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Marg LTD: The Dark Horse
Marg LTD: The Dark Horse
Institutional Research
Construction &
Engineering Marg Ltd
The dark horse Concall Update
Date: May 19th, 2011 Established in 1994, Chennai‐based MARG Ltd (MARG) is one of the Rating BUY
growing breed of infrastructure development companies. Broadly, the Target Price ` 256
Analyst: company operates in three segments, i.e. Infrastructure (BOT assets), CMP ` 100
Shruti Raut EPC and Real estate. The company focuses not on standalone projects, Upside 156%
shruti.raut@networthdirect.com but on those that provide opportunities to exploit the synergies of its Sensex 18086
Tel No. : 022 3028 1580 infrastructure and real estate business capabilities. The parent
company is largely into EPC contracts, a mix of internal and external
projects, while infrastructure projects are under wholly owned Key Data
subsidiaries as SPVs. Bloomberg Code MRGC IN
Reuters Code MARG.BO
Result Highlights: NSE Code MARG
Current Share o/s (mn) 27.2
MARG reported revenue growth of 14% at Rs. 3607 mn for Q4 Diluted Share o/s (mn) 27.2
FY11 on a QoQ basis and a good 72% on YoY basis Mkt Cap (`bn/$mn) 3.5/76.9
For FY11, there was a revenue growth of 46% at Rs. 10843 mn. 52 WK H/L (`) 243.9/89
During the year the company achieved a QoQ CAGR of 27%. The Daily Vol. (3M NSE Avg) 145009
management expects its consolidated revenue to cross Rs. 9000 Face Value (`) 10
mn. Revenues from the EPC business grew by 43%, Port business Beta 1.44
grew due to a significant 203 % growth in cargo traffic (4.75 MT 1 USD/` 45.5
traffic handled) and SEZ business grew 32%.
Exhibit 1 Shareholding Pattern (%)
Promoters 48.6
12000
Standalone Revenue Annual Growth‐ 45% FII 14.4
10840
Others 36.9
10000
8000 7450
Price Performance (%)
1M 6M 1yr
6000 Q on Q CARGO ‐ 27%
MARG ‐26.3 ‐21.6 ‐49.6
3610 NIFTY ‐3.2 ‐10.6 14.0
4000 3170
th
2310 Source: Bloomberg; *As on 18 May, 2011
1750
2000
0
Q1FY11 Q2FY11 Q3FY11 Q4FY11 FY10 FY11
Source: Company, Networth Research
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As against a revenue growth of 14%, operating expenses grew only 11%, as a result EBITDA stood at
Rs. 454 mn and EBITDA margins improved by 250 bps (QoQ). However on YoY basis, EBITDA margins
declined by 110 bps due to a whopping 126% increase in employee cost.
Exhibit 2
1400 1300 40%
Standalone EBIDTA 1190
1200 35%
30%
1000
25%
800
20%
600 16%
430 15%
12% 13% 350 12% 12%
400 300 11%
220 10%
200 5%
0 0%
Q1FY11 Q2FY11 Q3FY11 Q4FY11 FY10 FY11
EBIDTA EBIDTA Margin
Source: Company, Networth Research
For Q4 FY11, PAT grew by 14% at Rs. 182.7 mn on a QoQ basis, however on YoY basis, the PAT
margins dropped from 14% to 5%. This was due to a significant increase in depreciation and Interest
cost and a decline in other income. Even for FY11, PAT margins dropped from 11% in FY10 to 5.4% in
FY11 due to an increase in interest cost and a decline in other income. The management expects the
consolidated PAT to increase 50% at Rs. 170 mn.
Exhibit 3
1400 1300 30%
Standalone PAT 1190 27%
1200
24%
1000 21%
800 18%
16% 15%
600 13%
12% 430 12% 12% 12%
11%
400 350 9%
300
220 6%
200
3%
0 0%
Q1FY11 Q2FY11 Q3FY11 Q4FY11 FY10 FY11
EBIDTA EBIDTA Margin
Source: Company, Networth Research
Concall Update 2
Segment Highlights:
EPC Business
The 45% revenue growth was achieved mainly due to EPC business. EPC division contributed Rs.
3380 mn in Q4 FY11 and in FY11 it stood at Rs. 10050 mn i.e. a YoY growth of 43%.Out of this, 47%
i.e. Rs. 4740 mn came from external EPC ordersin FY11 and for Q4, external EPC revenues stood at
Rs. 2170 mn. The share of external EPC revenue in this segment has increased from 18% to 47% YoY.
Exhibit 4
Revenue Growth
1300
1
11001
18%
900 1 53%
700 1
500 0 82%
300 0 53%
100
0
FY10 FY11
Internal EPC External EPC
Source: Company, Networth Research
The current orderbook stands at Rs. 33500 mn of which External EPC orders amount to
Rs. 6000 mn.
Exhibit 5
Order Book ‐ Sector Split
Other Infra, 8%
Commercial,
11%
Residental, Marine , 34%
31%
SEZ, 16%
During the year, MARG had bid for Rs. 33000 mn out of which it won orders worth 8330 mn i.e. a
conversion rate of 25%. Moreover the company is awaiting results for projects worth Rs. 4000 mn.
Concall Update 3
Karaikal Port
During the year, the company recorded a 203% increase in total cargo handled at 4.75 MT which
resulted in a revenue growth of 240% at Rs. 1700 mn as there was an improvement in realizations
per tonne as well. However, the EBITDA Margins declined by 300 bps at 47% due to change in
product mix. PAT for the segment however stood at Rs. 240 mn and the PAT Margins were positive
at 14%.
Exhibit 6
Cargo Handled (MT)
5.00 4.75
4.50
4.00
3.50
Annual Growth ‐ 200%
3.00
2.50
2.00 1.57
1.50
1.00
0.50
0.00
FY10 FY11
Source: Company, Networth Research
Financials:
Rs. In mn FY11 FY10
Revenue 1700 500
EBITDA 790 250
EBITDA Margin 47% 50%
PAT 240 ‐110
PAT Margin ‐22% 14%
During the year, the company received a notification from the Government for handling urea and the
company handled 0.45 MT of fertilizers.
IDFC invested Rs. 400 mn in April 2011 for Phase II expansion to 21 MTPA of the port. The expansion
progress is on schedule.
During Q4 FY11, the company achieved a peak discharge rate of 55912 MT coal in 24 hrs which is a
national record. Also the company handled 228 rakes in Q4 FY11 i.e. the highest ever rakes handled
in any quarter. In FY11, the number of rakes handled were 745.
The credit rating of the Karaikal Port was upgraded to “Triple B”. Besides the company was awarded
three ISO certifications viz. ISO 9001: 2008, ISO 14001: 2001 and OSHAS 18001: 2007.
The company achieved some new clients during the year viz. Dalmia Cements, Adani Enterprise, ABC
Marine, BHEL, Nagarjuna Fertilizers etc.
The management expects the EBITDA Margins to be in the range of 57% ‐ 60% once the Phase II
expansion takes place.
Concall Update 4
MARG Swarnabhoomi (SEZ segment):
In FY11, the company recorded a revenue growth of 32% at Rs. 1980 mn and EBITDA grew
by 12% at Rs. 550 mn however EBITDA Margins shrunk by 500 bps at 27.8%. Similarly PAT
grew by 22% at Rs. 540 mn and PAT Margins shrunk by220 bps at Rs. 27.3 mn. The interest
cost on SEZ segment is currently being capitalized and the fixed assets in this segment
comes under business segment so the depreciation cost is also NIL.
During the year the company signed LOIs with leading companies like Techpro Energy
Systems, Kwik Patch etc, for the Engineering SEZ and Symphony, Micro Labs etc. for the
Science Lab.
Financials:
Rs. in mn FY 11 FY 10
Revenues 1980 1500
EBITDA 550 491
EBITDA Margins 27.8 32.7
PAT 540 443
PAT Margins 27.3 29.5
MARG Proper‐Ties sold 0.89 mn sq. ft of property i.e. 879 units amounting to a revenue of Rs. 2280 mn.
Going forward the company plans to hive off its real estate business.
MARG Junction construction progress is on schedule. The company has finalized deals for 35% of the
leaseable land space.
Q4 FY11 Q3 FY11 QoQ (%) Q4 FY10 YoY (%) FY11 FY10 % Growth
Net Sales 3607.1 3173.2 13.7 2102.5 71.6 10842.6 7453.9 45.5
Expenditure
Cost of Operations 3023.1 2713.4 11.4 1724.4 75.3 9110.3 6007.3 51.7
Employee Expenditure 65.1 42.7 52.5 28.8 126.0 168.1 99.3 69.3
Other Expenditure 65.1 95.5 ‐31.8 60.9 6.9 304.9 188.5 61.8
3153.3 2851.6 10.6 1814.1 73.8 9583.3 6295.1 52.2
EBITDA 453.8 321.6 41.1 288.4 57.4 1259.3 1158.8 8.7
EBITDA % 12.6 10.1 24.1 13.7 ‐8.3 11.6 15.5 ‐25.3
Depreciation 28.1 15.6 80.1 11 155.5 66.8 51.7 29.2
Other Income 6.7 1.1 509.1 119 ‐94.4 9.2 154.9 ‐94.1
EBIT 432.4 307.1 40.8 396.4 9.1 1201.7 1262 ‐4.8
Interest 97.6 77.5 25.9 25.6 281.3 260.8 114.8 127.2
PBT 334.8 229.6 45.8 370.8 ‐9.7 940.9 1147.2 ‐18.0
Tax 152.1 70.3 116.4 84.6 79.8 351.4 352.2 ‐0.2
PAT 182.7 159.3 14.7 286.2 ‐36.2 589.5 795 ‐25.8
PAT % 5.1 5.0 0.9 13.6 ‐62.8 5.4 10.7 ‐49.0
EPS 5.16 4.83 10.52 17.84 30.1
diluted 4.79 4.17 8.79 15.63 26.68
Concall Update 5
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