About The Company
The company has added 3 new customers during the quarter, taking the total number of customers to 126. It added 106 new employees and this takes the total headcount at the end of Q3 FY09 at 4867. The stock could see some fancy come back only after the March results. Till then, the stock would remain range bound at around same levels.
About The Results
The company has posted results for the quarter ended 31st Dec 2008 was not too bad, if one decides to ignore the forex losses it has not provided for. But it is precisely this concern, of burgeoning forex loss which would come at the end of the year which has kept the stock price low.
The company had entered into options contracts to the tune of US$42.60 million for hedging its USD/EUR revenues and was linked to EUR-USD cross rate movement for next four years. The two of aforesaid contracts were knocked out completely and one contract was knocked out partially during the quarter. The MTM valuation of the balance portion of the partially knocked out contract as provided by the bank on 31 Dec 08’ is a loss of Rs.21.29 crore. There is material uncertainty arising from future events mentioned in the option contract and over the period of 3.5 years. The liability under the option contract, that is remaining partially open, is dependent on the Euro / USD exchange rate. The company has significant exports in Euros and is not able to estimate the actual liability on these contracts. Therefore, no provision for the liability and loss on account of option contracts has been made in the books as on end of third quarter.
The company posted a YoY 22% rise in revenue at Rs.184.52 crore. EBITDA was up 21% at Rs.28.67 crore and net profit rose 19% at Rs.16.87 crore. QoQ, the performance was flat, with a 55 fall in topline and thanks to reduction in selling and distribution expenses, it more or less maintained the net profit at the same levels as in Q2FY09.
About the Stock We need to keep the stock in wait & watch category for better results.
Disclaimer : I do not have any personal holding in this stock.