Brokerage firms have issued notes on Avenue Supermart and Just Dial immediately after the second quarter results. Apart from this, there are brokerage reports on L&T and CONCOR. Let us know their complete details further.
JPMorgan's View on L&T
: Overweight
Target: ₹4,360 per share
- Company trades at 25x FY26 core EPS, EPS CAGR for FY24-27 expected at 23%
- The company is offering attractive growth opportunities at reasonable valuations
- Rapid growth in EPS possible on the back of strong core income growth of 16%
- EPS growth to accelerate after margins improve by 60 basis points during FY24-27
- Huge capacity, large order book, strong balance sheet and excellent cash flow
- This stock will benefit from capex in India and Middle East
Bernstein's View on Avenue Supermart
Opinion: Outperform
Target: ₹5,800 per share
- Income growth weaker than expected, slowest in 4 years, LFL growth slowest in 3 years
- Standalone EBITDA & margins remain subdued YoY due to operating leverage
- The company can increase growth by 20% due to rapid store and retail area addition
- Increasing focus on 4-6 hour delivery will also help in 20% growth
CLSA's opinion on Avenue Supermart
: Outperform Target: ₹5,360 per share
- Q2 sales and profits weaker than estimates
- Gross margin was 30 basis points weaker than estimates
- Profit was weaker than expected due to higher than expected employee cost
- Estimates for FY25-27 cut by 13-15%
- Management cited rising competition from e-commerce as one of the reasons for the poor performance
JPMorgan's opinion on Avenue Supermart
Opinion: Neutral
Target: ₹4700 per share
- Rating downgraded to neutral, target also reduced from ₹5400 to ₹4700 per share
- Q2 results weaker than expected, earnings growth subdued due to sluggish LGL growth
- The effect of online grocery format was seen
- The normalisation of Same Store Sales Growth (SSSG) was a surprise
- We have cut SSSG/income estimates by 4-6% for FY25-26
Morgan Stanley's View on CONCOR
: Underweight
Target: ₹ 774 per share
- Handling volume growth stood at 6% in the second quarter
- Handling volume growth was estimated at 7%
- Growth was at 6% in the first quarter
- CCRI had earlier estimated Exim growth to be 15% and domestic growth to be 25%
- Annual guidance will be met only by 26% growth in Exim and 35% in the domestic segment during the second half
Citi's opinion on Just Dial
: Sell
Target: ₹ 1,075 per share
- Q2 revenue (+9% YoY) & EBITDA (+68% YoY) missed estimates by 2%/6%, respectively
- Profit increased by 27% due to higher income
- Paid campaign net ads grew 1% quarterly and 7% year-on-year to over 7,000
- Realization growth 2% year-on-year, slowest growth since Q1FY23
- User traffic is critical to sustaining campaigns and realization growth
- 15% growth in user traffic year-on-year
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