Vasa Denticity aka Dentalkart - The Indian Amazon of Dental supplies ?!

First, here is a disclaimer: This is my first company post on VP. I am invested and, hence, biased. Being a medical professional, I am slightly LAZY to type.

So the company is Vasa Denticity.

Above is the screener snapshot. It is an SME with a minimum lot size of 250 stocks.
Let me post this recent development here to GRAB your attention.

The famous Ashish Kacholia is also invested in this on June 2023.

Below are the latest results, the investor presentation, and the conference call. ( No YouTube video available)

https://nsearchives.nseindia.com/corporate/QuarterlyFinancialResultsVasa_26072024175502.pdf

https://nsearchives.nseindia.com/corporate/DENTALKART_21052024220009_InvestorPresentationFY2324.pdf

https://nsearchives.nseindia.com/corporate/DENTALKART_27052024124344_TranscriptEarningCallFY2324.pdf

Also, below are a few YouTube videos covering more details about the company and promoters.

Vasa Denticity

Vasa Denticity

Story of Dentalkart’s Founders - Dr. Vikas Agarwal and Sandeep Aggarwal

He Earns 100 CRORES By Selling Dental Care Products | Dentalkart | EP 43 Mad Over Growth

PLEASE go through the above details along with screener data and make your own decision.

My simple logic for investing

  • Near Monopoly
  • Shift from unorganised to organised
  • Higher disposable income will lead to better dental health

Risks

  • Any regulatory risk like price cap on products, etc.
  • Amazon / Reliance / Adani entering this space ( Looks unlikely considering the small niche segment)

The positive thing is that the promoter himself is a dentist and has worked in dental practice for a few years, so he knows the products inside and out.
However, one negative point is that Promoters are giving guidance on sales growth, which they have not been able to achieve in the last 2 quarters. They should give conservative sales growth numbers.

Yes. Its definitely overvalued @ CMP, but my basic premise is that this has the potential to reach a 10k Cr market cap in the coming years, provided there are no major hiccups in the journey.

dr.vikas

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This seems like an interesting company to analyze. High returns with limited capital. They’ve also paid off their debts last year.
Hope to hear more from management about expansion plans in terms of capital expenditure in the future.

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This looks like a very interesting company however any idea on why is the gross block of fixed assets so low?

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Just sharing the company update.

I hope you find it useful

dr.vikas

What is the economic Moat in this company? Can it maintain it’s ROE levels with new players entering this space with significant capital

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The company does not have any moat I suppose. They sell dental products, which is a standardized. Of course they have first mover advantage, and they are getting decent numbers too. But certainly this ROE will attract more competition as the business is easy… You have to sell a few hundred standardized products on an e-commerce site.
Lately I saw their cash flow statement which is alarming. Even receivables have gone up substantially… Looks like they are pushing sales.

Need to examine this aspect.

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They have the first mover’s advantage. Right now the dental supply industry is very unorganized.
Please go through their concall transcript to get more clarity. I am attaching few snapshots from their concalls below.

For new players to enter, compete and capture the market is not going to be easy.
It has already become kind of Amazon / Flipkart of dental supplies in India. Yes. Some big player can enter. But the market size is not that much massive and very niche segment. The amount of cash the new entrant has to burn will be humongous.

Again personal opinion.

Sir
Talked to one of their distributors. He said these guys are selling virtually at no margins. An mnc has barred its distributors to give material to the company because they are undercutting on a hot selling product to be in limelight.

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Thanks for the scuttlebutt. I will keep it in mind. But this is one reason I have a diversified portfolio of 20 stocks.

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Q4 FY24-
SME company doing PPT and concall

This growth is driven by an increasing awareness of the oral health, higher disposable income, and the rise of multispeciality hospitals offering comprehensive dental care.

Sir, currently, there are around 3,20,000 approx. registered dentists in the country. Apart from that, we expect more than 1,00,000 unregistered dentists in the country. There are more than 1,00,000 dental students in the country. And then, there are 352 dental colleges, more than 5,000 dental laboratories. These all are the Total addressable markets (TAM)(Huge TAM available)

in next 3 years- 500-600cr revenue

in next 5 years- 800-1200cr revenue(70% CAGR)

Total brands onboarded was 450 plus brands in this year, compared to 330 brands in FY ‘23. Our customer retention has increased from 68% to 76% year-on-year.

new operational warehouses in Mumbai, Nagpur, Kolkata, and Guwahati .This will take delievery time from 5.5 days to 4.5 days and our aim is of reaching 2 days

The total order growth was 4,30,574 in FY ‘24, compared to 3,16,748 in FY ‘23, a year-on-year 36% increase.

Grow 40% as against the guidance of 70% because a lot of international companies have not been able to register themselves in the new drug license policy in India. So, this will subside this year and we expect those revenues to come back in this financial year.

Investing in cloud, warehouse automation and heavily on technology to reduce the time.
When we have a mother warehouse in Gurgaon, it is highly optimized and automated.

11cr receivables are showing wrong bcz they were COD orders and our delivery boys collected that money.

So, we expect a good growth from Baldus (have exclusive rights, not only use in dentist but also in other industries as well , Sedation system not only is used in the dentistry, but it is also used in derma, hematology and a few other segments of the medical end. )in this financial year. Last year, I think it was under INR2 crores sales from Baldus overall. So, there is not much significant contribution from that.

we have exclusive rights to distribute them in the Indian market to help us in marketing the product and training the doctors and the employees. And if needed, they provide the certification of nitrous oxide training to the doctors. That is the reason we are responsible for developing the market and making this

our own branded products or white label(china se import karke apna label lagakar bechna)contribute to 54% sales which is high margin business

So, 80% of the orders we need to be delivered faster. So, one of the opportunities that we have opened our own warehouses, we’re going near the customer and trying to deliver the products faster

From the total online sales we do, 98% of that sale comes from the individual dental practitioners and 2% comes from the hospitals. So the hospital business is more of a credit-based business, which we are trying to evaluate this year and trying to tie up with a good financial partner who can provide credit to them.

So we don’t see a large growth on EBITDA margins in the short run, but in the long run definitely if 70% of the sales comes from our own brands and a lot of exclusive brands, we see a good EBITDA numbers in the future.

We have to study the data how it is working out and depending on that we will ultimately decide that if we have to open smaller warehouses in cities like Chennai, Kochi, maybe Lucknow, Jammu. So these small cities we have to see in the future, but that will all depend on the data we’ll have from the current warehouses.

we are currently not looking to manufacture anything. But yes, in future we are looking to assemble some of the items which are difficult to be imported in India. So we’ll keep a small assembly line for those products.

Yes, in the long term, we are looking to go beyond India, but in the short term next 2 years, 3 years our focus is only India because it’s a big market and we have a long way to go.

B2C I think is 90% of the business and B2B and B2G together contribute 10%

And currently, for a very few number of dentists, we are the primary source ofbuying the dental products. Like most of the products, the people who are in the Tier-3, Tier-4 cities. For Tier-1 cities and most of the Tier-2 cities, we are the secondary source of purchase currently. And we are looking to go up the ladder and become the primary source by providing all the values which I mentioned a few minutes back.

Secondary source. Majority of the revenue is coming from a large number of customers who are keeping us as a secondary source because they are not able to find the products locally or they are able to find a lot of new products on our website which they want to buy again and again.
For example, a dentist purchases products worth 40,000 consumables in a quarter. So the most common consumables like the dental stone or alginate, they prefer to buy from their local dealer. But some products worth maybe 5,000, 6,000, they prefer to buy on DentalKart, which they are not able to find locally. So this is the current situation. And we know the situation, and we have a target to get that 40,000 worth of revenue from every dentist. And we are trying to find ways to support it, and this also shows in our presentation.

We are going to have more orders from the same set of customers we currently have. That is one of the parameters. Then we will be expanding our catalog, our product range. We’ll be doing strategic marketing to acquire new customers. So, currently, we have served half of the dentists of India. But we have not served them fully. It was a minuscule level of sales to the number of people we have currently serviced. So, if there are 90,000 doctors who bought our products last year, we want to get into their clinic and provide them with the right set of values, so that they can buy everything from us. So there, we see a 10x upside from the same set of customers.

Sir, if we decide to launch B2C products for which these market places are accustomed, Amazon, Flipkart, if we launch B2C products like mouthwashes or toothpaste or many other oral care products for the B2C segment, we will look at listing our products there. But for our products which are meant for Dentist, there is an access issue to list our products there. And we want to keep the exclusivity within B2C 68:40

Disclaimar: Not invested

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There is a high probability of achieving their goals, but the valuation is on the higher side and maybe for a reason.

The business seems to meet Chuck Akre’s three-legged stool strategy for investment success. I am not an expert in this, but here is an article link to know more in detail. https://fifthperson.com/chuck-akre-three-legged-stool/#:~:text=The%20Three-Legged%20Stool%20symbolizes,and%203)%20high%20reinvestment%20rates.

BTW, who knows what Mr. Market has in his mind in the coming weeks!!

Disclaimer: Invested.

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Sharing below the Annual Report for 23-34

Also, the AGM notice

I hope you find these helpful

dr.vikas

Can someone share AGM notes, I missed joining till the last minute

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Here is what I found out.

https://nsearchives.nseindia.com/corporate/DENTALKART_30092024163953_8thAGMProceeding.pdf

Hope it helps.

dr.vikas

How come equity shares increased by ~35 lakhs when direct securities issued are just 6.05 lakhs & 8.65 lakhs warrants?

Can someone explain the maths here?

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Item 2 is increase in authorized share capital, which is increased by 35 Lakh shares from 1.65 Crore shares to 2 Crore shares.

Item 3 and item 4 are for the actual issue of preference shares and warrants.

This means company is looking ahead and increasing authorized share capital much more than required for now. This is done to avoid coming back to shareholders again and again for for each incremental increase.

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Sharing my notes from latest updates from investor ppt, concall and from my own insights:

  1. Company is venturing into manufacturing of crowns, bridges, veneers, dentures and other orthodontic products via its Smile Labs ventures. This market has huge TAM of $1.7 Bil USD growing at 11% CAGR

  2. Smile Labs was acquired and Vasa owns 60% of it. It was doing a revenue of 5 Cr before acquisition

  3. Company wants to digitize the entire design and manufacturing process and also reduce the turnaround time which should act as a major differentiator.

  4. Their 2028 vision looks aggressive and showcases the management’s vision to grow far beyond the current limited TAM of consumables and selling Chinese equipment. Planning to double warehouse area.

  5. They have also revamped their mobile app and website to drive more traffic and optimize conversion rates. It still doesn’t feel as smooth as some other e-commerce apps, reminds me of Aliexpress app.

  6. Reducing delivery timelines has led to some increase in inventory days as you need to keep more inventory in nearer warehouses instead of at a central warehouse.

  7. Company’s vision is to have 35k SKUs (currently 20k SKUs). They are inspired by Henry Schein, which is a 9.5 Bil US based company

  8. Own brand mix is 50%, has been the same for past 3-4 quarters. Aim is to reach 70% by 2027-2028. This includes exclusive brand partnerships as well as white label sales. But it doesn’t matter that much because margins are same for both own branded and other products.

  9. Guidance: Company had given a guidance of 70% sales growth in FY25, which seems unlikely. Promoter said that this was their internal target and he shouldn’t have disclosed this. Personally, I had invested considering a 45% sales growth by looking at their historical customer traffic, unique customers and TAM, so my thesis remains intact but still disappointing to see

  10. On FY26, the promoter said a non-committal growth figure of 30% and didn’t give a solid comment on the 500 Cr sales figure for FY27 that was mentioned in a previous concall. I don’t consider this as unrealistic if their orthodontics venture takes off.

  11. Company has launched BNPL for 25-50k sales items and company is planning to partner with an NBFC to allow customers to finance purchases up to 10 lacs (basically setting up an entire dental clinic). But BNPL is hidden under “more options” section below other payment methods, so I am not sure if they would see the boost that they should get from this.

  12. Company is planning to open service centers in Tier-1 cities for large ticket equipment

  13. Main pro in this company that I feel is that the CEO is young, hungry and has clarity and vision. I know, these are all soft factors but execution is key especially in e-commerce businesses and all the TAM in the world is worthless if you can’t execute

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Sharing below the latest concall transcript

https://nsearchives.nseindia.com/corporate/DENTALKART_20112024155841_Transcript_Intimation.pdf

and the latest PPT

https://nsearchives.nseindia.com/corporate/DENTALKART_14112024193436_Investor_PPT_Intimation.pdf

Hope you find it useful.

dr.vikas

Vasa Denticity is one of the rare microcaps in which both Ashish Kacholia and Mukul Agrawal hold more than 2% of the shares.

Invested and Biased.

dr.vikas

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One more latest video on Vasa Dentisity

I hope you find it useful

dr.vikas

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