Thread on Glenmark Life Science IPO 27 July 🧵:

Glenmark Life Science (GLS) is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd;

In 2001-02, GLS launched the API manufacturing business; Currently, the company has two key business verticals: namely API and CDMO;

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GLS is a leading developer and manufacturer of select high-value, non-commoditized APIs in chronic therapeutic areas, including CVS, CNS, pain, and diabetes;

As of FY21, API and CDMO contributed ~90.6 & 8.1% to GLS revenues respectively;

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The company works with 16 of the top 20 generic pharma companies in the world and as of 31st May 2021, they have registered ~403 DMFs globally;

From the IPO proceeds, GLS will be using ~Rs 8bn as repayment of an outstanding purchase agreement to the promoter-

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-for the spin-off of the API business. The company has also envisaged using Rs 1.53bn as capital expenditure;

This includes a new multi-usage facility, which will mainly focus on the company’s CDMO business aspiration from 4QFY23.

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Key growth drivers for the Indian API industry:

👉India is on par with other countries in terms of technological capabilities and process efficiency;

👉The costs are very low in India: Domestic pharmaceutical facilities cost only 2/5th of what it costs to set up and-

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In a business where the buying & selling price is fixed by the government, how is that the sugar stocks are rallying so much?

A thread 🧵 to learn how the sugar sector works. Do re-tweet and hence us educate more investors (1/n)

- Sugar is made out of Sugarcane
- The government fixes buying price (FRP – Fair & Remunerative price) for the mill from the farmers at 2.850/Kg
- Selling price is also fixed at Rs. 31/Kg (MSP – Minimum selling price) (2/n)

Lets understand the sector,

- Sugarcane purchased by the mill is crushed to remove the juice (exactly like you have sugarcane juice at a hotel)
- Juice is heated & boiled to remove sugar (3/n)

- The juice can be boiled upto 3 times to remove sugar. Each time it is boiled, sugar is removed, than some water is added and boiled again to remove more sugar (4/n)

- There are 2 by-products as well. The residue left behind after the boiling process is over is like a gum/paste called molasses & the fiber/stem of the sugarcane after juice is extracted (5/n)