Dear Natarajan,
There was a discussion between the greattttest Tulsian & Sanju Verma reg.(Sanju Verma had advised against applying for JP Infra IPO) JP Infra when it was at 93.I entirely agree with her & said it deseved 9-10 K market cap & that is where it will settle).She said it will settle at 85.Our hero advises to buy in bucketful at 93.An excerpt taken from the interview----
You disagree. What do you see as a fair value for the stock?
Verma: I do not necessarily disagree in entirety. Just to put things in right context, about two-and-a-half weeks back, I was on your channel and the question was asked as what the fair value of Jaypee Infra is and whether I would subscribe to it. My answer remains the same. I do not see any reason to do a somersault on that. I had said that my gut feel says the stock price will stabilise at lower than the lower end of the band, which means between Rs 95 to Rs 100 or thereabouts. My sense is that the stock will perhaps hold at about between Rs 85 to Rs 90. The reason why I have brought the range down now to Rs 85-90 is simply because the broader picture with respect to overall markets has in the last few weeks become that much more circumspect.
I think in the case of Jaypee Infra, you need to take a call as a potential investor as to whether you are buying it because of its land bank and real estate story or whether you are buying it because its an infrastructure proxy, which combines the best of both construction and real estate. As Mr Tulsian pointed out, I think the negative bit here is that the infrastructure story is on paper at this point in time because the toll revenues from the Yamuna Expressway will optimistically speaking filter in, in FY12, i.e. if the project is completed as per management's claims in 2011. Were there to be an execution delay, then the toll revenues will start kicking in only by FY13. So the infrastructure story is slightly far fetched at this point in time, which means that as things stand now this has to be valued in the context of what valuation you would give to a real estate player. I think that is where my worry stems from.
I had said this in the past and I am reinforcing that, the fact of the matter is that a DLF or a Unitech is available to you between 15 to 17 times on FY11 estimates. On FY12 estimates, DLF and Unitech are even cheaper between 11-13 times at current prices and both these companies will give you a compounded earnings growth of between 35-40% plus over the next two years.
Now, in the case of JP Infra they are lot of if’s and but’s. The point that I want to make is that A) first speaking of the expressway what if the toll charges are not in the region of 1.8-1.9 per km, which most analysts seem to be working with maybe it will be in the region of 1.3-1.4 per km, which is what is charged along the Mumbai- Pune expressway a far more industrialised belt. So to start with, to assume that the toll revenues in FY12 will be at Rs 500 crore, assuming a toll charge of 1.8 per km is to start with very optimistic. If that were to come down to 1.4 then you are not talking of Rs 500 crore by way of revenues from the expressway, but just about Rs 350 to 390 crore. So there are too many variables in the equation, which make the picture not as pretty as it seemingly would see at this point in time.
Speaking of it being a real estate proxy, forget about price to earnings, maybe that is necessarily a good parameter to evaluate a real estate play be it a DLF or Unitech or Jaypee Infra not withstanding the fact that Jaypee Infra is anyway trading at a 25% plus premium to its most established peers within the space. Even if you were to look at it from an EV to EBIDTA, from a price to sales, or even a price to book; on a price to book, mind you DLF and Unitech are trading at between 1.3-1.5 times whereas as things stand now Jaypee Infra is at three times plus, which is certainly expensive.
So my sense is it is a good bet for alpha seeking investors, people who are chasing yield. But for people who are circumspect, people who are wary, I think it would do them good to certainly wait for a while because I won’t be surprised if this trades down further. Yes, the management has a stupendous track record behind it.
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So I dont know how its fair value is 100.I will dip my toes at 80 & buy in good quantity at 75.
For complete discussion between Tulsian & Ms Verma see below
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/ipo-new-listings/jp-infra-lists-below-issue-price-should-you-buy-it-now_459412-2.html