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Sunday, February 28, 2010
SPICE MOBILES LTD. – A COMPELLING BUY
this company and make it a fully integrated player .
Spice digital is one of such arm
which is the second largest mobile Value Added Services provider in the country, reaching almost 500 million mobile subscribers. It has deployments across all the carriers and as of December 2009 had an active subscriber base of over 31 million mobile subscribers using its services. In the first 9 months of this current financial year Spice Digital has revenues close to 135 Crore with an EBITDA margin of around 30%. With the introduction of 4G technology internet services through mobile phones are expected to grow many fold.
The second company under Spice Televenture is Spice Retail. Spice Retail is the first national chain in the telecom retail business, retailing multi-brand mobiles, accessories, connections,content, and music and after sales service. With over 700 stores across 139 cities it is the second largest player in the organized mobile retail market. In the 9 months of the current financial year Spice Retail had revenues close to Rs. 500 Crore with an
average store base of 550 stores. In the last quarter ending December 209 the business turned EBITDA positive at the store level and the company expect the operations to achieve EBITDA breakeven in 2011.
The third company under Spice Televenture is Spice Labs which is a technology incubator operating in the rapidly growing area of mobile internet and applications. It is one of the leading innovators in the mobile internet space, spanning technology platforms, application stores and enterprise applications
All these four verticals makes Spice Televenture as an integrated player in telecom sector . On merger company name will be changed to Spice Mobility. Since Spice Televenture is already the holding company of Spice Mobile equity expansion is very low due to this merger ,which is really notable. In the financial front company already posted an EPS of Rs.6.36 v/s a loss in last year same period.Company’s future plans and already improved financials makes it a compelling buy at Rs.40/-
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network-Phoenix from the Ashes
Now after many years , Promoters understood the factors led to the failure of their business and decided to revitalise the content production business .Earlier they splitted the face value of shares and now again it consolidated to Rs.10/-.In February 2010 company allotted 2925000 warrants to promoters which will be converted into shares @ 31.85.Recently company bought back its entire outstanding FCCB (Total value 10 crore ) which was allotted in 2007. In financial front too company’s performance improved and it posted 60% growth in turnover and net turn to positive after many many years in this December qtr. Now company is planning to develop a production studio in Mumbai to reduce the cost of production of content and land is already with the company.All these are positive signs and considering the experience of promoters and their new initiatives , this company may turn to be a phoenix from the ashes . CMP is Rs.27/-
Tasty Bite Eatables (BSE CODE 519091) - A Worth Buy
Media and analysts are often give publicity to a company only after it has grown substantially and leave very little on the table for retail investors. We have seen this many times in the past like in the case of TRF , Bajaj Electricals .etc. Tasty Bite Etables (TBE) seems to be such a story which is yet to be unfold. TBE (BSE CODE -519091) is now promoted by Preferred Brand Foods India Pvt.Ltd which is the Indian arm of US based Preferred Brand Foods Inc. Promoters hold close to 75% share in this microcap (total equity is just 2.56 crore) Two Hyderabad based investors also holding another 6% in this company.Total share holders of this company altogether is only 1648 as per December share holding pattern ,which makes it a low liquid counter.
The company is based in Pune, India,manufactures and markets a range of shelf stable, all-natural, ready-to-serve ethnic food products under Tasty Bite brand name. The company offers Indian and Thai food products, including entrees, meals, rice, and sauces. It also produces special diets, such as vegetarian, gluten-free, kosher, and vegan foods.95% of its income coming from exports . In India the company markets its products to institutional users, including hotels, quick-service restaurants, and other retail and corporate customers. .
Company is performing exceedingly well in recent years and its product getting very good response from US customers. Now ,Tasty Bite is the largest selling Indian Ethnic Food Brand in US.
Even in a difficult qtr for almost all export companies due to unfavorable $ value ,company could post more than Rs.7 /- EPS in December qtr v/s a loss in last year same qtr. For the nine months ended December ,company posted an EPS close to RS.20 v/s a loss of Rs.2/- in last year.
At a time of rising food prices world over ,cost of raw materials is playing a major role in food companies profit. Tasty bite is procuring more than 60% of vegetables from company’s own farms which is located in Pune , is an added advantage for the company.
Company is expected to post an EPS more than Rs.25/- in the full year v/s Rs.5.5 in last year. Tasty Bite is lead by Ashok Vasudevan and Ravi Nigam both having vast experience in this field and headed companies like Pepsico and Britannia in India. Considering the pace of its growth and commitment shown by the management it should be a dark horse and should touch atleast Rs.400 – 500 in future.CMP is 165
More details about the company is available from :
For US operations : www.tastybite.com
For Australian operations : www.tastybite.com.au/
KOPRAN - This old Lion may roar again
Once Kopran was the largest manufacturer of Amoxicillin in India and it was the feather in the cap of Parijat Group led by somanis . In 1994 its share price touched a high of Rs.830/-.Its name later heard in association with KP stocks scam along with other companies like Ranbaxy,Cadilla, Nirma ..etc.Anyway after that Kopran sold off its prestige brands like `Smile` to other companies and its share price nosedives even to Rs.6/- .
Later all Parijat group companies (Oricon Enterprises,Kopran and Excel Glasses) goes through severe working capital crunch . In 2007 Parijat group started its efforts to revive their companies one by one with the help of Clearwater capital partners (a P/E fund specializing in reviving ailing companies due to lack of sufficient working capital)and fresh fund infusion by promoters . As aresult of these efforts On better financial performance , share price of Oricon Enterprises moved from a one year low of Rs.20/- to the current level of Rs.360/-. After the case of Oricon , Kopran is now showing signs of some revival.After a long time company has posted some promising results in December qtr. Company posted a turnover of Rs.40 crore v/s 30 crore and net profit of Rs.1.12 crore v/s a loss of 6.6 crore in this December qtr compared with last year same qtr. It seems to be an early indication of some good days ahead .Now company decided to focusing on international markets through its formulations and API`s business. If you have some patience ,add some doze of Kopran in your portfolio.This may turn to be another multibagger....
Friday, February 26, 2010
Modi Naturals - P/E Players may change its Future
Now company decided to move into the retail segment by introducing branded products. This will improve the margins of the company and help to earn substantial profit. In order to augment fund for this expansion company decided to issue 2640000 Convertible warrants to three foreign investment funds (India Max Investment Fund,Prime India inv.Fund and Rahn and Bodmer Co) ,which will completed by March 2010.
In last financial year company posted a turnover of Rs.120/- Crore and a Net Profit of Rs.3 Crore (EPS Rs.7.27) .It already issued a bonus issue in the ratio of 1:1 in September 2009.Currently it is quoting at a price of just Rs.14/- .This low P/E may be re-written with the success of its brand building efforts and funds interest in this company,like JVL Agro (Jhunjhunwala Vanaspathi)
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Interlink Petroleum - A Multibagger in Making (CMP .Rs.32/-)
After the takeover the new management is taking sincere efforts to bring back the company into the right direction. They have infused the much needed fund to the company by way of taking 10310000 equity shares at a price of Rs.16.72 in 2008 inorder to restart the production in the two fields allotted to the company years before.After this issue they came out with an open offer @17.25 which is mandatory by laws. They have also revived the board by inducting some of the the best brains of the oil and gas industry in India.This include Mr. B. C. Bora (Ex Chairman and Managing Director (CMD), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC) and Chairman and Managing Director, Oil India Ltd ) and Mr Vijay Misra (having more than 24 years experience in the exploration & production industry with Oil India Ltd. and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).)
After strengthening the board by experienced persons ,IPL conducted new seismic survey in their already allotted fields ,since the old one is outdated. This seismic survey done by Alphageo India Ltd and completed in November 2009 at a cost of Rs.6.66 crore. Eventhough the result of this latest survey is not available to public domain,Company’s latest plan to issue 6520000 equity shares at a price of Rs. 33/- To 4 foreign citizens(Probably the nominees/associates of its foreign promoters) indicates that the result of this survey is fruitful and proven reserves are there.
In nutshell,Even if there is no working results as of now ,new promoters experience in this field and their sincere efforts to revive the company through well planned strategies makes it a possible multibagger, if you have sufficient patience .