Monday, November 2, 2020

Result Analysis : Reliance Industries – Q2FY21

Result Analysis : Reliance Industries – Q2FY21

Total revenue from operations at 128,385 Cr
165,228 Cr (-22.95%) YoY | 100,929 Cr (27.32%) QoQ

Six month revenue 229,314 Cr Vs. 339,315 Cr (-32.48%)

Net Profit of 10,602 Cr
11,352 Cr (-6.63%) YoY 13,248 Cr (-19.94%) QoQ

Six month profit 23,850 Cr Vs. 21,493 Cr (10.91%)

Before exceptional Item:
EPS (in Rs) 14.68 
18.47 YoY |12.89 QoQ

Before exceptional item:
Six month EPS 27.39 Vs. 35.03

View: Result is in line with the market expectation. YoY revenue declined and profit also declined due to impact of their petroleum & gas business in YoY and QoQ which is partially offset by strong performance by Reliance JIO and retail business. Quarter ending June 2020 profit was higher by INR 4.9K Crs towards exceptional gain so net profit was not comparable with Q2FY21. H1FY21 profit was also higher by said amount. 

Business Updates & Highlights

EBITDA (Cons.) before exceptional items for the quarter was INR 23,299 crore Vs. 25,766 Cr Vs. 21,585 Cr in QoQ therefore declined by 9.5% in YoY and up by 7.9% in QoQ. 

Finance cost was around INR 6,084 Cr Vs. 5,450 Cr in YoY Vs. 6,735 Cr in QoQ therefore up by 11.6% in YoY and declined by 9.65 in QoQ.

Exports (including deemed exports) from RIL’s India operations in Q2FY21 was INR 34,581 crore as against INR 53,161 crore in Q2FY20 Vs. 32,581 Cr in Q1FY21 therefore declined by 34.9% in YoY and up by 5.6% in QoQ. 

Reliance Jio
Revenue including access revenues for the quarter was INR 21,708 crore VS. 14,562 Cr in YoY Vs. 20,277 Cr in QoQ therefore up by 49% in YoY and 7.1% in QoQ. 

EBITDA for the quarter was INR 7,971 crore Vs. 5,166 Cr Vs. 7,332 Cr and increase of 55.4% YoY and 8.7% in QoQ. EBITDA Margin was around 43.1% Vs. 41.8% Vs. 42.5% in QoQ therefore up by 130 bps in YoY and 60 bps in QoQ. 

H1FY21 EBITDA was around INR 15,303 Cr and EBITDA margin was around 42.8%.

Net profit in Q2FY21 was INR 3,020 Cr Vs 990 Cr in Q1FY20 Vs. 2,520 Cr in Q1FY21 therefore up by 205% in YoY and 19.8% in QoQ. H1FY21 Net profit was INR 5,540 Cr.

Total Customer base as on 30th June 2020 of 405.6 million. Largest customer base in country.

RELIANCE JIO Q1 ARPU RS 145 Vs. 120 in Q2FY20 Vs. 140.3 in Q1FY21. Its improved in YoY and QoQ.

Total wireless data traffic during the quarter of 1,442 crore GB Vs. 1,420 Cr (1.5% QoQ growth). 

Wireless gross addition showed a strong sequential increase to 27.2 million as lockdown restrictions began to ease during the quarter.

JPL has completed the fund raising of INR 152,056 crores across thirteen global investors which includes Facebook, Google etc. All of these investments, excluding Google, have been completed post fulfilling applicable conditions and total amount of INR 118,319 crore has been received by the Company.

Reliance Retail

Revenue for the quarter was INR 41,100 crore Vs. 41,202 in YoY Vs. 31,620 Cr in QoQ therefore slightly down in YoY and up by 30% in QoQ due to lockdown ease in part of the country.

Revenue for the H1FY21 was around INR 72,720 Cr Vs. 79,398 Cr in H1FY20 therefore declined by 8.4% in YoY. 

EBITDA for the quarter was INR 2,006 crore Vs. 2,322 Cr in YoY Vs. 1,079 Cr in QoQ therefore declined by 15.7% in YoY and up by 85.9% in QoQ. EBITDA margin was around 5.5% Vs. 5.8% in YoY Vs. 3.8% in QoQ.

H1FY21 EBITDA was around INR 3,092 Cr Vs. 4,390 Cr in H1FY20 therefore declined by 29.7% in YoY. 

The current footprint of the business spans across 11,931 retail stores in over 7,000 towns with 29.7 million sq. ft. of retail space. Entered pharma category during the quarter. 

JioMart Kirana partnerships were extended to 20 cities during the period with 4X increase in orders over 1Q FY21. With a strong value proposition and uninterrupted service despite operating constraints, JioMart continues to win the trust of Kirana partners

Petrochemicals business
Revenue of Q2FY21 was INR 29,665 Cr Vs. 38,538 Cr in YoY Vs. 25,192 Cr in QoQ therefore declined by 23% in YoY and up by 17.8% in QoQ.

Revenue for H1FY21 was around INR 54,857 Cr Vs. 76,149 Cr in H1FY20 therefore declined by 28% in YoY. 

EBITDA of Q2FY21 was around INR 5,964 Cr Vs. 8,946 Cr in Q2FY20 Vs. 4,430 Cr in Q1FY21 therefore declined by 33.4% in YoY and up by 34.6% in QoQ.

EBITDA margin was around 20.1% Vs. 23.2% in YoY Vs. 20.1% in QoQ. 

Cracking margins for Reliance improved Q-o-Q due to feedstock mix and favourable economics for ethane cracking. RIL crackers operated at near 100% utilisations during the quarter

PP margins reduced by 21% ($ 126/MT) due to higher feedstock prices despite robust demand from health & hygiene applications. PE margins remained stable ($ 478/MT) with firm demand from packaging sector. PVC margins improved by 14% ($546/MT) led by strong demand recovery in agri and construction sector.

PX-Naphtha delta declined 37% Q-o-Q ($ 136/MT) with sharp increase in naphtha price while PTA margins declined by 14% Q-o-Q ($107/MT) in well-supplied markets. PX and PTA markets were also impacted by start-up of new capacities in China.

Refining & Marketing business
Revenue of Q2FY21 was INR 62,154 Cr Vs. 97,229 Cr in Q2FY20 Vs. 46,642 Cr in Q1FY21 therefore declined by 36% in YoY and up by 34.7% in QoQ.

EBITDA in Q2FY21 was around INR 3,002 Cr Vs. 5,896 Cr in YoY Vs. 3,818 Cr in QoQ therefore declined by 49.1% in YoY and 21.4% in QoQ

EBITDA margin was 4.8% Vs. 8.2% in YoY therefore declined by 340 bps in QoQ . Production (MMT) 15.3 Vs. 16.7 in YoY Vs. 16.6 in QoQ.

GRM ($/bbl) was around 5.7 in Q2FY21 Vs. 9.4 in Q2FY20 Vs. 6.3 in Q1FY21. Therefore significantly declined in YoY and also corrected in QoQ.

Segment EBITDA for 2Q FY21 declined by 21.4% QoQ to INR 3,002 crore primarily on account of lower middle distillates cracks and narrower light-heavy crude differential leading to higher crude cost. The performance was also partially affected by planned turnaround during the quarter.

Reliance BP Mobility Limited (“RBML”), a joint venture (JV) of RIL and BP operated 1,406 fuel retail outlets. Against industry growth of 5.3% and 41.1% Q-o-Q in HSD and MS, RBML clocked 15.1% and 55.4% respectively.

Media Business

Revenue for Q2FY21 was around INR 1,061 Cr Vs. 1,174 Cr in Q2FY20 Vs. 807 Cr in Q1FY21 therefore declined by 9.6% in YoY and up by 31.5% in QoQ.

EBITDA in Q2FY21 was around INR 166 Cr Vs. 68 Cr in YoY Vs. 27 Cr in QoQ. Therefore significantly improved in QoQ. EBITDA margin in Q2FY21 was around 15.6% Vs. 3.3% in QoQ.

TV viewership has now settled at ~1.1x pre-COVID levels. Pay-TV has clawed back its share from free-to-air channels, as entertainment programming is back in full-swing. 

An increased propensity to pay for content has been witnessed. Flagship properties MoneyControl and Voot have witnessed rapid growth in subscribers

Financial
ROE and ROCE is around 10.3% and 10.7% respectively and book value per share is around INR 970 per share and share is currently trading at 2.5x of its book value. Company is currently trading at annualized PE of 36 around which is average as per Industry benchmark. Promoter holding in the company is around 50.5% which is slightly increased by YoY and QoQ. Insurance cos, FIIs and mutual fund hold around 25.2%, 5.1% and 5.9% respectively. **Operating cash flow as of Sep 2020 was INR (12,305 Cr) Vs. 53,482 Cr in Sep 2019**

View Share price high 2,368 and now 2,055 . Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is an Indian multinational conglomerate company. Reliance owns businesses across India engaged in energy, petrochemicals, textiles, natural resources, retail, and telecommunications.

Position: Strong support is INR 2000/1950. Long term investor should continue with the company with target price of INR 3000 any correction will give good opportunity to enter Reliance on SIP basis.

Opportunities Reliance Industries is currently no.1 company In India in terms of market capitalization and outperform for past 3 years. Reliance is diversified group now and its more focused now on Retail and digital services (JIO) and partially setoff the pressure and margin of Refining and Petrochemical business. The current growth of Retail and Digital services business is excellent and Reliance has overtaken to Airtel and Vodafone Idea as now No.1 Telecom Company in India on subscription base as well as revenue base also. As 5G is under process and more looking into digital media space the growth is evitable. Petroleum & refining company currently technology driven company with highly diversified their business model. 

Reliance JIO Jio has become the only operator (outside China) to have reached the milestone of 400 million subscribers in a single country market. Wireless gross addition showed a strong sequential increase to 27.2 million as lockdown restrictions began to ease during the quarter. Jio Platforms expanded efforts to develop open and interoperable interface compliant architecture based 5G solution with a virtualized RAN. Very aggressive player to increase their customer base on MoM (Net customer addition of 7.3 Mn in this quarter), every quarter exceptionally well growth for topline as well as bottom line, Quarterly EBITDA run rate crossed $1 billion. Sequential improvement in ARPU at INR 145 vs. INR 140 in 1Q FY21. Qualcomm Technologies and Jio achieved over a 1 Gbps milestone on the Reliance Jio 5GNR solution with a Tier-I carrier in the US. JPL has completed the fund raising of INR 152K crores across thirteen global investors which includes Facebook, Google etc. 

Reliance Retail Strong recovery in revenues with EBITDA almost doubling sequentially as compare with Q1 however still not pre Covid level. Store functioning continued to be impacted, but progressively eased during quarter, 85% stores operational (1Q: 50%), of which half could operate fully. 232 new stores launched in quarter as operating curbs are lifted, total stores currently are 11,932. Gross revenue is more than 41K Cr in this quarter and EBITDA was around 2K Cr. Digital commerce continues to grow customers and scale Led by JioMart, AJIO and RelianceDigital. Kirana partnerships extended to 20 cities; orders up 4X while providing uninterrupted supplies. Various acquisition eg. Future group (subject to regulatory approval), Netmeds, Grab, C-square etc. to largest player in the retail sector. Largest fund raise in India in consumer / retail sector from marquee global investors around 37.7K Cr 

More Value will be more unlocked for shareholders once Reliance comes with IPO of Reliance Digital and Reliance Retail

Risk : Reliance two main businesses Petrochemicals and Refining continuously declined in YoY and QoQ despite they were covered still covered 56% dependent on topline in this quarter. GRM ($/bbl) corrected in QoQ and YoY. In bottom line this segment covers around 57% and declined by more than 40% in YoY. Deal with Aramco is also put on hold and currently no clarity on this matter. 

Sources: Various publications

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