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Gujarat Fluorochemicals Net Income jumped on 214% in 2015 and Revenue surged on 52.9%

15-05-2015 • About Gujarat Fluorochemicals ($GUJFLUORO) • By InTwits

Gujarat Fluorochemicals reported FY2015 financial results today. Overall the company's long term financial model is characterised by the following facts:
  • EBITDA Margin is quite volatile: 19.6% in FY2015, 18.1% in FY2014, 35.2% in FY2013, 47.7% in FY2012, 27.7% in FY2011
  • Gujarat Fluorochemicals has high CAPEX intensity: 5 year average CAPEX/Revenue was 25.7%. At the same time it's a lot of higher than industry average of 8.1%.
  • CAPEX is quite volatile: 4,276 in FY2015, 4,239 in FY2014, 7,529 in FY2013, 12,117 in FY2012, 5,963 in FY2011
  • The company has business model with average profitability: ROIC is at 10.7%
  • It operates with medium-size leverage: Net Debt/EBITDA is 1.4x while industry average is 1.4x
Below you can find a comprehensive analysis of the key data driving the company's performance and stock price.

Gujarat Fluorochemicals ($GUJFLUORO) key annual financial indicators

mln. INR201120122013201420152015/2014
P&L
Revenue14,43928,30231,66434,51552,77252.9%
EBITDA3,99513,50411,1416,25010,35265.6%
Net Income2,7147,8015,4341,8615,853214.5%
Balance Sheet
Cash3012,83752326511,1524,113.9%
Short Term Debt5,1126,4609,25910,55114,29635.5%
Long Term Debt2,7348,95712,08512,47211,358-8.9%
Cash flow
Capex5,96312,1177,5294,2394,2760.9%
Ratios
Revenue growth-76.2%96.0%11.9%9.0%52.9%
EBITDA growth-19.1%238.0%-17.5%-43.9%65.6%
EBITDA Margin27.7%47.7%35.2%18.1%19.6%1.5%
Net Income Margin18.8%27.6%17.2%5.4%11.1%5.7%
CAPEX, % of revenue41.3%42.8%23.8%12.3%8.1%-4.2%
ROIC11.0%31.7%18.4%7.2%10.7%3.5%
ROE15.1%33.7%18.5%5.8%15.5%9.8%
Net Debt/EBITDA1.9x0.9x1.9x3.6x1.4x-2.2x

Revenue and profitability


Gujarat Fluorochemicals's Revenue surged on 52.9% in FY2015. Revenue decline was accompanies by EBITDA margin decline. EBITDA Margin decreased slightly on 1.1 pp from 8.4% to 7.3% in FY2015.

Net Income marign increased on 5.7 pp from 5.4% to 11.1% in FY2015.

Capital expenditures (CAPEX) and working capital investments


In FY2015 the company had CAPEX/Revenue of 8.1%. CAPEX/Revenue dropped on 34.7 pp from 42.8% in FY2012 to 8.1% in FY2015. For the last three years the average CAPEX/Revenue was 14.7%.

Return on investment


The company operates at good ROE (15.54%) while ROIC is low (10.68%). ROIC increased on 3.5 pp from 7.2% to 10.7% in FY2015. ROE increased on 9.8 pp from 5.8% to 15.5% in FY2015.

Leverage (Debt)


Company's Net Debt / EBITDA is 1.4x and Debt / EBITDA is 2.5x. Net Debt / EBITDA dropped on 2.2x from 3.6x to 1.4x in FY2015. Debt surged on 11.4% in FY2015 while cash surged on 4,114% in FY2015.

Appendix 1: Peers in Industrial Gases


Below we provide Gujarat Fluorochemicals benchmarking against other companies in Industrial Gases industry for the last 5 years. We show data for the top-5 companies by key financial metric together with the median value for all the companies in the industry.

Top companies by ROIC, %

Top  FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
National Oxygen ($NOL)9.7%9.7%
 
Median (1 company)9.7%9.7%
Gujarat Fluorochemicals ($GUJFLUORO)11.0%31.7%18.4%7.2%10.7%