There has been instances where even a stock like Page Industries, has posted poor numbers for some reason or other for 1 quarter(see snapshot below). That’s when the stock moved sideways/corrected for a few months and later bounced back. I am willing to sit tight as there are still no questions about the fundamentals of this company. I see this as a temporary period of lull not as a major issue and may carefully accumulate after listening to management’s tone after results.
Hi…I have personally sold Symphony (which was 10% of my portfolio) at around 3100. Was a bit late but lucky in realising that it was extremely overvalued.
Would look to evaluate only if I get somewhere below 2500 crore mkt cap.
Meanwhile reports on Voltas coolers have not been good
Guys, I am novice in the markets and so in VP forum. Even for strong horses like Symphony, market cap/ sales ~ 10 ratio little too much? I see the same with Page Industries and almost all crazily grown stocks.
even an eps of 35 gives it a pe of 50 for the current yr.thats expensive given the fact management says we are witnessing a poor qrt, stock should underperform till mgmt commentary changes to positive, no doubt a business run by competent people who have kept the business asset light and built a great brand.and still a large unorganised sector to feed on.a good knife but a falling knife.
It seems like more correction is left in this stock. It has broken 200 DMA with good volumes. Look at how it was trying to find support @ 200 DMA & then collapsed when it broke it.
Any update on how sales in April to June 2015 quarter in line with lower growth in IIP for consumer durable during April-May 2015 and also weak demand for ACs as reported in newspaper?
I think the stock is trading at an attractive level. I will buy aggressively at around 40-43 times earnings. I feel many fears are unfounded.
Erratic Monsoon: I don’t think Met Department or anyone has ever or maybe even ever will predict weather patterns to the dot. Just last week Chennai was reeling under heat wave (40+ Temperature for 3 straight days) and due to climate change average temperature will only go up.
So tracking monsoon or present weather patterns is not going to help.
Scale: This is what Prof Sanjay bakshi had to say:
Achal Bakeri sells coolers to India’s middle class. Less than __% of Indian households
have coolers. Get fans statistics. And he also exports to more than 60 countries.
Symphony may be the world’s largest air cooler company; it is still a tiny company
with annual revenues last accounting year of only $89 million.
3. Valuations:
As per Prof Sanjay’s exit multiple valuation method, Symphony’s current 50 times earnings implies, as illustrated here, that the stock is expecting to grow at 22-23% CAGR for the next 10 years. I feel it is possible to grow at this level and every drop in stock price this equation is only getting to a much favorable odds for investors to add on. I love to own Page and Eicher but thinking in terms of exit multiples and current valuations it seems expensive. Symphony at Rs 3000+ was like that, but at Rs 1675-1850, the odds are in our favour.
Disc.: Views are definitely biased. I own Symphony at over 12% of my PF.
In terms of the valuation, at the current PE multiple of 50, the implied PAT CAGR growth rate for next 10 year should be around 30% which puts Symphony in the elite top 1% category of all listed firms. Yes that growth rate is very much possible given the pedigree of the management, huge runway and asset-light business model but it does mean that everything has to go perfectly well with no room of error.
Having said that if Symphony can grow at 30% CAGR for 10 years, the PE multiple at the end of 10 year will be much higher as it will be in the category of super growth companies.
Monopolistic - 50% market share, with the rest fragmented
Great moat due to consumer branding
Huge growth opportunity - both in domestic and industrial cooling
Good visibility of growth for next 10 years
Total market expected to grow at 20% thanks to under-penetration, and global warming
80% unorganized market which is shifting to organized over time
Asset-light strategy - thus low CAPEX, fixed costs (lower operating leverage)
At 40 - 45 PE, it is quite attractive for any long-term investor… It is almost a slam-dunk case of investing…
I am invested into this counter. Since everyone(including me) is talking about the positives, lets not get carried away by this. One key development in the last few months in this sector is, Voltas has entered into the Air cooler segment recently. Knowing that Voltas is a formidable competitor, with Tata as the brand name, what are the implications? Can Symphony continue to retain 50% market share(of the organized market).
If you note, Symphony’s P/E downward adjustment started after Voltas’ announcement of entry into this segment(Could be due to sheer coincidence).
Though the actual news broke out in the first week of may(please check below), most of us in the market knew in the last week of April that Voltas is entering the segment(channel check ) Please check the stock price correction and correlate it with the rough dates. However this would be a short term newsflow and should have limited impact to begin with.
The bigger question would be, does Voltas have a superior product compared to Symphony? We know their distribution strength and their brand equity. How much of a dent(if any) can they make? Here we are looking at one of the Porter’s five forces. Threat of new entrants. I feel we should delve further.
For a moment, let us suppose that Voltas has a superior product…
Assume you want to buy a cooler, and you go to a domestic appliances outlet… What would you buy? Would you buy the tried-and-tested Symphony? Or would you buy Voltas, which seems to be superior product, but its reliability, quality, etc is unknown…?
I think, most people being risk-averse, would buy the Symphony… Risk-averse decision making is dominant in buying consumer durables, autos, etc.
What do you think?
From Porter’s 5 Forces view - New entrants are a threat if Symphony did not enjoy the brand equity it enjoys currently.
I don’t think Kenstar, Bajaj have a poor distribution network - Most likely they have strong distribution network too… But haven’t been able to dent Symphony…
Management does not seem to be too perturbed by the threat of competition in a rapidly expanding market. In fact, more organized players in the form of Voltas may help to expedite the shift from unbranded to branded coolers.
Couple of small observations this past week reinforced my faith in Symphony’s narrative about the untapped opportunity: of coolers in general (vs AC) and shift from unbranded to branded. In Mumbai, a traditionally non-cooler market, I saw pretty-looking Symphony tower coolers (looked a lot like tower ACs) in some upper/mid-range restaurants (Chillis). While just a few hundred kms away in Nashik and Indore, I saw (extremely ugly looking) unbranded in-room coolers being widely used in 4/5-star hotel properties. These guys can easily afford Symphony coolers so it must be a question of lack of distribution network, which I am quite confident will not be super tough to establish in tier 2 towns.
) Please check the stock price correction and correlate it with the rough dates. However this would be a short term newsflow and should have limited impact to begin with.
and the above concall is from august 2013!