From rhp
- Style Bazaar is a fashion retailer (clothes and accessories) with 3% & 2% market share of organized in WB and odisha. Also offer non-apparels and home furnishing products. ( Same as what a WESTSIDE store has)
- There are 2 similar names brand operating as their competitor , Bazaar M and Bazaar Kolkata (attaching image)
Risk factors
-Geographical concentrations, 87% comes from 4 states, WB, Odisha, Assam and bihar
-85% rev from apparels , rest non-apparels and home furnishing.
- 10 pvt label barnds, 40% rev from those.
- Total 162 stores, adding 30 stores per year almost. The stores are skewed towards Tier 3 and 4 cities, (more than 110 in these cities)
-Cluster based expansion, opening stores in proximity of existing one (same strategy as dmart)
-No manufacturing of any products, 600 plus suppliers and no supplier concentration.
- 70% of sales is from repeat customers. Which is good i think.
- 200 plus invetory turnover days.
Capital structure
- Shri Rakesh jhunjhunwala acquired 2.9lk shares in 2018 and at 517rs FV10
Again in 2019 some 37k shares for 1036rs , fv10.
Some more in 2022 after bonus shares, 4.3lk at 230rs, fv 10
-Most recent one in AUG 2024 was pvt placement to Volrado Ventures, 9.5lk shares, 387rs, FV 5
-Company gonna pay 113 cr of debt from fresh issue
Some KPIs
- 2 listed players, Vmart and V2 retail. V2 is proitable with PE 138, vmart is in loss
-Average transaction value is 1000rs. This have been stagnant for past 3 years.
-Gross margins are 33%, stable.
-EBITDA margins 14% , up ~2% from last year
-PAT margin 2%
-WC days have significantly reduced to 9 days just frmo 25 days.
- Same stores sales growth is just 9% for year, down from 31%. Growth is cooling down significantly, jsut that new stores addition are making up overall revenue growth, my view. !!!