Reliance Industries
BSE SENSEX
29,443
S&P CNX
9,087
14 March 2017
Update
| Sector:
Oil & Gas
CMP: INR1,289 TP: INR1,240 (-4%)
Core volume to grow, but cautious on margins
Upgrading valuation of RJio
Neutral
Stock Info
Bloomberg
Equity Shares (m)
52-Week Range (INR)
1, 6, 12 Rel. Per (%)
M.Cap. (INR b)
M.Cap. (USD b)
Avg Val, INRm
Free float (%)
RIL IN
3,240.0
1327 / 926
21/20/8
3,482.9
60.1
3,735
54.9
RJio would end its free services from April 2017, offering instead unlimited voice and
data for INR303/month. The focus appears to be more on profitability now, with
ARPU-accretive price plans.
With the completion of USD18.5b of projects, the core business is expected to
generate USD6.2b of annual free cash flow.
However, in our assessment, profitability of core projects could come under stress in
changed environment.
Increasing valuation of RJio
Our Telecom analyst estimates revenue of INR223b in FY18 and INR319b in FY19,
revised up 7% and 12%, respectively. EBITDA breakeven is expected in FY19 now
(earlier FY20), with contribution of INR27.4b in FY19. Revised equity valuation of
RJio stands at INR110/share, up from INR19/share earlier.
Financials Snapshot (INR b)
Y/E March
2017E 2018E 2019E
Net Sales
2,404.0 2,829.4 2,960.7
EBITDA
428.4 493.6 511.6
Net Profit
295.3 339.2 361.6
Adj. EPS (INR)
100.2 115.1 122.7
EPS Gr. (%)
7.7
14.9
6.6
BV/Sh. (INR)
900.5 999.0 1,104.0
RoE (%)
11.7
12.1
11.7
RoCE (%)
9.2
10.2
10.2
P/E (x)
12.9
11.2
10.5
P/BV (x)
1.4
1.3
1.2
EV/EBITDA (x)
10.2
7.8
6.7
Shareholding pattern (%)
As On
Dec-16 Sep-16 Dec-15
Promoter
45.1
45.1
45.2
DII
12.3
12.5
13.2
FII
24.2
23.7
21.9
Others
18.5
18.7
19.7
FII Includes depository receipts
Stock Performance (1-year)
Reliance Inds.
Sensex - Rebased
1,300
1,200
1,100
1,000
900
Changed macro environment limits potential of petcoke gasifier
LNG prices have fallen from ~USD20/mmBtu in early 2014 to USD6-7/mmBtu
currently. We believe that LNG prices would be structurally low due to large global
supplies and dwindling demand from the largest consumers. This would limit the
benefit from petcoke gasifier to USD0.4-0.5/bbl.
Petchem expansions to help, but benefit may be curbed due to large
expansions in the US
We estimate that a total of 11mmt of ethylene capacity is coming in the US during
2017-20. This would be based entirely on low cost shale gas as feedstock. Due to
these expansions, we believe that global petchem margins would be under
pressure. Nonetheless, due to increase in volume, we expect RIL’s petchem EBITDA
to increase from INR142b in FY16 to INR243b in FY19.
Refining could come under pressure
We expect incremental global supply to outgrow incremental demand by
2.2mnbopd during 2016-21, thereby putting pressure on refining margins. We
expect correction in RIL’s GRM due to decline in crack spreads. We build in a GRM
of USD9.5-10/bbl, including the benefit from petcoke gasifier during FY18-19.
Maintain Neutral; revising target price to INR1,240
The stock is currently trading at 10.5x FY19E standalone EPS of INR123 and 6.7x
FY19E EV/EBITDA. We value RIL using SOTP. Refining and petchem are valued using
6x FY19E EV/EBITDA. We add INR68/share for E&P portfolio, INR110/share for RJio,
and INR59/share for others to arrive at a revised valuation of INR1,240. We
reiterate our
Neutral
rating.
Motilal Oswal research is available on www.motilaloswal.com/Institutional-Equities, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Factset and S&P Capital.
Investors are advised to refer through important disclosures made at the last page of the Research Report.
Swarnendu Bhushan
(Swarnendu.Bhushan@MotilalOswal.com); +91 22 6129 1529
Abhinil Dahiwale
(Abhinil.Dahiwale@motilaloswal.com); +91 22 3980 4309