Pennar Industries Limited is a succesful turnaround story.
Following the rebound,
the BIFR let it off the hook in July 2007 in the light of its networth turning positive in the last fiscal.
>a Hyderabad based company,
>into the manufacture of cold rolled steel strips(CLSS) and cold rolled formed products(CRFP),
>has set itself stiff targets like touching the Rs.1000 Crore revenue by FY10 from 526.35 crore in FY07(annualized).
>IT is fairly undervalued at this point of time. Its market cap,which currently stands at 202Cr., gives a market cap to sales ratio of .38x on FY07 sales of Rs.526Cr.
> Multi location presence and manufacturing facilities are located in Andhra Pradesh, Chennai and Maharashtra.
>holds a land bank of 109 acres value of which is a staggering 170-180Cr. So substantial value to be unlocked for the investors if the company plans to use the land for the facilties in the future.
>The shift of focus from CRSS to CRFP ratio of 80:20 to CRSS to CRFP ratio of 50:50 has helped it acheive new markets in the field of automobile,white goods,electrical,road saety, engineering, packaging, bearings,pollution control and even railways, thereby de-risking its business rather than being dependant on few sectors.
>A New plant has been set up in chennai and commercial production on a limited scale has already started.
>On financial restructuring point,
">" The Company has raised 122.4cr. in FY06 for retiring some long term debt and the chennai plant expansion thru issue of debentures.
">" The dilution would lead to the improvement in the debt equity ratio of the company.
> PIL has been selected as a global source for Denmark FL SMIDTH and Belgium based hammon Research and Cotrell for the steel profiles used in steel profile precipitators,which is a good sign.
>The company is also entering into a new area of Pre-engineered buildings steel buildings where it feels there is a lot of potential.
>H1FY08, PIL topline increased 11 % to 274.93Cr. while its bottomline increased 25.54% to 15.43Cr.
>management expects to post net revenues of around 600cr. and with the margins expected to remain constant the net profits would be 33cr. At levels on fully diluted equity of Rs.63.15Cr.
>PIL generates a PE of just 8x, which is quite cheap and perfect time to grab for long term at a CMP of Rs.27.50.
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