Saket Reddy
Saket Reddy

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Indian apparel exports have largely remained range
bound over FY14-20.
However, market share of large
apparel players in the overall Indian apparel exports
increased from 10.4% in FY14 to 14.7% in FY20.
Indian apparel
players are in a sweet spot to seize the opportunities
prevailing in the global market (alternative sourcing &
ban on Xinjiang products) along with govt’s focus
on reviving exports.
Apparel players
investing in capacities are likely to gain going
forward.
KPRMILL is a fully vertically integrated player with focus on Yarn, Fabrics, Garments & Sugar/Ethanol.
Majority of yarn (1/3rd) & fabric (~50%) are captively consumed to
manufacture downstream products enabling better control on supply chain
& generate sustainable margins.
Its sugar plant is also vertically
integrated to produce ethanol from captive crushed cane.
Vertically integrated textile players with stronger quality control mechanisms and
adherence to delivery timelines place KPRMILL in a favourable position.
KPR’s garment
export order book has expanded by ~10-15% higher than pre-Covid level.
Further,
revenue from garmenting division is expected to increase going forward due to
the company’s capacity expansion plans and focus on value addition.
KPRMILL is self-sufficient in power through green energy with a
total wind power capacity of 62 MW and sugar co-gen capacity of 40 MW.
Due to these, in-house power generation
facilities, its power cost is lowest in the industry at ~3.8% (of sales) in FY20.
Despite completion of ethanol capex & expansion of spinning capacities in FY20, the company
has net debt-to-equity of 0.1x in FY21.
Even after completion of its largest capex
worth 750Cr in FY22, KPRMILL can have the strongest balance sheet and can generate massive FCF.
Sugar business was set up to ensure availability of power for the
textiles business.
With improving demand-supply dynamics of ethanol business coupled with government thrust on
ethanol blending in fuel programme, the company started investing in this segment from FY20.
Revenue share of sugar-
cum-ethanol segment is likely to increase from 7.4% in FY19 to 22.8% in FY23E and ~50% of total segment revenue will be
contributed by high margin ethanol business. This will also reduce cyclicality in the sugar business.

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