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ICICI Securities – Retail Equity Research
February 17, 2021 ICICI Securities Ltd. | Retail Equity Research 1
Biggest risk in today’s market is not being there in the market
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Nifty 50
Nifty 50thorugh
throughthe years
the years
16000 US China
trade war
Covid
crash
14000
Slowdown in
China, Demonetisation
12000 devaluation of
Yuan
10000 Change in
Downgrade in Indian
US credit Government
ratings
8000 Subprime
crisis
4000
2000
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Nifty currently trades at a PE of ~32x (based on FY20 EPS) and at a PE of Trend in Sectoral Weightages in Nifty
~38x on Trailing Twelve Months (TTM) basis, thereby helping build the public
Sectors/Year Mar-09 Mar-14 Mar-19 Dec-20
opinion that the broader markets are highly euphoric and running ahead of
Financial Services 11.8 27.5 38.9 38.8
fundamentals. We however dispel this notion, as we logically derive that
present absolute PE multiples make little sense especially when we had a blip IT 9.1 16.3 13.7 16.3
in corporate earnings in the recent past due to the Covid pandemic and are Oil & Gas 40.7 14.3 15.3 12.5
staging an impressive earnings CAGR (24%+ over FY21-23E) ahead of us. FMCG 6.4 12.6 11.3 11.5
Automobile 3.3 8.8 6.1 5.4
Our key focal points: Pharmaceuticals 2.5 5.2 2.4 3.6
Metals 5.4 4.8 3.7 2.5
(i) Nifty constituents have undergone major change in past decade. The Telecom 9.8 1.7 1.5 2.0
weights of capital efficient sectors such as FMCG, Financials (private
banks), IT and Pharma have increased from 29% in March 2009 to 70% in
December 2020.
Target PE of few individual constituents based on FY23EPS
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March -61973 80
April -6884 8400
May 14569 60
June 21832 6400
July 7563 40
4400
August 47080
September -7783 20 2400
October 19541
0 400
November 60358
December 62016
January (till
23630 Greater than 90% of the NSE500
26th Jan 2021)
FII Inflow s/Outflow s stocks are trading above their 200
2020 170262
SMA. This has never happened in
2019 101122 previous bull runs. This highlights
broad based participation and
Interest rates at all time low Asset quality concerns peaked out
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India 10 Year G-Sec Yield %
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9
12 10.8
10.3
8 10 9.0
8.5 8.5
7.6 7.8
8
7
(%)
(%)
6
4.6
6 3.8
4 3.1 3.2
2.2 2.3 2.6 2.5
5 2
4 0
Sep-20
Sep-20
Mar-08
Mar-09
Mar-10
Mar-11
Mar-12
Mar-13
Mar-14
Mar-15
Mar-16
Mar-17
Mar-18
Mar-19
Mar-20
Nov-2011
Aug-2014
Nov-2014
Aug-2017
Aug-2019
Mar-2018
Mar-2020
Apr-2011
Apr-2013
Sep-2015
Apr-2016
Dec-2010
Dec-2015
Dec-2017
Dec-2019
Feb-2012
Feb-2015
Feb-2017
Jun-2018
Jun-2015
Jan-2013
Jan-2014
Jan-2019
Jul-2011
Jul-2016
Oct-2016
Oct-2018
May-2012
Jul-2012
Oct-2012
Jul-2013
Oct-2013
May-2014
May-2017
May-2019
Jul-2020
Oct-2020
Corporate debt at lowest levels
%
39.5 5.5
40 4.2
5.0
36.6
(%)
35 33.5 -
32.0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
29.9
30 (5.0)
Nov-12
Nov-13
Nov-14
Nov-15
Nov-17
Nov-18
Nov-20
Nov-11
Nov-16
Nov-19
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Steady demand from core industries should improve capacity utilisation in steel sector Focus on infrastructure to provide headroom for cap utilisation levels in cement sector
450% 392%
400% 360% Performance between 2009-2015
Broader Indices 1 year 3 year 5 year 10 year
350%
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Nifty 50 16.6% 26.3% 86.0% 155.3% 300% 277% 266%
231%
Nifty 100 16.1% 23.2% 85.1% 161.9% 250% 210%
189% 178% 173%
200%
Nifty midcap 100 16.4% -0.2% 69.5% 168.0% 150%
100% 77%
Nifty smallcap 100 14.8% -19.9% 44.1% 101.8% 44%
50% 16%
0%
-50%
-34%
-100%
NSEINFR Index
NSEPHRM Index
NSEFIN Index
NSEBANK Index
NSEMCAP Index
Nifty Index
SENSEX Index
NSEIT Index
NSESMCP Index
NSEMET Index
NSEREAL Index
NSE100 Index
NSENRG Index
NSEMCAP
NSEINFR Index
NSESMCP
NSEFIN Index
Nifty Index
NSEBANK Index
SENSEX Index
NSEMET Index
NSEIT Index
NSEREAL Index
NSEPHRM
NSE100 Index
NSENRG Index
Index
Index
Index
Source: Bloomberg, ICICI Direct Research
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Favorable government policies
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Capex plan under National Infrastructure plan PLI scheme boost for favorable domestic manufacturing
13.2
15 4.2 Manufacturing of Medical devices 3420
4.6 4.0 3.6
4.4 4.7 1.9
9.0 Advanced Cell Chemistry Battery 18100
10 2.3 2.2 1.6
2.6 3.1 2.7 1.7
3.0 3.3 2.2 Electronic/Technology products 5000
1.3 3.8 1.7 3.6 2.5 2.4 3.3
5
3.3 Automobiles & Auto Components 57042
4.4 3.0 4.4 4.7 5.0 4.7 Pharmaceutical Drugs 15000
Renewable capacity
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1,000 917
Advancements in battery technology & scale 95000 91153
benefits through higher EV adotion has driven 89229
800 721 90000 87027
663 battery costs lower globally
588 85000
600
US$/kWh
2012
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2013
2019
2020
55000
Li-ion battery costs
50000
2018 2019 2020 Sep-20 Dec-20
40.0
30.0
Small-caps are essentially the companies which rank 251 and beyond in the pegging order of listed companies on market capitalization basis.
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Participation
across the
value chain
Opportunities
Large Caps – Top 100 companies by for industries
market cap
(As of Dec 2020: MCap ~>=₹ 29,000
crore) Economic
growth Growth opportunities spur new
winners on an ongoing basis …
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Leader with 43% market
share grows to 50% market Implied profit
share in next 5 years 1.9x multiplication = >2x
Industry today’s size
growing at
10% CAGR
1.6x present
size in next 5 Smaller player with 11%
years market share grows to 15% Implied profit
Implied profit
market share in 5 years multiplication
multiplication = >2.5x
= >2.5x
2.2x today’s size
While large cap index and mid cap index have rescaled previous peak (as of January 2021), small cap index remains well below its life high (~23% from
top) signalling that previous peak is still some distance away …
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25,000
Attained a new peak
20,000
15,000
Index value
10,000
Jan-11
Jan-12
Jan-13
Jan-14
Jan-15
Jan-16
Jan-17
Jan-18
Jan-19
Jan-21
Jan-09
Jan-10
Jan-20
Jul-08
Jul-09
Jul-10
Jul-11
Jul-12
Jul-13
Jul-14
Jul-15
Jul-16
Jul-17
Jul-18
Jul-19
Jul-20
Nifty 50 Nifty MidCap 100 Nifty SmallCap 100
Nifty 50 Nifty Midcap 100 Nifty Small Cap 100 Small Cap Alpha (% )
CY Year end index YoY Returns Year end YoY Returns Year end YoY Returns Over Nifty
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Over Nifty
value (% ) index value (% ) index value (% ) Midcap
• Historically, small caps have bounced
2020 13,982 15 20,842 22 7,088 21 7 (0)
back strongly from every year of
2019 12,168 12 17,103 (4) 5,835 (10) (22) (5) negative/low returns.
2018 10,863 3 17,876 (15) 6,449 (29) (32) (14)
2017 10,531 29 21,134 47 9,093 57 29 10 • In recent times, CY20 performance (up
2016 8,186 3 14,351 7 5,781 2 (1) (5)
21%) came on the back of two years of
double-digit decline i.e. -29% in CY18 and
2015 7,946 (4) 13,397 6 5,653 7 11 1
-10% in CY19.
2014 8,283 31 12,584 56 5,273 55 24 (1)
2013 6,304 7 8,071 (5) 3,403 (8) (15) (3) • There remains significant headroom for
2012 5,905 28 8,505 39 3,710 37 9 (2) continued recovery in the small cap
2011 4,624 (25) 6,112 (31) 2,712 (34) (9) (3) space
2010 6,135 18 8,857 19 4,101 18 (0) (2)
• Interestingly small cap’s are yet to
1.00
Beta (x)
Nifty Small Cap 100 vs. Nifty 50, the present small 0.60
cap index beta stands at ~0.5x i.e. near to average-2
std dev; near to its bottom range. The same is 0.40
indicative of potential outperformance of Small caps 0.20
vis-à-vis bellwether index
CY05
CY07
CY08
CY09
CY10
CY11
CY13
CY14
CY15
CY16
CY18
CY19
CY20
CY06
CY12
CY17
(Small Cap beta = small cap index value/Nifty index Small Cap beta Average small cap beta +2 SD -2 SD
value)
Source:: NSE, ICICI Direct Research
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35
30
25
20 Low interest rate scenario is a key tailwind to overall equities
YoY Earnings growth (% )
30.2
16.2
26.7
18.4
21.5
28.0
24.2
18.8
27.3
5 to ~24% CAGR seen at large caps and ~19% CAGR seen at mid
9.1
7.1
0 caps
2 year CAGR
FY21E
FY22E
FY23E
(FY21-23E)
Nifty Nifty MidCap 100 Nifty SmallCap 100
15 15.8
17.3 higher expected earnings up ahead, valuations for small caps vis-
10 13.5 a-vis narrower indices are at attractive levels (~14x P/E on FY23E
5 EPS). This provides margin of safety on small caps.
0
FY20
FY21E
FY22E
FY23E
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1500 12,000
1200 10,000
A leader in supplying carbon black, an 8,000
900
essential compound for manufactruing tyres 6,000
600
4,000
Details Initiation Peak 300 2,000
Date 11-Jul-16 12-Jan-18 0 0
Jan-17
Jan-18
Oct-16
Oct-17
Jul-16
Jul-17
Apr-17
Price 175 1455
Mcap 600 crore 5,000 crore
Phillips Carbon Black (LHS) Nifty Small Cap 100 (RHS)
RoCE 6% 17%
Affle India turned ~3x vs. small cap index return of 75%
Sep-20
Sep-20
Dec-20
Oct-20
Oct-20
Jun-20
Jun-20
Jun-20
May-20
May-20
Jul-20
Jul-20
Nov-20
Nov-20
Nov-20
Aug-20
Aug-20
Price 1275 4007
Mcap 3,250 crore 10,200 crore
Affle India (LHS) Nifty Small Cap 100 (RHS)
RoCE 32% 32%
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Its key parameters include:
• Capital efficient businesses (subjective) with well defined path of higher return ratios in future. Expansion of sustainable ROCE.
• Dominant market share position
• Robust growth prospects
• Low on debt & leverage
• Sound Financials; healthy B/S, positive cash generating businesses
• Run exhaustive check in terms of management pedigree and other corporate governance parameters
• Time horizon – We believe stocks show reasonable performance over 3-5 years
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