"To mark revenue to 1000 cr CAPEX of more 15-20cr is required"
Here are the conference call highlights π§΅π
Business Updates:
β’ Highest ever revenue achieved due to Unico and are expecting the same performance in the coming quarter.
β’ Gross Margins remain subdued due to volatile raw material price. GP Margins are not back to pre-covid level, and co. is planning for price rise.
Production & Capacity:
β’ Production facility is already commission which was under fire accident. Q3 production of 7 Lac Litre.
β’ These facility is penetrated for manufacturing Nitrocellulose, Melamine (Unico brand)
β’ Current utilization of 25% and target of FY23- 100% .
Premium Segment:
β’ Premium market is already going good in Upper north (presence in 7 states).
β’ For this company is expanding its geographic area and had started the depot.
β’ Focus now remains to expand in Gujarat, South Market, Chattisgarh, via new facility in South.
Wall Paints:
β’ Wall Paints which was started last year had problems earlier, but last 2-3 months are turning out better for the companies.
β’ Same sales team is utilized to expand the wall paints segment, hence there would not additional cost.
CAPEX:
β’ Planning to expand alternate manufacturing unit for Unico in Southern unit which will be commissioned by end of Fy22.
β’ CAPEX of 5.5 cr at Coimbatore is started with focus on economic product, Melamine & wall Paints side.
β’ CWIP is the shift of office and godown.
Revenue & Margins:
β’ Margin maintenance was due to stocking up of inventory earlier through Sirca Italy (leading to low price inventory).
β’ While cost optimization on fixed cost reduced the cost of production.
β’ 20-25% is expected to be sustainable margins.
Sales Mix:
- 9.5cr- Unico
- 4.5cr- Wall Paint
- 48cr- Italian CU
β’ Mgmt targets to growth at 25-30% of topline growth for next 3-4 years.
β’ ROCE targets remain 25-30%.
Raw Material:
β’ Prices are increased for every products of Sirca Paints.
β’ Price hike would be acceptable as a market leaders are also increasing the price. As Sirca has laready done 2 price hike (vs industry of 1) this time price hike would be 5%.
Price Hike:
- Sirca Paint: 12% price with some rebate
- Unico & Wall Paints- 8% till now and 5% more in Q3
- Italian product price hike is more than industry, but it is expected to absorb in Europe
β’ Price hike was announced by industry leaders as well, but this is coming down
Marketing:
β’ Planning to increase the dealer network
β’Unico product is much premium product for Sirca Paint, which can be widely accepted across all country
β’ Co. is targeting to increase to 6,000 distributor and increase small branches. Mgmt is confidence to reach 5,000 soon
Strategy:
β’ Strategy remains to keep one big distributor in every region and to market the product in every region.
β’ Co. is also increasing focus towards retail side, by bring small size products. While contracts side focus will remain in-tact.
Others:
β’ H1 witnessed decreased in debtor days and co. is also bringing channel financing to further bring down the debtor days.
β’ Inventory days are targeted to be optimized for Unico product.
β’ Travelling cost are expected to be back to normal in Q3.
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Astra Microwave conducted their concall for Q2 FY 22
"Aiming for topline of 800cr for FY 23"
Here are the conference call highlights π§΅π
Business Update:
β’ Dip in profit margin due to change in product mix.
β’ Company has an order book of Rs. 1,749.12 Crores as on September 30, 2021 which is executable in 12 - 30 months period.
β’ Subsidiary are performing well.
β’ Geographic share- Export:Domestic- 40:60.
Kiri Industries conducted the conference call for Q2: FY22 today at 2:00PM
Here are the concall highlights π§΅π
Business Updates:
β’ Increase in coal & ignite has increased power cost and also impacted logistics cost.
β’ Volatility in raw material price impacted the business.
β’ Input cost is not stabilizing, which may lead to improve the business performance.
β’ Kiri PAT for Q2: 12.3cr
Margins:
β’ All the input cost didn't allowed the co. to be net profitable.
β’ Mgmt expecting in Q3 to come to back to pre-covid levels both in OPM & topline levels.
β’ Mgmt don't expect raw material cost to come down atleast for this current year.
Suprajit Engineering conducted their concall for Q2 FY 22
"With past acquisitions remain successful despite of challenges, mgmt is confidence enough to perform in the same manner with current acquisition"
Here are the conference call highlights π§΅π
Business Updates:
β’ Demand of passenger vehicles remain muted.
β’ ICE shortage and commodity shortage perplexed the predictability.
β’ Cost has been passed on to certain customers.
β’ Plant expansion at Narsapura will be operational this year.
Industry Updates:
β’ Mgmt don't expect raw material and chip shortage issue to be resolved till March 2021. FY23 is expected to be more stable than that of volatility this year.
β’ Customers are not prone to consistent increase in price, hence price rise remain challenging.
β’ Commissions Greenfield 45,000 MTPA production capacity BOPET Film in Nigeria.
β’ Overall Sales Volume for Q2 was up by 31.5% YoY.
β’ Except Nigeria all the installed capacity is working at optimum utilization.
β’ Demand of BoPET continuous to remain strong.
Raw Material:
β’ Raw material prices are increased a lot, leading to impact in the margins of business. (about 40%)
β’ In India co. imports homo-polymer whose price has increased.
β’ Rest place shipping cost increased, resulting in increase in cost.
Nitin Spinner conducted their concall for Q2 FY 22
Here are the conference call highlights π§΅π
Business Updates:
β’ Achieved highest topline & bottom line, due to better capacity utilization, focus on value added product, cost efficient product & increasing exports
β’ Added 7,296 spindles & yarn capacity has increased to 75K TPA
β’ Excluding RoDTEP benefit margin is 24.7%
Industry:
β’ China +1 & Atmanirbhar Scheme of govt. adding industry growth
β’ Demand of yarn is increasing, which make easy to pass on the prices
β’ Global production of cotton is down by 2.5%.
β’ Further price rise may not make sense. Continuous price rise of cotton will impact
Alkyl Amines conducted the conference call for Q2 FY22
Here are the concall highlights π§΅π
Business Updates:
β’ Started commissioning of Acetonitrile plants.
β’ Started new project for manufacturing higher need. This is about to commissioned by end of FY22.
β’ Mgmt expect H2 performance to be improved with respect to H1.
Logistics cost is impacting the export business
Margins:
β’ Decline of 10% in volume on QoQ basis, due to supply chain issue in pharma & agrochem. This was due to lower production of customer, as their certain other raw material from China is facing issue.
β’ While co. is unable to pass entire price hike to customer.