Demergers on the radar

First story-Orient Demerger

Notes on orient demerger-part-1. taken from annual report.

Excerpt from AR of orient-

In order to harness the full potential of emerging opportunities, we have decided to demerge our Electric business with effect from 1st March 2017. The principal rationale for the demerger is to unlock shareholder value. It may be recalled that the demerger of cement business has resulted in a combined market capitalisation of the two entities i.e. Orient Paper & Industries Limited and Orient Cement Limited increasing over 3-fold to H4,413 crores as on 31 March 2017. The proposed 1:1 share ratio will provide all shareholders with an equal opportunity to participate in the expected value creation. The demerger of the Electric business will also permit both businesses to pursue their independent growth strategies with even greater vigour.

Paper business – core highlights As you will see from this report, our Paper business has achieved a smart turnaround, mainly as a result of our sustained efforts towards cost reduction and efficiency improvements. This is clearly reflected in our PBIDT from Paper business increasing by 63% from H34.93 crores in 2015-16 to H56.97 crores in 2016-17 despite the impact of a 35-day shutdown due to water scarcity during the first quarter of the year,
“We also completed our Tissue paper expansion project and have started commercial production with effect from 1st May 2017. This will double our Tissue paper capacity and further consolidate our position as the largest producers and exporters of Tissue papers from India. This will also contribute to increasing volumes and profitability of the paper business.”

Electric business – core highlights Our Electric business also achieved close to 5% growth in turnover to H1,363.70 crores, despite a temporary setback during the demonetization period. This reflects the core strength of the Orient brand in the consumer segment. Some of the highlights of this business include the launch of several premium models of fans including the Aeroquiet range, significant growth in LED lighting making us the third largest producers of LED lamps in India and an impressive increase in our appliance business. As a result, PBIDT of our Electric business also increased by 16.2% from H90.78 crores in 2015-16 to H105.48 crores in 2016-17

Details-
Orient paper-
Revenues PBIDT marginally lower by 3% Range: Tissue papers and writing and printing papers Manufacturing facility: Amlai, Madhya Pradesh H503.28 crores Higher by 63%

Orient Electric-
Fans, home appliances, lighting and switchgear India’s largest exporters of fans Higher by Higher by 5% 17%

Fans ‘Very Silent, Very Powerful’ • 11.1% value growth in the domestic market, growing faster than the industry average • Launched the Aero series range aiming to capture a significant share in the super premium segment • Commissioned a new manufacturing facility at Guwahati, which will help in expanding market reach • Despite a steep increase in raw material prices, margin levels were maintained around an improved product mix and better price realisations • Continued to hold 60% market share in exports of fans from India • In-house R&D unit at Faridabad plant received the prestigious DSIR certification

Lighting Increasing share in LEDs • Consolidated its position in the LED bulb segment, emerging a clear number 3 now • Trade sales grew by 13%, higher than the industry average • Started manufacturing LED street lights with good growth in the tenders business • Competence centre and the R&D lab for LED lighting upgraded • Conferred the prestigious ‘National Energy and Conservation Award, 2016’

Home appliances ‘Enhanced product range’ • Launched new models of air coolers, water heaters, electric irons and wet grinders • Registered a 35% increase in revenues • Product performance certified by Intertek, an internationally-acclaimed UK-based certification agency • Channel reach enhanced across focus markets

Proposed demerger – its objectives and structure

The primary rationale behind the demerger of the electric business The nature of risk and competitive dynamics involved in each of the paper and consumer electric businesses are distinct, necessitating different management approaches and focus. This is particularly so in view of the recent diversification of the Electric business by addition of several new product lines. We believe that the proposed demerger will ensure management focus and enhanced accountability of these distinctly different businesses leading to unencumbered growth of both businesses independently. The demerger will also provide investors with the opportunity to take investment calls on either of the businesses. Most importantly, this should create significant value for all our shareholders as the sum-of-parts is expected to be greater than the whole, as amply demonstrated by the earlier demerger of the cement business. How earlier the demerger of cement business created significant value.
Demerger of the cement business from Orient Paper and Industries came into effect on 1st April, 2012.

The pre-demerger market cap of Orient Paper & Industries Limited stood at Rs 1,210 crore. In just five years since, the combined market cap of Orient Paper & Industries Limited and Orient Cement Limited had increased by 365% to Rs.4,413 crore as at 31st March 2017.
In addition, both companies have grown significantly with substantial addition to capacities and product offerings. The broad contours and status of the proposed demerger of the electric business It is proposed to demerge the Electric business from Orient Paper and Industries Limited (OPIL) with effect from 1st March 2017, subject to required statutory approvals. Under the proposed scheme, each shareholder of OPIL will receive one share of Orient Electric Limited for every share held in OPIL. Thus, the demerger is proposed in a most fair and transparent manner, providing each shareholder with an equal opportunity to participate in the expected value creation. The proposed demerger has already received in-principle approval from SEBI and Stock exchanges and is now awaiting a final approval from National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT). On receipt of the final clearance from NCLT, Orient Electric Limited will seek approval for getting listed on the stock exchanges.

Prospects of Orient Electric following the demerger

Orient Electric is already a leading player in consumer electric products and has added Lighting, Appliances and Switchgears to its product portfolio in the last 3-4 years. As shown elsewhere in this report, Orient’s market share has been increasing in each of these products within a short time since launch. Fans remain its stronghold with an increasing presence in premium categories. Each of these product groups also provide huge market potential and scope for accelerated growth. Orient Electric enjoys strong brand equity with a pan-India distribution network and significant presence in export markets as well. Therefore, there is abundant opportunity and scope for Orient Electric to grow multi-fold with dedicated management focus and strong cash flows.

Standalone sustainability of the paper business
Orient’s paper business has already achieved a strong turnaround with impressive increases in its profitability in the last two years with PBIDT for 2016-17 going up to H56.97 crore despite a 35-day shutdown during the first quarter due to water shortage.

Some other reassuring factors for our paper business
It is important to mention that only the Electric business is being demerged and all other assets of the company, including its substantial investments and properties, shall be retained within the existing company. The debt-equity ratio of the residual company will also be quite favourable with aggregate debt of less than H150 crore being allocated to the Paper business as on the date of demerger.

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Notes on Orient paper demerger-Part-2

Quick notes on upcoming demerger for orient paper and orient electricals.
excerpts taken from blogs, reports etc
Bajaj Electrical durables
segment primarily consists of ceiling fans and LED lights growing at a CAGR of
12.5% for the past 3 yrs. source prabhuliladhar report 2016-http://www.indianotes.com/…/article_pdf/2016/PL_OrientPaper…
Demerger of Electrical business a possibility: Orient paper can demerge its
consumer facing electrical durable business over the next 6‐9 months to unlock
value. On our first cut estimates, Electrical business can generate Rs 14.5‐15bn
turnover for FY17 with PAT estimates of Rs 500m.
Electrical division to grow in double digits for FY17: Orient is expecting double
digit growth in its fans & lighting segment for FY17 and is further expecting to
scale up its Appliances and Switch gear segment. Orient command a market
share of 18% in the domestic fan segment and is the largest exporter of fans
from India. They have a range of over 200 varieties of fans in price points
ranging from Rs500 to Rs4000. Further, Orient has scaled up its LED lighting
segment through Govt. orders which come at wafer thin margins of 5%. FY17
has started off on a strong note as per our channel checks and we expect Orient
to record a turnover of Rs14.8bn implying a 14% YoY growth.
Ceiling Fans dominate Electrical segment revenues with
~70%
Y/e March 2013 2014 2015 2016
Segment Revenues
Papers 3,492 4,301 4,731 5,185
Electrical 9,118 11,386 11,898 12,961
Consumer
All figures in rupees million.
Below data is more recent- (taken from Dolly Khanna blog)
Orient Electric business performance for 2016 -17 in all its product segments.
Orient Fan registered 11% growth in the domestic market, growing faster than the industry average 5 -6%.
Orient’s lighting trade business grew by 12%, higher than the industry average growth of 5%.
Orient Home Appliances has registered a 35% revenues growth against the industry averaged growth of 5% in FY 2016-17
Orient Switchgears has achieved a total 19% revenue growth over last year.
www.indianotes.com

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Hi All,
listing of Aditya birla capital today done.
pre split price-Grasim 1300

post split-grasim-1162 aditya birla cap-237
5:7 ratio of grasim : ABCL allotment
For 50 grasim shares. return would be-9486/65314=14.5 % in around 40 days.

Lets see how tube investment goes first?

I am tracking this demerger in himalya international. From the promising food sector. Interested can study abt it.

Hi

I am a comparatively newbie and looking for insights on Aditya Birla Capital which got listed recently after demerger. The current market cap stands around 44K crore and looking at EPS of close to Rs.3.2, even Rs. 185/- gives it PE of 60+ which definitely looks to be high on face value. But if i look at overall span of business under the umbrella, the opportunities/growth potential looks really good.
And more so given the current fancy around with peers.

From internet:
Aditya Birla Capital has completed issuance and allotment of 4.84 crore share for Rs 145.40 per share on private placement basis to PI Opportunities Fund- 1 in accordance with the terms of the subscription agreement, Grasim Industries Ltd said in a regulatory filing on stock exchanges.

Looking for some guidance in terms of whether this looks like a reasonable long term bet and comment on valuation front.
Disc: I did take some position around 196 few days back. Plan is to stagger buy but conviction needs some backing.

thanks

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Saw this thread about demergers , so for those who may not know today is the last day to have Orient paper to get both orient electric and orient paper on 12 that is the record date. Disc : Invested

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Hello Dear VP Admins,
There is already one thread in this Forum opened about Demergers which was opened in June 2017
Is it possible to merge this thread with the previous thread if it is appropriate.
Otherwise we need to make this thread in-active. Also this looks like double duplicate thread as there is already one more thread on Orient Paper.
Detais of old thread is below:

Demergers & Rights Issues - Where to get lists of upcoming demergers.

i expect demerger of piramal finance from piramal enterprises to happen
later this year. the process could kick off as early as February after the
rights issue is completed. Piramal is re-entering the formulations business
after the no-compete clause with Abott expires in the middle of this year.
Part of the rights issue is being used for the pharma business. I presume,
the funds would be used for inorganic expansion.

Ajay Piramal has been saying that the stock is suffering from holding
company discount, so the demerger process appears to be imminent.

disclosure: holding

Prakash Ind.is on cards for demerging it’s PVC pipe division.It will be interesting to see how it pans out as Prakash Ind. is doing well right now.

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With reference to Piramal demerger, its not happening:

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This clarification means that it is not happening in the current FY. It was already clartified that at suitable time (may be FY 19-20?) they would be demerged. Filing to the exchange: https://www.bseindia.com/xml-data/corpfiling/AttachHis/673FA940_3C16_4CB1_9E69_E1C090AB35DE_131308.pdf

Ok. Thanks. Please update on the thread whenever it happens.


Post on piramal thread is discussing demerger

This is a very important thread. Don’t know why this wasn’t updated. Let’s keep this active. Currently Stellis Demerger and Biocon demerger (2-3 years still) have been in news. Everyone already knows about Syngene, Solara Active Pharma, Jubilant Ingrevia and Suven Pharma.

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Another demerger which has been pushed by a year is that of Raymond’s

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Aurobindo pharmaceutical

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Look for Tips demerger…digital music streaming trend is just the beginning…long way to go

SPECIAL SITUATONS STOCKS

Following are some scrips that are going under special situations via form of Spin off, Splits, Demerger and Deleveraging

Potential Risk:
Following Information is collected and complied from Internet there might be some information which may not be updated or might actually not play out. Please do your own due diligence on it. For example some company might drop plan of demerger and go via IPO to raise money there is also chance of given event taking 2-3 years to play which will affect opportunity cost of capital (Eg: Jubilant Pharmova and Ingrevia took 2-3 years)

Demerger Proposals:

  1. Motherson sumi Ltd ( Domestic wiring harness business will be demerged)…Takes 2-3 months.
  2. GHCL (Home textile company will be demerged).Takes 4-5 Months
  3. NMDC (Steel company with 3 MTPA will be demerged)…Takes 5-6 months
  4. Aarti Industries (API Pharma company will be demerged)…Takes Approx 10 months
  5. Kamdhenu Ltd (Paint company will be demerged)…Takes 10 months
  6. GMR Ltd (Airport company will be demerged)…Takes 3-4 months
  7. Strides Pharma (Bio-Tech business Stelis bio will be demerged)…Takes 12-14 months…
  8. Tips Industries
  9. Raymond Ltd
  10. Rupa Industries
  11. National Peroxide
  12. Forbes and Co (Eureka Forbes will be demerged and will sell off to PE)
  13. Dhampur sugar mills
  14. Genus power infra (demerger of Genus Prime infra - An investment company)
  15. Arshiya Ltd (Demerger of Arshiya Rail infrastructure Ltd…)
  16. Vakrangee Ltd (Physical and Digital business will be demerged)

Mergers in Pipeline:

  1. Indiabull real estate Ltd will be merged with Embassy Group (real estate) Company name will be changed to Embassy Real estate ( not sure on the name)…
  2. Solara Active Pharma will be merged with Aurore life science, Empereyan life sciences,Hydra active pharma…Solara will be bigger company post merger.
  3. APL Apollo tubes (Apollo tricot is getting merged with APT)
  4. Expleo solution (consolidation or merger of group’s privately held cos with listed entity)

Promoters/ management change:

  1. PNB Housing (Carlyle is taking over the promotor/mgmt)
  2. Indiabull real estate (Embassy would be the new promotor)
  3. Ruchi Soya (New promotor - Pathanjali too)
  4. Renuka sugars (New promotor - Wilmar sugars Singapore)
  5. Thyrocare
  6. Anjani Portland cement (Aquisition of Bhavya cement with similar capacity)

Capital reduction:

  1. Supreme petchem
  2. Subex
  3. Kesoram

Debt restructuring:

  1. Kesoram
  2. Suzlon

Demerger proposal

(Company may announce shortly but they have intention to demerge)

  1. Piramal enterprises
  2. Ganesh Benzo
  3. Jubilant Industries
  4. Edeilweiss finance (wealth mgmt business)
  5. Aurobindo Pharma (Injectables business will be demerged)
  6. Max venture Ltd (Speciality package business will be demerged)

Deleverage Company
(I havent studied them in detail yet found few notable)

  1. Gulshan Polyols
  2. Godawari Power & Ispat (Completely debt free)

Note: I am not including Global cyclical company like Steel or Domestic cyclical like cement because in top of cycle mostly whole industry deleverages.

Notable mentions: Relisting of Shares
Meghmani Organics is delisted already (May FY21) and will be listed in Q2 FY22 into
1)Meghmani Organics (Pigment & Agrochemicals) intially name decided was Meghmani Organochem
2) Meghmani Finchem (Chlor- Alkali & higher derivatives)

Due to length constrain i am not adding more rationale on the above companies in detail
If I have missed any significant special situations or if there is any change in it, I will be really glad to hear about it.

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  1. Max venture Ltd (Speciality package business will be demerged)

Can you please link a source? I dont think they have explicitly said anything about the demerger.

This is the last message regarding the demerger. → (Feb’21 Concall)

Thanks!

Tata bsl will be merged with tata steel…swap ratio 1:15