Our 12th company in the Series of Best Stocks to Buy in India for Long term 2022 is GAIL (India) Ltd.
This company is good for investing purpose or not ?
Let’s start with the Company profile
Company Profile :
GAIL (India) Limited is an integrated energy company in the hydrocarbon sector. The Company’s products and services include natural gas marketing and transmission, petrochemicals, and liquid hydrocarbons production (LPG, propane and naphtha).
Now Let’s check the important fundamental figures of this company. This is a large cap company with Market Cap ₹56,681cr. We can check more fundamental details below in depth:
Company Fundamental Detail :
PE Ratio: 9.24
Sector PE Ratio: 25.60
PE Ratio of this company is low than Sector’s PE. So it’s a Good PE than the peers of this company.
PB Ratio : 1.06
Sector PB Ratio : 2.84
PB Ratio of this company is low than Sector’s PB ratio. So it’s Average PB than the peers of this company.
Dividend Yield : 3.92%
Sector Dividend Yield : 1.53%
Dividend of this company is high than Sector’s dividend. So it’s Good PB than the peers of this company.
ROE: 10.49%
ROCE: 10.53%
ROE (Return on equity) and ROCE (Return on capital equity) is Below Average
According to above data, this company is looking fundamentally average. Now We’ll check the company Financially data:
Company Financial Detail
| Year | Revenue(cr.) | Profit(cr.) |
| 2021 | 60,210.92 | 6,136.35 |
| 2020 | 76,313.41 | 9,422.05 |
| 2019 | 78,181.88 | 6,545.74 |
| 2018 | 55,468.81 | 4,799.07 |
We should check now liabilities of company also in the below table
Total Current & Non Current Liabilities
| 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
| 28,125.64 | 25,578.49 | 22,376.32 | 19,635.19 |
Liabilities of a company refers to the debt of that company. We should also aware the debt of company. In 2021 , Company have 28,125.64 Cr. debt.
Let’s check the Free Cash flow of the company
Free Cash flow
| 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
| 3,296.19 | -917.58 | 188.39 | 5,366.67 |
Debt Level: GAIL’s net debt to equity ratio (8.3%) is considered satisfactory.
Reducing Debt: GAIL’s debt to equity ratio has reduced from 19.8% to 11.7% over the past 5 years.
Debt Coverage: GAIL’s debt is well covered by operating cash flow (114.3%).
Interest Coverage: GAIL earns more interest than it pays, so coverage of interest payments is not a concern.
Share Holding Pattern
| Promotor Holding | Foreign Institution | Mutual Fund | Other Domestic Institutions | Retail & Others | |
| Jun 2021 | 51.85% | 18.36% | 9.17% | 8.55% | 12.08% |
| Mar 2021 | 51.83% | 16.96% | 8.67% | 10.36% | 12.18% |
| Dec 2020 | 51.83% | 15.63% | 8.52% | 10.53% | 13.50% |
| Sep 2020 | 52.12% | 15.62 | 9.86% | 10.02% | 12.38% |
Above table showing there is no big change in Promotors holding which is 51.85% in June 2021. FIIs invested in June 2021 with 18.36% and retail investor is 12.08%.
Now We’ll check the return of the company, This company given 0.94% returns in last 1 year from 2020 to 31 Dec 2021.
Investment Checklist for GAIL (India) Ltd.
- The company is currently profitable
- Earnings are forecast to decline by an average of 6.9% per year for the next 3 years
- Debt level is low and not considered a risk
- Share price has been stable over the past 3 months
- The company’s earnings are high quality
- Profit margins decreased but not substantially
- They have sufficient analyst coverage
- No concerning events detected
- Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year or recently listed
- Revenue is meaningful (₹707B)
- Market cap is meaningful (₹574B)
- GAIL does not have negative shareholders equity.
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