Dear Sir,

We seem to be going through interesting times in market.

Barring some 10 stocks, the entire market is down. The demand has definitely slowed down; however, there are a lot of positives to cheer about: lower corporate tax rates (25%), lower crude prices (Brent crude around 60$), water reservoirs across the country holding 21% more water than 10-year average, etc.

While it’s difficult to predict as to when the demand will pick up…however, the Govt. seems to be doing its bit and the factors like lower crude prices and good monsoon are likely to help the cause.

As we have been maintaining, it looks like a great time to be an investor in stocks and we have been adding companies with strong balance sheets, no major foreseeable CAPEX and performing much better financially in an otherwise tough environment.

Most importantly, despite their strong track record, because of overall dullness in market, we are getting them at much more reasonable valuations like 6-9 times earnings against 20-30 times a year or 2 back.

Recently, we added a New stock to our Model portfolio and shared the details with our Premium members for the purpose of their investment.

 

Some important points about the company and the industry are as below:

  1. The company operates in an Industry dominated by India and frankly no other major country can compete with India
  2. Most of the listed companies in the segment are over-leveraged and facing difficulties
  3. The company chosen by us has been following a differentiated approach of asset light balance sheet and as a result it is almost debt free and has been generating superior rates of return in excess of 15-20% on consistent basis
  4. The company commands ~2% market share in the industry, though the same has increased over the years from around 0.7% a few years back to around 2% in FY 19
  5. Going forward, we expect the market share to improve further as a lot of companies have gone down under on the back of excessive debt on their balance sheet
  6. The Promoters of the company have been involved in the business since more than 40 years now
  7. Promoter’s interests are directly aligned with those of minority shareholders as they hold more than 65% stake in the company and don’t seem to have any other company in the same line of business
  8. The company has been consistently paying dividends since more than 15 years now
  9. On the front of financial performance, the company has performed as below:
    • 15% + CAGR in sales for the last 10 years
    • 20% + CAGR in profits for the last 10 years
    • 20% + average return on equity for the last 10 years
    • Working capital days at less than ½ and sometimes less than 1/3rd of other listed companies
    • Debt equity ratio of less than 0.3 on average annual basis
  10. Last, but not the least, despite much superior performance, the stock is currently available at less than 7 times earnings (adjusted for new tax rate).

 

Stock market is peculiar…sometimes it is too exuberant and offers an asset worth Rs 100 at Rs 120-150 and sometimes it becomes too despondent and offers the same asset worth Rs 100 at Rs 40-60.

Our returns on investments are therefore determined by when we buy the stock: at 40-50 when the market is depressed or 120-150 when the market is elated.

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Thank you,

Ekansh Mittal,
Research Analyst
Web: https://katalystwealth.com/
Email: [email protected]
Ph: +91-727-5050062, Mob: +91-9818866676

 

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Positive – Expected return of ~15% + on annualized basis in medium to long term for investment recommendations and in short term for Special situations
Neutral – Expected Absolute return in the range of +/- 15%
Negative – Expected Absolute return of over -15%
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Short term – Less than 1 year
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