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Heritage Foods revenue surged on 20.4% in 2015 while EBITDA Margin decreased slightly on 1.6 pp from 5.6% to 4.0%

26-05-2015 • About Heritage Foods ($HERITGFOOD) • By InTwits

Heritage Foods reported FY2015 financial results today. Overall the company's long term financial model is characterised by the following facts:
  • Heritage Foods has low CAPEX intensity: 5 year average CAPEX/Revenue was 2.6%. At the same time it's in pair with industry average of 13.7%.
  • CAPEX is quite volatile: 512 in FY2015, 642 in FY2014, 307 in FY2013, 293 in FY2012, 307 in FY2011
  • The company has highly profitable business model: ROIC is at 13.5%
  • It operates with medium-size leverage: Net Debt/EBITDA is 1.4x while industry average is 1.3x
Below you can find a comprehensive analysis of the key data driving the company's performance and stock price.

Heritage Foods ($HERITGFOOD) key annual financial indicators

mln. INR201120122013201420152015/2014
P&L
Revenue10,96113,93416,01817,22020,73020.4%
EBITDA3605131,024956820-14.2%
Net Income1192499453284-37.4%
Balance Sheet
Cash282288317438400-8.6%
Short Term Debt7687068571,0211,017-0.5%
Long Term Debt77469840639255742.3%
Cash flow
Capex307293307642512-20.3%
Ratios
Revenue growth-56.6%27.1%15.0%7.5%20.4%
EBITDA growth-29.6%42.5%99.7%-6.7%-14.2%
EBITDA Margin3.3%3.7%6.4%5.6%4.0%-1.6%
Net Income Margin0.1%0.7%3.1%2.6%1.4%-1.3%
CAPEX, % of revenue2.8%2.1%1.9%3.7%2.5%-1.3%
ROIC5.9%11.7%29.6%22.4%13.5%-8.9%
ROE1.3%10.3%42.6%28.3%15.3%-13.0%
Net Debt/EBITDA3.5x2.2x0.9x1.0x1.4x0.4x

Revenue and profitability


The company's Revenue surged on 20.4% in FY2015. Revenue growth was financed by EBITDA margin decline. EBITDA Margin decreased slightly on 1.6 pp from 5.6% to 4.0% in FY2015.

Net Income marign decreased slightly on 1.3 pp from 2.6% to 1.4% in FY2015.

Capital expenditures (CAPEX) and working capital investments


The company's CAPEX/Revenue was 2.5% in FY2015. The company's CAPEX/Revenue showed almost no change from FY2012 to FY2015. It's average level of CAPEX/Revenue for the last three years was 2.7%.To secure this fast growth Heritage Foods invested a large share of EBITDA (62.4%) to CAPEX.

Return on investment


The company operates at good ROIC (13.46%) and ROE (15.26%). ROIC decreased on 8.9 pp from 22.4% to 13.5% in FY2015. ROE dropped on 13.0 pp from 28.3% to 15.3% in FY2015.

Leverage (Debt)


Debt level is 1.4x Net Debt / EBITDA and 1.9x Debt / EBITDA. Net Debt / EBITDA jumped on 0.4x from 1.0x to 1.4x in FY2015. Debt surged on 11.4% in FY2015 while cash decreased on 8.6% in FY2015.

Valuation


The company's trades at EV/EBITDA 11.4x and P/E 28.8x while industy averages are 10.5x and 26.1x. Heritage Foods's EV/(EBITDA-CAPEX) is 30.3x with the industry average at 4.7x.

Appendix 1: Peers in Packaged Foods


Below we provide Heritage Foods benchmarking against other companies in Packaged Foods 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
Krbl ($KRBL)-2.2%5.6%27.6%39.9%
Sunil Agro Foods ($SUNILAGR)-34.2%1.6%38.3%29.1%
Milkfood ($MLKFOOD)-29.8%-1.1%9.3%27.7%
Simran Farms ($SIMRAN)-69.5%38.4%23.8%27.5%
Venky'S (India) ($VENKYS)-61.1%18.0%46.0%24.8%
 
Median (15 companies)-35.3%14.7%14.8%16.0%13.8%
Heritage Foods ($HERITGFOOD)27.1%15.0%7.5%20.4%


Top companies by EBITDA margin, %

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Glaxosmithkline Consumer Healthcare ($GSKCONS)18.8%18.6%17.8%22.5%17.2%
Nestle India ($NESTLEIND)20.5%22.0%21.7%20.9%
Krbl ($KRBL)14.7%14.1%14.2%15.1%
Vadilal Industries ($VADILALIND)10.1%19.8%11.6%11.2%
Britannia Industries ($BRITANNIA)5.2%5.7%6.9%9.2%11.1%
 
Median (12 companies)7.7%8.0%8.7%8.7%8.8%
Heritage Foods ($HERITGFOOD)3.3%3.7%6.4%5.6%4.0%


Top companies by CAPEX/Revenue, %

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Venky'S (India) ($VENKYS)6.4%8.9%6.6%10.4%
Krbl ($KRBL)5.8%4.1%4.0%6.1%
Vadilal Industries ($VADILALIND)20.1%12.2%9.4%5.9%
Adf Foods ($ADFFOODS)21.8%1.9%18.3%5.8%
Glaxosmithkline Consumer Healthcare ($GSKCONS)3.6%2.7%4.3%2.5%
 
Median (9 companies)3.6%4.1%4.2%4.3%2.5%
Heritage Foods ($HERITGFOOD)2.8%2.1%1.9%3.7%2.5%


Top companies by ROIC, %

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Britannia Industries ($BRITANNIA)17.8%24.6%33.7%54.0%59.4%
Nestle India ($NESTLEIND)85.4%57.7%47.9%49.6%
Kse ($KSE)14.7%27.7%14.1%36.9%
Umang Dairies ($UMANGDAIR)54.8%93.5%55.6%22.3%28.4%
Krbl ($KRBL)14.4%11.7%14.5%18.3%
 
Median (19 companies)13.1%12.3%10.9%20.3%36.2%
Heritage Foods ($HERITGFOOD)5.9%11.7%29.6%22.4%13.5%


Top companies by Net Debt / EBITDA

Top 5 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Venky'S (India) ($VENKYS)0.9x2.6x2.8x6.7x
Vadilal Industries ($VADILALIND)5.8x2.6x4.5x3.9x
Bambino Agro Industries ($BAMBINO)3.1x3.2x3.2x
Krbl ($KRBL)3.7x4.1x2.9x3.0x
Umang Dairies ($UMANGDAIR)1.8x0.6x0.5x1.7x1.1x
 
Median (12 companies)2.2x1.7x1.1x0.9x-0.0x
Heritage Foods ($HERITGFOOD)3.5x2.2x0.9x1.0x1.4x