Creative Graphics Solutions India Ltd

Hi Aditya,

Here is how I think about the result and here are few questions which I have open to all

Let me just put out the numbers segment wise below plz note they do lot of inter corporate stuff hence there can be few error.

  1. FLEXO

  1. Not much to comment on this segment, there is 3-5% GM compression here, on top of that we have 2.5 to 3% EBITA compression as well (employee cost being the major increase)

  2. This is a 120cr business, with banglore now operational and Oman (yet to soon, functionally ready but not operational yet for known reasons) I think 15-20cr incremental revenue form this segment, with 11-11.5% net margins (just adding EBITA level improvement, lower employee cost as a % also on dep and interest looks achievable with current GM) so 15 - 16cr PAT form here FY27 looks achievalble

  3. WAHREN

  1. Significant GM compression with following reason attributed
    a) Excess order booking to retain customers, with shorter purchasing cycle with customers and longer price commitment, increase in price effected margins
    b) Suppliers not honouring contracts, longer delivery period, repricing form past pricing commitments but not able to do the same with customers
    c) Of cource exxissive increase in RM prices in a very short time

Question to ask = Which reason attributes to what % of total reduction of GM form 28% to 14% almost 14% is anyones guess, becasue if these numbers are known then any impact for A and B looks reversable pretty fast

My take is with new capacity almost live and the learning curve of this situation (as they say in concall) these are bottome GM, any further deterioration form here looks very difficult, in fact a immediate 2-3% improvement looks possible.

Other triggers form margin improvement are PVDC (Higher GM than alu alu, lesser supply chain disruption than alu alu). Exports of Alu Alu, also look 2-5% GM accretive (Management in the call has said 20-25% export target on incremental capacity of 12000 Mt)

At a post GM level no major impact, slight employee cost increase, but over all economis of scale is visible with 50bps to 1% improvement possible with further scale.

Questions to ask = 1. No Major impact on top line on a HOH basis despite stating supplychain issue and Management stating 80% utilization in H2 for Alu Alu. Also last concall and this concall price hike was taken was stated with 350-360 to 500-550 of price moment in alu alu. So given that we has similar utilization, sales numbers look pretty low

Either volumes are impacted or price pass on effect has not yet reflected

Management has also constantly been stating on no demand side disruption and supply side is what has been impacted.

Over all my take is any further net margin deterioration form these levels look very difficult, infact consedering all the above discussion consedering current environment persist (relif form point A & B and other triggers should lead to 2-3% immediate improvement)

So for the current FY a current environment PAT margin of 3% and a business potential PAT margin of 10% (stedy state) is what the key take aways is

Given that no deamnd side problem a 30% utilization in both PVDC and incremental alu alu should add incremental (160+90 = 250)cr of pharma revenue (450,250) as the respective price assumption.

So 135 flexo 250 incremental pharma 225 current Pharma (this can also increse by 15% if we are assuming 450 as the new price) so 610cr of Revenue consedering current state presist is what they should achieve (this does not include Tandem).

Overall all at the current state the numbers which I am getting is 600-650cr top line and 30-35cr bottome line. Though my personal expectation is slightly higher

Overall as said earlier I would value this company at sales, 700cr looks very much achivalbe this FY so at less than 0.5 PS, in good time I would give them 1.5 to 2 times sales

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Many managements won’t show this honesty till Q1 results. Q4 results have been good for many companies but Q1 would be different with almost 2 war affected months. A small company openly acknowledging issues (most of which are beyond their control) is a breath of fresh air. Kudos to them. I remember export oriented companies like Garware faced a similar situation last year due to US tariffs but came out flying once the clouds dispersed. Once the war is over, CGraphics will do really well. Especially with capacity coming online imminently.

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my personal reading is and again I can be wrong here. they might have suffered the oversupply of order for 1-2 month max. their topline should have improvement considering the price hike for alu alu.
now there are 2 optionalities both of them are guesses a) they have not been able to pass through price hike b) there is a hit on volume realization

personally I think volume realization is not hit because there needs to be someone who can absorb the supply of cg at same time, it’s more on lack of pricing power from CG which has affected it

They have said in the concall that they were overflowing with orders which couldn’t be supplied because of raw material shortage. Now, the availability has improved and price hikes have been affected.

Anyone know what could be these other assets worth 88 cr?

Yes the overflowing of order occurred because their new capacity couldn’t kick in time and tbey had to adhere to order pricing. But my point was this oversupply shouldn’t have been for more then 1-2 months. Cause within that 1-2 month they would have known that machine is stuck with port and they can’t take more orders.

Also my larger point is with alu alu price increasd the top line should have improved but ch has taken hit to maintain customer relation

Again we don’t know what lead to no topline increase given the increase of alu alu. These are guesses at max