
Bloomberg Code: COAL IN
COAL INDIA LTD
CIL’s Strategic Impoance in Meeting India’s Energy
Requirement
Continued near monopoly status along with largest prot making enterprise
in India: Due to India’s abundant coal reserves and non-availability of other
sustainable sources of fuel, coal continues to play a dominant role in meeting
the country’s energy requirement. CIL accounted for 84% of domestic coal
production in scal 2019. CIL possesses 48% of India’s proven reserves in its
command area, and accounts for bulk of domestic coal production.
A drastic reduction in employee benet expenses came down by 35.74%
at Rs. 10,700.79 crore as against Rs. 16,651.20 crore posted in the Q4FY18
accompanied with other operational eciencies backed by higher price
realisations, helped Coal India post a record increase of 362.46% in its net
prot at Rs. 6,024.23 crore for the quaer ended March 31, 2019. Beer
average realization in both coal, Fuel Supply Agreement (FSA) and e-auction
sales coupled with operational cost control propelled the company to its
best ever nancial peormance.
Stepping up its growth, high protability & strong nancial risk prole: In
scal 2019, production grew 7% while dispatches rose 5%, owing to greater
demand especially from power producers. With steady demand from power
sector, volume and protability would improve fuher in 2020 and remain
healthy over medium term.
CIL’s debt levels shrunk making it a safe investment. CIL made outstanding
use of shareholders’ funds with ROE greater than 40%, also making ecient
use of its assets compared to Oil and Gas industry average with ROA of 8%.
Dividend payout remained high at around Rs. 11,200 crore during scal 2019.
All the subsidiaries of Coal India earned very good prot margins.
Valuation and Risks: As per consensus, the stock is valued at a PE of 10.5x of
FY21E EPS for a target price of Rs. 304 which gives a potential upside of 21%.
The company has to rst fulll its obligation of being able to deliver enough
coal to satisfy the growing power needs of the country as coal output has
been constrained by delays in obtaining environmental and forest approvals
& exibility is also restricted by socio political factors.
STOCK PERFORMANCE (%)
1M 3M 6M 12M
Absolute (4) 7 7 (4)
Relative to Sensex (3) 5 (5) (15)
Source: Bloomberg
RECOMMENDATION (RS.)
CMP (as on 03 Jul, 2019) 251
Target Price 304
Upside(%) 21
STOCK INFORMATION
Mkt Cap (Rs.Bn/US$ Mn) 1546537 / 22447
52-wk High/Low (Rs.) 300 / 211
3M Avg.daily value (Rs. Mn) 1934.6
Beta (x) 0.5
Sensex/Niy 39839 / 11917
O/S Shares(mn) 6162.7
Face Value (Rs.) 10.0
SHAREHOLDING PATTERN (%)
Promoters 71.0
FIIs 7.1
DIIs 19.0
Others 3.0
KEY FINANCIALS (Rs. Mn)
YE Mar FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20E FY21E
Net Sales 754591 817000 928961 1028838 1080064
EBITDA 124477 95478 249771 248319 259838
EBITDA Margin (%) 16.0 12.0 27.0 24.0 24.0
Adj. Net Prot 92800 70203 174619 171700 178460
EPS (Rs.) 14.8 11.3 28.1 27.8 28.9
RoE (%) 31.3 31.7 75.4 60.7 58.6
PE (x)* 19.8 25.1 8.4 9.2 8.8
Source: Bloomberg, Karvy Research, *Represents multiples for FY17 - FY19 are based on historic market price
RELATIVE PERFORMANCE*
Source: Bloomberg; *Index 100
KARVY INVESTMENT STRATEGY REPORT - JULY 2019
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