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.
Q&A Insights: Anubhav A of @CreditSuisse asked if the closedown of the facility in the US would help reduce cost in subsequent quarter. Sudhir Menon CFO said the operating expenses on a full year basis is INR135 crore, which should be the cost saving from the closure for FY23.
Q&A Insights: Damayanti Kerai of @HSBC_IN enquired about Germany market sales going forward. Sanjay ED said it expects sales in 2H23 to be better than 1H23 in terms of growth. The company also has 10-15 launches in FY23, the bulk of which will be coming after Sept. Oct. also.
Q&A Insights: Damayanti Kerai of @HSBC_IN also asked about the tender and retail market ratio in Germany. Sanjay Gupta ED replied that tender sales are roughly 60% of the company’s business in Germany.
Q&A Insights: Damayanti Kerai of @HSBC_IN asked how the company should look at FY23 growth over FY22. Aman Mehta ED said that on a CAGR basis, double digit growth should be doable for the market.
Q&A Insights: Neha M of @BankofAmerica asked that on the field force addition, if all the planned addition is done. Aman ED answered that there would be some additional expansion happening by end of 1Q23. So 4Q22 ended at 3,900 and probably another 200-300 reps by end of 1Q23.
Q&A Insights: Nitin Agarwal of DAM Capital asked about the driver of employee expense reducing QonQ. Sudhir Menon CFO said it was due to reworking of annual incentives, reversal of provisions, plus the reversal of Chairman’s commission.
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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
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.
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.