Aditya Shah
Aditya Shah

@AdityaD_Shah

19 Tweets 7 reads Nov 14, 2022
Piramal Pharma:-
The stock has been volatile ever since listing
The business has reported a slowdown!
A thread🧵on the business performance of Piramal Pharma and the future outlook
Lets go👇
(1/18)
What has happened?
Piramal Pharma listed at about 200.
Ever since the stock has lost nearly 25% value.
Lets find out why?
(2/18)
Business:-
PPL has 3 verticles:-
🧪CDMO Business is a major chunk of the business.
🧪Complex hospital generics
🧪 Indian Consumer's healthcare
(3/18)
CDMO business remains strong:-
CDMO: 3x increase in phase III molecules from 10 in FY17 to 30 in FY21 & Significant growth in commercial products under patent from 11 in FY19 to 19 in FY21 with 500+ customers
The potential scale-up 💥👇
(4/18)
Expertise in niche, complex, and high margin areas like HPAPI, sterile injectables, hormones & peptide API
13th largest CDMO in the world & present across all phases of the drug lifecycle (for example,even Syngene isn't till now, it is trying to enter manufacturing)
(5/18)
Complex hospital business continues to recover after a slump due to COVID-19
(6/18)
So How were the Q2FY23 results?
🧪Revenue grew by 13%
🧪Margins slowed down to 12%
🧪CDMO business reported a slowdown
🧪The company reported only 45% of the revenue of the full year
(7/18)
CDMO Business slowdown:-
🧪The CDMO business did report a slowdown to a growth of just 6%.
🧪This was led by a weakness in the API business.
(8/18)
🧪60% of CDMO business is API and 40% is formulation
🧪It has diversified mix of big pharma and
generics
🧪Peptide,high quality injectables continue to attract customers.
🧪Company is witnessing attrition and is taking measures to control it
(9/18)
🧪The company expects growth in API generic business as it continues to file DMFs with help of Hemmo Pharma. It also expects API services to grow well.
(10/18)
Strong guidance on the CDMO Business:-
Despite the weakness in the CDMO Business.
The company expects a recovery and has guided for
Doubling of the revenue in the next 5 years.
(11/18)
Complex Hospital Generics:-
🧪Strong sales with continued volume growth driving market share gains in Inhalation Anesthesia (IA) in the US market
🧪In Inhalation Anesthesia, the company
has less competition and expects high growth as it is gaining more supply chain.
(12/18)
Indian Consumer Healthcare:-
🧪Power Brands constitute 42% of total ICH sales in H1FY23 (+40% YoY).The company launched 10 new products and 11 SKUs
🧪New products contribute 20% to sales
(13/18)
Strong Compliance:-
In the first half of the year:-
We cleared more than 20 regulatory inspections at various plants
-Nandini Piramal,Piramal Pharma
(14/18)
Capex Plans:
🧪Through customer-led Brownfield expansions, the company is expanding capacities at our major sites
including Aurora, Pithampur, Riverview, Grangemouth and Mahad.
(15/18)
🧪In all, the company committed about $157 million of growth-oriented CAPEX investments across the various sites, which is expected to be completed over the next 18 to 24 months
(16/18)
Valuation:-
Given the slowdown in the CDMO business and the lower margins at which the business operates
Piramal Pharma traddes at 18x EV/EBIDTA
This is certainly not cheap
(17/18)
Conclusion:-
Piramal Pharma is a class company with a good compliance record.
The company faced near-term challenges-
1. Slowdown in CDMO Business
2. Increase in raw material prices
These challenges are short-term in nature.
One must keep this company on the radar.
(18/18)
Disclaimer:-
This is my own study
Not an investment recommendation
Please consult your own financial advisor before making any investment decisions

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