The Rallis India stock had moved up nine per cent last week on expectations of market share gains led by strong volume growth and product launches. A further traction in contract manufacturing and research with commercialisation of new molecules and recovery in the global agrochemical market should give a fillip to exports. This should translate into strong revenue and earnings growth.The near-term trigger would be a recovery in volumes on the back of restocking of trade channels disrupted due to the implementation of the goods and services tax (GST).Analysts at IDFC Securities said in FY18, domestic business growth (60 per cent of consolidated revenues) would remain strong with restocking at dealers' level, improving reservoir levels and increasing pesticide product prices. The company is expected to offset the recent rise in raw material costs by raising prices that should help it to maintain operating profit margins at around 20.8 per cent levels registered in the September ...
On November 27 2017, Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund had purchased 1.78 million equity shares of Rallis India at a price of Rs 230 per share on the BSE through bulk deal.
GST-led destocking hurts agrochemicals' sales, offsetting rise in margins in seeds business
Rallis India's FY17 performance would have been even better, but for the muted show in the quarter ending March 2017. While better rainfall in 2016 compared to the previous two years and lifted Rallis' overall performance in FY17, the March quarter's performance was impacted due to the north east monsoon in south India coming below normal leading to paddy acreage declining 12 per cent.During March quarter, Rallis' standalone revenue (Rs 346 crore) came flat year-on-year, operating profit grew just two per cent while rising depreciation costs pulled down net profit by two per cent to Rs 32 crore. The impact was more pronounced for Metahelix, the company's hybrid seed subsidiary, at the operating level which pulled down Rallis' consolidated numbers. Consolidated operating profit at Rs 41.6 crore declined about eight per cent year-on-year; net profit fell by about 10 per cent year-on-year.With lower than expected performance, the stock lost 4.43 per cent and closed at Rs 239.55 on ...
The stock dipped 6% to Rs 235 after the company reported 10% YoY drop in profit at Rs 31 crore in Q4
Company's net profit rose sharply on account of sale of leasehold rights of land in Navi Mumbai to Ikea India Pvt Ltd
Improving exports and better working capital management are positives, but a good monsoon is crucial for future growth
Fourth quarter net profit surged 50% to Rs 32 crore compared with Rs 21.2 crore in the same quarter last fiscal