RPSG Ventures - A proxy IT play and an emerging FMCG company

There are a few things causing hindrance in the stock appreciation.

  1. The debt to equity has risen above 1. Many investors avoid this situation so lack of buying happened in the recent carnage.
  2. They had a small equity dilution by issue of preference share for the acquisition purpose.
  3. Sales growth will not be substantial as the BPO business will remain the highest selling item among the businesses.

Coming on to the positives.

  1. The net worth will increase substantially as the IPL team will be worth 1billion dollars (7200cr) and increase with time.
  2. They have hinted at demerger or IPO to unlock value of the team. CSK is getting good traction in unlisted space.
  3. The profit of the sports division will increase and margins of the company as a whole will improve.
  4. Other business like the mall, restaurant and FMCG will generate profits after the end of corona period.

I am optimistic about the future for a 5 to 10 year horizon.

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Few things I would like to highlight:

  1. @Investor_No_1 as you mention 1500Cr cash will get in 5 years but also need to payout some amount (Dont find exact amount) every year. Hence It will generate revenue not cash and may be company will report loss due to this.
  2. @akash_das Ashish Dhawan and Porinju Veliyath are not reducing their stack. If you check the number of share they held in this March and Dec quarter are same. Only percentage of their holding is reduced due to equity dilution.
  3. I am expecting more equity dilution moving forward to reduce debt. But the problem here is CMP is cheap and difficult to raise fund at higher price.
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You are right. I didn’t check the number of shares, only the percentage.
I have corrected my previous post.

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Does anyone know the payout number to BBCI for first year and next 5 years? I am not able to get the exact data. The only risk I can see here is debt of 2,807Cr. And dont see any debt reduction plan in presentation. Also note that the holding company FSL has debt of 1700Cr.

Disclosure: invested

According to my estimates, the new IPL media-rights price should be very bullish for RPSG Ventures and mean that much of the cost of the buying the team and operations should be paid for by the media-rights given the ~500cr annual payout from BCCI plus additional sponsorship revenue. Thus the company would have bought the team at a fraction of the 7k crore headline price and much below where peer CSK trades on the private market

The revenues and costs from the IPL team should be consolidated into RPSG Ventures given the 51% stake in the venture so I expect EPS to go up due to IPL, which could be a trigger for the stock given the deep discount to NAV it currently trades at

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Yes, we will see in revenue jump but not sure on profitability. Probability may impacted due to IPL team payout for first year.
Also, I agree that the 7K cr is not very high valuation because CSK is trading at 6300Cr market-cap and after 5 years value get doubled. Same thing management was explaining earlier.

Reference: Chennai Super King’s unlisted shares trade up 25% at Rs 200-205 each

Invested

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I have found an article for IPL revenue and profit.
In 2021 average team revenue was 268CR and average profit was 69Cr.
Reference: IPL 2022: Mumbai Indians most valuable IPL franchise, as per Forbes report - Firstcricket News, Firstpost
This is due to low franchise cost for old team.

For LSG bought 7060Cr which required high franchise cost. Here is the calculation:

Income:
BCCI pay 50% of Broadcast right 48000Cr to team for 5 years and 10 team = 480 per team(48000/(2510))
Remaining income can ignore(very less)[https://www.timesofsports.com/cricket/ipl/sponsors/]
Total income = 480Cr

Expense:
RPSG player cost: ~90CR. [Lucknow Super Giants Team 2022 Players List: Full List of LSG Players With Price in IPL 15, Remaining Purse - myKhel]
Team maintenance fee ~45Cr [IPL 2022 new teams: Explaining the math and numbers behind multi-crore deals for new IPL teams]
Franchise fee 706Cr(7060 for 10 years.) per year to BCCI
Total Expanse: 706+90+45 = 841Cr

Total loss = 841 - 480 = 361Cr.

RPSG has 51% stack so loss would be 180Cr

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LSG holding is 51%.

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Management claim that the ratio is 0.04(page 115) where as screener is showing 2800Cr debt.

That is Standalone statement. Debt is in Consolidated statement.

Ok, they have not given ratios for consolidated.

4500Cr debt is for 10 years for sport.

Consolidated Balancesheet

They are valuing the IPL franchise rights at 5099Cr.

It’s the present value of the amount they need to pay to bcci for acquisition of the franchise

I dont think 7090Cr is the present value. I have watched all the interview and sanjiv goenka was quoted 3400Cr was the net present value. In the recent interview after broadcast right the IPL team valued @ 8100Cr and net present value 916Cr only. [Time 17:40. Sanjiv Goenka At India Today Conclave East 2022; Talks About Investments, Russia-Ukraine War - YouTube] I don’t think they are sharing wrong information in public. May be they have included team cost and maintenance cost in it for 10 years.

Also, balance sheet is bit complex to understand. They have shown full revenue of FLS and their profit in balance sheet this is not correct.

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Found RPSG Sport Annual report The 5099Cr mention is for RPSG Sports which is own by both RPSG Venture + Rainbow investment. So amount is aggregated.

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They have taken the revenue in total and then divided the profit into owner and non owner.

Revenue 6685
Profit attributable to owners of the equity 131.38 (39%)
Profit attributable to non-controlling interest 207.18 (61%)
Revenue attributable to owners of the equity 2596
No. of shares 2.66
EPS (Profit attributable to owners of the equity/ No. of shares) 49.3
OTHER NON CURRENT FINANCIAL LIABILITIES
Amount payable towards franchise rights 3,807.42
OTHER CURRENT FINANCIAL LIABILITIES
Amount payable towards franchise rights 649.75
Total amount payable towards franchise rights 4,457.17

(Note - All amount in Cr.)

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I could not find data around “Unallocated Liability” of 2092Cr. Anyone has any?

Min 15 onwards talking about ipl
Also talked about the valuations

He also talked about rpsg ventures fund

Hi,
Any updates from AGM '22?
Thanks.