As part of our comparative analysis series, this month we covered two Engineering R&D companies.

Link to our presentation on, Tata Elxsi versus LTTS.

https://t.co/nsRLGpbt6L

Presentation only for educational purpose and should not be seen as an investment recommendation.

Thread on Astec Lifesciences Ltd 🧵

Market cap: 1996.7 crores.
Revenues: 522.61 crores.
P/E: 27.62
P/B: 7.0
ROCE: 20.44%
ROE: 21.24%

Here we go👇

ASTEL is a niche chemical company focused on triazole fungicides & on proprietary off-patent products in the CRAMS segment;

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New products in the herbicides segment should drive growth in the CRAMS space.

Leader in triazole fungicides:

Tebuconazole and Propiconazole currently form a major part of ASTEL’s enterprise business while it is capable of venturing into newer products given strong

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technical knowledge in triazole chemistry.

Newer mixtures/geographies to drive growth in Enterprise business:

Triazole fungicides have been losing market share over the years as new products (SDHI fungicides) have proved to be a replacement;

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However, with a few SDHI (succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors) products facing resistance in some geographies and given strong forecasts for this segment, triazole fungicides are likely to benefit–albeit in a limited way–from their inclusion in a

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mixture of products (with some SDHIs).

ASTEL is setting up a new herbicide plant To diversify its product concentration from the triazole fungicide segment.

New R&D Centre to aid diversification:

Would help develop new processes into various chemistries like fluorine;

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Deepak Nitrite Client Base,
(Source 50th Annual Report 2020-2021)

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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Notes from recent meet with the management of United Spirits: (Source MOFSL) 🧵

Market cap: 61,300 crores
Revenues: 8821 crores
P/E: 88.4
P/S: 6.82
P/B: 14.2
ROE: 9.49%
ROCE: 13.3%

@dmuthuk

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📈Demand recovery on track:

👉Around 70% of outlets were operational till mid- Aug’21.

👉While the recovery in on-trade channels has been good, night/weekend curfews and restricted timings are affecting sales, with last orders being accepted at 8-9pm in select geographies.

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👉Muted global travel has acted as a tailwind rather than a headwind as it led to duty-free demand converting to duty paid. The management is focusing on the modern off-trade channel to cater to this demand. It activated 2,000 outlets for Scotch over the last one year.

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📈Focus on the margin accretive Scotch portfolio:

👉Black Dog is now available in 3-5 markets.

👉The relaunched Signature, which was present only in West Bengal, Haryana, and Telangana, will be present in 70% of the country over the next 2-3 months.

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👉The Scotch portfolio is hugely gross profit accretive. The cash conversion cycle is also better at 75-90 days v/s 120-130 days for the overall portfolio.

👉RoCE is highly accretive for bottled in origin (BIO) Scotch.

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Thread on IDFC first Bank 🧵

Market cap: 37,087 crores
Revenues: 15,968 crores
P/E: 82
P/B: 2.42
ROE: 2.95%

Here we go 👇

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Unique evolution,

On getting a license, it was created out of a demerger of infrastructure financing business followed by the merger of erstwhile Capital First;

Stress build-up and franchise investment resulted in a weak Return profile during the transition phase;

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After merger of Capital First, with Mr. V. Vaidyanathan at the helm, management is focused on building a high-yielding retail banking franchise (average retail yield at >15%);

Infrastructure loans to be completely run down, selective lending in non-infra corporate segment:

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Of the wholesale exposure, infra book has been almost halved since merger to Rs108bn and will be further rationalized to a very negligible proportion in 3-5 years;

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Remarkable transition in asset and liability profile post the merger:

After having rolled out a 5-year strategic roadmap towards targeted RoA and RoE of 1.4-1.6% and 13-15% respectively, it has made significant strides on most operating parameters:-

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Tata Elxsi @ 500 - Gann theorist ( Target: 250)
@ 900 - Auto sector slowdown
@ 1500 - overvalued
@ 2500 - PE is extremely high
@ 3500 - other options avaialble
@ 4500 - market is insane

Heading to 5000 - will hear the new narrative.

The market is an interesting place to watch.

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A simple setup set towards breaking out in to the uncharted territory above 4373.20

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