LAURUSLABS said that based on its healthy product pipeline, it continues to invest in FDF infrastructure. And brownfield expansion at Unit 2 is progressing as per expectation and is expected to add significant capacity to FDF operations, taking the capacity to 10 billion units.
Q&A Insights: Tushar Manudhane of @MotilalOswalLtd asked about the selling prices of ARV, its fall over last 6 months and drivers of it. Satyanarayana Chava CEO said that ARV sales in FY22 for most companies were significantly lower. API and ARV prices both were down around 10%.
Q&A Insights: Tushar Manudhane of @MotilalOswalLtd asked about the $1billion target for FY23, if it will be spread out across four quarters. Satyanarayana Chava CEO replied that it has to be spread out, but a specific number cannot be given.
Q&A Insights: Harith of Spark Capital asked about Laurus Bio, the utilization of the new capacity added as of 4Q. Satyanarayana Chava CEO said that the new fermentation capacity will only come by end of FY24. Therefore, significant growth in revenues at bio can come only in 2025.
Q&A Insights: Tarang Agrawal with Old Bridge Capital asked about the ARV, formulations plus API as a percentage of FY22 revenues. Satyanarayana Chava CEO said that close to 55% of revenues came from ARV.
Q&A Insights: Ratik Gupta from Guardian Holdings asked about maintaining a leadership pipeline in the API segment and US, Europe market share. Satyanarayana CEO said that LAURUSLABS haven’t lost any market share and haven’t seen any pricing pressure on products in Europe and US.
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Q&A Insights: Sanjay Shah of KSA Securities asked about opportunities for HFCL in FY23, FY24. Mahendra MD replied that FY23 comes up with multiple opportunities in India. With 5G coming probably in June, there will be large demand for fiberoptic cable and wideband backhaul radios
Q&A Insights: Sanjay Shah of KSA Securities asked about the progress on defense equipment side. Mahendra MD said that whatever design HFCL has finished, it’s undergoing trial. Also govt.’s plan to indigenously procure defense equipment would help HFCL a great deal in its business
WIPRO stated that for FY23, it expects to grow in double digits and margins for the medium term is expected to hold in the 17-17.5% band. However, for the next 2-3 quarters, WIPRO expects to see slightly lower margins.
Q&A Insights: Kumar Rakesh from @BNPParibas asked about the operations of Rizing. Rajan Kohli MP said that Rizing will operate under Application and Data business, adjacent to SAP business. The idea is to drive synergies between Rizing and Wipro’s SAP business and go to market.
Q&A Insights: Mahrukh Adajania from @EdelweissFin asked about transfer of standard assets to ARC. Puneet Sharma CEO said AXISBANK has not transferred standard assets to ARC. There was only one transfer, which was an NPA of INR 215.78 crores, that was sold to an ARC in 4Q.
Q&A Insights: Rohan Mandora from @EquirusGroup enquired about the segments where the bank will look to grow faster. Puneet Sharma CEO replied that the focus segments would be the mid-corporate segment and commercial banking segment.
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.
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.