1. To some extent I agree that Indian steel demand is greater than Japan and will outpace it easily. The core problem is that any company can enter into this sector and cause competitive margin erosion. I disagree with the company’s claim that there’s little to no competition – see Ofbusiness, Infra.market, Shankara, etc who have the money and can easily enter into this market
2. Japan trading companies are the biggest customers for steel manufacturers. SG suddenly doesn’t become the biggest client. They’re hoping that being an Indian player would give them bargaining power since Marubeni (biggest steel trader) for example has the luxury to buy in 50 countries and buy from the lowest priced provider
3. There’s no govt approval needed for trading in steel. I hope you’re not just copy pasting from chatGPT
4. Even biggest steel manufacturers aren’t safe from steel fluctuations. Any issues in credit lines, working capital shortage will lead to inventory costs. India has become a net importer of steel, even with tariffs imports are cheaper – https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/indian-steelmakers-seek-higher-tariffs-chinese-imports-surge-2024-09-26/
5. Demand is definitely there in India and SG can grab a huge chunk of the pie and I am bullish on their prospects. My major concern is valuations here → no margin of safety and no barriers to entry.

MERGER & ACQUISITION
Acquiring 100% of Innmar-Tourism and Hotels Pvt Ltd for an EV of INR 205 Cr. Company owns an operating hotel with 142 rooms in Whitefield, Bangalore along with surplus land for development of an additional 200-220 rooms in the Upper Upscale segment. The company did a turnover of 24 Cr in Fy24 & Fy23.

Valuation: The acquisition has taken place at a EV/S of 8.5x. Currently SAMHI is trading at EV of 6300 with 957Cr sales in Fy24, hence implied EV/Sales is 6.6x.

The revenue per key for the Innmar in Fy24 is 17.5 lakhs. For an upper upscale segment it seems to be quite low for a hotel located at one of the major city. In contrast the upper upscale revenue per keys for SAMHI portfolio of same category is ~39 lakhs. One probability for low rev is maybe the hotel is upper mid scale category, in a similar case Samhi has ~20lakh rev per keys.

Assuming it is a customer ask, it is safe to assume there’ll be strict manufacturing/ testing requirements.

What are the typical approval timelines for such integration, does it go for years as most of these are design once and run without any change for atleast a decade kind of stuff.

As far as my very little knowledge goes, even an existing end-customer uses a similar/same current sensing PCB module across models, so what they use today was designed/integrated atleast a decade earlier and seldom if ever changes.

Hi Ayush

Would like to understand how do you mean ~2x valuation. Looking at screener PE or PEG is not available. Could you please explain that a bit?