Titan Company Ltd - Research Report

Private Client Research

Rating

Buy

Sector

Diamond & Jewellery

Company

Titan Company Ltd

Diamond & Jewellery


September 13, 2019

Sensex: 37384.99


CNX Nifty: 11075.90

NSE: TITAN


BSE: 500114

Reco Price
Rs. 1100
Price Target (1 Year)
Rs. 1325
Upside
20.45%

Date

September 13, 2019

Sensex

37384.99

CNX Nifty

11075.90

Exchange

Code

NSE

TITAN

BSE

500114

Stock Data

CMP (Rs)
1123.40
Face value (Rs)
1
52 Week Range (Rs)
1340.90 - 732.30
Market cap (Rs Crores)
99707.26
Price To Book Value (x)
15.99
P/E Ratio (x)
71.49
EV/EBIDTA (x)
44.55

One Year indexed Stock Performance

Titan Company Ltd Sensex
Titan Company Ltd
Return (%)
1m
6m
12m
36m
Absolute
5.73
4.20
33.35
170.63
Sensex
1.15
-0.97
-1.85
31.77

Shareholders

(in %)
30-Jun
Promoter
52.91
Public
47.09
Others
0.00
Total
100

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Profile

Titan Company Limited (Titan) is engaged in offering watches, jewellery, eyewear and other related accessories such as bags, sunglasses, etc. The company offers plain and studded gold jewellery brands such as Tanishq, Gold Plus, Zoya, Mia, which are retailed through their respective brand stores. The company’s brands in watches include Titan, Sonata and Fastrack with sub-brands such as Raga, Xylys and Edge, among others, which are retailed through World of Titan, Helios and Fastrack stores. The company offers frames, contact lenses, and sunglasses in brands such as Eye+, which are retailed through Titan Eye Plus stores. It also offers precision engineering components and sub-assemblies (PECSA) and machine building and automation (MBA) solutions. The company's subsidiaries include Titan Time Products Limited, Favre Leuba AG and Titan Engineering and Automation Limited.

Robust balance sheet having virtually debt-free status and generating 30%+ RoC with strong consumer brands will be the key triggers for the company in future.

Investment Rationale
Strong Business Model:
Titan has been able to build sustainable retail formats with differentiated products. The company has replicated its success in watches and jewellery to extend across other products including eyewear, sarees and accessories. Within the jewellery segment, it has successfully expanded to a larger and less discretionary market of wedding jewellery (against only adornment jewellery earlier) where it has created a niche for itself.

The company’s investments in the US$20bn wedding jewellery market (where it has <1% market share currently), extending its presence to occasion wear and high-value diamonds ($6bn market), and growth in Gold installment Scheme/Gold Exchange from new customers provide visibility of sustained growth. Moreover, as GST (Goods and Services Tax) compliance increases, we expect Titan to consistently gain market share. GST implementation and likely margin of safety from success of other formats will drive future growth.

GHS, gold exchange scheme, wedding jewellery and expansion into multiple distribution channels (Tanishq, Zoya, Miya, Caratlane) will continue to drive strong market share gains for Titan in jewellery.

Titan can successfully incubate new formats led by strong retailing experience alongside strong product capabilities. Titan’s efforts in Taneira, Skinn and Eyewear can yield meaningful results over the next decade. This long growth runway implies Titan will continue to command strong valuations.

Jewellery Segment:
The Jewellery division had a good festive season and recorded strong revenue growth of 37% year-on-year, on the back of strong growth in both the studded and plain jeweler categories. The plain jewellery category also benefitted from a large institutional order of Rs 200 crores of gold coins with low margin. However, this has resulted in marginally lower sales growth of 17-18%in January. Particularly, growth in the studded jewellery segment has been slower in January.

GHS, studded jewellery, format expansion across Mia/Caratlane/Tanishq/Zoya, and gold exchange is expected to continue driving growth. The management is confident of rolling out 40 stores of Tanishq this year (24 added so far in 9MFY19). The management stated that operating leverage will be the primary reason for margin expansion in jewellery. It also stated that recent market-share gains are driven by focused strategy on 16-17 cities where Titan’s market share is lower than national average. FY20 is more promising from the wedding season point of view, which would support a healthy momentum in jewellery sales.

The management expects growth to recover in March and is targeting 22% growth in 4Q.Jewellery advertisement spends were higher in Q2 and lower in Q3, enabling margin expansion. Margins were also supported by a reversal in inventory loss of Rs 18 crores. In this quarter, exchange contributed 40% of the total top line and wedding collection contributed 30-33%. SSG growth contributed 80% of the total sales growth. The number of wedding days in FY19 has been lower but FY20 seems promising in that aspect.

Premium designer in Jewellry segment:
Titan has assiduously positioned itself in the premium designer jewellery space. We believe the company has the ability to create significant value with its large distribution presence, strong brand, designing skills and proven execution track record. Titan has proved its mettle time and again by emerging strong and successful against various regulatory hurdles that have emerged over the past one year. With robust balance sheet, strong brand equity and professional management.

Watches Segment:
The company plans to leverage contract manufacturing to improve profitability. The management maintains margin guidance of about 15% in this segment for the year. The watch segment’s revenues grew 19% year-on-year led by 16% volume growth. The growth was led by new launches and merchandise improvement to fill gaps. EBIT margin declined from 15.3% to 8.5% year-on-year due to new product launches and higher ad spends carried over from 2QFY19. Margin on a 9-month basis has improved by 70bps on account of improved cost efficiencies in manufacturing. Large Format Store (LFS) grew 15% during the quarter on a Like to Like (LTL) basis while Helios grew 6% on an LTL format. World of Titan and Fast Track witnessed 2% and 1% LTL decline respectively.

Eyewear Segment:
Eyewear has two streams: distribution and retail (Titan Eye+). Division sales, which is a newly started business and which comprises 20% of eyewear sales grew faster than retail sales. Same Store Sales Growth and total growth were at healthy levels in the eye business. Investments in the brand and traffic building led to this performance. Satellite lens manufacturing helped improve customer service and profitability. Eyewear grew 40% year-on-year driven by a healthy like-to-like sales growth of 13%, network expansion and commencement of frames distribution. Losses reduced from Rs 4.4 crores to Rs 1.5 crores year-on-year during the quarter. Focus on eyewear distribution has also caused the growth to be higher this quarter. The management stated that the strategy to lower price points has worked well and the downward trend in store level growth has reversed. Store level SSGs and total sales growth are at healthy levels. Titan Eye+ format grew 15% in the quarter on an LTL basis (10% over 9Mbasis). Distribution and additional satellite lens manufacturing facilities have helped both improve customer service and profitability.

Other products:
The company’s brand ‘Skinn’ has touched Rs 100 crores turnover mark. Due to its competitive pricing, the company was able to capture7-8% of the overall market. Almost 30% of sales come from World of Titan. The company’s brand ‘Caratlane’ is on the path of breakeven. The management expects its pen brand ‘Mont Blanc’ to breakeven in three years.

Financials:
The management has issued guidance of 29% tax rate in FY19 and 27% in FY20.It has made a provision for Rs 99 crores out of the total investment of Rs 145 crores in IL&FS. Provision of Rs 29 crores was made in the last quarter and Rs 70 crores in this quarter. Hedging gains in this quarter are similar to the previous quarters. Inventory loss of Rs18 crores in the last quarter reversed into a gain this quarter. Cash balance increased substantially due to higher gold on lease which led to an increase in other income.

 

Industry

Indian jewellery market can be separated into two categories plain jewellery which contributes 80% and the rest is studded segment. Indian jewellery & gems market size is Rs 4.5 lakhs Cr, of which the domestic jewellery market is estimated at Rs 3.5 lakhs Cr and studded jewellery at Rs 1 lakhs Cr. In India, total official gold import positions at 900 ton/annum while additional 100-150 ton is imported through the unofficial route. Consumption in India is around 650-700 ton, investment 150-200 ton and gold exchange market is around 150 ton. In the last 8 years gold import has remained even since grammage per piece has come down by 25-30% over the same period due to rise in gold prices. Gold prices are determined daily through the exchanges however there is no regulation on the studded jewellery resulting in higher gross margins (25% +) compared to 5% in gold. In studded segments, jewelers only exchange their own products whereas in plain jewellery segment they exchange other products too, charging a haircut depending on the quality of gold. The custom duty rate of 10% in 2013 encouraged gold smuggling. Most of the jewelers are positive about jewellery demand in India due to its USP as social security. In the recent past the Indian consumers were moving towards the studded jewellery however the local jewelers are facing a trend reversal due to less attractive resale value from their studded jewellery.

Profit & Loss Statement:- (Consolidated)

(Rs Crores)

DESCRIPTIONMar-15Mar-16Mar-17Mar-18Mar-19Mar-20 EMar-21 E
Net Sales11913.4111275.8913260.8316119.7719025.5022450.0026550.00
Growth (%)-5.3517.6021.5618.0318.0018.26
Cost of goods sold8750.008189.579524.2611634.7813500.0015800.0018500.00
Gross Profit3163.413086.323736.574484.995525.506650.008050.00
Margin (%)26.5527.3728.1827.8229.0429.6230.32
Power & Fuel Cost40.1841.2043.8445.3246.5048.5049.50
(% of sales)34.00%37.00%33.00%28.00%24.00%22.00%19.00%
Employee Cost632.46696.28787.47885.081020.501300.001550.50
(% of sales)5.316.175.945.495.365.795.84
Other Manufacturing Expenses188.64197.18143.59176.27195.50235.50275.50
(% of sales)1.581.751.081.091.031.051.04
General and Administration Expenses329.21316.93340.82312.69344.50365.50385.50
(% of sales)2.762.812.571.941.811.631.45
Selling and Distribution Expenses497.82568.82870.99969.651120.501340.001580.50
(% of sales)4.185.046.576.025.895.975.95
Miscellaneous Expenses326.70356.76395.55451.30520.50575.50660.50
(% of sales)2.743.162.982.802.742.562.49
Total Expenditure10765.0110366.7412106.5214475.0916748.0019665.0023002.00
EBITDA1148.40909.151154.311644.682277.502785.003548.00
Margin (%)9.648.068.7010.2011.9712.4113.36
Other Income70.7599.5171.6788.8790.0090.0090.00
Operating Profit1219.151008.661225.981733.552367.502875.003638.00
Interest80.6942.3637.7452.9260.0070.0080.00
PBDT1138.46966.301188.241680.632307.502805.003558.00
Depreciation89.5798.19110.53131.43150.50175.50200.50
Profit Before Taxation & Exceptional Items1048.89868.111077.711549.202157.002629.503357.50
Exceptional Income / Expenses-102.69-16.65
Profit Before Tax1048.89868.11975.021532.552157.002629.503357.50
Provision for Tax232.64191.59275.97427.87603.96736.26940.10
Profit After Tax816.25676.52699.051104.681553.041893.242417.40
Margin (%)6.856.005.276.858.168.439.11
Adjusted EPS9.197.608.0112.7317.9021.8227.86
Source: Stockaxis Research, Company Data

Valuation

In the current financial year, Titan reported a splendid performance across all its divisions with overall revenue growth of 24% year-on-year. The jewellery division has continued to gain market share by capitalizing on larger opportunities such as wedding space and high value diamond studded jewellery. Titan has a robust balance sheet having virtually debt-free status and generating 30%+ ROCE (Return on Capital Employed). We recommend ‘BUY’ on the stock with a target price of Rs. 1325.