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Godrej Consumer Products shares zoom 25% on HUL’s Sudhir Sitapati’s appointment as MD and CEO, Q4 results

Godrej Consumer Products share price zoomed 25 per cent to a fresh 52-week high of Rs 894 apiece intraday on BSE, a day after the company posted a 59 per cent on-year rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 365.84 crore in the fourth quarter of FY21. The company also informed that Sudhir Sitapati will join the company as managing director and chief executive officer effective October 18. Nisaba Godrej, currently the chairperson and managing director, will continue to serve as executive chairperson. Godrej Consumer Products stock has surpassed its previous 52-week high of Rs 808 apiece touched on January 21, 2021. It had touched an all-time high of 1,964. apiece on BSE on June 21, 2017.

So far in the session today, 6.84 lakh Godrej Consumer Products shares have traded on BSE, while a total of 1.66 crore stocks have exchanged hands on NSE. Analysts at Motilal Oswal Financial Services have upgraded Godrej Consumer Products stock to ‘buy’. Sitapati’s appointment as MD and CEO for five years as well as his relative young age (mid-40s), gives him adequate time to formulate and implement strategic changes. “The underpenetrated Household Insecticides (70%/50% penetration in urban/rural) and Hair Color (30% penetration) categories could greatly benefit from Sitapati’s past experience, where GCPL has struggled to boost penetration,” it added.

Those at ICICI Securities have also upgraded Godrej Consumer Products to ‘buy’ from ‘add’. The brokerage firm said that India’s growth was driven by soaps (gaining market shares in an inflationary environment) and HI (broad-based across formats) while Hair Colour continued recovery (with category uptick). “The appointment of Sudhir Sitapati (ex-HUL) as MD & CEO (effective 18th Oct’21) is likely a re-rating event,” they said.

Godrej Consumer Products Ltd’s total expenses came in at Rs 2,259.12 crore, up 26.07 per cent in the January-March 2021 quarter as against Rs 1,791.93 crore a year ago. It’s India revenue was up 34.63 per cent to Rs 1,499.74 crore in the quarter under review as against Rs 1,113.94 crore a year ago. India sales increased 35 per cent on-year to Rs 1,466 crore, while the EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) increased 10 per cent on-year to Rs 331 crore.

Nisaba Godrej said Godrej Consumer Products will continue to focus our efforts where the demand is – in ‘household insecticides’, ‘hygiene’, and ‘value for money’. Under Sitapati leadership, HUL built up its foods and refreshments business as one of the largest in India, which included the $5 billion merger and integration of GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare with HUL, the largest deal of its kind in the FMCG sector in India.

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JSW Hydro Energy raises USD 707 mn via green bonds overseas

JSW Energy on Tuesday said that its arm JSW Hydro Energy has raised USD 707 million through green bonds abroad. “JSW Hydro Energy raises USD 707 million from international bond markets through debut Green Bond Issue under 144A / Reg S format,” a JSW Energy statement said.

According to statement, JSW Hydro Energy has priced the fixed rate senior secured green 144A/Reg S Bond for a 10-year tenor at 4.125 per cent. The proceeds from the issuance will be used towards repayment of existing green project-related rupee-denominated indebtedness, it said.

The green bond framework for the company’s debut bond transaction has been reviewed by Sustainalytics, who has issued a second party opinion. The company engaged with several investors on a global deal roadshow across Hong Kong, Singapore, London, New York and Los Angeles.

Backed by an extremely strong investor feedback, the transaction was launched with an initial price guidance of 4.500 per cent area and tightened by 37.5 bps (basis points) to 4.125 per cent as final pricing. The final order book was in excess of USD 2.6 billion with oversubscription of more than 3.7x. The transaction witnessed 64 per cent participation from Asia, 14 per cent from the US and 22 per cent from EMEA with 82 per cent investment from long haul funds, 17 per cent from financial institutions (including Sovereign Wealth Funds), and 1 per cent from private banks, it said.

There was strong demand from some of the largest marquee fixed income investors globally, it added. Prashant Jain, Chairman of JSW Hydro, and Joint Managing Director and CEO of JSW Energy said, “We are overwhelmed by the strong response from international bond investors in our debut issuance.”

Jain further said, this fundraise will enable the company to further strengthen and diversify our sources of funding and we look forward to strengthening our partnership with global investors as we continue to build and grow our renewable energy business.

“From a total installed capacity of about 4.6 GW today, where about 30 per cent is from renewable sources, we currently have visibility on a pipeline of about 2.6 GW of renewable projects comprising of wind, solar and hydro which are likely to get commissioned over the next 24 to 30 months. On completion of these projects, the share of renewables in our portfolio will be over 55 per cent,” he said.

JSW Hydro Energy has an installed generation capacity of 1,391 MW. The group as a whole has 4,559 MW capacity, of which 3,158 MW are thermal power and 10 MW are solar power.

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DMart share price falls after Q4 results; analysts views mixed on Radhakishan Damani’s firm

Radhakishan Damani’s Avenue Supermarts shares (DMart) gave up initial gains on Monday to slip into negative territory, as investors reacted to Januar-March quarter results. DMart hypermarket chain reported a 52% on-year jump in net profit during the January-March quarter to Rs 414 crore, with 18% on-year revenue growth. The strong performance was helped by the low base of the previous year. Although the performance has been robust, the management has already cautioned of headwinds owing to the second wave of Covid-19. This has forced leading brokerage firms to maintain bearish views on Avenue Supermarts stock price. Currently, Avenue Supermarts share price is down 0.71%, trading at Rs 2,868 per share.

During the previous quarter, Avenue Supermarts’ gross margins recovered to 14.8%, 10 basis points above ore-covid levels. However, fresh restrictions could impact margins in the coming quarters. Further, the firm managed to add 13 stores in the quarter taking the total tally to 22 stores added in the fiscal year. Employee expenses were also lower in the quarter, aiding the financial performance of the company.

Headwinds ahead

Overall in the previous fiscal year, the same store sales growth (SSSG) was -13% due to the coronavirus aided disruptions. SSSG had recovered 6% on-year in January and February before tanking in March as covid hit once again. “We believe this weakness in revenues will continue in the first quarter of this fiscal year (with possibly some spillover into 2QFY22 as well); on-year growth numbers may still look okay due to the favourable base,” analysts at Kotak Securities said.

Avenue Supermarts’ management has cautioned on near-term drag on store operations due to the second Covid wave. Additional concerns for the company emerge from the competitive landscape in the retail industry. Avenue Supermarts remains one of the top earnings compounding plays in our coverage, however, concerns over the impact of changing competitive landscape (GT/Ecomm surge + Reliance Retail/JioMart scale-up) on DMart’s earnings potential keeps us on the sidelines at current valuations,” said Axis Securities.

Cash-rich balance sheet to help tide through

Although challenges remain for Avenue Supermarts, analysts at Yes Securities believe the company’s strong balance sheet would help it tide through. “In this environment, the company’s strong cash‐rich balance sheet will not only help it tide over this difficult period but also help in accelerating its offline and online footprint expansion despite lower throughput and cash flows,” they said in a report. “We continue to like DMART for its best‐in‐class execution, lowest cost of retail, aggressive expansion plans, industry-leading asset and inventory turnover and high customer conversion and loyalty given its EDLP model, albeit we would have been happier with more and faster growth in its online presence,” they said.

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Madhya Pradesh revokes ban on soyabean seed sale outside state

Madhya Pradesh, which had imposed restrictions on the sale of soyabean seeds outside the state, has revoked its order following protests by the Maharashtra government.

The Maharashtra government had lodged a complaint directly with the Centre against the ban.

Dilip Zende, director, quality control, Department of Agriculture, Maharashtra, told FE that the order by the deputy director of agriculture, Indore and Ujjain was withdrawn following the Centre’s intervention.

Senior officials of the state government, including the agriculture secretary and commissioner, had asked the Centre to intervene and cancel the order, stating it is in contravention of the Seed Act, 1983.
Earlier this month, agriculture officers from Indore and Ujjain had issued letters, stopping the movement and sale of soyabean seed outside their jurisdiction. This decision was taken due to the possible crunch to be faced in the supply of seed in the upcoming kharif season.

After Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra is the biggest soyabean producing state in the country with farmers growing the oilseed in over 35-40 lakh hectares yearly.

The state requires at least 12 lakh quintal of soyabean for seed purposes annually.

Maharashtra receives around 8-10 lakh quintal of soyabean seeds from Madhya Pradesh every year.

Zende said that several seed companies in Maharashtra have their seed production centres in Madhya Pradesh, and orders for the seeds are placed well in advance. However, due to this sudden ban, nearly 50% of the orders were stuck in the state, he pointed out.

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