Q&A Insights: Dhaval Shah of Svan Investment asked about price increase scenario. Kaushik Roy MD said there is a sharp increase in crude price. However, PCBL said it doesn’t want to take advantage of the situation but also want to pass a reasonable portion of cost to the customer
Q&A Insights: Jain of @ICICI_Direct asked how large is Russia in terms of capacity. Kaushik MD replied that on capacity, the size is similar like India. In terms of capacity it is 1.1 million tonnes. The difference is that 30% is used domestically and 70% goes to Western Europe.
Q&A Insights: Jain from @ICICI_Direct asked about contracted realization for power and when it comes for renewal. Kaushik Roy MD said that typically PCBL get into contract which are 6 months to 1.5 year max. Also 70-80% will go for contract and rest supplied to the grid directly.
Q&A Insights: Bhavesh Chauhan with IDBI Capital enquired if the company is expecting to see a significant ramp up in specialty volumes in FY23. Kaushik Roy MD said that it’s expected to see further improvement on these of around 25% growth or at around 45,000 tonnes for FY23.
Q&A Insights: Bhavesh Chauhan with IDBI Capital asked if PCBL is expecting its EBITDA per tonne again going back to the INR15,000 per tonne mark. Raj Gupta CFO said that looking at the scenario company is seeing in its performance, PCBL should be performing better than INR15,000.
Q&A Insights: Peter of [Kisima] Wealth asked about the impact on PCBL’s margin if oil goes every $10 above $100. Raj Gupta CFO said that the change in crude price though it impacts working capital, gross realization etc., it doesn’t impact PCBL’s absolute margins per tonne.
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Q&A Insights: Kashyap Javeri from @EmkayGlobal Investment asked about the spend of budgets that were 2x in FY22 vs. FY21. Harvinder CFO said that the 2x budget were for technology spend which has been growing and it was higher by 70% in FY22. And for FY23 it’s 2.5 times vs. FY22.
Q&A Insights: Prayesh from @MotilalOswalLtd asked about the share of the recurring segment on the corporate finance side and its outlook. Harvinder CFO said that ISEC has a 70% market share in the equity capital market. For outlook, on private equity M&A, ISEC is seeing traction.
LTI said FY22 saw the company cross the $2 billion revenue milestone, by delivering its highest ever revenue growth this year. As for headcount, during Q4, LTI added 2,448 on a net basis and for FY22 it stood at 10,657. In 4Q22, attrition was 24% vs. 22.5% in 3Q on an LTM basis.
Q&A Insights: Vimal Gohil of @UnionBankTweets asked about weakness in cash flow generation in FY22 and outlook. Anil CFO said LTI had a strong cash flow conversion in 4Q22 at 97% vs. 70% in 3Q, mainly due to better working capital construct. LTI expects to continue in same range.
MINDTREE reported that it is increasing investments in Metaverse Solutions and capabilities to extend its technology and design thinking leadership into an integrated consulting led Metaverse offering.
MINDTREE’s net headcount addition in FY22 was over 11,200, more than six times the headcount addition in FY21. Through FY23, MINDTREE expects its hiring of fresh graduates to increase significantly.
Q&A Insights: Arav Sangai from VT Capital asked about the increase in sensitivity on interest rates. Satyan Jambunathan CFO said the increase in sensitivity on interest rates is the effect of the increase in the nonlinked, non-par savings in the product mix that the company has.
Q&A Insights: Nischint Chawathe with @kotaksecurities asked when does the unwinding rate of 7.2% start going up given that there is a rise in interest rates. Satyan Jambunathan CFO said that it will show up in FY23. Also, FY23 unwind should start off at a higher level than FY22.