MRF Ltd
Sector- Tyres &Allied
BUY
Market Data
Current Market Price (INR)
Target Price
Upside Potential
52 Week High/Low (INR)
Market Capitalization (In INR Cr)
13,828.00
15,810.00
14%
13920 /9521
5,863.00
Sha reholding
Non
Institution
57.73%
We rate MRF Limited a BUY. MRF (Madras Rubber Factory) is India's No.1 tyre
manufacturing company. It manufactures various tyres for passenger cars, two-wheelers,
trucks, buses, tractors, light commercial vehicles and off-the-road tyres. MRF is a market
leader in the tyre industry with a market share of ~ 27%. Currently, MRF exports tyres to
over 65 countries including America, Europe, Middle East, Japan, and the Pacific region. It
presently has overseas offices in Dubai, Vietnam and Australia.
Investment Highlights
Fall in rubber and Crude oil prices resulting in margin improvement for tyre companies:
Despite the falling rupee and sluggish demand, the correction in rubber prices and crude oil
prices are resulting in margin improvement for tyre companies. Domestic rubber and crude
oil prices have come down by 24.5% and 15.6% respectively from its peak.
DII
10.73%
FII
4.33%
Strong PAT Growth in H2 SepFY13:
The company has shown robust growth in profit in the half year ending Sep FY13. PAT of
the company has grown by 48.59% to INR390.8 crore in comparison to INR263 crore.
EBITDA margin of the company improved from 9.98% to 14.28% and PAT margin improved
from 4.8% to 6.59% on back of falling rubber and crude oil prices.
Promoter
and
Promoter
Group
27.21%
STOCK SCAN
BSE Code
NSE Code
Bloomberg Ticker
Reuters Ticker
Face Value (INR)
Equity Share Capital (In INR Cr)
Beta vs Sensex
Average Daily Volume
Dividend Yield
PEG Ratio
500290
MRF
MRF IN
MRF.BO
10.00
4.24
1.01
10,034
0.19%
N.A
Strong Research and development:
The company has managed to carry out the R&D activities efficiently and likely to do so in
the future. The R&D activity have helped the company in many ways like development of
new products for domestic and export market, development of new raw materials for specific
application, development of new formulation, development of new technique in making
process improvements, development of new equipment and modification of existing
machinery.
25000.00
20000.00
15000.00
10000.00
5000.00
0.00
24Apr12
24Jul12
CLOSE(MRFLtd.)
24Oct12
24Jan13
CLOSE(NIFTY)
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Industry Snapshot
MarketshareIndianTyreIndustry(%)
Others
Tyre,26%
MRFTyre,27%
Ceat,12%
Apollo
Tyres,19%
JKTyre,16%
In India, ~65% of tyre demand comes from replacement market, in which the T&B (Truck
&Bus) segment contributes ~57% to the total volume. T&B tyre segment is highly
dominated by MRF, Apollo, CEAT and JK tyre. Currently top four players possess ~74%
market share in Indian tyre Industry.
Peer Group Comparison
Sales
FY12
Company
(23rd Apr
2012)
No.of
CMP
share
EBITDA EBITDA
ROE (%)
FY12
(%)
PAT FY12 PAT (%) EPS FY12 FY12
D/E
EPS
FY13E
MCAP
EPS
FY14E
P/E
FY13E
P/E
FY14E
*MRF Ltd
11,967
1,272
10.6
579
4.8
1,366.5
22.5
0.6
13828
0.42
5863
1773.0
1860.0
7.8
7.4
Apollo Ltd
Ceat Ltd
J K Tyres
12,153
4,649
6,947
1,166
282
329
9.6
6.1
4.7
410
18
-32
3.4
0.4
-0.5
8.13
5.3
-7.8
15.6
2.7
-4.0
1.0
1.9
3.0
92
103
115
50.41
3.42
4.10
4643
352
472
11.8
33.0
37.9
14.0
39.5
41.2
7.8
3.1
3.0
6.6
2.6
2.8
Source: ACE, Company Database. * MRF Ltd year ending on September. Financials in INR crore.
Automobile Domestic sales growth trends
Category
PassengerVehicles
CommercialVehicles
ThreeWheelers
TwoWheelers
GrandTotal
200607
200708
21%
33%
12%
12%
14%
200809
12%
5%
10%
8%
5%
200910
0%
22%
4%
3%
1%
201011
26%
39%
26%
26%
26%
201112
28%
29%
19%
26%
26%
201213
5%
18%
2%
14%
12%
3%
2%
5%
3%
3%
Valuation
At the CMP of INR13828, the stock is trading at a P/E of 7.8x its FY13E EPS of INR1773 and
7.4x its FY14E EPS of INR1860. The company has sound business model and ROE of 22.5%.
We assign a P/E multiple of 8.5x to its FY14E EPS to arrive at a Target price of INR15810 for
a time period of 12-15 months.
Key Concern
Tyre Industry is related with the automobile sector, if there is any slowdown in the auto
sector for a longer period of time, the demand of tyres will have a negative impact.
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>20%
Buy
between10%and20%
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Underperform
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