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Tata Power Co CAPEX dropped on 19.4% in 2015 and Revenue decreased on 6.0%

19-05-2015 • About Tata Power Co ($TATAPOWER) • By InTwits

Tata Power Co reported FY2015 financial results today. Overall the company's long term financial model is characterised by the following facts:
  • Tata Power Co has high CAPEX intensity: 5 year average CAPEX/Revenue was 20.7%. At the same time it's a lot of higher than industry average of 1.4%.
  • CAPEX is quite volatile: 34,936 in FY2015, 43,361 in FY2014, 42,702 in FY2013, 53,507 in FY2012, 92,321 in FY2011
  • The company has business model with low profitability: ROIC is at 7.1%
Below you can find a comprehensive analysis of the key data driving the company's performance and stock price.

Tata Power Co ($TATAPOWER) key annual financial indicators

mln. INR201120122013201420152015/2014
P&L
Revenue194,423259,972330,199358,677337,199-6.0%
SG&A5,1856,4097,4817,5607,278-3.7%
EBITDA45,84353,21166,26877,01162,936-18.3%
Net Income20,596-10,877-854-2,6001,678
Balance Sheet
Cash22,06636,94119,89915,55014,835-4.6%
Short Term Debt27,62341,26762,83097,02682,136-15.3%
Long Term Debt219,798297,331315,993304,699323,9316.3%
Cash flow
Capex92,32153,50742,70243,36134,936-19.4%
Ratios
Revenue growth2.4%33.7%27.0%8.6%-6.0%
EBITDA growth19.7%16.1%24.5%16.2%-18.3%
EBITDA Margin23.6%20.5%20.1%21.5%18.7%-2.8%
Net Income Margin10.6%-4.2%-0.3%-0.7%0.5%1.2%
SG&A, % of revenue2.7%2.5%2.3%2.1%2.2%0.1%
CAPEX, % of revenue47.5%20.6%12.9%12.1%10.4%-1.7%
ROIC10.1%8.9%8.8%9.0%7.1%-1.9%
ROE17.0%-9.0%-2.2%-3.0%0.3%3.3%
Net Debt/EBITDA4.9x5.7x5.4x5.0x6.2x1.2x

Revenue and profitability


Tata Power Co's Revenue decreased on 6.0% in FY2015. Revenue decline was accompanies by EBITDA margin decline. EBITDA Margin decreased on 2.8 pp from 21.5% to 18.7% in FY2015.

SG&A as a % of Revenue showed almost no change in FY2015.

Net Income marign increased slightly on 1.2 pp from -0.72% to 0.50% in FY2015.

Capital expenditures (CAPEX) and working capital investments


The company's CAPEX/Revenue was 10.4% in FY2015. The company showed big decline in CAPEX/Revenue of 10.2 pp from 20.6% in FY2012 to 10.4% in FY2015. For the last three years the average CAPEX/Revenue was 11.8%.Battling declining revenue Tata Power Co invested a large share of EBITDA (55.5%) to CAPEX but that didn't help at least in this year.

Return on investment


The company operates at low ROIC (7.09%) and ROE (0.33%). ROIC decreased slightly on 1.9 pp from 9.0% to 7.1% in FY2015. ROE increased on 3.3 pp from -3.0% to 0.33% in FY2015.

Leverage (Debt)


Debt level is 6.2x Net Debt / EBITDA and 6.5x Debt / EBITDA. Net Debt / EBITDA jumped on 1.2x from 5.0x to 6.2x in FY2015. Debt increased slightly on 1.1% in FY2015 while cash decreased on 4.6% in FY2015.

Appendix 1: Peers in Electric Utilities


Below we provide Tata Power Co benchmarking against other companies in Electric Utilities 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 Revenue growth, %

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Adani Power ($ADANIPOWER)91.5%65.7%128.0%21.7%
Nava Bharat Ventures ($NBVENTURES)-50.8%-10.4%15.3%51.6%
Ptc India ($PTC)-53.9%-12.1%14.2%31.5%
Bf Utilities ($BFUTILITIE)-79.1%41.4%9.2%20.6%
Power Grid Corporation Of India ($POWERGRID)-63.7%19.7%27.2%18.9%
 
Median (16 companies)-50.8%30.1%14.2%8.6%13.9%
Tata Power Co ($TATAPOWER)33.7%27.0%8.6%-6.0%


Top companies by EBITDA margin, %

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Power Grid Corporation Of India ($POWERGRID)85.4%83.7%85.6%84.9%
Bf Utilities ($BFUTILITIE)36.4%43.9%55.1%61.2%
Jaiprakash Power Ventures ($JPPOWER)88.6%91.7%70.6%60.1%
Nhpc ($NHPC)69.6%71.4%66.5%59.3%
Orient Green Power Company ($GREENPOWER)42.7%24.4%53.3%57.8%
 
Median (17 companies)31.9%28.3%25.5%26.2%24.5%
Tata Power Co ($TATAPOWER)23.6%20.5%20.1%21.5%18.7%


Top companies by CAPEX/Revenue, %

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Jaiprakash Power Ventures ($JPPOWER)590.3%378.9%341.9%229.9%
Power Grid Corporation Of India ($POWERGRID)160.8%184.3%172.4%173.4%
Gvk Power & Infrastructure ($GVKPIL)76.3%139.1%136.7%109.1%52.7%
Orient Green Power Company ($GREENPOWER)340.9%422.5%170.0%77.0%
Nava Bharat Ventures ($NBVENTURES)39.1%69.0%30.5%70.6%
 
Median (15 companies)76.3%104.0%46.8%39.9%14.8%
Tata Power Co ($TATAPOWER)47.5%20.6%12.9%12.1%10.4%


Top companies by ROIC, %

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Alstom T&D India ($ALSTOMT&D)11.2%0.0%15.7%14.6%16.1%
Ptc India ($PTC)8.1%11.2%10.4%13.6%
Nava Bharat Ventures ($NBVENTURES)11.7%5.3%6.3%9.2%
Ntpc ($NTPC)8.7%9.0%9.6%9.1%
Power Grid Corporation Of India ($POWERGRID)8.3%8.8%8.4%
 
Median (19 companies)4.2%4.8%5.4%4.9%7.4%
Tata Power Co ($TATAPOWER)10.1%8.9%8.8%9.0%7.1%


Top companies by Net Debt / EBITDA

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Ksk Energy Ventures ($KSK)13.1x16.3x16.2x27.0x
Gvk Power & Infrastructure ($GVKPIL)9.6x19.1x23.9x20.1x20.2x
Lanco Infratech ($LITL)9.3x16.3x12.9x19.2x
Jaiprakash Power Ventures ($JPPOWER)18.9x11.6x13.1x16.7x
Gmr Infrastructure ($GMRINFRA)7.9x19.5x15.1x16.7x
 
Median (19 companies)7.9x11.3x8.6x6.6x5.9x
Tata Power Co ($TATAPOWER)4.9x5.7x5.4x5.0x6.2x