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Investment Memo: ZENSARTECH

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Our Rating: HOLD

Mehabe score: 5
G Factor: 4
Piotski Score: 7
The stock has a rating HOLD. The mehabe team score is reflective of its fundamental and technical merits. A rating above 8 is considered good buy. The stock has a G-Factor of 4 and Piotski score of 7.

Description

Zensar Technologies is a leading digital solutions and technology services company. It is a part of the Mumbai-based RPG group and is headquartered in Pune, India. It operates in two segments: Application Management Service and Infrastructure management service. It is focused on industry verticals, such as Hitech & manufacturing, consumer services, and banking, financial services, and insurance. They have offices located in India, the USA, UK, Europe, and Africa.

Main Points

Business segments
Application management services (84% of total revenue in FY20): It includes Application development, Maintenance, Support, Modernization, and Testing services across a wide technology spectrum and industry verticals.
It includes hybrid IT, Digital workspace, Dynamic security, and unified IT provided under managed service platform using automation, autonomics, and machine learning.Site: ZENSARTECHMain Symbol: ZENSARTECH

Price Chart

Market Cap: Rs 8,765 cr Price: 388.0 Trading pe: 26.2x
Book-value: 104/share Div yield: 0.31 % Earning yield: 6.59%
Face-value: 2.00/share 52week high: 391.15 52week low: 139.00

Technical Analysis

  • Stock trades at 388.0, above its 50dma 318.28. It also trades above its 200dma 263.82. The stock remains bullish on techicals
  • The 52 week high is at 391.15 and the 52week low is at 139.00

Price Chart

P/E Chart

Sales and Margin

Strengths

– has been maintaining a healthy dividend payout of 23.71%

Weakness

– The company has delivered a poor sales growth of 5.08% over past five years.

Competition

– The industry trades at a mean P/E of 35.1x. Happiest Minds trades at the industry’s max P/E of 122.46x. ZENSARTECH trades at a P/E of 26.2x
– Industry’s mean G-Factor is 3.8 while the mean Piotski score is 9.0. ZENSARTECH has a G-Factor of 4 and Piotski scoreof 7.
– Average 1 month return for industry is 22.3%. The max 1- month return was given by Happiest Minds: a return of 43.43 %

Quarterly Results

  • Sales for period ended Jun 2021 is Rs 937.0 cr compared to Rs 991.0 cr for period ended Jun 2020, a fall of 5.4%
  • Operating Profits reported at Rs 173.0 cr for period ended Jun 2021 vis-vis 143.0 for period ended Jun 2020 .
  • Operating Margins expanded 403.3 bps for period ended Jun 2021 vis-vis Jun 2020 .
  • The EPS for Jun 2021 was Rs 4.48 compared to Rs 3.91 for previous quarter ended Mar 2021 and Rs 3.25 for Jun 2020

Profit & Loss Statement

Profit&Loss Comments

  • Company reported sales of Rs 3727.0 cr for period ended TTM vis-vis sales of Rs 3781.0 cr for the period ended Mar 2021, a fall of 1.4%. The 3 year sales cagr stood at -2.1%.
  • Operating margins expanded to 19.0% for period ended TTM vis-vis 18.0% for period ended Mar 2021, expansion of 100.0 bps.
  • Net Profit reported at Rs 328.0 cr for period ended TTM vis-vis sales of Rs 300.0 cr for the period ended Mar 2021, rising 8.5%.
  • Company recorded a Net Profit CAGR of 1.5% over the last 3 years

Balance Sheet Statement

Cash Flow Statement

Cash Flow comments

  • CashFlow from operating activities was positive.
  • CashFlow from operating activities: Rs 858.0 cr for period ended Mar 2021 vis-vis Rs 686.0 cr for period ended Mar 2020

Sales Growth

Profit Growth Statement

Profit Growth Statement

Stock Price CAGR

Return of Equity

General Comments

– The company has had stable/constant Return on Equity (RoE) metric. The RoE on Last Year basis was 15.0% compared to 15.0% over the last 3 Years.
– The stock has given a return of 169% on a 1 Year basis vis-vis a return of 17% over the last 3 Years.
– The compounded sales growth on a TTM bassis is -10% vis-vis a compounded sales growth of 7% over the last 3 Years.
– The compounded profit growth on a TTM basis is 32% vis-vis a compounded profit growth of 11% over the last 3 Years.

Ratios

Shareholding Pattern

– FII shareholding has remained largely constant. The Jun 2021 fii holding stood at 17.1% vis-vis 16.02% for Mar 2021
– Public shareholding has risen for the period ended Jun 2021. The Jun 2021 public holding stood at 12.59% vis-vis 10.22% for Mar 2021

Conclusion

– has been maintaining a healthy dividend payout of 23.71% – The company has delivered a poor sales growth of 5.08% over past five years.

  • The business fundamentals of the stock remain stable. Stronger near term results will build interest in the stock. We suggest to wait for a upturn in business performance.
  • Technically, the stock remains above its 50 DMA 318.28 and is trading at 388.0, thus bullish price action wise.
  • Thus, overall we retain a HOLD on the stock.

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