFC Life has enabled its feet-on-street to switch between product classes.