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Sarda Energy & Minerals reports 39.7% Net Income decline while 10.6% Revenue growth

23-05-2015 • About Sarda Energy & Minerals ($SARDAEN) • By InTwits

Sarda Energy & Minerals reported FY2015 financial results today. Overall the company's long term financial model is characterised by the following facts:
  • Sarda Energy & Minerals has high CAPEX intensity: 5 year average CAPEX/Revenue was 22.6%. At the same time it's a lot of higher than industry average of 12.8%.
  • CAPEX is quite volatile: 967 in FY2015, 970 in FY2014, 3,344 in FY2013, 5,420 in FY2012, 2,530 in FY2011
  • The company has business model with low profitability: ROIC is at 9.7%
Below you can find a comprehensive analysis of the key data driving the company's performance and stock price.

Sarda Energy & Minerals ($SARDAEN) key annual financial indicators

mln. INR201120122013201420152015/2014
P&L
Revenue8,91011,08213,87115,91417,59910.6%
EBITDA1,3531,8112,9773,3883,77811.5%
Net Income7158711,615910549-39.7%
Balance Sheet
Cash1517937001,023108-89.4%
Short Term Debt3,2473,2385,1458,5306,609-22.5%
Long Term Debt4,6248,0599,1258,8368,212-7.1%
Cash flow
Capex2,5305,4203,344970967-0.3%
Ratios
Revenue growth-59.0%24.4%25.2%14.7%10.6%
EBITDA growth54.9%33.8%64.4%13.8%11.5%
EBITDA Margin15.2%16.3%21.5%21.3%21.5%0.2%
Net Income Margin8.0%7.9%11.6%5.7%3.1%-2.6%
CAPEX, % of revenue28.4%48.9%24.1%6.1%5.5%-0.6%
ROIC5.1%6.1%9.7%8.7%9.7%1.0%
ROE9.8%10.2%16.5%8.3%4.7%-3.6%
Net Debt/EBITDA5.7x5.8x4.6x4.8x3.9x-0.9x

Revenue and profitability


Sarda Energy & Minerals's Revenue surged on 10.6% in FY2015. Having declining revenue the company managed to increase EBITDA margin. EBITDA Margin increased on 2.5 pp from 17.5% to 20.0% in FY2015.

Net Income marign decreased on 2.6 pp from 5.7% to 3.1% in FY2015.

Capital expenditures (CAPEX) and working capital investments


In FY2015 the company had CAPEX/Revenue of 5.5%. CAPEX/Revenue dropped on 43.4 pp from 48.9% in FY2012 to 5.5% in FY2015. For the last three years the average CAPEX/Revenue was 11.9%.

Return on investment


The company operates at low ROIC (9.71%) and ROE (4.66%). ROIC increased slightly on 1.0 pp from 8.7% to 9.7% in FY2015. ROE decreased on 3.6 pp from 8.3% to 4.7% in FY2015.

Leverage (Debt)


Debt level is 3.9x Net Debt / EBITDA and 3.9x Debt / EBITDA. Net Debt / EBITDA dropped on 0.9x from 4.8x to 3.9x in FY2015. Debt dropped on 14.7% in FY2015 while cash dropped on 89.4% in FY2015.

Appendix 1: Peers in Iron & Steel/Interm.Products


Below we provide Sarda Energy & Minerals benchmarking against other companies in Iron & Steel/Interm.Products 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
Inducto Steel ($INDCTST)54.5%150.2%
Kamdhenu Ispat ($KIL)-65.5%25.7%13.7%68.3%
Metkore Alloys & Industries ($METKORE)-49.1%43.7%-10.9%53.4%
Tata Metaliks ($TATAMETALI)-7.0%-19.0%44.6%-1.3%
Visa Steel ($VISASTEEL)-12.5%3.3%-24.1%42.0%
 
Median (31 companies)-35.0%11.9%3.2%2.8%3.4%
Sarda Energy & Minerals ($SARDAEN)24.4%25.2%14.7%10.6%


Top companies by EBITDA margin, %

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Jindal Steel & Power ($JINDALSTEL)48.3%37.5%30.5%28.1%
Bhushan Steel ($BHUSANSTL)29.0%31.2%32.3%28.1%
Jsw Steel ($JSWSTEEL)20.2%17.8%17.1%17.9%17.7%
Jai Corp ($JAICORPLTD)18.4%14.1%16.3%16.0%12.7%
Prakash Industries ($PRAKASH)20.7%17.8%13.0%14.5%
 
Median (28 companies)13.0%9.4%9.0%7.0%10.1%
Sarda Energy & Minerals ($SARDAEN)15.2%16.3%21.5%21.3%21.5%


Top companies by CAPEX/Revenue, %

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Jindal Steel & Power ($JINDALSTEL)64.7%34.2%47.6%69.6%
Bhushan Steel ($BHUSANSTL)81.1%47.2%44.0%50.4%
Jayaswal Neco Industries ($JAYNECOIND)27.9%20.4%44.0%31.1%
Surana Industries ($SURANAIND)41.3%54.8%21.5%
Steel Authority Of India ($SAIL)25.3%20.9%20.7%19.3%
 
Median (20 companies)11.9%7.5%10.4%7.7%4.3%
Sarda Energy & Minerals ($SARDAEN)28.4%48.9%24.1%6.1%5.5%


Top companies by ROIC, %

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Tata Metaliks ($TATAMETALI)3.1%-23.5%-3.7%19.9%57.4%
Nova Iron & Steel ($NOVIS)15.4%
Kirloskar Ferrous Industries ($KIRLFER)20.0%19.1%16.8%12.4%14.7%
Pennar Industries ($PENIND)31.6%26.8%18.4%12.3%15.7%
Jsw Steel ($JSWSTEEL)9.7%11.0%10.3%12.1%9.9%
 
Median (40 companies)9.6%7.2%5.5%5.5%9.9%
Sarda Energy & Minerals ($SARDAEN)5.1%6.1%9.7%8.7%9.7%


Top companies by Net Debt / EBITDA

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Jai Balaji Industries ($JAIBALAJI)5.5x89.7x
Visa Steel ($VISASTEEL)6.9x20.1x24.4x
Ismt ($ISMTLTD)4.4x5.3x9.8x19.9x
Kic Metaliks ($KAJARIR)6.6x9.2x3.0x18.2x
Bhushan Steel ($BHUSANSTL)8.1x6.3x8.6x12.9x
 
Median (29 companies)3.6x4.2x4.3x3.2x1.5x
Sarda Energy & Minerals ($SARDAEN)5.7x5.8x4.6x4.8x3.9x