LIKHITA INFRA IPO

(ZEE BUSINESS)

High Risk due to low market cap just 236.7cr - Although Financials are good but Better to wait for current 1HFY21 results also may depend on market condition.

 

Business Takeaway

·         An Oil & Gas pipeline infrastructure service provider in India, focused on laying pipeline networks along with construction of associated facilities and providing Operations & Maintenance services to the City Gas Distribution Companies in India.

·         Company has presence (including past operation) in more than 16 states and 2 Union Territories in India

·         Company has successfully laid over 600 Kms of Oil and Gas pipelines network in past 5 fiscals

·         Company have executed  for the first ever Trans-National Cross-Country Pipeline of South-East Asia connecting India to Nepal, in the Year 2019, for supply of petroleum products.

·         Government of India is planning to invest Rs 70,000 crore to expand the gas pipeline network across the country.

 

PRO's

·         Company's Financial performance is showing a good picture, Best part is Revenue from operation grew by 1.9x, while PAT grew by 2.7x and CFO grew by 4.8x thus growth have come with improvement at all levels.

i.e. Revenue growth is converted into PAT and PAT has been converted into cash flows.

 in Cr          FY20     FY19      FY18

RFO            161.2    139.5    87.1   up 1.9x

PAT             19.9       17.9     7.2      up 2.7x

CFO            19.1       3.2       4.0      up 4.8x

FCF             17.6      0.06      -6.3

·         Revenue share from Operation and Maintenance Services( Annual Maintenance) rose from 7.38% in FY18 to 21.25% which thus helps in earning visibility and also improving in margin.

·         Borrowings during the same time frame from FY18 to FY20 got reduced from 13.9cr to just 2.3cr which could be seen by improved FCF also.

·         Company has good order book of 663cr i.e. Book/Bill ratio of 4.1 times with Operating and Maintenance service share is 7% i.e. 47cr.

·         Company's Chairman SivasankaraParameshwaraKurupPillai and MD SrinivasaRaoGaddipati have descent experience.

·         Company's Cash Conversation Cycle stands just at 31 days.

 

CON's

·         Company's market cap even after the fresh issue stands just at 236.7cr at upper band thus a very small cap company and hence risk is accordingly present based on market sentiment.

·         Company has only one Book Runner Lead Manager named Unistone who has handled just 2 IPO's before both where of issue size less than 25cr and that also in 2018 and both gave listing gains less than 1%

·         Company's business is dependent on a few clients and the loss of any of major client due to any adverse development could significantly affect the company.

·         Company's valuation at PE of 8.8 seems fairly prices but in PB terms company at upper band will trade at 2.51 times although company's RONW is good at 33%.

·         Company's object of offer is to use money mostly for working capital requirement (47cr out of 61.1cr)- a small company must be ideally using the funds for growth, so might be possible that in current financial year company's liquidity has been deteriorated

·         Management has issued two time bonus shares one in Dec 2019 in ration of 2.25:1 and 3.5:1 in Feb 2018, so in two years around promoters shares rose from 1 share to 7.9 shares.

 

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