Happiest Minds FY21 Annual Report Takeaways.

'Investing in next-generation digital technologies like Blockchain, Robotics & Drones, and VR/AR.'

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1/ Happiest Minds completes its 10 years of business: They have 13Kcrs in just a short span of time 🤯

Starts with the COVID 2.0 impact on the company: 8% of the team was tested +ve by 17th May, 26% of which were hospitalized.

Led to the terrible loss of 5 young men.

2/ Coming to the wins:

- Employee culture has been the biggest investment as per the chairman Mr. Ashok Soota
- Customer retention: One CFO has been a customer with the 3 companies he worked with ( Power of 💪relationships)
- Invested in all new technologies including next gen.

3/ Did you know? IP-led services (High margin & High operating leverage) account for 10% of their revenues.

Restructured the three business units (PES, DBS, IMSS) such that each caters to their specific high potential industries 🚀

4/ Talks about their Vision 2021-2031: How most businesses survive less than a half-lifetime of humans

This wouldn't be the case for Happiest minds as it is being 'designed for perpetuity': addressed succession risks

Guidance: 20% organic growth+ Lower PAT due to higher tax

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) Simplified.

A product that provides a fixed income that is better than FD +an upside like equity.

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1/ REITs are a vehicle to invest in income-producing real estate properties, managed by professionals.

2/ In India, we have REITs primarily focused on commercial real estate properties having 7-9% rental yields.

In listed REITs, Most of the completed properties are pre-leased to big companies.

Why no residential? As yields of 1-3% make them unattractive to investors.

3/ How do you get the benefit of such yield?

REITs have to distribute at least 90% of their taxable income to their shareholders.

All 3 listed REITs trade at 6-7% dividend yield (which is also tax-free)

4/ Moreover, 80% of REITs total value must come from completed & income-generating properties + it must avoid speculative land acquisitions.

What about debt then? There's a restriction there too.
Not more than 49% of the total equity.

A product which provides a fixed income which is better than FD & an upside like equity.

Should you invest in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)?
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1/ REITs are a vehicle to invest in income-producing real estate properties managed by professionals.

2/ In India, we have REITs primarily focused on commercial real estate properties having 7-9% rental yields.

In listed REITs, Most of the completed properties are pre-leased to big companies.

Why no residential? As yields of 1-3% make them unattractive to investors.

3/ How do you get the benefit of such yield?

REITs have to distribute at least 90% of their taxable income to their shareholders.

Both listed REITs trade at 6-7% dividend yield (which is also tax-free)

4/ Moreover, 80% of their total value must come from completed & income-generating properties + it must avoid speculative land acquisitions.

What about debt then? There's a restriction there too.
Not more than 49% of the total equity.

Saregama India 🎼FY21 Annual Report Takeaways

'India's only entertainment company into Music, Films, Web Series, TV Serials and Retail'

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India’s Largest Music IP - 130k+ Songs
Content IP rights of - 61 Films

Retail Business

Distribution network - 30k+
TV Serials - Content IP rights of 6k+ Hours of Television Serials

2/

To take pole position as a Pure play content company, capitalizing on the global boom in content consumption

IP CREATION OVER THE NEXT 3 YEARS -

20-25% Market Share in New Music
50 New Films and Web Series
1200-1500 Hours of new TV serials content

3/

Monetization of Existing IP

Through licensing to EVERY 3rd party digital and TV platform

Carvaan transitioning from being a Product with only a one-time margin to a Platform with upfront margin and recurring advertising and subscription revenue

4/

Building of New IP

Cementing leadership position with New film and non-film music acquisition across Hindi, Tamil, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Gujarati, Telugu, and other regional languages.

Producing Thematic films & series, with Story as the only hero, targeted at youth.

HDFC AMC FY21 Annual Report Takeaways

'We are the fiduciary to our customers – their interests clearly supersede'

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1/ What has helped HDFC AMC to grow this large?

The Trust associated with the HDFC brand.

A one-stop shop for individuals, families, corporates, and institutions when it comes to their investments.

The most profitable Mutual Fund.

2/ Promoters continue to own 73.9% in the company:

52.7% by HDFC Ltd & 21.2% by Standard Life investments.

3/ Numbers that matter

Rev up 3%
76% EBITDA margin
Pat up 5%
AUM up 24% to 3.95 Cr (43% Equity, 39% Debt, 16% Liquid) | PMS & big accounts at 9.7K Cr
53 lakh investors
1254 employees
Digital transactions: 82% of total
13.7% market share in MAAUM & 12.6% in total AUM

4/ Product Portfolio

In Equity, will increase the diversity in their investment style & approach: have faced the brunt of underperformance in the past | 24 schemes

Debt schemes were able to tide through the tough phase of defaults by a large NBFC & HFC, COVID-19 | 68 schemes

Greenpanel Industries FY21 Annual Report Takeaways.

'27% market share of the Indian MDF market & growing'

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1/ Basic facts about the business:

- Leader in wood panels in which their principal product is MDF (Medium Density Fibreboard)
- Demerged from Greenply in 2018
- 2 plants in UP & AP (this one being the largest MDF plant in the world.

2/ Product Offerings are dispersed over multiple types of wood panels: From MDF to specialty plywood to veneers.

3/ Challenges faced by the company in FY21 (Pic 1)

& How they tackled them (Pic 2)

4/ Financials: Performed better on all metrics.

Rev up 20%
Expanded EBITDA margin by 420bps
Net profit up 370%
Strong Cashflows
Receivables cycle down to 28
Paid back 157crs of debt

Talks of sustainable growth with a focus on cashflows & lower working capital.

Rallis India Annual Report Takeaways.

'Launched and promoted 2 botanical biopesticides'

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1/ From the desk of Mr. Bhaskar Bhat (chairman) ✒️

- Talks about how the reforms in the 🇮🇳's sector over the long run: will make it more organized
- Record production of foodgrains this year: 303 million tonnes
- Focus is to increase R&D infra & manufacturing capacities.

2/ Crop care business (83% of rev)

- 10% YoY growth in domestic & 3% growth in exports (incl. CDMO)
- Launched 4 new products in Crop Protection (3 in-house formulations) & 6 new products in Crop Nutrition (2 in Biopesticides)
- Enhanced dealer network by 5%.

3/ 🇮🇳 Crop care

- Formulations was up 14%
- Channel network of 3879 distributors & 48K dealers

Exports Crop care

- Acquired 9 registrations
- Global leadership in most active ingredients
- Adding 2 new manufacturing plants in Dahej & scale-up facilities for CDMO biz

4/ Seeds business (17% of rev)

- 11% growth in rev
- Challenging business environment
- Launched 4 new products
- Sharpening focus on segments having successful products
- Plans to set up new retailer loyalty programmes, combined with a hybrid demand generation model.

Sterlite Tech: Stable (Low Base)

🗼Rev up 49% YoY, 18% EBITDA margin, Pat of 116cr (vs 6cr)
🗼 Order book at 11.2Kcr
🗼 Successful field trials for programmable FTTx
🗼 New R&D facility in 🇬🇧 & Optical Fiber cable facility in 🇺🇸 committed to

#Q1withJST #Telecom

Acquisition of Clearcomm: a 🇬🇧 based network integration co.

🗼 At less than 0.8 times Price/Sales, growth of 25% cagr in the last 3yrs
🗼 Capitalise the fiberization wave in 🇬🇧
🗼Has customer relationships with tier 1 telcos.

Godrej Agrovet & Astec Lifesciences FY21 Annual Report Takeaways 🌳

'Improving the productivity of farmers by innovating products and services that sustainably increase crop & livestock yields'

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1/ About the company:

The resilience of the Agriculture sector (3.6% growth vs economic contraction)

Focusing on People, Planet & Profits: Investments continue in Animal Feed & Astec's businesses

One of the challenges that management overcame was robust distribution in COVID.

2/ From the desk of the chairman (Mr. Nadir)

- Strong performance in Animal Feed biz (margins expanded) & Astec Lifesciences
- Being in 5 cyclical businesses, is a hedge as the outperformance of a few compensates for others
- Will continue to invest in R&D & a +ve outlook.

3/ Numbers that matter

Rev down 9%
EBITDA margin of 10%
PAT (ex. one-offs) up 60%
Weak cash flows: led to jump in debt

Diversified: 47% Animal Feed | 17% Crop protection | 16% Dairy | 11% Vegetable Oil | 9% Poultry & Processed Foods
4900+ Employees
15cr R&D Spend
256cr capex

4/ Agricultural sector macro overview

- Vaccination program is the only key to riches here
- FY21 was a windfall for Agriculture: Rainfall which was highest in last 25yrs, higher sowing, higher food grain production
- FY22 has started on a +ve note with better Rabi harvest YoY

Laurus Labs FY21 Annual Report Takeaways 🔬

'Capex plans are already under way to increase capacity by 1.8x by 2022'

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1/ About the company:

Leadership position in generic APIs with a major focus on Antiretroviral drugs, Hepatitis C & Oncology drugs

FDF: Moved up the value chain in formulations

Synthesis (CDMO): KSMs, Intermediates & APIs to pharma innovators.

Bio: Recombinant products

2/ Strengths of the business:

Robust R&D & Process chemistry skills
Compliance that meets the most stringent regulatory expectations (USFDA, etc)
Long-standing relationships | Top 10 global pharma cos. catered

750+ scientists (R&D) | 61 DMFs | 27 ANDAs | 150 patents (292 filed)

3/ APIs: 54% of rev

- Leaders in various high-value & high-volume APIs.
- 4 high potent manufacturing facilities: 4186 KL, increasing capacity by 24% (Strong demand)
- ARV APIs were up 70% | Onco APIs up 25% | Other APIs up 56% (higher contract manufacturing orders from 🇪🇺)

4/ Formulations: 35% of rev

- Backwardly integrated: in house APIs
- Sales to LMIC, 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺
- 27 ANDA filled: 9 approved+ 8 tentative.
- Capacity of 5 Billion units/yr, Increasing capacity by 100%
- Sales up 102% (growth across markets)
- Launched TLE 400 in the LMIC market

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Automotive Ancillaries Business Model 🏎️ (RT if beneficial)

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1/ What is an Auto Ancillary?

Well, a modern car requires 10s of thousands of parts; the OEMs that produce these cars don't make most of the components in-house. That's where auto ancillaries come into the shot.

From Seats to locks to braking systems, we have them all.

2/ Sounds simple, right?

Not really, the supply chain management one has to deal with as an OEM is extraordinarily complex.

The technical know-how required in every part of the chain is unique; leading to focused players with high market share.

3/ Auto Ancillaries with 20%+ market share in India or 5%+ market share Globally (Src: @Tijori1)

See, normally market share consolidation is common with time; Why is it so?

4/ High capital requirements: What makes this a moat is also why this biz is gruesome.

You as an ancillary, do the development today, you put the capacity today (~take multiple years); then wait on the hope that OEMs are able to sell vehicles. Now, Imagine a recession.

Sequent is down 60% from its highs. Let's understand how their business is faring (by @AnishA_Moonka )

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1/ How do businesses happen? Do they just crop up the day when an entrepreneur thinks of it? Do they become bigger as the stock reaches new highs?

I guess, No. It takes time, It takes labor. Again, Will the ascension be smooth? Never.

The journey of Sequent in the last 5 yrs:

2/ Pre-FY15: Sequent was merely a commodity high volume low-value API player

Due to this intrapreneur's (Mr. Manish Gupta) efforts that we see Sequent as the only USFDA approved generic animal player from 🇮🇳

Behind the deals of Strides Agila plant & the Australian business.

3/ The transformation speaks volumes of how such a businessman thinks.

In 6yrs of existence, he has taken the unknown co. to be among the Top 20 in the world.

Now, he is taking a long shot to enter the Top 10 over the next decade (aka. Sequent 2.0); A tall task.

4/ If he is dreaming big & has executed in the past with industry tailwinds; the common question is why is the stock down by so much?

Probabilities: Investors went from a high probability of success to a low in months as multiple obstacles (short term?) hit the co.

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