The 19 reports from 5 analysts offering long term price targets
for Info Edge (India) Ltd. have an average target of 3024.20. The consensus estimate
represents a downside of -13.85%
from the last price of 3510.55.
Outlook and Valuation: Currently the stock is trading at very stretched valuations and way beyond fundamentals as the markets are pricing in qualitative factors like solid fundamentals, strong competitive moat, value unlock potential in some of the investments, which will take some time to reflect in the numbers.
Near term headwinds, long term revenue trend robust Covid-19 impacted revenue growth in Naukri. Revenues from the recruitment business declined 8.8% YoY vs. sustained double digit growth. Billings also dipped 44.3% YoY in Q1FY21 led by lockdown. However, the company is witnessing improving traffic share across segments (including recruitment). We expect revenues to return to pre-Covid levels in Q3FY21E. In addition, opening of economy and recovery in IT sector will further boost revenues at recruitment business. In 99acres, continued pressure in real...
Valuation Upgrade to Buy with a PT of Rs. 3,650: We have revised our estimates upward for FY2021E/FY2022E, factoring in strong beat in operating margin, continued growth momentum in Jeevansathi business, and gradual recovery in billings in IT and telecom segments. We continue to believe that leadership position in its core businesses along with improving valuation in certain investee companies (Zomato and PolicyBazaar) bodes well for the company. Further, we expect revenue and margin to improve sharply in FY2022E because of the company's cost-control measures and resumption of economic activity. We prefer...
8 September 2020 The complete impact of the COVID-19-led lockdown was seen in the 1QFY21 financial performance, with billings decline of 44% YoY. The drag in revenues (-10.4% YoY) was curtailed due to the subscription- based model of the business. INFOE has shown a high resilience in the margins (+420bp YoY) on account of superior cost optimization. For the first time, the company was able to show gains from investee companies, primarily led by positive contribution margins from Zomato. Traffic on INFOEs operating portals has inched up to pre-COVID levels. Given the companys market positioning, multi-dimensional growth may be expected across its core businesses in the medium-to-long term. We expect long-term growth trends to play out at its operating entities, whose margins continue to inch up on high operating leverage. Furthermore, led by an inclination for profitability in investee companies, we expect consolidated losses to be curtailed over time.
Outlook and Valuation: While we believe that these are a positive development for INFOE, we continue tobelieve that the core/standalone business of the company is expected to suffer in thenear term as the growth prospects of the company are closely linked to GDP growth ofthe company.
Covid 19 impacted revenue growth in Naukri. Revenues from the Naukri business slowed down to 10.3% vs. 18.0% in the previous six quarters. Billings also dipped 6.0% YoY in Q4FY20 led by weakness across markets. Further, a slowdown in hiring in IT segment and pressure on hiring in other sectors is also expected to impact revenues. In Q1FY21E, the company may see a dip of 50% in billings. We expect the company to reach Q4FY20 revenues in Q4FY21E. Hence, we revise our revenue estimates for FY21E (down 14.6% YoY) and expect a recovery in FY22E (up 35% YoY). In...
Outlook and Valuation: We value INFOE at Rs. 2092 based on SOTP. While the standalone business is valued at a 3-yr historical average FY22E PE of 64x, Policybazaar and Zomato are valued based on their last round of funding.
23 June 2020 Impact of the COVID-19 led lockdown dragged 4QFY20 financial performance for Info Edge (INFOE). While the last quarter of the financial year is seasonally strong, INFOE saw billings decline for Naukri and 99acres. The INFOE board has approved QIP of INR18.75b, which would be utilized for additional investments in the standalone entity, and strategic acquisition to compliment one or more of the standalone businesses. Given the companys market positioning, multi-dimensional growth can be expected across its core businesses in the medium to long term. Further, led by INFOEs inclination toward gaining profitability in investee companies, we expect consol. losses to be contained over a time period. Our SOTP valuation indicates target price of INR2,550. Maintain Standalone (S/A) revenue was up 1% QoQ/10.3% YoY to INR3.2b (in-line). Recruitment revenues grew 11.2% YoY (v/s 13.1% YoY in 3QFY20).
Recruitment revenue grew 11.2% YoY (v/s 18.4% YoY in 4QFY19), 99acres.com grew 3.7% YoY (v/s 45.8% in 4QFY19) and Jeevansathi grew 25.4% YoY (v/s 6.5% in The companys B2B businesses (Naukri.com and 99acres.com) saw a major part of the COVID-19 impact. According to the companys estimate, COVID-19 related impact led to a Unlike the above, Jeevansathi saw only a nominal impact with collections Given that Naukri.com and 99acres.com together contribute 90% of INFOEs standalone business, we expect 1QFY21 to be a complete washout. According to our estimate, the company has clocked an XIRR of >40% since the time it We foresee a halt in near-term momentum, led by expectation of billing decline in the recruitment and real estate segments for 1HFY21. However, given the market positioning of its entities, multi-dimensional growth could be expected from the company in the medium-to-long term, backed by recruitment, real estate, Zomato (its biggest investee company) and Policybazaar.
The spread of Covid-19 has led to lockdowns in many countries globally and could have adverse economic implications. In addition, the recent fall in crude prices could also have an adverse impact of fiscal health of oil producing countries. As a result, IT companies, which have considerable exposure to verticals such as oil, energy & utilities; banking & capital markets; manufacturing and travel & transport could see an adverse impact from the ongoing crisis. Companies like Wipro, Infosys in large cap and MindTree, NIIT Tech, Sonata software, Cyient, Accelya Solutions among...
Revenues from recruitment business (Naukri) grew at a slower pace at 13.1% YoY (average 18% in last six quarters) while billings growth slowed down to single digits (8.5% YoY). Billings were impacted by ongoing weakness in non-IT segments (spreading to sectors like FMCG, travel, retail) and markets like Mumbai & Delhi getting impacted more than Q2. Further, slowdown in hiring in IT segments has played in lower growth in billings. The pressure is anticipated to be there in the near term and lead us to slightly tweak our revenue estimates for the segment for FY20E. Hence, we expect...
Info Edge (India) Limited (Info Edge) delivered strong revenue growth of 19.5% y-o-y despite a slowdown in non-IT hiring. Recruitment business growth remained strong at 18.7% y-o-y, though the growth of 99acres was strong at 26.1% y-o-y but moderating from 30%+ growth in last seven consecutive quarters. Jeevansathi reported strong growth of 13% y-o-y owing to aggressive investments in gaining market share and higher conversion of customers. On a comparable basis, EBITDA margins declined 170bps y-o-y to 29.4%, below our estimates, owing to...
Naukri, 99acres continue to be major growth drivers The company's recruitment business (Naukri) grew at a healthy 18.7% YoY while slower growth of 14% YoY in billings can be attributed to broad based weakness in non-IT segments (60% of revenue). The billings could be volatile in the near term driven by weakness in core sectors with additional pressure from financial and travel tourism space on account of slowdown. However, hiring in IT sector and 11% YoY growth in unique customers would drive growth in the segment. Hence, we expect this segment to...
