In today’s briefing:
- Life Insurance Corporation of India IPO – The Positives – Operates on a Grand Scale
- Natco Pharma Limited: One-Off Drives Revenues; All Eyes on Future Launches
- Ambuja Cement: Expansion to Drive Growth Momentum
- Pick of the Week – Hindustan Unilever Limited
- IPCA Laboratories: Domestic Outperformance Offset by Drag in Exports
- Life Insurance Corporation of India IPO – The Negatives – Has Been Lagging the Sector
- Mahindra Logistics Ltd: New Customers, Seasonality Impacts Margins
- Nestle India: RM Headwinds Persist; Await Better Entry Points
- Nestle India: Staring at High Inflation in Multiple Commodities
- Optimising and monetising user funnel to drive customer lifetime value
Life Insurance Corporation of India IPO – The Positives – Operates on a Grand Scale
- Government of India (GoI) is looking to raise around US$5-10bn via selling a 5% stake in Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) in its upcoming India IPO.
- As of FY21, LIC was the largest life insurer in India with a 64.1% market share in terms of GWP, a 66.2% market share in terms of NBP.
- In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.
Natco Pharma Limited: One-Off Drives Revenues; All Eyes on Future Launches
- Natco has, over the years, developed a knack for manufacturing complex generic products with few competitors, especially for the US market
- India formulations mainly comprise oncology products (+33 launches).
- FY21 revenue break-up – Domestic Business: 19%, International Business: 50% (mainly from the US), APIs: 24%
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Ambuja Cement: Expansion to Drive Growth Momentum
- Ambuja Cement (Holcim group company) is a large cement player with capacity of 31.5 MT
- Upcoming new capacity in Punjab (1.5 MT) and eastern region (7.0 MT including clinker 3.2 MT) will enhance its cement capacity by ~8.5 MT to 40.0 MT
- In the phase II, the company plans to reach over ~50 MT capacity through capacity expansion in western region along with significant de-bottlenecking
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Pick of the Week – Hindustan Unilever Limited
- Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), the largest FMCG player in India, was formed by merging three subsidiaries of Unilever in 1956.
- HUL’s portfolio of products covers a wide spectrum
- Powerful brands and an envious distribution network are its primary strength
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IPCA Laboratories: Domestic Outperformance Offset by Drag in Exports
- Ipca is a fully integrated pharma company manufacturing over 350 formulations and 80 APIs with exports contributing 50% of revenues in FY21
- Major therapeutic segments include pain management, cardiovascular and anti-diabetics, anti-infectives, anti-malarials, which together account for 75% of revenues
- Target Price and Valuation: Valued at Rs 1175 i.e. 24x P/E on FY24E EPS of Rs 48.9
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Life Insurance Corporation of India IPO – The Negatives – Has Been Lagging the Sector
- Government of India (GoI) is looking to raise around US$5-10bn via selling a 5% stake in Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) in its upcoming India IPO.
- As of FY21, LIC was the largest life insurer in India with a 64.1% market share in terms of GWP, a 66.2% market share in terms of NBP.
- In this note, we will talk about the not so positive aspects of the deal.
Mahindra Logistics Ltd: New Customers, Seasonality Impacts Margins
- Mahindra Logistics is an end-to-end 3PL logistics solution provider, from performing milk run to in-factory logistics, warehousing to first mile and last mile logistics
- Serves over 400 customers via its two business segment: supply chain management [(SCM), 96% of revenues] and enterprise mobility
- Revenues from Mahindra comprise 52% of SCM revenues (FY21) while the rest is contributed by non-Mahindra
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Nestle India: RM Headwinds Persist; Await Better Entry Points
- Nestle India (NEST) reported Revenues for Q4CY21 in-line with our estimates;EBITDA & PAT were however a miss
- Clear signs of pressure have been noted on Gross Margins owing to inflationary RM
- We Maintain HOLD with unchanged TP of Rs18,600 as at CMP the risk-reward is unfavourable even as the long term growth trajectory appears fair (20+ projects in pipeline).
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Nestle India: Staring at High Inflation in Multiple Commodities
- Nestlé India (NIL) is the largest food company in India with over Rs 14000 crore of sales
- It is broadly present in infant & baby food products, noodles, chocolates & beverage categories.
- In the last five years, the company has forayed into newer categories and launched more than 100 new products.
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Optimising and monetising user funnel to drive customer lifetime value
- One 97 Communications’ (OCL or Paytm used interchangeably in the report) two-sided digital ecosystem of 64.4mn average monthly transacting users (MTUs) (as at Dec’21) from >350mn consumer base and over 24.9mn merchants is core to its unit economics.
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