Hindustan Unilever
BSE SENSEX
33,957
S&P CNX
10,047
9 June 2020
Annual report Update | Sector: Consumer
CMP: INR2,106
TP: INR2,400 (+14%)
Strengthening building blocks
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Hindustan Unilever’s (HUVR) FY20 Annual Report highlights the company’s
continuous efforts to strengthen its building blocks, thus enabling the sustenance of
robust growth. Key insights highlighted from the report below:
Stock Info
Bloomberg
Equity Shares (m)
M.Cap.(INRb)/(USDb)
52-Week Range (INR)
1, 6, 12 Rel. Per (%)
12M Avg Val (INR M)
Free float (%)
Financials Snapshot (INR b)
Y/E Mar
2020
Sales
387.9
Sales Gr. (%)
1.5
EBITDA
96.0
Margins (%)
24.8
Adj. PAT
67.4
Adj. EPS (INR)
31.2
EPS Gr. (%)
11.1
BV/Sh.(INR)
37.2
Ratios
RoE (%)
86.0
RoCE (%)
119.8
Payout (%)
96.2
Valuations
P/E (x)
67.5
P/BV (x)
56.6
EV/EBITDA (x)
46.8
Div. Yield (%)
1.2
Shareholding pattern (%)
As On
Promoter
DII
FII
Others
Mar-20
67.2
6.7
12.1
14.1
HUVR IN
2,345
4945.2 / 65.5
2614 / 1660
-6/21/29
6725
38.1
Setting up/adapting to key trends keeping HUVR ahead in the game:
The
Personal Care category witnessed significant effects of the slowdown in
2HFY20, which culminated with the sharp COVID-19 led decline toward the
year-end. Despite this, HUVR reported another year of double-digit earnings
growth, taking its earnings CAGR over the past 3 years to 16.6%, even as peers
(many of whom are much smaller) witnessed revenue deceleration over the
same period. If not for the COVID-19 disruption impact, sales growth would
have been healthy for the third consecutive year as well.
A few factors from the FY20 Annual Report and our observations on the
same, which highlights HUVR’s strengths.
Sustained strong growth in Detergents, transformation potential in Skin
Cleansing:
The MGT-9 section in the annual report showcases the
importance of the role played by Detergents (22.5% of total sales) in
driving overall growth. After contributing as much as ~38%/~47%/~44% to
incremental sales in FY19/FY18/FY17, Detergents contributed over 100% of
incremental sales growth in FY20, making up for the decline in Soaps and
Cosmetics and Toiletries (the other two large product categories). Strong
premiumization and considerable success in growing volumes as part of
the company’s ‘Winning in Many Indias’ (WIMI) strategy has led to another
year of (near) double-digit sales growth even as the rest of its portfolio has
slowed down.
While performance of Soaps (~27% of FY20 sales) has been tepid over the
past 5 years now, we believe that the ‘COVID’ and ‘post-COVID’ scenarios
offer an opportunity for transformative growth – not only in terms of sales
but also in terms of premiumization in the category – both benefits that
HUVR is already enjoying in the Detergents business. Thus, the potential
resumption of growth in Soaps should provide strong momentum to half of
HUVR’s sales.
Relentless pursuit of cost savings:
HUVR’s annual report indicates that the
company was able to generate gross cost savings of 7% of sales in FY20,
another remarkable achievement, which also underlines the potential for
margin improvement over the longer term, especially with strong synergies
from the GSKCH business. While margin expansion may take a backseat in
FY21 owing to the COVID-19 fallout, the company’s ability to extract more
savings compared to peers should drive continued superior earnings
growth.
2021E
442.4
14.1
109.5
24.8
79.2
33.8
8.3
55.9
75.0
103.0
103.6
62.3
37.7
44.0
1.7
2022E
515.9
16.6
135.7
26.3
101.7
43.4
28.4
57.3
76.7
103.3
101.4
48.5
36.8
35.4
2.1
Dec-19
67.2
6.7
12.3
13.8
Mar-19
67.2
7.0
11.8
14.0
FII Includes depository receipts
Krishnan Sambamoorthy – Research analyst
(Krishnan.Sambamoorthy@MotilalOswal.com); +91 22 6129 1545
Research analyst: Pooja Doshi
(Pooja.Doshi@MotilalOswal.com); +91 22 6129 1573 |
Dhairya Dhruv
(Dhairya.Dhruv@motilaloswal.com); +91 22 6129 1547
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