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EQUITY RESEARCH REPORT ON GREAT OFFSHORE
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APPROACH TO FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS FOR
COMPANY VALUATION
SIP project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the PGDM Program
By
HARSHIT TAUNK
08FN047
Supervisors: 1. Prof. H. Virupakshi Goud
2. Prof. Ravindra M. Gadgil
3. Mr. Syed Sagheer
Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur
2009
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I wish to express my deep sense of gratitude to those who generously helped me to
complete the project with the wealth of their knowledge and expertise.
I am sincerely thankful to Mr. Gaurang Gandhi, MD, to provide me opportunity to share
corporate experience at PINC.
My special thanks to Mr. Syed Sagheer, Senior Analyst for his continuous valuable and
productive guidance for this project.
I would like to express my profound gratitude indebtedness to Prof. H. Virupakshi Goud
and Prof Ravindra M. Gadgil faculty guides for their valuable guidance and
encouragement throughout the project.
I would like to express my profound gratitude indebtedness to Prof Vishwanath for his
valuable guidance and encouragement throughout the project.
Lastly I will like to thank my friends and family for supporting me for completing the
project and Almighty for his blessings.
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Contents
Executive summary....5
Introduction...8
Objectives of the study11
Concepts Introduced in the Study ......12
About Pioneer Investcorp.....22
Exploration and Production industry...23
About Great Offshore..32
Swot analysis of Great Offshore..34
Proposed methodology.35
Calculations and Tabulation..36
Conclusion.39
Recommendations.39
Limitations.39
Bibliography..40
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Executive Summary:
The project is in equity research. It is an approach to Fundamental Analysis to company
(Great Offshore Ltd.) valuation using Discounted Cash-Flow (DCF) model.
Investors always look for recommendations and suggestions from their brokers who have
their own set of analysts. These analysts track companies and sectors so as to take a call
for lucrative investment options for their clients. To accomplish the same, fundamental
analysis coupled with the relevant macro-economic factors are considered.
Fundamental analysis deals with evaluating the fundamentals of a company and involves
analyzing its financial statements and health, its management and competitive
advantages, and its competitors and markets. Fundamental analysis is a long term
perspective and different from technical analysis which is based on investors sentiments
and current market and stock prices movements.
Every sector is affected by some macro-economic factors more than other sectors. The
changes in any of these factors would have a bearing on the final call (buy/sell/hold)
taken by the analyst.
A Top down approach is used in the project for all information available, including
macroeconomic data, to make an investment decision. In general, fundamental analystslook first at the current macroeconomic conditions, because for them the decision to
invest depends mainly on what stage of the business cycle the economy is heading and
which industry is expected to perform well in the forecasted economic environment.
Then analysts try to find the best companies in these industries. The stock selection
process is based on the idea that the stock of the selected company must outperform its
peers in the industry and the industry must outperform other industries. Valuation is the
process of determining the intrinsic value of common stocks. The commonly accepted
theoretical principle to value any financial asset is the discounted cash flow methodology.
An asset is worth the amount of all future cash flows to the owner of this asset discounted
at an opportunity rate that reflects the risk of the investment. This fundamental principle
does not change and is valid through time and geography. A valuation model that best
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converts this theoretical principle into practice should be the most useful. Valuation
requires an estimate of the present value of all expected future cash flows to shareholders.
In other words, it involves looking into an uncertain future and making an educated guess
about the many factors determining future cash flows. Since the future is uncertain,
intrinsic value estimates will always be subjective and imprecise. Better models and
superior estimation techniques may reduce the degree of inaccuracy, but no valuation
technique can be expected to deliver a single correct intrinsic value measure.
In efficient markets price should equal intrinsic value, but fundamental analysis assumes
that value and price can deviate. It is too simplistic to assume that markets are always
efficient so that prices adjust to intrinsic value instantly.
Discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation models recognize that common stock represents
an ownership interest in a business and that its value must be related to the returns
investors expect to receive from holding it. A business generates a stream of cash flow in
its operations and as owners of the business; shareholders have a legal claim on these
cash flows. The value of a stock is therefore the share of cash flow the business generates
for its owners discounted at their required rate of return. DCF calculation involves
dividing the free cash flow to the firm (numerator) with the appropriate cost of capital
(denominator).
Estimating FCFF involves forecasting many components like revenue, depreciation,
taxes, operating expenses etc. Risk is the main concept behind the required rate of return.
It is commonly accepted that the discount rate for risky assets consists of two parts: a
risk-free rate that compensates investors for the opportunity of investing in a risk free
asset, and a risk premium compensating for bearing additional risk. The required rate of
return is therefore mainly a function of perceived risk; it translates the markets risk
preference and perception of risk into stock prices. CAPM is used for the calculation of
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the cost of equity whereas the cost of debt has been averaged out over a period of 3 years.
The determination of various costs ( equity and debt) involves assumptions like a
terminal growth rate of around 4 %, market risk free rate of around 6.5 7 %.India is
heavily dependent on imports to meet the growing demand for petroleum products and
possesses an annual average growth rate of between 6-7% compared to a world average
of 1.54%. The country is currently the 11th largest consumer of oil/gas and forecast to be
the fifth largest consumer within the next 20-years. Oil consumption is expected to grow
rapidly from a current level of 2 million bo/d to 3.2 million bo/d by 2010 and with the
country responsible for importing around 70% of its hydrocarbon requirements, the
Government recognized the need to adopt a comprehensive approach to tackle its energy
security needs and embarked on a programme to overhaul dramatically the petroleum
sector in the mid-1990s.
Realizing that an increased level of exploration activity supported by large scale capital
investment was necessary to expand domestic exploration and production, the
Government drafted an internationally competitive fiscal regime and formulated the New
Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP). As a result, ONGC and OIL had to compete with
private sector companies to obtain exploration licenses (as opposed to receiving them on
a nomination basis) and with no compulsory state participation, a level playing field was
provided for the first time between private and public sector companies. As such, India
has been rewarded with a number of significant gas discoveries in recent years which
could potentially transform the countrys energy landscape.
The company under research for the project is Great Offshore. It is India's prominent
integrated offshore oilfield services provider offering a broad spectrum of services to
upstream oil and gas producers to carry out offshore exploration and production (E&P)
activities. From drilling services to marine and air logistics, from marine construction to
port/terminal services and beyond, Great Offshore meets a wide gamut of the offshore
requirements of an E&P operator. Since commissioning its operations in 1983, Great
Offshore has serviced major E&P operators in India as well as in the international waters
of the North Sea, the Middle East, South Africa and South East Asia with its state-of-the-
art vessels that include exploratory rigs, offshore support vessels, anchor handling tug
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supply vessels and a construction barge. They also provide port and terminal support
services through a fleet of harbor tugs.
Introduction:
In his book Capital Karl Marx (Marx, 1887) uses a remarkably simple equation to
explain the capitalist system: M-C-M. In words, the capitalist starts with Money (M),
converts it into Capital (C) by investing it and ends up with More Money (M) that is in
essence the investment process. Investing is essential for the functioning of the capitalist
system. Investors provide money to entrepreneurs that build businesses to produce goods
and services demanded by society. In return for providing capital, the investor is
compensated with a share of the profits of the business.
An investment can therefore be defined as the current commitment of money for a period
of time in order to derive future payments that will compensate the investor for (1) the
time the funds are committed, (2) the expected rate of inflation, and (3) the uncertainty of
future payments or risk.
Valuation is the first step toward intelligent investing. When an investor attempts to
determine the worth of her shares based on the fundamentals, it helps her make informed
decisions about what stocks to buy or sell. Without fundamental value, one is set adrift in
a sea of random short-term price movements and gut feelings.
For years, the financial establishment has promoted the specious notion that valuation
should be reserved for experts. Supposedly, only sell-side brokerage analysts have the
requisite experience and intestinal fortitude to go out into the churning, swirling market
and predict future prices. Valuation, however, is no arcane science that can only be
practiced by MBAs and CFAs. With only basic math skills and some diligence, any Fool
can determine values with the best of them.
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Before you can value a share of stock, you have to have some notion of what a share of
stock is. A share of stock is not some magical creation that ebbs and flows like the tide;
rather, it is the concrete representation of partial ownership of a publicly traded company.
If XYZ Corp. has 1 million shares of stock outstanding and you hold a single, solitary
share that means you own a millionth of the company. Why would someone want to pay
you for your millionth? There are quite a few reasons, actually. There is always going to
be someone else who wants that millionth of the ownership because they want a millionth
of the votes at a shareholder meeting. Although its small by itself, if you combine that
millionth with about 500,000 of its friends, you suddenly have a controlling interest in the
company. That means you can make it do all sorts of things, like pay fat dividends -- or
merge with your company.
Companies buy shares in other companies for all sorts of reasons. Whether its anoutright takeover, in which a company buys all the shares, or a joint venture, in which the
company typically buys enough of another company to earn a seat on the board of
directors, the stock is always on sale. The price of a stock translates into the price of the
company, on sale for seven and a half hours a day, five days a week. It is this information
that allows other companies, public or private, to make intelligent business decisions with
clear and concise information about what another company's shares might cost them.
A share of stock is a stand-in for a share in the company's revenue, earnings, cash flow,
shareholders equity -- you name it, the whole enchilada. For the individual investor,
however, this normally means just worrying about what portion of all of those numbers
you can get in dividends. A share of ownership entitles you to a share of all dividends in
perpetuity. Even if the company's stock does not currently have a dividend yield, there
always remains the possibility that at some point in the future there could be some sort of
dividend.
However, a company can also simply repurchase its own shares using its excess cash,
rather than paying out dividends to shareholders. This effectively drives up the stockprice by providing a buyer, as well as improving earnings per share (EPS) comparisons
by decreasing the number of shares outstanding. Mature, cash flow-positive companies
tend to be much more liberal with share repurchases as opposed to dividends, simply
because dividends to shareholders get taxed twice. Securities research is a discipline
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within the financial services industry. Securities research professionals are known most
generally as "analysts," "research analysts," or "securities analysts;" all the foregoing
terms are synonymous. Securities analysts are commonly divided between the two basic
kinds of securities: equity analysts (researching stocks and their issuers) and fixed income
analysts (researching bond issuers). However, there are some analysts who cover all of
the securities of a particular issuer, stocks and bonds alike.
Securities analysts are usually further subdivided by industry specialization (or sectors) --
among the industries with the most analyst coverage are biotechnology, financial
services, energy, and computer hardware, software and services. Fixed income analysts
are also often subdivided by asset class -- among the fixed income asset classes with the
most analyst coverage are convertible bonds, high yield bonds (see high-yield debt), and
distressed bonds (see distressed securities). (Although technically not securities,syndicated bank loans typically fall within the domain of fixed income analysts, and are
covered, as if they were bonds, by reference to the industry of their borrowers or asset
class in which their credit quality would place them.)
In the broadest terms, securities analysts seek to develop, and thereafter communicate to
investors, insights regarding the value, risk, and volatility of a covered security, and thus
assist investors to decide whether to buy, hold, sell, sell short, or simply avoid the
security in question or derivative securities (see: derivative). To gather the information
required to do so, securities analysts review periodic financial disclosures (such as made
by United States-listed issuers to the S.E.C. and India-listed issuers to the SEBI) of the
issuer and other relevant companies, read industry news and use trading history and
industry information databases, interview managers and customers of the issuer, and
(sometimes) perform their own primary research.
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Objectives of Study:
Equity research is one of the most critical lines of business in the financial services
sector. Any long term and thoughtful investment decision should be preceded by a
thorough study and research about the prospective company and this can be accomplished
by fundamental analysis followed by the use of tools to zero down to a target price for the
share.
With this study one can get adequate exposure to the subject so as to enable the student to
improve and build his/her understanding in some of the most critical and important
concepts of finance.
The main objective behind carrying out this study was to find out the fair value of the
listed entity i.e. Great Offshore, and to issue investment rating to its share for the
investors based on which they can take a wise decision on their investment in the
companys equity.
This project is a tool to bring in more clarity on certain concepts like Fundamental
analysis for company valuation, Discounted cash flow, cost of capital to name a few. The
study not only strengthens the understanding of some of the accounting concepts but also
lends a practical approach to the whole learning.
It certainly enables one to relate theoretical concepts to the practicality of accounting and
valuation practices of the financial services.
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Concepts Introduced in the Study
There are two major types of analysis for predicting the performance of a company's
stock - fundamental and technical. Fundamental research is done by analyzing
companies financial information and current news flows whereas latter looks for peaks,
bottoms, trends, patterns, and other factors affecting a stock's price movement and then
making a buy/sell decision based on those factors. It is a technique many people attempt;
though very few are truly successful.
Fundamental analysis is used in this study.
Fundamental Analysis:
The underlying theme in fundamental analysis is that the true value of the firm can be
related to its financial characteristics -- its growth prospects, risk profile and cash flows.
It is the examination of the underlying forces that affect the well being of the economy,
industry groups, and companies. As with most analysis, the goal is to derive a forecast
and profit from future price movements. At the company level, fundamental analysis may
involve examination of financial data, management, business concept and competition.
At the industry level, there might be an examination of supply and demand forces for the
products offered. For the national economy, fundamental analysis might focus on
economic data to assess the present and future growth of the economy. To forecast future
stock prices, fundamental analysis combines economic, industry, and company analysis
to derive a stock's current fair value and forecast future value. If fair value is not equal to
the current stock price, fundamental analysts believe that the stock is either over or under
valued and the market price will ultimately gravitate towards fair value. Fundamentalists
do not heed the advice of the random walkers and believe that markets are weak-form
efficient. By believing that prices do not accurately reflect all available information,
fundamental analysts look to capitalize on perceived price discrepancies.
Any deviation from this true value is a sign that a stock is under or overvalued. It is a
long term investment strategy, and the assumptions underlying it are:
(a) The relationship between value and the underlying financial factors can be measured.
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(b) The relationship is stable over time.
(c) Deviations from the relationship are corrected in a reasonable time period.
Valuation is the central focus in fundamental analysis. Some analysts use discounted cashflow models to value firms, while others use multiples such as the price earnings and
price-book value ratios. Since investors using this approach hold a large number of
'undervalued' stocks in their portfolios, their hope are that, on average, these portfolios
will do better than the market. Fundamental analysis serves to answer questions, such as:
Is the companys revenue growing?
Is it actually making aprofit?
Is it in a strong-enough position to beat out its competitors in the future?
Is it able to repay its debts?
Is management trying to "cook the books"?
The various fundamental factors can be grouped into two categories: quantitative and
qualitative. The financial meaning of these terms isnt all that different from their regular
definitions. In our context, quantitative fundamentals are numeric, measurable
characteristics about a business. Its easy to see how the biggest source of quantitative
data is the financial statements. You can measure revenue, profit, assets and more with
great precision. Financial statement analysis is the biggest part of fundamental analysis.
Also known as quantitative analysis, it involves looking at historical performance data to
estimate the future performance. Followers of quantitative analysis want as much data as
they can find on revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities, and all the other financial aspects of
a company. Fundamental analysts look at this information for insight into the
performance of the firm in the future. They don't ignore the company's stock price; they
just avoid focusing exclusively on it. The following information is presented in most
financial reports, note that the order in which these are presented might vary-Summary of
the previous year, Information about the company in general, its history, products and
line of business, Letter to shareholders from the President or the CEO, An in-depth
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discussion about the financial results and other factors within the business, the complete
set of financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, statement of retained
earnings, and cash flow statement) etc.
Two Approaches to fundamental analysis are top down approach and bottom up
approach. The top down approach is a process by which one examines a particular
investment opportunity. First, one examines the general economy, then a particular
industry and, finally, individual firms within a particular industry. It assumes that both
economy/market and the industry have a substantial impact on individual stocks. In
contrast to the top down approach the bottom up approach analyzes the individual
companies to find undervalued stocks, regardless of the economy/market and the
industry.
within these industries, these macroeconomic factors should be considered before
industries are analyzed. When investors examine the economy as a whole, they must
examine certain factors that affect monetary and fiscal policy. Fiscal policy initiatives
such as tax credits or tax cuts can encourage spending, while added taxes reduce
spending. Both have an effect on the economy. Government spending also has an effect
on the economy, a strong multiplier effect. Monetary policy has an effect on the
economy. A restrictive monetary policy reduces the growth rate of the money supply. It
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reduces funds for working capital and expansion projects. This will cause interest rates to
increase; this inhibits borrowing and therefore reduces economic growth. Another
important factor to examine is the inflation rate, which has a negative effect on
investment and on exchange rates. It is important to examine all of these factors because
it is very difficult to conceive of any industry or company that can avoid the impact of
macroeconomic development that affect the total economy. Once an investment specialist
has chosen a country to invest in, he or she must determine how the portfolio will be
weighted. The investment specialist should underweight a portfolio in a country, which
has a bad economic outlook, and overweight it a country that has a strong economy.
An industry's prospects within the global business environment will determine how well
or poorly an individual firm will fare, so industry analysis should precede company
analysis. This step includes the process of scanning the economic environment forindustries that exhibit stability and growth potential. Investors may examine taxes on
goods in a particular industry, import quotas, government intervention in the market
place, the stage of the industry is in the business cycle, whether the industry is
"internationalized", and whether it is dominated by a monopoly It is just as hard for a
company to perform well in an unfavorable industry as for an monopoly. It is just as hard
for a company to perform well in an unfavorable industry as for an industry to flourish in
a poor economy. After finishing the first two steps an investor can analyze and compare
individual firms' performance within the entire industry using financial ratios and cash
flow values. There are many techniques for looking at particular companies. Investors
may use a quantitative approach, a qualitative method, or a mixture of both. The different
models for security analysis will be discussed in the next section. After a particular
company has been chosen to invest in, the investor should use common sense: Do not
invest in an industry that exhibits poor attributes or in a company that is going bankrupt.
With this said, asset allocation is a subjective process.
Turning to qualitative fundamentals, these are the less tangible factors surrounding a
business - things such as the quality of a companys board members and key executives,
its brand-name recognition,patents or proprietary technology.
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The Concept of Intrinsic Value:
One of the primary assumptions of fundamental analysis is that the price on the stock
market does not fully reflect a stocks real value. In financial jargon, this true value is
known as the intrinsic value.
For example, lets say that a companys stock was trading at Rs20. After doing extensive
homework on the company, you determine that it really is worth Rs25. In other words,
you determine the intrinsic value of the firm to be Rs25. This is clearly relevant because
an investor wants to buy stocks that are trading at prices significantly below their
estimated intrinsic value. This leads us to one of the second major assumptions of
fundamental analysis: in the long run, the stock market will reflect the fundamentals.
There is no point in buying a stock based on intrinsic value if the price never reflected
that value. Nobody knows how long the long run really is. It could be days or years.
This is what fundamental analysis is all about. By focusing on a particular business, an
investor can estimate the intrinsic value of a firm and thus find opportunities where he or
she can buy at a discount. If all goes well, the investment will pay off over time as the
market catches up to the fundamentals. The big unknowns are:
1) one doesnt know if the estimate of intrinsic value is correct; and
2) one doesnt know how long it will take for the intrinsic value to be reflected in the
marketplace.
Discounted cash flow model:
The purpose of DCF-Valuation is to determine the value of a company in terms of its
future cash flows. The cash flows are adjusted with certain items (e.g. those not related to
companys core businesses or those with no cash effect) in order to make sure the flows
reflect the actually generated cash as good as possible. In simple terms, discounted cash
flow tries to work out the value of a company today, based on projections of how much
money it's going to make in the future. DCF analysis says that a company is worth all of
the cash that it could make available to investors in the future. It is described as
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"discounted" cash flow because cash in the future is worth less than cash today.
The underlying idea of DCF-Valuation is to compute the fair value of a company i.e. the
intrinsic value of the companys share. The potential of the share price (which the
investors are particularly interested in) is then computed by comparing the fair value with
the current market price of the company's share.
As an investor, one has a lot to gain from mastering DCF analysis. For starters, it can
serve as a reality check to the fair value prices found in brokers' reports. DCF analysis
requires one to think through the factors that affect a company, such as future sales
growth and profit margins. It also makes one consider the discount rate, which depends
on a risk-free interest rate, the company's costs of capital and the risk its stock faces. All
of this will give an appreciation for what drives share value, and that means one can put a
more realistic price tag on the company's stock.
Basic formulation of Discounted cash flow valuation is as follows:
Free cash flow to firm is discounted with WACC to the Year 0 (the forecast year) in
order to get the present value of free cash flows. Cumulative discounted free cash flow is
a yearly item in which all the forecast years discounted cash flows are summed up.
Hence, the first item is the sum of all forecast years free cash flows at present value
terms. Value of equity FCFF is divided by the number of shares outstanding to get the
fair value of the companys share. EBIT is adjusted with Taxes and Share of associated
companies profit/loss in order to get Operating cash flow - the figure that reflects the
cash actually generated by the company much better than the EBIT.
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Operating cash flow is adjusted with Total depreciation to get Gross cash flow. This has
to be done because depreciation has no cash effect and thus does not really reduce the
cash generated.
Gross cash flow includes cash tied up in investments. Hence, Change in working capital
and Gross capital expenditure have to be subtracted from it and Increase in non-interest
bearing liabilities added to it in order to get Free operating cash flow.
Change in working capital appears in the calculation as minus-signed if more capital is
tied up in the business than in the previous year. Gross capital expenditure in turn is the
cash used for investments during the year. Increase in non-interest bearing liabilities is
plus-signed, since it has an opposite effect than Net working capital.
Other items include extraordinary items, which have cash affect even though they are not
important in an operational business sense.
Interest bearing debt, Cash at bank and Investments' share price impact are to be
added/subtracted from the Cumulative discounted cash flow so that the result of the
valuation is Value of equity, not Value of firm. All items except for EBIT, Share of
associated companies profit/loss and Taxes on continuing operations the model
calculates automatically. Thus, you can freely change EBIT, Share of associated
companies profit/loss and Taxes on continuing operations.
How to Value Stocks: Cash Flow-Based Valuations
Despite the fact that most individual investors are ignorant of cash flow, it is probably the
most common measurement used by investment bankers for valuing public and private
companies. Cash flow is literally the cash that flows through a company during the
course of a quarter or the year after taking out all fixed expenses. Cash flow is normally
defined as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA).
Interest income and expense, as well as taxes, are all tossed aside because cash flow is
designed to focus on the operating business and not secondary costs or profits. Taxes
especially depend on the vagaries of the laws in a given year and actually can cause
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dramatic fluctuations in earnings power. For instance, early in a company's life, it usually
loses money. When the company starts to turn a profit, it can often use those losses from
previous years to cut its taxes. That can overstate current earnings and understate its
forward earnings, masking the company's real operating situation. Thus, a canny analyst
would use the growth rate of earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) instead of net
income in order to evaluate the company's growth. EBIT is also adjusted for any one-time
charges or benefits.
As for depreciation and amortization, these are called non-cash charges, as the company
is not actually spending any money on them. Rather, depreciation is an accounting
convention for tax purposes that allows a premium to its shareholder equity -- a number
that it accounts for on its balance sheet companies to get a break on capital expenditures
as plant and equipment ages and becomes less useful. Amortization normally comes inwhen a company acquires another company at as goodwill and is forced to amortize over
a set period of time, according to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
When looking at a company's operating cash flow, it makes sense to toss aside
accounting conventions that might mask cash strength. Cash flow
is most commonly used to value industries that involve tremendous up-front capital
expenditures and companies that have large amortization burdens. Cable TV companies,
for instance, reported negative earnings for years as they made huge capital expenditures
to build their cable networks. However, their cash flow actually grew; huge depreciation
and amortization charges masked the companies' ability to generate cash. Sophisticated
buyers of these properties use cash flow as one way of pricing an acquisition, thus it
makes sense for investors to use it as well.
The most common valuation application of EBITDA, the discounted cash flow, is a
rather complicated spreadsheet exercise that defies simple explanation. Economic value
added (EVA) is another sophisticated modification of cash flow that looks at the cost of
capital and the incremental return above that cost as a way of separating businesses that
truly generate cash from ones that just eat it up.
Investors interested in going to the next level with EBITDA and looking at discounted
cash flow or EVA is encouraged to check out the bookstore or the library. Since
companies making acquisitions use these methods, it makes sense for investors to
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familiarize themselves with the logic behind them as this might enable a Foolish investor
to spot a bargain before someone else.
Applicability and Limitations of DCF Valuation
Discounted cash flow valuation is based upon expected future cash flows and discount
rates. Given these informational requirements, this approach is easiest to use for assets
(firms) whose cash flows are currently positive and can be estimated with some reliability
for future periods, and where a proxy for risk that can be used to obtain discount rates is
available. The further we get from this idealized setting, the more difficult discounted
cash flow valuation becomes. The following list contains some scenarios where
discounted cash flow valuation might run into trouble and need to be adapted.
(1) Firms in trouble: A distressed firm generally has negative earnings and cash flows. It
expects to lose money for some time in the future. For these firms, estimating future cash
flows is difficult to do, since there is a strong probability of bankruptcy. For firms which
are expected to fail, discounted cash flow valuation does not work very well, since we
value the firm as a going concern providing positive cash flows to its investors. Even for
firms that are expected to survive, cash flows will have to be estimated until they turn
positive, since obtaining a present value of negative cash flows will yield a negative1
value for equity or the firm.
(2) Cyclical Firms: The earnings and cash flows of cyclical firms tend to follow the
economy - rising during economic booms and falling during recessions. If discounted
cash flow valuation is used on these firms, expected future cash flows are usually
smoothed out, unless the analyst wants to undertake the onerous task of predicting the
timing and duration of economic recessions and recoveries. Many cyclical firms, in the
depths of a recession, look like troubled firms, with negative earnings and cash flows.
Estimating future cash flows then becomes entangled with analyst predictions about
when the economy will turn and how strong the upturn will be, with more optimisticanalysts arriving at higher estimates of value. This is unavoidable, but the economic
biases of the analyst have to be taken into account before using these valuations.
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(3) Firms with unutilized assets: Discounted cash flow valuation reflects the value of all
assets that produce cash flows. If a firm has assets that are unutilized (and hence do not
produce any cash flows), the value of these assets will not be reflected in the value
obtained from discounting expected future cash flows. The same caveat applies, in lesser
degree, to underutilized assets, since their value will be understated in discounted cash
flow valuation. While this is a problem, it is not insurmountable. The value of these
assets can always be obtained externally2, and added on to the value obtained from
discounted cash flow valuation. Alternatively, the assets can be valued assuming that they
are used optimally.
(4) Firms with patents or product options: Firms often have unutilized patents or
licenses that do not produce any current cash flows and are not expected to produce cash
flows in the near future, but, nevertheless, are valuable. If this is the case, the valueobtained from discounting expected cash flows to the firm will understate the true value
of the firm. Again, the problem can be overcome, by valuing these assets in the open
market or by using option pricing models, and then adding on to the value obtained from
discounted cash flow valuation.
(5) Firms in the process of restructuring: Firms in the process of restructuring often sell
some of their assets, acquire other assets, and change their capital structure and dividend
policy. Some of them also change their ownership structure (going from publicly traded
to private status) and management compensation schemes. Each of these changes makes
estimating future cash flows more difficult and affects the riskiness of the firm. Using
historical data for such firms can give a misleading picture of the firm's value. However,
these firms can be valued, even in the light of the major changes in investment and
financing policy, if future cash flows reflect the expected effects of these changes and the
discount rate is adjusted to reflect the new business and financial risk in the firm.
(6) Firms involved in acquisitions: There are at least two specific issues relating to
acquisitions that need to be taken into account when using discounted cash flow valuationmodels to value target firms. The first is the thorny one of whether there is synergy in the
merger and if its value can be estimated. It can be done, though it does require
assumptions about the form the synergy will take and its effect on cash flows. The
second, especially in hostile takeovers, is the effect of changing management on cash
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flows and risk. Again, the effect of the change can and should be incorporated into the
estimates of future cash flows and discount rates and hence into value.
(7) Private Firms: The biggest problem in using discounted cash flow valuation models
to value private firms is the measurement of risk (to use in estimating discount rates),
since most risk/return models require that risk parameters be estimated from historical
prices on the asset being analyzed. Since securities in private firms are not traded, this is
not possible. One solution is to look at the riskiness of comparable firms which are
publicly traded. The other is to relate the measure of risk to accounting variables, which
are available for the private firm.
The point is not that discounted cash flow valuation cannot be done in these cases, but
that we have to be flexible enough to deal with them. The fact is that valuation is simple
for firms with well defined assets that generate cash flows that can be easily forecasted.
The real challenge in valuation is to extend the valuation framework to cover firms that
vary to some extent or the other from this idealized framework.
About Pioneer Investcorp Ltd:
Incorporated on Jan. 23, 1984 Pioneer Investcorp Limited is an India-based company that
provides investment banking and financial advisory services. The Group's principal
activities are providing Project and Financial Advisory Services and Financial Solutions
for Corporate and Industrial Houses Development Projects. The Group's financial
services include Investment Banking, Research for Equity markets, Brokerage for Debt,
Equity and Derivative Markets, Portfolio Management Services (PMS), Insurance and
Risk Management Services, Private Placements of Bonds and Equities, Term Loan and
Debt Syndication and Commodities Trading. It operates under three segments: Advisory
& Merchant Banking, Income from Securities/Investment and Equity Brokerage and
related income.
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A registered merchant banker having Category-I registration from SEBI, the company
offers formulating capital structure, raising capital, debt restructuring, project financing
and other corporate advisory services like private placement of equities and other
domestic and foreign securities.
The Companys wholly owned subsidiaries include Infinity.Com Financial Securities
Ltd., Pioneer Wealth Management Services Ltd., Marine Drive Investments And Trading
Company Pvt. Ltd., Pioneer Investcorp International Ltd. and PINC Fund Advisors LLC.
In FY08, the corporate finance and advisory business exhibited a 217% increase in
revenues through a combination of high-value advisory services and finance structuring
of mid-cap companies. The company and its subsidiaries now cover all areas of the
financial sector other than foreign exchange services.
Exploration and Production industry:
The oil and gas exploration and production industry consists of about 7,000 companies
with combined annual revenue of around Rs890 million. Major companies include
Murphy Oil, Chesapeake Energy, Devon Energy, Anadarko Petroleum, and Occidental
Petroleum. Other companies include the exploration and production divisions of
integrated companies such as Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips. The industry
is moderately fragmented: 10 percent of companies generate 60 percent of revenue. A
fast-track approval mechanism was also established to help accelerate and streamline the
licensing process, thereby removing the prolonged bureaucracy that had long been
associated with contract signature. The outcome has been highly successful: since the
launch of the First Licensing Round under the NELP in January 1999, four further rounds
have been concluded, giving rise to 110 contracts (40 deep water, 32 shallow water and
38 onshore) being awarded over the last six years compared to only 22 contracts in the
preceding ten years.
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Source: E&P spends survey
This industry segment doesn't include transmission, refining, or retailing of petroleum
and natural gas products.
Competitive Landscape:
Demand is driven by economic activity, population growth, and energy efficiency for
residential, industrial, and transportation uses of oil and gas. Profitability of individual
companies is driven by the success rate of new wells drilled and the ability to increase
production from existing wells. Large companies are advantaged by access to capital,
including the ability to buy or merge smaller companies. Small companies compete by
focusing on, and developing expertise in a few geographic areas. The industry is capital
intensive: average annual revenue per employee is about Rs5 million.
Oil and gas compete with other energy sources, such as coal, nuclear power, and
hydroelectric power, for industrial and home heating applications. Renewable fuels, such
as ethanol and biodiesel, and hybrid-electric cars, which use stored electricity from
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batteries instead of or in addition to gas or diesel, are emerging alternatives for
transportation applications.
There has been a substantial increase in per capita consumption of energy in developed
nations due to increase in industrialization and consumerism. This has cascaded with the
emergence of new industrial powerhouses like China and India.
Types of offshore vessels:
Rigs
Offshore Rigs (oil rig/platform) are assets which house workers and machinery used for
extracting oil from the seabed. Rigs can be classified as deep water rigs and shallow
water rigs. Various types of rigs are:
Jack Up Rigs
These are the most commonly used rigs for drilling. This device moves from location to
location on its hull, towed by support vessels like Anchor Handling Tugs (AHT) and is
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lowered onto the drilling location using columns/legs, which touch the seabed, using a
hydraulic or electrical system. Once the columns are properly secure, the JR can be
lowered or raised depending on the drilling depth required. JRs (jack up rigs) usually
operate in shallow waters (upto 500 ft.). Globally, there are 426 JRs in operation and
most of these are >25 years old as they were built in the 80s during the oil boom. There is
an estimate of 84 JRs to be added over the next 5 years worth USD9bn. However,
demand should be sustained due to replacement and increase in exploration sites. JRs
command day rates in the range of USD70-180k/day depending on the depth to which it
can drill.
A jack-up rig
Semi Submersible Rigs
These rigs are based on a platform which has sufficient buoyancy to be stable and yet
float on the sea level. The rig is towed by support vessels like AHTs to the desired
location and then the hull is submerged below the water level to enable the rig to operate.
The rig is held in place by anchors/rope. It is used for deep water drilling and can go upto
10k feet. The demand-supply skew in this asset class is the highest due to increasing deep
water drilling. Currently, there are ~170 SS in the market operating at above 90%
utilization. There are an estimated 49 such rigs worth USD25bn under construction and
expected to commence operations over the next 5 years. However, due to buoyant
demand of such deep sea rigs, day rates are not expected to soften. These rigs command a
day rate in the range of USD 290-340k/day.
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Semi-submersible rig
Drill Ships
Drill ships are maritime vessels fitted with drilling apparatus. They are used in deep sea
drilling upto 12k feet, often in turbulent waters as they are positioned with a dynamic
positioning system (DPS) to enable accuracy of drilling at the offshore location.
Currently, there are ~40 drill ships operating in the market and another 32 DS of
USD19bn are expected to join the existing fleet in the next 5 years. DS command a day
rate in the range of USD280-330k/day.
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Offshore drilling ship
Platform Supply Vessels:
A Platform supply vessel (often abbreviated as PSV) is a ship specially designed to
supply offshore oil platforms. These ships range from 65 to 350 feet in length and
accomplish a variety of tasks. The primary function for most of these vessels is
transportation of goods and personnel to and from offshore oil platforms and other
offshore structures.
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A PSV
Apart from the above types of vessels there are also other types of offshore vessels like
fire fighting supply vessels, construction barge and multi role supply vessels etc. which
are more of support vessels.
Offshore drilling can be done in the shallow waters of the continental shelf or in deep
seas. In shallow waters up to 500 feet, a drilling rig, such as a jackup rig, is towed to the
drilling site and part of the platform sunk to the bottom. Legs are lowered from the upper
platform to the sunken platform and the upper platform is then jacked up to the desired
height above the water. Drilling is then conducted in a manner similar to onshore drilling.
In deeper waters, submersible rigs or deepwater drill ships may be used.
Demand and supply:
As the demand for oil and natural gas increases in the midst of increased consumption by
the ever so burgeoning world population, there will be a higher pressure and subsequently
higher demand for E&P activities. This increase in the E&P activities will lead to higher
demand for rigs/OSVs and other such vessels.
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On the supply side, the role of efficient and productive shipyards is critical, as these
shipyards around the world are the ones to build such vessels.
Demand and supply equation
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Demand supply dynamics
Source: http://energy.ihs.com/Resource-Center/Whitepapers/
Usually three shifts of crews are on for the offshore rigs two living aboard, the third
ashore. The shifts are rotated in two-week intervals. Large rigs can have as many as 200
workers living aboard. Wells require periodic workovers to maintain production levels.
During service, a workover rig or a smaller service unit is used to raise and lower
equipment into the well. Sand, rock, and other debris can be removed from the well using
oil- or water-based mud or nitrogen foam pumped into the well under high pressure. In
some instances, wells can be drilled nearby and water or a gas (carbon dioxide or
nitrogen) can be pumped in to drive the petroleum or natural gas toward the production
well.
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About Great Offshore:
Great Offshore is India's prominent integrated offshore oilfield services provider offering
a broad spectrum of services to upstream oil and gas producers to carry out offshore
exploration and production (E&P) activities. Great Offshore Ltd. is Indias second largest
company in the offshore services space with a fleet of 40 assets. From drilling services to
marine and air logistics, from marine construction to port/terminal services and beyond,
Great Offshore meets a wide gamut of the offshore requirements of an E&P operator.
The company has a total fleet of around 60 vessels of different types.
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Since commissioning its operations in 1983, Great Offshore has serviced major E&P
operators in India as well as in the international waters of the North Sea, the Middle East,
South Africa and South East Asia with its state-of-the-art vessels that include exploratory
rigs, offshore support vessels, anchor handling tug supply vessels and a construction
barge. We also provide port and terminal support services through a fleet of harbor tugs.
GOF is scouting for inorganic growth opportunities after the potential acquisition deal of
an offshore company (Cayman based Sea Dragon Offshore, according to media reports)
did not go through. It has also diversified its earnings profile by garnering a large marine
construction mandate. These moves showcase the companys strategy of diversifyingrevenue flows and participating in a fast growing offshore market.
Background:
Great Offshore Ltd (GOF) commenced operations in 1983 as an offshore division of
Great Eastern Shipping Co Ltd. In 2006, Great Eastern Shipping demerged its offshore
operations to form GOF. The company started with a couple of assets and various JVs to
form Indias largest offshore services company by number of vessels. It has a fleet of 40
assets, which include a Drill Barge, jack up rig, 7 PSVs, 11 AHTSVs, 3 AHTs, 2 Fire
Fighting vessels, 1 MSV, SV, heavy lift vessel, construction barge and 11 harbor tugs. Of
the total fleet of 40 vessels, all 7 PSVs, 4 of its AHTSVs and 2 FF vessels are deep water
assets. Six of its total 25 OSVs are deployed in international waters in the North Sea,
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Russia, Middle East and W. Africa while the remaining are in the domestic space. As a
logical extension of its offshore services, GOF ventured into marine construction
business in 2002. Of late, the same has gained traction with a large order from ONGC.
Swot Analysis:
Strengths
Large fleet size of 41 vessels in an attractive offshore space.
Buy back of shares at an average price of Rs 564 in July'08.
85% of the contracts are long-term with the contract period up to 5 years, indicating
more stability in revenue.
Diversification into marine engineering and port services is expected to contribute
nearly 10% and 15% to the total revenue in FY10E and FY11E.
Weaknesses
34% of the fleet is more than 20 years old.
As 85% of the fleet is on long-term contract. It may not be able to get maximum benefit
from spurting rates in spot markets.
Any major dry docking expense for its fleet may dampen profitability.
GOL is subject to exchange rate risk as its business is dollar dominated.
Opportunities
GOL may consider an acquisition or order new assets.
Securing more orders in the newly diversified sector.
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There is a natural entry barrier as the order book of most shipyards is running full till
FY12.
Threats
Damage to its rigs, which are old, will dampen revenue.
Delay in new deliveries (as proved recently by the withdrawal of the contract by ONGC
due to failure of GOL to deliver the rig named Samadh Shikhar).
Re-pricing of assets at lower than existing rates or major fall in spot market rates will
affect its revenue.
Proposed Methodology:
The offshore services sector is thoroughly studied at a macro level and then a micro level
study of the company is done. For this the financial statements like the balance sheets,
income statements (etc) along with its annual reports, and transcripts of the conference
calls with analysts are analyzed. The various financial ratios would enable us to gauge the
efficiency of the company on various important aspects.
Overall, the company level study would help in understanding the business model and the
current health of the company vis--vis the industry peers.
Then the forecasting of future cash flow for the forth coming years would be done
factoring in various factors which would impact the performance of the company ex. - the
delay in the delivery of a jack-up rig will impact the revenue for FY10 for Great Offshore
and this has to be considered while projecting revenues for FY10.Using DCF, the present
value of the company is determined and subsequently the intrinsic value of its share so as
to give a buy/sell recommendation.
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Calculations and Tabulations:
For finding out FCFF, we use the following formulae:
Free cash flow = NOPAT + Depreciation - Capital Expenditure (+) Increases
(Decreases) in Working Capital Investment
Where NOPAT = Net Operating Profit after tax = Earnings before Interest but after
Taxes
= EBIT (1- Tax rate)
EBIT = Revenue - cost of goods sold - operating expenses - depreciation
Estimation of cash flows requires NOPAT, Capital Expenditure and Net working capital.
In calculating NOPAT, interest is not deducted because the discount rate, WACC,
incorporates after-tax cost of debt. Tax rate is of approx.10.42 %.
Beta was calculated using the formulae:Co Variance (Sensex, stock)/Variance (Sensex)
The cost of equity was determined using CAPM model and was found out to be15 % and the cost of debt (after tax rate) was calculated as 6.71 %.
Assuming a terminal growth of 2 %, the terminal value was calculated using theformulae:
(CFFY11 * 1.02)
11.83 % - 2 %
Calculation of change in working progress:
Mar 08 Mar 09 Mar10E Mar 11E
Receivables 1748 2207 2646 3116
(+)Inventories 78 81 110 121(+)Loans,advc and deposits 1563 1048 1310 1688
Current assets 3389 3336 4066 4925
(-)Liabilities 1971 2301 2767 3059
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1418 1035 1299 1866
Change in WIP -383 264 567
Key Ratios Mar 06 Mar 07 Mar 08 Mar 09E Mar 10E Mar 11E
EBIDTA margin (%) 42.45 46.50 49.33 48.01 42.00 43.00
Net profit margin (%) 24.99 24.94 27.03 19.76 16.09 20.19
EPS basic 24.09 37.10 53.31 53.31 46.88 69.29
Diluted EPS 24.09 37.10 52.17 52.17
Capital employed 7870.60 12034.70 15750.80 21830.23 25566.21 25526.15
ROE 18.80 23.51 22.87 18.71 14.93 21.85
ROACE(%) 20.95 22.49 23.36 20.36 18.24 22.02
ROANW(%) 18.80 23.51 22.87 18.71 14.93 21.85
Sales/Total Assets 0.49 0.48 0.47 0.42 0.43 0.51
Debt/Equity 0.72 1.21 1.07 1.53 1.43 1.44
Current Ratio 2.05 1.46 2.68 1.74 3.58 4.26
Recievable (days) 78.81 77.72 85.55 87.00 87.00 87.00
Inventory (days) 12.67 8.31 7.66 7.00 8.00 8.00
Payable (days) 185.79 203.54 192.89 200.00 202.00 203.00
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Net working capital (days) 102.24 45.02 197.04 85.11 295.99 357.72
P/E 11.24 7.52 5.41 5.96 6.11 4.13
EV/Sales 3.44 3.01 2.27 2.58 1.74 1.24
EV/EBIDTA 8.11 6.47 4.59 5.38 4.15 2.89
Mcap/Sales 2.74 1.83 1.39 1.15 0.96 0.81
P/BV 2.11 1.77 1.24 1.12 0.91 0.90
Sales Growth(%) - 49.88 28.12 24.13 19.92 17.75
(Rs mn.) FY09 E FY10 E FY11 E
NOPAT2150 2662 3504
Depreciation1489 1692
1710
Capex + Maintenance exp. (7930) (3130) (400)
Change in Working Capital 383 (264) (567)
FCFF -3908 960 4247
Beta 1.00
Debt/Equity 1.62
WACC 11.83%
Terminal Value 44072
PV of Terminal Value 31513
Sum of PV of FCF 309
Fair Value 31822
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No. of shares outstanding 37.10
Target Value 388
(Detailed calculations are in the Excel sheet)
Conclusion:
Thus we have successfully arrived at the target price of the scrip of Great Offshore. We
see that the current market price of Great Offshore share is around Rs 353 (as of 27th
May
2009) with a PE multiple of around 6x which is 9x lower than the historical PE multiple ,
and hence we may conclude that it is under priced at the current market price levels. One
can expect the prices of this share to rise in the near future once the demand for oil in theinternational market picks up.
Recommendations:
According to the current market price levels and the calculated target price, we
recommend a BUY on Great Offshore.
Limitations of the study:
Any equity research report work requires lots of information about the company
under research which is not readily available to the common investors. Some
information which brings in more depth and accuracy in the estimation of the
future cash flows has to be availed only by contacting the concerned authorities of
the firm (e.g. expected capex or future revenues from a particular contract). The
information contained in equity research report has been obtained from sources,
which are believed to be reliable, but the accuracy or completeness of the contents
cannot be guaranteed. This study was carried out under such limitation being an
internship project.
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Assumptions taken for carrying out certain calculations like that of the cost of
equity (using CAPM) are open to modifications as these may not be completely
accurate.
Any investment recommendations in this report contain a high degree of risk and
a prospective investor is encouraged to review in detail the companys prospectus
and/or other additional information.
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