For FY23, KPIT said it’s looking at revenue growth in the range of 18-21% in constant currency, 18-19% EBITDA margin and about 25% volume growth.
Q&A Insights: Karan Uppal from @Phillip_Capital asked about the $125 million client wins in 4Q and if all were T21 clients. Kishor Patil CEO said KPIT’s focus has been on T21 and most of the wins were for T21.
Q&A Insights: Karan Uppal from @Phillip_Capital also enquired about the strong margin guidance and levers for its sustenance. Kishor Patil CEO said the main levers for margin growth will be revenue growth, volume growth and higher realizations.
Q&A Insights: Chandramouli Muthiah of @GoldmanSachs asked what percentage of business today is from new age OEM and semicon companies. Sachin Tikekar President said the company is testing the water and in the process of defining strategy. Currently it’s about 3-4%.
Q&A Insights: Nitin P of @InvestecI asked about the $125-odd million of deals apart from the EUR70 million deal, if it was better than last year on that number, excluding the large deal. Kishor Patil CEO said this is what KPIT closed during 4Q. It was not abnormally higher or low
Q&A Insights: Dave of @investyadnya asked about KPIT’s business shrinking when OEMs start doing in-house software dev. Kishor Patil CEO said that KPIT feels it’s very unlikely that every part of software integration will be taken in-house by every OEM in future due to complexity.
Q&A Insights: Andrey Purushottam from Cogito Advisors queried about revenue per employee (RPE) slightly declining over the quarters. Kishor Patil CEO replied that KPIT’s offshore has been increasing over the last 4 qtrs. As a result, RPE has gone down due to increase in offshore.
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HINDUNILVR said it expects near-term operating environment to remain challenging. The company added that its margins will decline in short-term as price versus cost gap increases.
HINDUNILVR reported that the company crossed the INR50,000 crore turnover mark in FY22. The company remains confident of outpacing FMCG market growth and recovering margins in a phased manner.
Q&A Insights: Prayesh Jain of @MotilalOswalLtd asked about business going ahead with the merger between HDFC Limited and HDFC bank. Navneet Munot MD said this will facilitate more efficient cross-selling of banking and financial services products that includes insurance and MF.
Q&A Insights: Prayesh Jain of @MotilalOswalLtd asked how the company’s expenses are panning out. Navneet Munot MD replied that opex has been around 13 bp which has been the trend. However, despite business promotion, marketing, NFO etc. HDFCAMC has maintained the expenses.
AUFI generated its higher ever operating profit in 4Q22. The company said 40% of its new customers acquired in 4Q were through the recently launched digital channels and products.
Q&A Insights: Aditya Jain of @Citi asked about steady reduction in cost of funds on liability side and share of floating rate loans on the book. Sanjay Agarwal MD said it was due to inflation and interest rate cycle being tough. The share of floating was 25% and 75% was fixed.
Q&A Insights: Suresh Ganapathy from @Macquarie asked about the details of the 80 bp change in operating assumptions impacting margin. Niraj Shah CFO said that it’s the seasonality assumptions the company had at the beginning of the period, given what’s seen in the portfolio.
Q&A Insights: Suresh Ganapathy of @Macquarie also asked about change in equation due to the merger of HDFC Limited and Bank. Vibha Padalkar MD replied that with this merger there will be a direct alignment and also will have cross-sell opportunities in a structured manner.
Q&A Insights: Abhishek Murarka from @HSBC_IN asked about the NIM and cost to income outlook for FY23. Rajeev Jain MD said opex to NIM would remain elevated. Eventually it will lead to better OpEx to NIM ratio.
Q&A Insights: Apurva Deshmukh of @CRISILLimited enquired about percentage of consumer durable in stand-alone AUM of Bajaj Finance. Rajeev Jain MD said that it’s close to INR 20,000 crores in terms of balance sheet (BS) of consumer durable financing. On aggregate, it is 10% of BS.
ICICIBANK said its employee expenses increased by 21% YonY. And the bank had about 105,800 employees at March 31, with employee count increasing by about 7,000 in the last 12 months.
Q&A Insights: Mahrukh Adajania of @EdelweissFin asked about margin outlook and if repo rate hike will gain margin. Rakesh CFO replied that it’s difficult to give an outlook. The target would be to try and see how margins can be maintained. But it will be a function of the market.