RAILTEL IPO

(ZEE BUSINESS)

BASIC DETAILS ABOUT IPO  (16 Feb-18 Feb)

Price Band

93-94

Bid Lot

155

OFS- AT  Upper Band

819.3cr

OFS  (Shares)-Cr

8.7cr

Total issue amount- AT Upper Band

819.3cr

Post issue Implied Market Cap

3017cr

Post issue (Shares) Cr

32.09

Book Runner and Lead Managers:

ICICI securities, IDBI Capital & SBI Capital Market Ltd

 

 

 

SHAREHOLDING

Particular

Pre-Issue

Post-Issue

Promoter

100%

72.8%

Public

-

27.2%

Total

100%

100%

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABOUT TELECOM INDUSTRY

The Indian telecom services industry can be broadly segregated into wireless, wireline and enterprise services.

 

1) WIRELINE

·         Fixed Line telephony

·         Broadband

 

2) WIRELESS

·         Cailing

·         SMS

·         Wireless Broadband

·         Video Conferencing

·         Triple play &

·         OTT

 

3)Enterprise Services

·         Fibre Leasing

(i) they provide corporate offices with high capacity connection to the internet, and

(ii) they connect the local network of several corporate offices to form a wide area-network.

Bharti Airtel Limited, BSNL , RailTel , Tata Communications Limited, and Vodafone Idea Limited are the major players providing such services in India.

 

·         Tower collocation:

 This is a service provided by an infrastructure provider (“IP”) companies who lease out their existing base transceiver stations (“BTS”) and RF/IP antennas to wireless communication providers for data and voice transmission.

Bharti Infratel Limited, Bharti Airtel Limited, GTL Infrastructure Limited, Indus Towers Limited, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, RailTel and Vodafone Idea Limited are the main players providing tower co-location services.

 

·         VPN – Virtual Private Network

   A VPN uses public telecommunication infrastructure, such as the internet, to securely connect remote sites/ users to the organisation’s network.

 

·         MPLS: Multi-Protocol Label Switching :

To provide traffic isolation and differentiation without substantial overheads, MPLS is among the commonly used methods to create VPNs

 

·         VSAT- Very Small Aperture Terminal

 VSAT refers to a small fixed earth station, which provides the vital communication link required to set up a satellitebased communication network. It refers to receiving/ transmit terminals installed at dispersed sites connecting to a central hub through satellite

 

·         NLD: National Long distance

A network  connecting different short distance charging areas or SDCAs. Such a service provider is usually a telecom operator providing the required digital capacity to carry long distance telecommunication services within the scope of their license:

BSNL, Bharti Airtel Limited, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited, Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, RailTel, Tata Communications Limited, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited and Vodafone Idea Limited.

 

·         ILD : International long distance

 ILD service is defined as a network carriage service, providing NLD operators with international connectivity by connecting to network facilities operated by foreign carriers in other countries. It involves setting up of undersea fiber cables to transmit voice and data globally as radio wave transmission through towers is not possible over such a long distance.

The major players operating with ILD license in India are AT&T Global Network Services India, Bharti Airtel Limited, BSNL, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, Sprint Telecom India Limited, Tata Communications Limited, Verizon Communications India Limited, and Vodafone Idea Limited.

 

·         DLC: Domestic leased circuits

DLC refers to a leased circuit that is connected to a subscriber's premises within India. The telecom service providers provide DLCs to connect two or more customer sites or customers to their own or other service provider's network.

The major players currently operating in the DLC business in India include Bharti Airtel Limited, BSNL, RailTel, Tata Communications Limited and Vodafone Idea Limited.

 

·         IPLC: International Private leased circuit

An IPLC is a point-to-point private line used by an organization to communicate between geographically dispersed offices that need dedicated international connectivity with a committed bandwidth.

The major players currently providing international leased line services in India include Bharti Airtel Limited, BSNL, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, Tata Communications Limited and Vodafone Idea Limited.

 

·         Data Centre :

A data center houses and maintains back-end information technology (“IT”) systems and data stores (mainframes, servers and databases). Data centres also provide support to companies by offering extensive IT infrastructure, including servers, firewalls, storage systems and various other IT components, in a different place.

Bharti Airtel, Reliance Datacenter, Sify Technologies, STT Global Data Center, Vodafone Idea and RailTel are some of the players providing data centre services in India.

·         DTH

 

Key Financial Parameters of Telecom Companies

 

 

 

 

ABOUT Company’s Business

·         Incorporated on September 26, 2000 with the aim of modernizing the existing telecom system for train control, operation and safety and to generate additional revenues by creating nationwide broadband and multimedia network by laying optical fiber cable by using the right of way along railway tracks.

·         An information and communications technology (“ICT”) infrastructure provider

·         One of the largest neutral telecom infrastructure providers (Neutral means not tied to any one service provider)

·         A Mini Ratna (Category-I) Central Public Sector Enterprise, wholly-owned by the Government of India and under the administrative control of the Ministry of Railways

·         Railways have agreed to authorize RailTel to use their right of way for the purpose of establishing and OFC(Optical Fibre cable) network by laying, amongst others, cables and pipes, and transfer their existing OFC assets to RailTel. The agreement between Ministry of Railways and RailTel also dictates that RailTel will commercially exploit the surplus capacity of the network while the Ministry of Railways will continue to make captive use of the same, thus making RailTel a key network for the Indian Railways

·         As of January 31, 2021, Company have exclusive right of way along 67,415 route kilometers connecting 7,321 railway stations for laying optical fiber cable.

 

Balance sheet

Particulars

30-Sep-20

31-Mar-20

31-Mar-19

31-Mar-18

PPE

581.7

608.6

786

684.3

% of Total Assets

23.4%

25.4%

35.3%

29.5%

Capital WIP

231.5

252.5

300

364.1

% of Total Assets

9.3%

10.5%

13.5%

15.7%

Total PPE+Capital WIP

813.2

861.1

1086

1048.4

% of Total Assets

32.8%

35.9%

48.7%

45.1%

Right of Use Assets

167.5

172.9

0

0

% of Total Assets

6.7%

7.2%

0.0%

0.0%

Trade receivable

656.5

507

459.6

466.7

% of Total Assets

26.4%

21.1%

20.6%

20.1%

Cash & Bank Balance

368.9

268.4

406.8

509.1

% of Total Assets

14.9%

11.2%

18.3%

21.9%

Other Current Financial Assets

216.9

213.5

117.9

112.2

% of Total Assets

8.7%

8.9%

5.3%

4.8%

Other Current assets

104.2

93.7

73.4

51.4

% of Total Assets

4.2%

3.9%

3.3%

2.2%

Equity

1394.6

1369.4

1289.1

1229.2

% of Total Liabilities

56.2%

57.1%

57.9%

52.9%

Trade Payable

407.9

378.8

266.8

270.9

% of Total Liabilities

16.4%

15.8%

12.0%

11.7%

Other Current Liability

311.7

275.9

333.2

358.3

% of Total Liabilities

12.6%

11.5%

15.0%

15.4%

Total Assets/Liabilities

2482.2

2398.1

2227.7

2322.9

 

P&L

Particulars

30-Sep-20

31-Mar-20

31-Mar-19

31-Mar-18

Revenue from Operation

537.4

1128

1003.2

976.8

% Growth

 

12.4%

2.7%

 

Other Income

15.6

38

35.2

42.9

% of Revenue

2.9%

3.4%

3.5%

4.4%

Access and other charges

149.1

249

263.5

250.1

% of Revenue

27.7%

22.1%

26.3%

25.6%

Expenses on Project

110.7

340.1

249.4

253.3

% of Revenue

20.6%

30.2%

24.9%

25.9%

Employee benefit expenses

66.9

120.5

112

118

% of Revenue

12.4%

10.7%

11.2%

12.1%

Depreciationa and Amortisation

81.7

130.9

111.6

118.6

% of Revenue

15.2%

11.6%

11.1%

12.1%

PBT

62.2

184.8

217.7

159.6

PBT Margin

11.6%

16.4%

21.7%

16.3%

PAT

45.6

178.7*

135.3

134

PAT Margin

8.5%

12.5%

13.5%

13.7%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenue from Operation

Particulars

30-Sep-20

31-Mar-20

31-Mar-19

31-Mar-18

Revenue from Operation

537.4

1128

1003.2

976.8

Bifurcation (A)+(B)

Income from Telecom services                                    (A)

401.6

744.8

671.4

685

% of Revenue

74.7%

66.0%

66.9%

70.1%

Bifurcation of Income from Telecom Services (C)+(D)+(E)

National Long Distance Service(NLD)                         (C)

212.7

415.1

372

390

% of Income from telecom Services

53.0%

55.7%

55.4%

56.9%

Bifurcation of NLD Services

Leased Line Services

136.3

266.3

258.7

310.7

% of Total revenue

25.4%

23.6%

25.8%

31.8%

Internet Service Provider                                           (D)

107

166.2

162.3

147.8

% of Income from telecom Services

26.6%

22.3%

24.2%

21.6%

Bifurcation of Internet Service Provider

Internet Leased Line

26

58.3

59

48.7

% of Total revenue

4.8%

5.2%

5.9%

5.0%

Revenue from leased Operations

162.3

324.6

317.7

359.4

% of Total revenue fro m Leased business

30.2%

28.78%

31.67%

36.79%

Passive Infrastructure Services                                  (E)

81.9

163.4

137.2

147.5

% of Income from telecom Services

20.4%

21.9%

20.4%

21.5%

Income from Projects                                                 (B)

133.7

377.2

296.9

291.3

% of Revenue

24.9%

33.4%

29.6%

29.8%

Bifurcation of Income from Projects (F)+(G)

Railway Project Works                                             (F)

58.4

188.9

31.9

35.4

% of Income from Projects

43.7%

50.1%

10.7%

12.2%

Other Projects                                                           (G)

75.3

188.3

265

255.9

% of Income from Projects

56.3%

49.9%

89.3%

87.8%

 

 

ABOUT PROMOTER/MANAGEMENT

·         Puneet Chawla is the Chairman and Managing Director of the company since December 14, 2018.

Prior to joining the company, he has held positions such as Executive Director (Safety) in the Railway Board of MoR, Divisional Railway Manager, Ajmer, Chief Project Manager, Indian Railway Project Management Unit, General Manager, Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd.

He has been conferred upon “Eminent Engineer Award for the year 2020” by the Institution of Engineers (India). He has over 33 years of experience in Indian Railways.

·         Sanjai Kumar is the Director (Network, Planning and Marketing)/Whole Time Director of the company.

He has over 27 years of experience of working as an officer of the Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (“IRSSE”) including over 18 years of experience of managing projects and marketing departments in the company.

 

PRO’s

 

·         Company enjoys exclusive right of way for laying optical fibre along 67,415 route kms connecting  7,321 railway stations , earns revenue from Telecom services like leased line services, internet service provider and from various projects like Wifi across major railway stations, Campus Wifi in Central Universities and also other projects like state wide area network etc for other enterprise. Hence business is diversified and the segment in which company operates has good growth also enjoys exclusive rights feature.

·         Business is kind off slowly but steadily growing kind which can also be seen by its Financials also upcoming projects like Modern Train Control system ,Village connectivity (6lac villages in 1000 days) , also company in discussions with the Ministry of Education for providing end-to-end e-learning systems for schools can give good potential for business.

P&L

Particulars

30-Sep-20

31-Mar-20

31-Mar-19

31-Mar-18

Revenue from Operation

537.4

1128

1003.2

976.8

% Growth

 

12.4%

2.7%

 

PAT

45.6

141.1

135.3

134

PAT Margin

8.5%

12.5%

13.5%

13.7%

PAT (Excluding Exceptional item)

45.6

178.7

135.3

134

PAT Margin(excluding exceptionl)

8.5%

15.8%

13.5%

13.7%

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

·         Management in an interaction told to us around 60% of its Revenue comes from other government and remaining from others also around  30-36% of its Total revenue of last 3 years is fixed in nature (Lease) which seems long term in nature so that gives a sense of revenue visibility.

Revenue from Operation

Particulars

30-Sep-20

31-Mar-20

31-Mar-19

31-Mar-18

Revenue from Operation

537.4

1128

1003.2

976.8

Revenue from leased Operations

162.3

324.6

317.7

359.4

% of Total revenue from Leased business

30.2%

28.78%

31.67%

36.79%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

·         Although company has no listed peer but based on the comparison of various telecom service provider, Although company is smallest of all but has given 2nd highest CAGR growth in Operating revenue, Best PAT margin and ROCE .

 

 

·         Not only company is debt free and company has cash/Bank balance as on 30 September 2020 of Rs 369cr which is 11.5 per share also due to the fact that almost 30-40% of the Total Expenses amount for the year company already receive in Advance.

Insight

Particulars

30-Sep-20

31-Mar-20

31-Mar-19

31-Mar-18

Total Expenses

491.6

931.9

820.6

835.1

Other Current Liability

 

13.6%

-1.7%

 

Advances

279.7

230.7

295.4

316.6

Advances/Total Expenses

-

31.7%

38.6%

-

 

·         Company’s management has good experience and history.

·         As company have its optical fibre network and provide service in those areas only , thus you see no spectrum charges in books for 1HFY21 or FY20 and insignificant charges in FY19 and FY18 thus eliminates risk associated or cost associated with spectrum .

 

 

CON’s

·         Company’s business model is not such which could give exponential growth , also operates in the telecommunication Industry which has fierce competition with highly regulated segment but enjoys a good financials owing to exclusive Right of way from Ministry of Railways also have around 60% of its revenue dependency on Government, any change in MoR stance can pause a major risk.

·         Company is valued at PB of 2.7 times and PE of 20.4 based on FY20, So valuations are not cheap also PAT margin rose to 15.8% but fallen to 8.5% in 1HFY21 although mostly because of charges which are kind of permanent in nature and also increased depreciation (Which has to be clarified from management) but PAT margin of around 13% seems sutainable.

·         Receivable  days stands at 156 days which is at Higher end thus posses risk also interesting is in 1HFY21 Provision for expected credit loss  34.2cr was debited in P/L under Administrative expenses which is 6.7% of Total Debtors as on 31 March 2020 , Nature of the same is not clear and how much more could that be possible also not clear.

 

Anchor Book

Company raised 244cr from the Anchor Investors.

·         HDFC Life                      14.34%

·         HDFC Fund                   12.30%

·         Nippon Life                  12.29%

·         Goldman Sachs           12.29%

·         ICICI Pru                        12.28%

·         HDFC Fund                   12.30%

·         Aditya Birla Sun Life   8.20%

·          IIFL Focused Fund      6.15%

·         Others                            9.85%

·         TOTAL                            100%

 

 


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