Fertilizer Sector: FFC Result Preview
Fertilizer Sector: FFC Result Preview
Fertilizer Sector: FFC Result Preview
FFC
Result
Pakistan Research
Synopsis
Earnings to post a jump of 61% YoY in 1HCY11. Urea offtake witnessed a decline of 5% YoY in 1HCY11. Financial cost is expected to decline by 8% YoY in 1HCY11. Other income to witness a substantial rise of 82% YoY. With our fair value of PKR185 for FFC, we recommend a BUY stance.
to be the main reason behind rise in monetary sales. We believe that the substantial increase in sales is likely to take gross profit of the company to PKR12.94bn posting a rise of 46% YoY as against PKR8.84bn in the same period last year. Thus FFC seems to be having higher gross margin of 53% as against 44% in 1HCY10.
BUY
Market Snapshot KSE 30 KSE 100 KSE ALL Index 11815.91 12394.49 8590.05 Chg -101.49 -82.28 -54.55 % -0.85 -0.66 -0.63
Decline in financial charges and massive ascend in other income may further strengthen earnings...
We expect distribution cost to witness an increase of 13% YoY to PKR2.10bn in 1HCY11 against PKR1.87bn in the same period last year. This upsurge in distribution cost seems to be driven by transportation charges. However, we expect operating profit to be at PKR10.99bn with an increase of 58% over the last year. We also expect other income to jack up the bottom line as it is expected to post a rise of 82% YoY to PKR2.77bn as against PKR1.26bn recorded in 1HCY10. Foremost chunk of the other income is likely to come through dividend income from FFBL. Recommendation and outlook Gas curtailment of the fertilizer sector has created an interesting situation in FFC prospective as Engro raises price of urea to mitigate its production losses while FFC which is not greatly affected by the gas curtailment enjoys fruit of increased prices. This is the main reason that FFC has shown substantially higher margins during the 1HCY11. We believe, FFC would continue to enjoy greater margins until gas supply to Engro plants is resumed. In addition to this, locally produced urea is sold on a significantly discount to international urea prices. This situation is naturally building up pressure on policy makers to either facilitate the local players, or go for import. In our view, import would not be a sensible choice. Our DCF based target price for FFC is PKR185. recommend BUY stance. We
Key Data Market Cap(PKR bn) Shares Outstanding (m) Bloomberg 12M Avg. Volume (m)
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