Friday, 12 August 2022

Astral Limited delivers Consolidated top line growth of 73%, EBDITA growth 37% & Volume Growth of 48% (Plumbing) for Q1 FY-23

Ahmedabad, Gujarat — August 12, 2022 Astral Limited, pioneer in manufacturing of CPVC pipes & fittings announced the financial results for the Quarter ended on June 30, 2022.

 

Particulars

2021-22

Q1

2022-23

Q1

2021-22

Y-O-Y

% Change

Revenue from operations

43,940

12,129

7,008

73.1%

EBDITA

7,883

1,831

1,337

36.9%

EBDITA (% of sales)

17.9%

15.1%

19.1%

 

PBT

6,485

1,254

985

27.3%

PBT (% of sales)

14.8%

10.3%

14.1%

 

PAT (Before OCI)

4,904

938

751

24.9%

PAT (% of sales) 

11.2%

7.7%

10.7%

 

Cash Profit

6,173

1,371

1,057

29.7%

Cash Profit (% of sales)

14.0%

11.3%

15.1%

 

Basic / Diluted EPS (In Rs.)

          24.08

            4.42

             3.68

20.1%


Overview of Plumbing & Paints and Adhesives Results:

 

Plumbing Business (Astral Standalone):

                                                                                                                                                                (Rs. In Million)

Particulars

2021-22

Q1

2022-23

Q1

2021-22

Y-O-Y

% Change

Revenue from operations

34,433

8,998

5,178

73.8%

EBDITA

6,624

1,386

1,069

29.7%

EBDITA (in % to sales)

19.2%

15.4%

20.6%

 

PBT

5,466

972

778

24.9%

PBT  (in % to sales)

15.9%

10.8%

15.0%

 

PAT (Before OCI)

4,048

730

577

26.5%

PAT  (in % to sales)

11.8%

8.1%

11.1%

 

Cash Profit

5,098

1,027

830

23.7%

Cash Profit  (in % to sales)

14.8%

11.4%

16.0%

 

Basic / Diluted EPS (In Rs.)

          20.15

            3.63

             2.87

26.5%

Installed Capacity (In M.T.)

274,822

282,338

258,580

 

Sales (In M.T.)

149,569

36,578

24,627

48.5%

Paint and Adhesives Business (Gem Paints +Resinova + Seal IT):                                                                                                                                              (Rs. In Million)

Particulars

2021-22

Q1

2022-23 *

Q1

2021-22

Y-O-Y

% Change

Revenue from operations

10,091

3,338

1,919

73.9%

EBDITA

1,287

462

265

74.3%

EBDITA (in % to sales)

12.8%

13.8%

13.8%

 

 

* Q1 2022-23 includes Numbers of Gem paints.

Highlights of the Quarter:

1.       The company has defined its businesses in two verticals (segments) namely Plumbing & Paints and Adhesives. Plumbing includes Pipes, fittings, water tanks, faucets and sanitaryware.

2.       Gem Paints sales in Q1 2022-23 (Y-O-Y) has grown up by 91% from Rs. 289 million to Rs. 553 million.

3.       Resinova + Seal IT sales in Q1 2022-23 (Y-O-Y) has grown up by 45% from Rs.1,919 million to Rs. 2,785 million

4.       The company has inaugurated, its first display center for their bathware range at Ahmedabad. This display center is Astral’s flagship showroom that will mark brand’s first of many such exclusive showrooms in India. Additionally, we are planning to set up multiple channel partnership-based showrooms (Investment by Distributors) in major cities across the country in the coming years. The faucets and sanitaryware division have a market potential of Approx. Rs. 15000 crores in India.

5.       In July 2022, the company has purchased faucets manufacturing ready to use assets at Jamnagar. This will enable company to facilitated timely production and will ease product availability across the country.

6.       To further strengthen southern market of India company has on boarded Mr. Allu Arjun as Brand Ambassador. The commercial ad shooting has been completed and advertisement will be released soon.

7.       During the last couple of quarters company has added sizeable manpower into new products division like Faucets, sanitaryware etc. The revenue from those products will start from Q-2 onwards hence the employee cost has increased substantially in last couple of quarters. Also, this quarter the company has incurred good amount of cost for Launch Events of Faucets and Sanitaryware which forms part of Other Expense in the published results.

8.       Consolidated cash (including cash equivalents) and bank balances as at June 30, 2022 is Rs. 5,422 million.

9.       The company has outperformed in Industry in Pipes as well as in Adhesive Business. This clearly suggest that we are gaining market share in both segments of industry. We can clearly see below the last 4 years CAGR numbers of Q1 which is much higher than the Industry Average.

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