Investment Memo: PIIND

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Our Rating: HOLD

Mehabe score: 6
G Factor: 5
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 5 and Piotski score of 7.

Description

PI Industries Ltd is a leading player in the agro-chemicals space having strong presence in both Domestic and Export markets. It has state-of-art facilities in Gujarat having integrated process development teams with in-house engineering capabilities.#

Main Points

Revenue Breakup
Its revenues are divided under 2 main categories. It earns ~76% of its revenues from active ingredients and intermediaries and ~23% of revenues from sale of formulations.#Site: PIINDMain Symbol: PIIND

Price Chart

Market Cap: Rs 44,760 cr Price: 2950.0 Trading pe: 60.6x
Book-value: 352/share Div yield: 0.10 % Earning yield: 2.23%
Face-value: 1.00/share 52week high: 3309.75 52week low: 1750.00

Technical Analysis

  • Stock trades at 2950.0, above its 50dma 2863.35. It also trades above its 200dma 2457.91. The stock remains bullish on techicals
  • The 52 week high is at 3309.75 and the 52week low is at 1750.00

Price Chart

P/E Chart

Sales and Margin

Strengths

– has reduced debt.
– is almost debt free.
– is expected to give good quarter
– has delivered good profit growth of 18.73% CAGR over last 5 years
-Debtor days have improved from 70.41 to 56.10 days.
-‘s median sales growth is 21.61% of last 10 years

Weakness

– Stock is trading at 8.38 times its book value
-Promoter holding has decreased over last 3 years: -4.77%

Competition

– The industry trades at a mean P/E of 32.9x. Sumitomo Chemi. trades at the industry’s max P/E of 62.23x. PIIND trades at a P/E of 60.6x
– Industry’s mean G-Factor is 3.4 while the mean Piotski score is 9.0. PIIND has a G-Factor of 5 and Piotski scoreof 7.
– Average 1 month return for industry is 0.8%. The max 1- month return was given by Sumitomo Chemi.: a return of 9.66 %

Quarterly Results

  • Sales for period ended Jun 2021 is Rs 1194.0 cr compared to Rs 1060.0 cr for period ended Jun 2020, a rise of 12.6%
  • Operating Profits reported at Rs 249.0 cr for period ended Jun 2021 vis-vis 229.0 for period ended Jun 2020 .
  • Operating Margins contracted -75.0 bps for period ended Jun 2021 vis-vis Jun 2020 .
  • The EPS for Jun 2021 was Rs 12.34 compared to Rs 11.85 for previous quarter ended Mar 2021 and Rs 10.54 for Jun 2020

Profit & Loss Statement

Profit&Loss Comments

  • Company reported sales of Rs 4711.0 cr for period ended TTM vis-vis sales of Rs 4577.0 cr for the period ended Mar 2021, a growth of 2.8%. The 3 year sales cagr stood at 18.4%.
  • Net Profit reported at Rs 780.0 cr for period ended TTM vis-vis sales of Rs 738.0 cr for the period ended Mar 2021, rising 5.4%.
  • Company recorded a healthy Net Profit CAGR of 23.9% 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 725.0 cr for period ended Mar 2021 vis-vis Rs 698.0 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 19.0% compared to 19.0% over the last 3 Years.
– The stock has given a return of 68% on a 1 Year basis vis-vis a return of 54% over the last 3 Years.
– The compounded sales growth on a TTM bassis is 36% vis-vis a compounded sales growth of 26% over the last 3 Years.
– The compounded profit growth on a TTM basis is 62% vis-vis a compounded profit growth of 27% over the last 3 Years.

Ratios

Shareholding Pattern

– FII shareholding has remained largely constant. The Jun 2021 fii holding stood at 19.64% vis-vis 19.35% for Mar 2021
– Public shareholding has remained largely constant. The Jun 2021 public holding stood at 11.58% vis-vis 12.57% for Mar 2021

Conclusion

– has reduced debt.
– is almost debt free.
– is expected to give good quarter
– has delivered good profit growth of 18.73% CAGR over last 5 years
-Debtor days have improved from 70.41 to 56.10 days.
-‘s median sales growth is 21.61% of last 10 years – Stock is trading at 8.38 times its book value
-Promoter holding has decreased over last 3 years: -4.77%

  • 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 2863.35 and is trading at 2950.0, thus bullish price action wise.
  • Thus, overall we retain a HOLD on the stock.

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