DalalStreet.Biz initiated its coverage on Sobha developers IPO last week. Sobha Developers Review – 1 is here and Sobha Developers Land Bank Details is available here.
Vidya Bala, writer for Business Line newsppare writes that, Sobha’s offer price at Rs 550 or Rs 640 is at a P/E multiple of 19 or 22 times its expected earnings for Fy08 [Not FY07]. Why isn’t Vidya writing about FY07 ? Why isn’t Vidya clearly stating the figures ? Oho! their can be some Page3 scenes going in the background 🙂 . Lets analyze this. Offer price of Rs 640 at 22 times P/E translates into earnings per share of Rs 29 for FY08. Which translates into a Net profit of Rs 211 crores for FY08 on an equity of 7.29 crore shares of face value Rs10 each.
Sobha’s profits for first half of FY07 (sept-30th 2006) is Rs 53 crores. It has recorded a 137% growth over first half of last year. So if we assume Sobha grows at 100% for full year its net profits for FY07 will be 180 crores. So in FY08 will Sobha Developers just grow by mere 17.20% ? [Net Profit of 211 crores as arrived above.] When and where will growth slowdown ? I hope you now understand what is the problem with Business Line Analysis.
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