Fairchem Organics - Previously "Adi Finechem"

FY22: Revenue came in at 643 Cr & PAT of 68 Cr. Dividend of ₹13 announced

  • Company faced RM price increase in Q4 with Gross Margin reducing to 23% in Q4 Fy22 while it previously remained above 35%.

  • Fuel costs on the higher side comparable to previous quarter

Here is my novice attempt to value Fairchem:

Assumptions
1.Rev increase to 2.5x of FY21 (396Cr) = Approx 1000 Cr
2. Pat Margin of 10% will maintain
3. Considered topline guidance for both Fy24/25
4. PE of 27 . Median PE has always been around 30

@kalidasa
Fairchem Organics Valuations.xlsx (13.3 KB)

As you highlighted RM/ fuel costs previously,
I would be glad to hear your thoughts on revised valuation estimates.
(150 Cr PAT/ 30 PE / Mcap 4500 )

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Thank you
Current Capex = more than 50 % of capex they did last 7 years…so we can now assume what growth we can expect…with 10 % minimum…and passing RM prices with Lag…so that will give answer.

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Yours is a good, conservative estimate. Lets wait for the company presentation before more detailed discussion.

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Takeaways from the company presentation:

  1. Capex to be complete by H1 FY23. This is a delay of two quarters compared to
    their earlier presentations. No reason has been provided for this delay.
    This is disappointing.

  2. The company has set the target of Rs 1000 cr revenue (2.5x of FY21) “in 3
    years”, a phrase copied from the previous quarter
    presentation. The management does not appear confident about the
    timeline. Given the high capacity utilization of the current capacity, the
    management was expected to be more confident of selling its products from
    the new capacity within a couple of quarters of commissioning, but it does not
    appear to be the case.

  3. The company has been unable to pass on the higher costs to the customers over
    the last two quarters. Now, they have indicated that the raw material prices
    may remain high in the future as well. There is no indication of possible
    higher end-product pricing which may result in higher EBITDA. They may keep
    end-product prices low in the near term because they need to produce and
    sell a higher quantity.

Rs 1000 revenue at 10% PAT margin and PE of 30 gives a target
market cap of Rs 3000 cr by FY25. Economies of scale and higher
contribution from value-added products are likely to facilitate a
higher EBITDA margin. Also, it is possible this target can be achieved by
FY24/H1FY25. However, it is better to be conservative given the current
economic situation.

Disclosure: This stock constitutes a small percent of my portfolio. The
above is for educational purposes only. Not a buy/sell recommendation.

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Hi Keerthan,

  1. Since you assumed 10% PAT and FY25 revenue to be 1000 cr. , what is the reason you took rough PAT of 140 cr.?
  2. Just wondering if you could put together similar rough calculations using EV/EBITDA and comparing it with similar companies.
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  1. Thanks for pointing out. It should be value be 99.15Cr .
    You can update in excel attachment & share

  2. Not sure about EV . We can consider EBITDA multiple of 16 & that gives us same Mcap.
    Fairchem Organics Valuations_with_EBITDA_multiple.xlsx (13.8 KB)
    Other Oleochemical companies such as Fine Organics (53x EBITDA) & Galaxy surfactants (25x EBITDA) won’t be a fair comparison in my opinion

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A few noteworthy points from Earnings Presentation Q4-FY22/FY22

  • The fall in Profit before Tax was mainly on account of higher cost of Raw Materials.
  • Compelled to buy raw materials at prevailing higher prices and absorb some portion of the same which marginally dented our contribution
  • Company to increase its top line by 2.5 times of FY21 in 3 years and intends to maintain EBITDA growth

Disc - invested

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One single customer constitute almost 40% of sales but the good part is Receivables are almost equivalent to 1 month of sales which is quite good.

About there capex

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Quality of Accounting for FairChem organics:-

  1. Debt/Equity - 0.27 (Fairly a Good Number)
  2. Is company misallocating any capital?(Red Flag) CWIP for capicity expansion is increasing a lot. (43 cr is not yet operational)
  3. Dividends- Is paying dividends. Last year it paid - 0.17% yield. It is negligable.
  4. EBITA/CFO and CFO/PAT ratio for last 3,5 years
    | Year/Ratio | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
    |------------|-------|------|--------|
    | CFO/EBIDTA | 24.2% | 35% | 34% |
    | CFO/PAT | 60% | 93% | 89.82% |
  • CFO on March 2021 - 39.58cr where as revenue is 55 cr however,
    CFO on March 2022 - 40.48 cr where as revenue is 91 cr. Even though there is a 1.5x of revenue there is no increase in CFO. Which is alarming red flag.

Why this is happening?
CFO - 65.48 cr
Inventory incresed from 18.16cr in 2021 to 30.37 cr in 2022 - 12cr gap

  • It looks fine to me. Ratio of inventory/revenue remain around 33% Hence it is not happening at CFO level

Trade receivables is 46.76 to 62.22 cr in 2022 - 14cr gap

  • Trade receivables to revenue decreased. This looks good to me.
    14+12
    CFO is getting suppressed due to rapid increase in revenue. Here money is getting struck due to the rapid increase in revenue.
  1. Does promoter have private entities in same line of business?
  2. RTP to sales
  3. Is there any huge liability?
  4. Auditors opinion
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Superb results by Fairchem Organics. If you extrapolate 1Q EPS for FY23 you get 20.76 X4 = Rs83.04. At Rs1998 stock price stock trades at 24x FY23E which is one of the cheaper chemicals stocks.

Company guidance of Rs1000crs revenues for FY24. Extrapolating Q1 PAT margins of 12% that implies Rs120crs PAT in FY24E which implies at current market cap of Rs2600crs stock trades at 21x FY24

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Some good insights on Fairchem business in the recent rating agency report:

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For the first time, the company has shared a very detailed investor presentation, which is able to depict the management’s confidence in the future of the company in a way the previous presentations could not.

b90722b3-0704-43bb-a637-cf59a601ae71.pdf (4.7 MB)

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First Earnings Call

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Has anyone done a comparison between FAIRCHEM and FINE ORGANICS …since both deal in ole-chemicals …just the RM for FAIRCHEM is used oils whereas FINE uses PALM oil so import dependency but it has price elasticity.

Where FINE scores is the customer which are FMCG companies so it again doesn’t have to do a price bargain, whereas FAIRCHEM majorly supplies to PAINT companies so it is like a commodity chemical.

If anyone can do a comparison on SCREENER(paid version has option) and share here it would be helpful.

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Peer Comparison - Screener(1).pdf (92.5 KB)

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Baba Ramdev is also into olechemicals manufacturing business…but non related …but can scale it if he intends to …can be league of FAIRCHEM,FINE …And biggest advantages is that he has raw material sorted as he is cultivating palm on 6 lakh hectares of land allocated to it in INDIA

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Interesting development…

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Very Weak Q2 performance, awaiting clarity in concall

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Any idea when the concall is?
Both sales and margins have come down :frowning:

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