April 26, 2013

Pravin Agarwal Director, Sterlite Technologies

Sterlite Technologies Limited announced its results for the quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2013.

Financial highlights for FY 13

Revenue growth of 23% from Rs. 2,727 croes in FY 12 to Rs. 3,354 crores in FY 13.
Highest volumes for all businesses including both power and telecom segments
EBITDA of Rs. 260 crores, PAT of Rs. 47 crores.
Telecom business revenues of Rs. 1,056 crores at an EBITDA margin of 16 %.
Power business revenues of Rs. 2,230 crores at an EBITDA margin of 4%.
International sales revenues of about Rs. 950 crores; approximately 28 % of net revenues.
The Board has recommended a dividend of 15% for the year, subject to approval from shareholders.

At the start of FY14, the Company has a decent order book size of about Rs. 1,900 crores for its telecom and power products, of which the export order book is about Rs. 470 crores.

Business highlights in FY 13

More than 5% of the revenues this fiscal have come from new products enabling the customers to reduce their losses and total cost of ownership while ensuring high speed data and power transmission.
Sales to customers in almost 60 countries across the world together for both the segments.
The company was also granted 1 more patent in FY 13; taking the total up to 46 patents granted in USA, Europe, India & China.

Telecom Business

The fiber industry has been growing year on year and 2012 saw the peak demand in the industry of 250 million fkm. This is a growth of about 10% from the previous year and a decent global growth is also anticipated for 2013.
The segment being highly exports driven, had almost 60% of the sales coming from global markets.
Jiangsu Sterlite Tongguang Fiber Co. Ltd., the joint venture company formed between Sterlite and Jiangsu Tongguang Communication Co Ltd commenced production of optical fiber at the new facility located in Haimen, Jiangsu Province, China.
Within year the Company enhanced its telecom portfolio with the launch of a new product – 96F/288F dry core Ribbon cables in the telecom segment for faster installation in dense city requirements.
The company is involved in several landmark Fibre-to-theHome (FTTH) deployments, as FTTH continues to be an important growth driver of its business. In the Netherlands Sterlite has over 10,000 connected homes.

Power Business

The global power transmission industry continues to show signs of growth at a macro level, with some geographies being prime driver of demand. The overall transmission conductor market is estimated at around 4.4 million MT/annum with China and India taking more than 50% of the world market. With a generation capacity addition plan of 75 GW in India as per the 12th five year plan (2012-17), the country is expecting an addition of around 100,000 circuit km of transmission lines along with 270,000 MVA of substation capacity.
The company over the years has maintained its leadership position with the central utility PGCIL and has achieved the same in FY 13 as well. While the strategy going forward will be the same for PGCIL, as a company the focus has been to diversify the customer base and geographical spread. The highlight for this segment this year has been the fact that the current order book of the company boasts of highest ever Non-PGCIL order book of about 90,000 MT.
Sterlite also executed several small projects which required high performance conductors for increased flow of electricity across choked corridors in the country.

Infrastructure Business

In line with the long-term strategy, the company had forayed into Build Operate Own and Maintain (BOOM) model of transmission lines in 2010. The company is happy to report that the first line of the East-North Interconnection Company Limited (ENICL) has almost reached to a completion stage which will start generating revenues from Q1 FY 14.
Sterlite also achieved financial closure through its wholly owned subsidiaries – Bhopal-Dhule Transmission Company Limited and Jabalpur Transmission Company Limited (JTCL) – for two grid projects in India.
Execution of both BDTCL and JTCL projects is in full steam and is being managed by a dedicated team. JTCL has already started the stringing activity on 765kV single circuit Jabalpur-Bina transmission line (Package A) project

Awards & Certifications

EMC2 award 2012 (Transform IT +Business) received for innovative solutions in IT, product integrations and applications that have created business value & agility.
ISO 27001:2005 certification for all operating units.
Voice & Data “Top Telecom Cable Company 2011-12” award for being India’s biggest player in FY 2011-12

Says Pravin Agarwal, Director, Sterlite Technologies, “The fiscal year 2012-13 has been a year with focused efforts in moving in line with the vision and goals of the company. With continued focus on technology and newer product designs, the company is well positioned to serve our customers towards their growth.”