Investment Memo: SUBEXLTD

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Our Rating: OBSERVE & HOLD

Mehabe score: 6
G Factor: 2
Piotski Score: 8
The stock has a rating OBSERVE & 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 2 and Piotski score of 8.

Description

Founded in 1992, it is a software product company which works in the space of Digital Trust i.e. it is focussed on privacy, security, risk mitigation, predictability and confidence in data mainly in the telecommunication space focusing on products to communications Service Providers(CSPs) globally. #

Main Points

Products based on Digital trust
Digital Trust is a concept that enables users to carry out business transactions in a safe, secure, ethical and reliable manner. #
Some of the products the co. is offering is Revenue Assurance, Network Analytics, Fraud Management, Identity Analytics, Partner Ecosystem Management, IOT Security, Analytics Center of Trust and Anomaly Detection.Site: SUBEXLTD

Market Cap: Rs 3,371 cr Price: 59.8 Trading pe: 67.3x
Book-value: 9.73/share Div yield: 1.25 % Earning yield: 2.82%
Face-value: 5.00/share 52week high: 67.40 52week low: 7.37

Technical Analysis

  • Stock trades at 59.8, above its 50dma 53.73. It also trades above its 200dma 34.67. The stock remains bullish on techicals
  • The 52 week high is at 67.40 and the 52week low is at 7.37

Price Chart

P/E Chart

Sales and Margin

Strengths

– has reduced debt.
– is almost debt free.
– has delivered good profit growth of 30.97% CAGR over last 5 years

Weakness

– Stock is trading at 6.14 times its book value
-The company has delivered a poor sales growth of 2.90% over past five years.
– has a low return on equity of 4.92% for last 3 years.

Competition

– The industry trades at a mean P/E of 33.3x. Happiest Minds trades at the industry’s max P/E of 83.56x. SUBEXLTD trades at a P/E of 67.3x
– Industry’s mean G-Factor is 3.6 while the mean Piotski score is 9.0. SUBEXLTD has a G-Factor of 2 and Piotski scoreof 8.
– Average 1 month return for industry is 11.2%. The max 1- month return was given by Happiest Minds: a return of 26.47 %

Quarterly Results

  • Sales for period ended Mar 2021 is Rs 96.0 cr compared to Rs 104.0 cr for period ended Mar 2020, a fall of 7.7%
  • Operating Profits reported at Rs 23.0 cr for period ended Mar 2021 vis-vis 38.0 for period ended Mar 2020 .
  • Operating Margins contracted -1258.0 bps for period ended Mar 2021 vis-vis Mar 2020 .
  • The EPS for Mar 2021 was Rs 0.28 compared to Rs 0.15 for previous quarter ended Dec 2020 and Rs 0.57 for Mar 2020

Profit & Loss Statement

Profit&Loss Comments

  • Company reported sales of Rs 372.0 cr for period ended Mar 2021 vis-vis sales of Rs 365.0 cr for the period ended Mar 2020, a growth of 1.9%. The 3 year sales cagr stood at 4.7%.
  • Operating margins expanded to 26.0% for period ended Mar 2021 vis-vis 24.0% for period ended Mar 2020, expansion of 200.0 bps.
  • Net Profit reported at Rs 52.0 cr for period ended Mar 2021 vis-vis sales of Rs -269.0 cr for the period ended Mar 2020, rising 617.3%.
  • Company recorded a healthy Net Profit CAGR of 35.3% 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 91.0 cr for period ended Mar 2021 vis-vis Rs 67.0 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 improved its Return on Equity (RoE) metric. The RoE on Last Year basis was 9.0% compared to 5.0% over the last 3 Years.
– The stock has given a return of 657% on a 1 Year basis vis-vis a return of 114% over the last 3 Years.
– The compounded sales growth on a TTM bassis is 2% vis-vis a compounded sales growth of 5% over the last 3 Years.
– The compounded profit growth on a TTM basis is 125% vis-vis a compounded profit growth of 64% over the last 3 Years.

Ratios

Shareholding Pattern

– FII shareholding has remained largely constant. The Mar 2021 fii holding stood at 0.01% vis-vis 0.03% for Dec 2020
– Public shareholding has remained largely constant. The Mar 2021 public holding stood at 96.43% vis-vis 96.22% for Dec 2020

Conclusion

– has reduced debt.
– is almost debt free.
– has delivered good profit growth of 30.97% CAGR over last 5 years – Stock is trading at 6.14 times its book value
-The company has delivered a poor sales growth of 2.90% over past five years.
– has a low return on equity of 4.92% for last 3 years.

  • Fundamentally, the stock remains weak on business fundamentals. Weak near term results have dampened and questioned business drivers. We suggest to wait for a upturn in business performance.
  • Technically, the stock trades above its 50 DMA 53.73 and is trading at 59.8 It has shown near term bullish momentum contrary to business fundamentals. We suggest to observe price action. However as investors, who like to avoid timing the markets, we suggest to avoid the stock
  • Thus, overall, we retain a OBSERVE & HOLD.

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