SAIL said it clocked its best ever production and sales during FY22. The sales have been the highest ever at 16.15 million tonnes as compared to 14.94 million tonnes in FY21. For the first time in history of SAIL, the company crossed revenues from operation of INR1 lakh crores.
Q&A Insights: Amit Dixit of @EdelweissFin asked about coking coal cost in 4Q22 in dollar terms and how it’s expected to change in 1Q23. Anil Tulsiani ED said it is likely to go up substantially. In Q4 it was in range of INR28,000-29,000 and it is expected to be up 10-12% in 1Q23.
Q&A Insights: Amit of @EdelweissFin asked about govt. imposing export duty and does this change SAIL’s capex plans in next 2-3 years. Anil Tulsiani ED said it has some long-term plans for expansion. In immediate future, there are some rehabilitation and debottlenecking schemes.
Q&A Insights: Saket K of Kapoor & Company asked how introduction of export tax is going to impact SAIL. Anil ED said SAIL doesn't have that much quantity of steel exports. And advantage for SAIL is that it’s basically into exporting of semis, which are not impacted by this tax.
Q&A Insights: Saket Kapoor of Kapoor & Company enquired about the finance cost increasing from INR316 crore to INR440 crore QonQ. Anil Tulsiani ED answered that it’s mainly the forex loss. The interest cost for 4Q is around INR250 crores. The balance is the forex loss.
Q&A Insights: Saket Kapoor of Kapoor & Company asked that on the demand side, how is the demand shaping up and realization currently for the flat and the long product. Anil Tulsiani ED said that realizations in April were better. But in May there are some pressures on the prices.
Q&A Insights: Aditya W of @AXIS_Capital asked about production profile in FY23 and if there will be any reduction in semis as a proportion of total production. Anil T ED said it's always an endeavor to reduce its semis. SAIL is optimistic that in FY23 it will be more than FY22.
Q&A Insights: Ritesh Shah of @InvestecI asked about iron ore price outlook. Anil Tulsiani ED replied that SAIL expects the iron ore prices to soften. Because of the export duty, there will be a softening of the prices, which will in fact help SAIL to some extent.
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Q&A Insights: Gaurav Jogani with @AXIS_Capital asked if the company took any price increase beyond the price increase announced in Dec. VS Ganesh CEO replied that the company didn’t have any further price increase other than the one it had in Dec.
Q&A Insights: Gaurav J of @AXIS_Capital asked that given the raw material stock PAGEIND has, if further price increase will be needed given the higher cotton prices. VS Ganesh CEO said it is closely monitoring the situation. If there is a need, PAGEIND will be touching the prices
MUTHOOTFIN said it expects borrowing costs to go up gradually during FY23. Gold AUM grew by 11% in FY22 and the company expects a growth of 12-15% for FY23.
Q&A Insights: Abhijit Tibrewal of @MotilalOswalLtd asked about weak gold loan demand in core customer segments of 40,000-60,000 ticket size. George Muthoot MD replied that that ticket size has gone up to much higher levels due to economic growth. People now are borrowing more.
KOLTEPATIL said that further from a new business development perspective, the company is focusing on newer micro markets in Pune.
Q&A Insights: Prithvi R of @unificapital asked what kind of price hikes was taken across projects and geographies. Rahul Talele CEO said wherever it got the opportunity of price rise, it has taken it. KOLTEPATIL has hiked price in range of 5-8% in Pune, Mumbai and Bangalore areas
Q&A Insights: Anubhav A of @CreditSuisse asked about Brazil market, how much the 5 launches the company did in 4Q22 contributed as a percentage of sales. Sanjay Gupta ED said it showed a growth of about 21% and roughly about 13-14% of that is the contribution from new launches.
Q&A Insights: Anubhav A of @CreditSuisse asked how Brazil sales growth is expected in FY23. Sanjay Gupta ED replied that Brazilian GDP growth was about 4-4.5% and next year forecast is less than 1%. So assuming market grows at 8-10%, the company should be well above that.
INDIGO said it swung from a profitable 3Q22 to a loss-making 4Q22 because of about 15% higher fuel prices and on 11% lower capacity due to Omicron and a lower RASK of 2.9%.
In 1Q23, INDIGO expects the capacity to rebound at almost 2.5 times the capacity deployed in 1Q22.
Q&A Insights: Rohit Ohri of @progressiveshar asked about any growth capex plan related to property at Bangladesh. Vikash President said that due to COVID in last 2, 3 years, it was unable to take off, but RUPA is hopeful it will be able to start some business activity in FY22.
Q&A Insights: Rohit Ohri from @progressiveshar also asked about the turnover expectation from the Bangladesh property. Vikash Agarwal President answered that it’s difficult to comment but anywhere between INR50-100 crores is quite achievable. RUPA is looking for some partners.