Current Price: Rs. 121.90
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PTC India Limited (“PTC” or “Company“) provides power trading solutions in India. The company is into:
(1) Power Business: Long and short term power trading activities including cross border power trading business. PTC caters to industrial and commercial customers and also provides consultancy and coal trading activities where its portfolio consists of investments in wind, thermal and hydro power projects.
(2) Investments Business: Financial assistance for power projects through its subsidiary PTC India Financial Services.
For FY 2017, total revenue from power segment stood at Rs. 14,124 Crores and from investments operations stood at Rs.1,187 Crores. If we consider in terms of contribution to profit before tax, 47.8% of its incomes comes from Power and 52.2% comes from investment segment.
Subsidiary holdings
| 65.0% stake in PTC India Financial Services Ltd |
| 100.0% stake in PTC Energy Ltd |
| 49.0% stake in Krishna Godavari Power Utilities Limited |
| 37.0% in RS India Wind Energy Private Limited |
| 26.0% in Varam Bio Energy Private Limited |
| 48.0% in RS India Global Energy Limited |
PTC India is the dominant player in the industry and has ~ 40.0% market share with over 500 industrial customers and supplier power to 22 state utilities. As an international trader, it supplies to Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal.
Break-up of revenue from PTC Energy business (464.5 MW):
- Renewable projects contributes 62% of the total investment portfolio.
- 14% in thermal projects and
- 3% in hydro projects.
- 20% is in other ancillary power based projects.
Promoters: Include NTPC, PowerGrid, PFC and NHPC.
What’s Going For the Stock
Strongest Financial and Valuation Position Among Peers
In terms of Peer comparison, PTC stands third in terms of market cap and reports the best P/E ratio and net profit among the top five in the sector for financial year ended 31st March 2017. Table below states the financial comparison of the company with its peers:
| Price | Market Cap
(Rs. Cr.) |
Sales Turnover | Net Profit | Total Assets | Profit Margins | EPS | P/E Ratio | |
| Adani Enterprise | 130.65 | 14,369.02 | 8,595.01 | 221.64 | 10,530.40 | 3% | 2.02 | 64.7 |
| MMTC Ltd | 59.1 | 5,910.00 | 11,708.36 | 57.06 | 1,874.26 | 0% | 0.57 | 103.7 |
| PTC India | 121.95 | 3,609.82 | 14,074.83 | 290.87 | 3,757.68 | 2% | 9.83 | 12.4 |
| Swan Energy | 138.85 | 3,391.51 | 336.68 | 1.68 | 624.86 | 0% | 0.08 | 1735.6 |
| STC India | 159.2 | 955.2 | 8,048.83 | -165.54 | 2,496.23 | -2% | – | – |
Available Cheap Compared to its Historic Valuations
| Price (Rs.) | EPS (Rs.) | P/E | Dividend (Rs.) | Dividend Yield | |
| 31-Mar-13 | 60.0 | 4.35 | 13.8 | 1.6 | 2.7% |
| 31-Mar-14 | 66.8 | 8.49 | 7.9 | 2.0 | 3.0% |
| 31-Mar-15 | 72.3 | 6.86 | 10.5 | 2.2 | 3.0% |
| 31-Mar-16 | 64.8 | 7.89 | 8.2 | 2.5 | 3.9% |
| 31-Mar-17 | 93.4 | 9.83 | 9.5 | 3.0 | 3.2% |
PTC’s average PE multiple over the past 5 years is 9.98. The stock is currently trading slightly below its historic PE multiple at 9.5, despite the overall markets trading ~ 30% above their historic averages.
| (in Rs. Crores) | 31-Mar-17 | 31-Mar-16 | 31-Mar-15 |
| Total equity | 4,690 | 4,299 | 3,989 |
| Total Debt | 9,388 | 6,405 | 4,925 |
| Debt – Equity ratio | 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.2 |
Break Up of Assets and Borrowings
| (in Rs. Crores) | 31-Mar-17 | 31-Mar-1631-Mar-15 | 31-Mar-14 | 31-Mar-13 | |
| Long Term Borrowings | 6,539 | 4,998 | 3,765 | 2,352 | 946 |
| Short Term Borrowings | 2,849 | 1,408 | 1,160 | 1,417 | 587 |
| Total Borrowings | 9,388 | 6,405 | 4,925 | 3,770 | 1,532 |
| portfolio | 46.6% | 2,983 | |||
| Tangible Assets | 2,153 | 386 | 46 | 53 | 54 |
| Growth in Tangible assets | 457% | 1,767 | |||
Whats Going Against the Stock
Low Plant Load Factor
Though the power generation and transmission capacities have been at the best levels of all time, but the slow industrial growth has adversely affected the overall growth in demand, thus creating a situation of excess supply and low demand. Ultimately leading to lower Plant Load Factors at most of the power plants. Industrial growth is the need of the hour to help the power based company’s progress and become profitable.
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Rising Debt Levels with Not Much Improvement in Earnings
In comparison to the previous financial year, total borrowing of the company have grown by 46.6% owing to the purchase of plant and equipment’s during the financial year.
Total loan portfolio (loans given out) of the company has increased to Rs.9,702 crores on 31st March 2017 from Rs. 7,718 crores on 31st March 2016. While this shows that the Company is getting decent business, growth in loans remain a worry in subdued economic environement particularly when the macro data is not supportive and given that State Electricity Boards may take a much longer time to recover from their debt burden.
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