Ester Industries Ltd. share price target

During COVID-19 crisis, packaging business was least impacted as people are more preferring packaged food in order to maintain hygiene and safety. Management expects, domestic demand for polyester packaging to grow in between 12-14% going ahead, which could be a phenomenal demand growth....

Ester Industries (Ester) reported a healthy Q4FY18 performance. Net sales for the quarter were at | 220 crore, up 11.7% YoY. EBITDA in Q4FY18 was at | 22.7 crore with corresponding EBITDA margin of 10.3%. Consequent PAT in Q4FY18 was at | 5.6 crore. Q4FY18 marks a turnaround quarter resurfacing double digit EBITDA margins, best in the last 10 quarters. PAT of ~| 6 crore is also the highest in the last 12 quarters. However, the management has revised its downward its guidance in the quite essential speciality polymer segment, which was the key driver of growth for Ester...

Company's vision going forward is to achieve a revenue target of ` 1700-2000 cr by 2022 & at `
900-950 crores by the end of FY19 . Talking about next four-five years, is looking at taking the
revenue up between 30% and 40% from the specialty polymer business .
Agreement with Shaw Industries
Ester Industries has entered into a long term agreement with Shaw Industries Group Inc, USA, a
wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc to supply circa 2,500 tonnes per year of its
stain resistant Master batch MB-03.The total size of this single order is estimated to be around
900 million per year which is more than double the Company’s FY2017 Specialty Polymer
revenues which amounted to 430 million.