SMC -Global Securities Ltd. -- Moneywise Long Term

Introduction
Established in 1990, SMC is a well-diversified financial services company in India offering services across brokerage (across the asset classes of Equities, Commodities and Currency), Investment Banking, Wealth Management, Distribution of Third Party Financial Products, Research, Financing, Depository Services, Insurance Broking, Clearing Services and Real Estate Advisory Services to Corporate, Institutional, HNI, Ultra-HNI and other Retail Clients.
• Market Cap₹ 853 Cr.
• Current Price₹ 75.4 ( Face Value Rs 2/- )
• 52 week High / Low₹ 110 / 65.0

As one of the financial institutions in India in the broking and financial products distribution segment, SMC believe that SMC’s ability to identify emerging trends in the Indian capital markets sector and creating business lines and service offerings around them, has given it a competitive edge over other participants in the industry. Company believe the wide range of products and services that enables it to build stronger relationships with it’s clients and cross sell its products.

  • SMC service our clients through a network of 98 branches including overseas office at Dubai
  • More than 2,500+ Authorized Persons with PAN India presence in over 500+ cities
  • 18 Lac+ unique clients.
  • It has 3000+ work force to support our associates.
  • SMC also provide clearing settlement services to 290+ Trading Members.
  • Additionally, to support our distribution of third party financial products, SMC have more than 24,000+ Registered Associates/Service Providers who are engaged with SMC on a non-exclusive basis under SMC’s banner.
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SERVICES OFFERED -
Broking:
Trading in Equities, Derivatives, Commodities, Currency, Debt & Securities Lending and Borrowing (SLB) • Depository in Equity & Commodity – NSDL, CDSL, COMTRACK & COMRIS
Distribution:
IPOs, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Fixed Deposits
Insurance - Life & General (Through SMC POS in all major insurance Companies).
Debt Segment – Retail Bond, G-Sec Bonds, NPS
Advisory:
Investment banking - IPO, FPO
Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity
Term Loan, Bond Issuance
Debt Restructuring, Rights, QIPs, etc
Wealth Management:
Portfolio Management – Moderate, Aggressive, Conservative & Growth
Multi Manager Investment Solutions, Structured Products (SMC Pie)
Real Estate Solutions –Commercial & Residential (Domestic & International)
Private Equity, Portfolio Advisory, Financial Planning
Arbitrage & Hedging
Financing:
Margin Funding facility available through our own NBFC
Funding also available for Retail & HNI clients in ETF, OFS, IPO, Bonds, Buy Back etc • Loan against shares (LAS),
Retail IPO financing
General Funding
Home Loan
Mortgage Loan (Loan against Property)
Unsecured loan (Personal Loan)
Other Specialized Services:
Institutional Broking, Research, NRI & FPI Services
Clearing Services
Fixed Investment Desk
Trading & Clearing in DGCX
Negatives
• it has inherent negatives of capita markets such as volatility in earnings and thin broking margins .
• Deterioration in asset quality at NBFC level or credit losses in the broking segment thereby impacting the profitability and capitalization levels.
• Nearly 27% of the portfolio entails loans of ticket size more than Rs.5 crore. The Top 10 borrowers constituted 19% of the loan book as on Dec-20 improved from 27% of the loan book as on Dec-19.
Some positives
• Company has delivered good profit growth of 23.81% CAGR over last 5 years
• Company has been maintaining a healthy dividend pay-out of 27.73% as per policy it is 30%)
• Debtor days have improved from 207.98 to 117.34 days
• Cash sitting in book as on march 2021 is 1093 Crs ( more than market cap )
• No DII and no FII high promoter holding 62.33%.
• SMC launched its discount broking arm in 2019 under the brand name of Stoxkart which is the first of its kind placed on in the broking industry with investments of 10 crores
• Strong technical background of promoters The group is promoted by first generation entrepreneurs, Mr. Subhash C. Aggarwal (Chairman and MD) and Mr. Mahesh C. Gupta (Vice-Chairman and MD). Both the promoters are Chartered Accountant by qualification and have more than 35 years of diverse experience in financial services and securities market.
• Strategic partnerships including being the preferred insurance broker for Honda cars under Honda Assure, for KIA cars with KIA motors, preferred broker for PNB providing trading facilities and demit services.
• Recently The company entered into new banking tie-up with Dhanlaxmi Bank as an execution partner for broking services

Concall august 22 link https://www.bseindia.com/xml-data/corpfiling/AttachLive/b7b53245-3c13-4b0c-b5f2-dd709f1ca3db.pdf
Earning presentation:
https://www.bseindia.com/xml-data/corpfiling/AttachHis/b74659e3-1783-42ba-b7ec-ad49744dc6e1.pdf

TRIGGER ; Currently less than 3% Indian invest in capital markets so bet is on growth of india and inflation is higher than the saving account interest . Tech savvy generation are more informed and take quick action regard to their own saved money. it can be given long rope for wealth creation …

Disc: invested , i am not any SEBI approved broker or consultant one may study or consult registered broker before investment . this is not any buy sell or hold recommendation

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Where can I get its historical prices?

It’s direct listed company. IPO not came. So share price history not available.

Fantastic Result Q3 & 9M of 2021-22
– Result

– Investor Presentation

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My understanding is that direct listing is done to avoid IPO related cost. Not sure if this is the reason that company is undervalued as it may not gain visibility due to no IPO. Any opinion is appreciated.

Previously they listed on Calcutta stock exchange , before 1 yesr the moved to Nse via direct listing

Recently come across SMC Global. Taken a tracking position a few days back. Gone through recent concall. Management seems mature.

I found their stoxkart interesting, it has a 2-3% market share.

Said so such companies do not come to the radar of institutional investors for a prolonged period of time; hence I intend to keep low allocation and will track it going forward. Looking forward to more discussion ahead…Thanks @yourraj

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Any idea why would market is not giving even an average pe to this company. Everything seems fine be it industry tailwind, diversified book, earning performance. Their broking revenue has not grown much in comparison to other businesses could that be one of the reason ?

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SMC has four different apps for trading on Google Play. Both Ace and Stoxkart pro look to be the flagship apps with 100K+ downloads.

  1. In the concall they talked a lot about Stoxkart so why don’t they pull down other apps?
  2. Why are they advertising Ace and not Stoxkart?
  3. What’s the difference between these four apps? Have four apps looks like a confused execution strategy.

Thanks

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Share India securities, a company similar to SMC are trading at 20-25 p/e and 5x price to sales.
Though they seem to have a better operating margins.
Why market is giving such low valuations, given company has given good growth and profitability? Is it because of the core broking business?
I keep hearing in concalls of Angel, Share India securities, SMC that penetration in Indian capital market is still very low and there is long runway for growth ahead. Surely, SMC is one to track given its low valuations.

Disc: Tracking position

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QTR Results are out, seems good. However difficult to analyse for such a microcap. In the last conf there was a discussion on low market cap valuation, one idea suggested was Buyback.

The company announced BB 75 cr at 115 prices (CMP 85).
BB shares - 6521739 which is 5.76% of the total numbers.
Disc: very small position of PF. Microcap investment risk remains.

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3-4 years back, they were planning to list in the New York Stock Exchange & their paper was almost clear through SEC & they did road shows but due to some regulatory from the Ministry of Finance, they had to stop. Then they thought they should go for direct listing because they were listed in Regional stock exchange (Calcutta) & that time the market was not so good. They are still open for the ADR tho.

Mudit Goyal of SMC Global is named in Sebi’s Zee guest expert report - recommading SBI life and taking position prior.
Just for information…

Sharing report here. https://www.sebi.gov.in/enforcement/orders/feb-2024/in-the-matter-of-trading-based-on-the-stock-recommendations-given-by-guest-experts-appearing-on-zee-business-channel_81278.html

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Relative to other broking/distribution cos, SMC is clearly undervalued. It has a wide range of activities including stock-broking, MF distribution, insurance broking, NBFC etc. It also owns a discount broking co called Stoxkart.

A re-rating of this management is perhaps likely

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