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Orient Cement Ltd.
03 Nov 2017
246.58
1.00%
HDFC Securities
Maintain NEUTRAL, with an unchanged TP of Rs 165 (8.5x Sep-19 EV/EBITDA, USD86/T). Orient Cements numbers were below estimates (EBITDA/T: Rs570, 4.2x/ (31.8) % YoY/QoQ). Volumes grew 11.5% YoY (1.31 mT), while realisations were flattish (Rs 3,996/T, 22.1/ (1.7) % YoY/QoQ). However, freight costs jumped ~8.5% sequentially owing to higher lead distance, as Orient sold in distant markets, chasing growth. The miss on EBITDA (Rs746mn, 4.6x/ (3.62) % YoY/QoQ) was lower owing to higher-than-estimated volumes
Orient Cement Ltd. has lost -28.94% in the last 1 Year
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