Q4 FY2024:
• Volume Growth: 19.3% YOY
• Net Debt at 591cr - reduced by 117cr - total debt at 745cr
• Share of Established v/s Value added products: 74:26 (P.Y. 77:23). Value added products grew by 32% in FY24 as compared to FY23, while established products grew by 12%.
Value added products grew by 48% in Q4FY24 as compared to Q4FY23, while established products grew by 10%. Margins 18.2%
IBC (Including Inner Containers) sales 622cr vs 501cr.
Composite Cylinders (LPG cylinders and CNG cascades) = 518.2cr vs 345.7cr (49.9% growth)
• Order book- PE Pipes = 125cr. PE Pipes sales = 251.4cr vs 204.6cr. (22.9% growth)
• Order book- Composite Cylinders (CNG Cascades) = 175cr.
• (RoCE) has improved to 16.4% in FY24 and the management intends on achieving an RoCE of ~20% over the next 2 years
• Development of technologically advanced TBS (Transparent Container Batteries) and E-Rickshaw batteries in Lead Acid and Lithium, by NED Energy Limited (subsidiary) at their existing unit. TBS is a type of lead-acid battery commonly used in power segment for backup power systems and, other applications requiring reliable and long-lasting energy storage. Development of these batteries will take around 6 months’ time and has a huge potential market ahead
• Due Diligence process is ongoing for disinvestment of 50% business in Middle East. We estimate to complete this disinvestment transaction by June 2024 including signing of the SPA, unless mutually extended by both parties.
CONCALL NOTES:
• 15% Volume growth for the next 2 years – EBITDA margins to improve (In existing business – no LPG or Hydrogen sales and expansions considered)
• Increase in freight cost due to geopolitical issue in the Middle East region and due to high business in the PV pipe division, that also affected margins by 10 or 20 basis points in the last quarter
• HYDROGEN CYLINDERS: We should get approval for manufacturing in the next 2 months’ time.
• AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR: Automotive sector approval itself takes 8 to 12 months’ time. So, we have initiated talk with them, design taking everything.
• Now every day, we are hearing that so many CBG plants are also coming and Reliance, Adani, many people are working on CBG plant, they will need our type of the cylinder, CNG cylinder
• Composite cylinder business: Which is currently in the '23-‘24 around INR300 crores, which we are projecting in the next 5 years’ time, it can be INR2,500 crores or INR3,000 crores our company’s own business.
• Lpg cylinder: Two years back, the price difference between the metal cylinder and composite cylinder was more than 30%. Today, it is reduced to almost around 15%. As the volume will increase, we can also offer you very, very competitive prices of this.
• FY '25 interest cost to be around INR70 crores. (So 30crs benefit flowing directly to bottomline, which is 10% of FY24 bottomline)
• Variance in the EBITDA margin will be up to 50 basis points because whenever price increase, actual fluctuation, it takes time to pass on with the gap of 25 to 30 days. You will not find any much variance into the period end. We try to keep target EBITDA margin in the range of 13.5% to 15.5%, we are keeping the range depending on the established product mix and the value-added product mix.
• LPG CONTRACT RENEWAL: New contract is already in process. Everything is finalized and quantity, I will be able to let you know in the next 15- or 20-days’ time.
• CNG cascade competition: First, when it comes to the price difference, the price difference between the cascades that we offer in the market, and the one that is being offered by importing these cylinders and then assembling them here, they are in the region of somewhere between 15% to 18%. So, we are in a position to provide that advantage to the buyers, and being a domestic Class 1 supplier as they call it in the government terms, there is an automatic preference coming to us. That’s number one
Access to this technology is very difficult. There are very few people who manufacture these products globally. We fortunately have been in the composite business for the last 20 years. So, we had the good experience of manufacturing these cylinders and we are able to graduate much faster.
• As of now, we don’t see any domestic competition in India and we are fairly confident of great growth in the next few years at least.
• We don’t want to keep the assets idle as we have experienced in LPG cylinders. We have invested 10 years back, but government took interest and started buying since last 2 years, 3 years only. So, it is better to go slowly. But yes, always, we will be the first mover advantage. As we are keeping ourselves ready, I tell you hydrogen cylinder, we are developing it. We will be the first advantaged. We will have a first mover advantage. But we know that requirement of hydrogen cylinder is going to come after the – at the end of the '25, '26 only, not now, but we’re keeping ourselves ready. We are doing investment for that.
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