In hindsight, when Sanjoy Bhattacharyya, the doyen amongst value investors, declared Swaraj Engines to be a “truly a diamond in the rough”, we should have dived in without a second’s thought. Today, about five years later, gains of 182% are on the table. While this may not appear impressive to the young-gen investors, it must be remembered that the stock also offers a hefty dividend yield of nearly 4%.
Billionaire Narayana Murthy, the co-founder of Infosys, the blue-chip software behemoth, is a conservative investor. One can see from his previous stock picks that he is looking for capital protection and reasonable gains from his stocks.
Swaraj Engines is the ideal sort of stock for such a conservative investor. It has management pedigree with impeccable credentials (Mahindra-Kirloskar), high RoE (24%), debt-free and high dividend yield (4%).
Narayana Murthy’s investment arm, Catamaran Management Services Pvt. Ltd, presently holds 166,300 shares of Swaraj Engines.
The only reason the stock is a bit in the doldrums at present is because of the poor monsoon outlook in the Country. However, if the monsoon outlook improves and there is a demand for tractors, you can be certain that Swaraj Engines will be among the first to take off.
Rahul Arora of Nirmal Bang has heaped rich praise on Swaraj Engines by calling it a “great investment opportunity”. His words of wisdom are worth noting:
“Swaraj Tractors used to have an 8 percent market share in FY08, which has gone up to 16 percent now. So it has been one of the biggest market share gainers …. we are factoring in about a 17-18 percent volume growth over the next two years. Even the worst of times, this company is giving you 25 percent ROEs, ROCs which we are expecting to go to about 35 percent in two years, 330 bps expansion in margin and very strong management pedigree … this is a growth stock with very strong return ratios coming to about 11-12 times FY18 P/E ….. it is a great investment to be made. The most important thing is coming to you at more than 4 percent dividend yield. So I would definitely buy in Swaraj Engines every time it goes to Rs 820-830. Even at these prices I am not too fussed about it because it is a very steady state long-term story …”
ICICI-Direct has also recommended a buy of Swaraj Engines on sound logic:
“SEL has a lean balance sheet with net cash of | 182 crore (FY15). Average RoCEs and RoEs in the last five years (FY11-15) were at 35% and 28%, respectively. SEL also has good payout ratios with average payout in the last three years at 72.7% with FY15 dividend at Rs. 33/share (dividend yield ~4%) … We have valued SEL at Rs. 1110 i.e. 22x P/E on FY17E and FY18E average EPS of Rs. 50.4 with a BUY recommendation on the stock. The company is essentially a quality play and should be held in one’s portfolio with a long term investment horizon”.
If ICICI-Direct’s prediction of a target price of Rs. 1,110 comes true, we are talking of gains of nearly 25% (plus dividend yield) which is excellent for a stock which is safe as a house!
Falling sales , falling profit — no turnover growth in over 5 years (2012 total turnover – 448 crore — 2016 trainling 12 month turnover — 500 crore) and you are talking about market share increase from 8 to 16% .
you are simply making your loyal blog fans fools by asking them to put money in such a company.
Dude you are right that it may not be the right stock to invest but this is not a recommendation site, it is information blog and disclaimer clearly states that writers believe experts and are always biased in favor of experts.
Nothing on this blog is recommendation, its just information available in public domain. Treat information as information not recommendation.
I totally agree with PS… It it done deliberately or happened innocently I wonder
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Stock such “Swaraj Engine” is a capital goods and engineering sector stock with strong fundamentals. Debt less balance sheet with good dividend yield of 4% with stable sales makes it a safe bet in turbulent times also. If we look at profitablity and return ratios such as ROE and ROCE which are considered important from Equity investors perspective, on that front also it is quite ahead compared to most of the other companies operating in the same industry.
Swaraj Engine has more than 20% of ROE and more than 30% of ROCE which itself is remarkable in this industry.
For investors who seeks stable gains over the years with less risk, this type of stocks are good. No wonder why the likes of Narayan Murthy, Sanjay Bhattacharyya and few other investors are already into it.
With economic activity and IIP picking up this type of stocks are again going to benefit. Valuation pick up is very much on the cards in coming few quarters for such stocks and should lead to the rally in the prices going ahead.