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Management Meet Note
Fig.1. Tanla’s Business Mix chain-enabled CPaaS stack. This platform was developed on distributed ledger technology
(DLT). It was launched post the mandate passed by TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of
Pl a tform,
7.9% India) to handle unsolicited commercial communications (UCC) using blockchain technology
and to filter out spam and fraud messages for enhanced security. Since its introduction in Sep-
tember, 2020, this platform has processed 270 bn+ interactions (Daily average of 1.06 bn
transactions) so far with 50,000 enterprise registrations. It owns 63% volume market share as
on 31st Mar,2022. Similarly, on quarterly basis, Trubloq handles ~73 bn per quarter, thus it
Enterprise , handles 20-25 bn transactions per month. In March,2022, Trubloq handled 32 bn transactions
92.1% which is the highest number of transactions so far. Hence, we believe that Tanla’s platforms
are highly scalable given the high number of transactions it can handle smoothy. Tanla’s lat-
est platform, Wisely, was developed after partnering with Microsoft as an engineering partner
Fig.2. Quarterly Platform’s business revenues has grown consistently on as part of its one-platform strategy. This platform aims to deliver multiple communication
YoY basis; Platform revenue’s growth picked up momentum post the intro- channels with end-to-end data encryption. Tanla has launched early access program for Wise-
duction of Trubloq platform ly-Truecaller Business messaging with signups across leading retail, BFSI and e-Commerce en-
terprises. Tanla has entered into an exclusive multi-year partnership with for deployment of
800.00 Wisely and Vodafone Idea (Vi) is currently live on Wisely Network to enhance performance for
the entire international messaging traffic. Recently, Tanla also announced exclusive partner-
ship with Kore.ai to offer Conversational AI Solutions on Wisely. Kore.ai offers enterprise-
600.00
grade, end-to-end, no-code conversational AI platform and AI-first solutions that allow enter-
prises to design, build, test, host, deploy and manage virtual assistants, process assistants and
400.00 conversational digital applications for optimized customer, employee and agent experiences
across voice and digital channels. The Kore.ai Experience Optimization Platform (XO) supports
on-premise and cloud deployments for more than 35 channels in 100 languages. Kore.ai also
200.00 brings with it an experienced and dedicated team to jointly accelerate product development
and go-to-market (GTM) with Tanla in India and other focus geographies. The conversational
209 463 687
0.00
AI market is growing at a rate of ~21% CAGR (source: Market Digits) while the Indian market
Q4FY20 Q4FY21 Q4FY22 itself is expected to grow at a rate of 25% CAGR (source: Gartner, Expert Interview). Thus, we
Platform Revenue (Rs. Mn)
believe that Tanla has a huge growth opportunity in the conversational space.
Asset-light business model: Tanla Platforms operates an asset-light business model with ma-
Source: Company, Indsec Research jor cost including Cost of Services (71.7% of rev in FY22). This cost includes service transaction
9,000.00 prise business and very less for the platform business. This cost as % of sales has seen a
downward trend with the robust growth in overall revenues. Thus, the company is able to
maintain its Gross Margins in the range of 22%-24%.
6,000.00
Broad-based industry focus: Each of Tanla’s platform has to handle huge number of transac-
tions/interactions on daily basis. The company caters to BFSI clients, aggregators, retail, e-
commerce, healthcare, consumer goods, social media, financial services and IT. Company
3,000.00
currently has 1,300 customers across segments. Being a CPaaS provider, the company’s
platforms do have unique capabilities such as SPAM messages reduction, omni-channel expe-
5,012 6,023 7,844
0.00 rience etc. which makes it useful for clients. Given, there has been increase in online transac-
Q4FY20 Q4FY21 Q4FY22 tions amid the COVID-19 crisis, enterprises are in dire need to include online modes as a way
Enterprise Revenue (Rs. Mn) of communication to connect with their end customers.
Fig. 4. Platform business is a high margin business amid lower cost of services Fig. 5. Enterprise business is the major contributor to overall revenues
involved as compared to Enterprise business
24.6% 22.7%
17.1% 15.7% 18.4% 20.1% 18.7% 19.1% 22.1% 21.0% 22.1%
5.6% 7.3% 7.1% 8.9% 7.4% 7.4% 8.1%
3.9% 4.4% 4.0% 4.1%
Q2FY20 Q3FY20 Q4FY20 Q1FY21 Q2FY21 Q3FY21 Q4FY21 Q1FY22 Q2FY22 Q3FY22 Q4FY22
Q2FY20 Q3FY20 Q4FY20 Q1FY21 Q2FY21 Q3FY21 Q4FY21 Q1FY22 Q2FY22 Q3FY22 Q4FY22
Platform Gross Margin (%) Enterprise Gross Margin (%)
Platform as % Rev Enterprise % of rev
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Fig. 6. Number of customers in different revenue categories has been increasing indi- Fig. 7. A healthy representation of revenue (Rs. Mn) across all client categories.
cating aggressive client mining Revenue growth has occurred across clients of different revenue categories.
189 192
175
159
149 146
129 136
114
128 139
112 127
97 105 99
94 82
29 43 36
26 29 36 32 34
26
9 6 10 11 12 13 19 18 17 9,660 11,879 17,906 5,851 7,018 8,510 2,865 3,390 4,621
Q4FY20 Q1FY21 Q2FY21 Q3FY21 Q4FY21 Q1FY22 Q2FY22 Q3FY22 Q4FY22
500 Mn+ customers 100 mn to 500 Mn customers 10 Mn to 100 Mn customers
Rs. 500 Mn+ Rs. 100 mn to Rs. 500 Mn
FY20 FY21 FY22
Rs. 10 Mn to Rs. 100 Mn All three segments
Fig. 8. Consistent revenue growth; reducing revenue concentration mix of top 20 Fig. 9. New client addition and the incremental revenue from them, thus indi-
customers cating Tanla’s strong capabilities to attract customers and the demand for their
services
72% 25,000
68% +6.32%
20,000
15,000
64% 63%
61% 10,000
+11.3% +31.2%
259 270
5,000 167
Revenue (In Rs. Mn) Revenue Concentration (%) Revenue (In Rs. Mn) Number of new clients
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Fig. 10. Strong operating cash flows and improving D/E ratio trend Focused on organic growth: In the last 24 months, Tanla has not done any acquisition and
focused more on creating platforms in-house. Even going forward, management wants to
6,000.00 0.00 grow organically with being open to small tuck-in acquisitions. With Wisely in focus, the com-
pany believes that it will grow organically much faster with its one-platform strategy. The aim
5,000.00 -0.10
of the acquisitions will be to complement their Wisely strategy.
-0.23
4,000.00 -0.20
-0.29 Aggressive Client mining: Tanla has ensured to mine existing clients and add new clients sim-
3,000.00 -0.30
ultaneously. The revenues from clients belonging to different revenue categories has grown
2,000.00 -0.40 every quarter. Also, the number of clients in each category has also increased indicating the
conversion of clients to higher revenue bucket via aggressive mining. In terms of new client
1,000.00 -0.50
2,392 5,610 addition, the company has successfully added clients every quarter and thus the revenue ad-
0.00 -0.60 dition has also increased as well on quarterly basis. The revenue concentration from top 20
-304 -0.65
-1,000.00 -0.70 customers has also decreased for the company from 70% (Q1FY21) to 61% in Q4FY22. How-
FY19 FY20 FY21 ever, the revenues from these top 20 customers have continued growing over the past 8
CFO (Rs. Mn) Net Debt/Equity (x) quarters.
Strong financials: The company has been able to generate positive operating cash flows over
FY20-22. Also, the company is debt-free, thus indicating that the company depends on equity
rather than on leverage to finance its assets, which is a sign of healthy financials.
Gamooga 2019 Marketing Automation Platform 0.5 Fig. 11. Peer Comparison
EV Sales (Rs.
Domestic Peers CMP (Rs.) Mcap (Rs. Bn) EV/Sales (X) EV/EBITDA (X) P/E
(Rs. Bn) Bn) FY22
Tanla Platforms 948 134 126 32 3.9 18.0 24.7
Route Mobile 1,194 79 69 20 3.5 31.6 47.6
EV Sales (Rs.
Global Peers CMP Mcap (Rs. Bn) EV/Sales (X) EV/EBITDA (X) P/E
(Rs. Bn) Bn) CY21
Twilio $ 97 1,385 1,084 210 5.2 NA NA
Sinch AB 38 kr 248 336 139 2.4 22.7 33.4
Source: Bloomberg
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Highlights
Top line has grown at a CAGR of 28.5% over FY20-22 EBITDA has grown at a CAGR of 94.5% over FY20-22 indicating
35.00 93.5% 100.0% robust revenue growth with maintaining cost at same levels
Revenue (Rs. Bn) Y-o-Y Growth (%) EBITDA (Rs. Bn) EBITDA Margin (%)
Gross margins has expanded significantly over FY20-22 Profitability improved significantly over FY20-22
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NEUTRAL: No investment opinion, stock under review.
Note: Considering the current pandemic situation, the duration for the price target may vary depending on how the macro scenario plays out. Therefore, the duration which has been mentioned as a period of 12-18
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