> Pennar Industries Ltd. (IndiaNivesh)

CMP Rs. 52 |P/E (FY15E) 9.7x | P/E (FY16E) 6.5x Target Rs. 81

Investment Rationale

 Moving from commodity to value added products: Pennar Industries is moving from pure commodity player to value added player with its range of engineering products. This transition is helping the company improve its consolidated margin as company has added many high margin segments in its portfolio.

 Direct Play on overall macro-economic recovery: As company caters to the large part of economy’s sectors like Automobile, Infrastructure, Railway etc, it is well placed to take the advantage of any economic uptick through its diversified business portfolio.

 High Operating leverage and Low Financial leverage provides high upside and limited downside potential: Muted economic environment has reduced capacity utilization for Pennar Industries in last couple of years. With likely economic cycle revival, increase in capacity utilization will act as major margin booster for the company. On the other hand delay in revival should not be major concern as company has low financial leverage and large part of its debt is working capital debt.

 Subsidiary PEBS is Key Growth Driver: Other major growth driver for the company will be PEBS, which is amongst top 5 players in India. As the concept of pre-engineered building products (PEBS) is catching up fast in India; anyone setting up an industry now would look for early commissioning of plants, PEBS is poised for abnormally strong growth. A corporate action by the company on getting this subsidiary (PEBS) separately listed on exchanges could be the additional trigger for the stock.

Valuations
 At CMP of Rs.52, Pennar Industries is trading at P/E multiple of 9.7x FY15E and 6.5x FY16E earnings estimate, which is well below 14.3x – three year historical average. Average ROE for the company is past 3 year has been 12.9%. In FY15E and FY16E, the ROE of the company is likely to improve to 16.4% and 20.3% respectively on back of increased capacity utilization and margin expansion. We value this company at conservative PE multiple of 10x to FY16E EPS (Rs.8.1), which gives the target price of Rs 81. RISH TRADER

>Meghmani Organics Ltd. (IndiaNivesh)

CMP Rs.17 | EV/EBITDA (FY15E) 5.4x | (FY16E) 4.8x Target Rs.34 (5.9x FY16E P/E)

Investment Rationale

 Absence of incremental growth capex from here on could lead to higher free cash flow generation, repayment of debt (paid Rs.500 mn in Oct-2014) and better net profit margin.

 Investments in pollution control equipment and permissions in place from state level pollution control board. This could result in higher plant utilization and margin expansion.

 Given that all safety and environment certifications are in place, MOL could attract new order wins and also remain eligible for contract manufacturing order from MNCs .

 All newly commenced facilities both in Pigments & Agrochemical segments are stabilized and ready to deliver higher revenue growth going ahead. 

Valuations 

At CMP of Rs.17, the stock is trading at EV/EBITDA multiple of 5.4x FY15E and 4.8x FY16E estimates. In our view, the current valuations are significantly below 7.5x global peer average. On back of various triggers like: (1) debt reduction, (2) margin expansion, and (3) higher plant utilization the stock is poised for re-rating. We have assigned 5.9x EV/EBITDA multiple (21% discount to global peers) to arrive at FY16E based price target of Rs. 34/share with BUY rating.

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>Ashiana Housing Ltd. : CMP Rs.155 |P/E (FY15E) 19.9x | P/E (FY15E) 7.8x Target Rs. 202 (IndiaNivesh)

Investment Rationale

 Developer with Unique Business Model: Ashiana Housing Ltd. (AHL) is a unique asset light developer, with strong focus on pursuing Real Estate business in Tier II and III cities. AHL has unique business model, (1) where land cost as % of construction cost is lesser (vs. their listed peers), (2) does not build huge land banks, (3) does in-house construction as well as sales, & (4) consistently explore the alternative of deploying lower capital across projects. This asset light strategy and focus on cash flow generation has helped AHL remain debt free and experience above industry level Internal Rate of Returns (IRRs) of >30% across most of the projects.

 Highest Return Ratios in the Industry: AHL is the only listed developer, which has consistently maintained >25% RoE as well as RoCE for last few years (with exception of FY13 & FY14). Sudden drop in FY13-14 return ratios is owing to company’s strategy to shift its accounting methodology. With most of the ongoing projects reaching completion, we expect AHL to report FY16E RoE and RoCE of 35.0%, each.

 FY15-16E to see strong earnings growth: AHL is likely to report ~149% top-line CAGR during FY14-16E (to ~ Rs 6.9 bn), on the back of 3 projects entirely getting completed (Tree House, Utsav and Anantara) and some phases of remaining 7 projects getting completed (Ashiana Town, Rangoli Gardens, Aangan, Gulmohar Gardens, Navrang, Vrinda Gardens, Dwarka and Umang). We expect AHL to report ~192% PAT CAGR during FY14-16E (to ~Rs 1.8 bn; PAT margins would expand from 19.8% in FY14 to 27.1% in FY16E). 

Valuations 

With substantial chunk of ~6.8 mn sq. ft. of ongoing projects reaching revenue recognition threshold, we expect revenue visibility to sharply improve from here-on. With debt free balance sheet, at CMP of Rs 155, AHL is trading at FY15E and FY16E, EV/ EBITDA multiple of 17.6x and 5.7x, respectively. We have valued AHL using Sum-of-the-parts (SoTP) basis to arrive at FY16E based price target of Rs 202.

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