Rating Rationale
August 13, 2019 | Mumbai
DCM Limited
Ratings Continues on 'Watch Negative' 
 
Rating Action
Total Bank Loan Facilities Rated Rs.375.88 Crore
Long Term Rating CRISIL BB+ (Continues on 'Rating Watch with Negative Implications')
Short Term Rating CRISIL A4+ (Continues on 'Rating Watch with Negative Implications')
1 crore = 10 million
Refer to annexure for Details of Instruments & Bank Facilities
Detailed Rationale

CRISIL's ratings on the bank facilities of DCM Limited (DCM) remain on 'Rating Watch with Negative Implications'.

CRISIL had, on October 28, 2016, placed the ratings on watch following the company's announcement of a composite scheme(s) of arrangement after its board meeting on October 15, 2016. As per the announcement, the business was being restructured, and involved DCM, DCM Realty and Infrastructure Ltd (DRIL; wholly owned subsidiary of DCM, incorporated on October 6, 2016), Purearth Infrastructure Ltd (PIL), TIARA Investment Holdings (TIH), and DCM Nouvelle Ltd (DNL; wholly owned subsidiary of DCM).

On February 11, 2019, keeping in view the observations made by the stock exchanges / Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on the aforesaid composite scheme in the current form, and the resultant delay in obtaining a no-objection certificate from them, the board of directors decided to withdraw the scheme for the real estate division and carried out the demerger process only for the textile division, which was carved out from DCM to form DNL.

On May 01, 2019, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has sanctioned the aforesaid scheme of carving out the textile division. DCM received the certified copy of the order from NCLT on May 10, 2019. However, currently, the individual financials for the demerged entities are awaited.

CRISIL is in discussion with the management to ascertain the impact of the updated composite scheme(s) of arrangement on DCM's financials. CRISIL is closely monitoring the company's credit risk profile, and will take a final rating action once there is clarity.

The ratings continue to reflect the extensive experience of the promoters and DCM's moderate financial risk profile. These strengths are partially offset by moderate debt protection metrics, stretched working capital cycle, and susceptibility to volatile cotton yarn prices and continues off take from the automobile sector.

Key Rating Drivers & Detailed Description
Strengths
* Extensive experience of the promoters: The present management comprises the fourth generation of the promoter family. Over the years, the group has diversified into real estate, engineering, and information technology segments, and forged healthy relationships with customers and suppliers.
 
* Moderate financial risk profile: The financial risk profile is marked by a healthy adjusted networth of Rs 194.2 crore and total outside liabilities to adjusted networth ratio of 2 times as on March 31, 2019. Financial risk profile is expected to remain moderate in FY 20
 
Weaknesses
* Moderate debt protection metrics: Debt protection metrics are moderate, with interest coverage and net cash accrual to total debt ratios at 2.4 and 0.17 times, respectively, for fiscal 2019.
 
* Working capital-intensive operations: Gross current assets stood at 123 days as on March 31, 2019, due to large inventory of 84 days and receivables of 33 days. Working capital management was however, aided by payables of 48 days extended by suppliers.
 
* Vulnerability to fluctuations in cotton yarn prices, and continuity in sales to the automobile sector: Susceptibility to fluctuations in raw material prices and to continuity in sales to the automobile sector continue to constrain operations margin. The margin has fluctuated between 2.3 and 7.2% in the five fiscals through March 2019 (combining the business and financial risk profiles of DCM and DCM Engineering Ltd [DCME] for fiscals before 2016).
Liquidity

Liquidity is moderate marked by bank limit utilisations of 55 per cent for textile division for 9 months ending December 2018 and 94 per cent for the engineering division for the past 10 months ending Jan 2019. Current ratio was at 1.1 times as on March 31st 2019. 

About the Company

Set up by the late Mr Lala Shriram in 1889, DCM (formerly, Delhi Cloth and General Mills Company Ltd) is currently headed by Dr Vinay Bharat Ram. The company manufactures cotton yarn at its unit in Hissar, with 114,000 spindles. It is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange. It provides services such as system administration, storage management, backup recovery, disaster management, and databases in the IT infrastructure services segment. DCM also has presence in real estate.

The engineering products division was set up in 1974, in Ropar (Punjab), as a division of DCM. The division was hived off into DCME in 2004, following the restructuring of DCM's debt. DCME was merged with DCM in fiscal 2016. The engineering division is one of India's large independent manufacturers of grey iron castings, supplied to automotive players (cars, multi-utility vehicles, tractors, light commercial vehicles, heavy commercial vehicles, and earth-moving equipment). DCM also specialises in cylinder heads, cylinder blocks, and housing.

Key Financial Indicators
As on/for the period ended March 31 Unit 2019 2018
Operating income Rs crore 1100.04 960.20
Reported PAT Rs crore 2.00 -35.54
PAT margin % 0.18 -3.7
Adjusted debt/adjusted networth Times 1.09 1.51
Interest coverage Times 2.40 1.03

Any other information: Not applicable

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Annexure - Details of Instrument(s)
ISIN Facility Date of Allotment Coupon rate (%) Maturity date Amount
(Rs.Cr)
Rating assigned with outlook
NA Bill Discounting NA NA NA 15 CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative
NA Cash Credit NA NA NA 190 CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative
NA Letter of credit & Bank Guarantee NA NA NA 13.25 CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative
NA Long-Term Loan NA NA Jan-2023 100.51 CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative
NA Overdraft NA NA NA 9 CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative
NA Proposed Long Term Bank Loan Facility NA NA NA 48.12 CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative
Annexure - Rating History for last 3 Years
  Current 2019 (History) 2018  2017  2016  Start of 2016
Instrument Type Outstanding Amount Rating Date Rating Date Rating Date Rating Date Rating Rating
Fund-based Bank Facilities  LT/ST  362.63  CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative/ CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  20-05-19  CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative/ CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  21-11-18  CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative/ CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  08-12-17  CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative/ CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  28-10-16  CRISIL BBB-/Watch Negative/ CRISIL A3/Watch Negative  CRISIL BBB/Stable/ CRISIL A3+ 
        20-02-19  CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative/ CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  28-08-18  CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative/ CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  12-09-17  CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative/ CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  29-01-16  CRISIL BBB-/Negative/ CRISIL A3   
        13-02-19  CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative/ CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  29-05-18  CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative/ CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  09-06-17  CRISIL BBB-/Watch Negative/ CRISIL A3/Watch Negative  19-01-16  CRISIL BBB-/Negative/ CRISIL A3   
            08-03-18  CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative/ CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  25-05-17  CRISIL BBB-/Watch Negative       
                17-05-17  CRISIL BBB-/Watch Negative       
                07-02-17  CRISIL BBB-/Watch Negative/ CRISIL A3/Watch Negative       
Non Fund-based Bank Facilities  LT/ST  13.25  CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  20-05-19  CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  21-11-18  CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  08-12-17  CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  28-10-16  CRISIL A3/Watch Negative  CRISIL A3+ 
        20-02-19  CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  28-08-18  CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  12-09-17  CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  29-01-16  CRISIL A3   
        13-02-19  CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  29-05-18  CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  09-06-17  CRISIL A3/Watch Negative  19-01-16  CRISIL A3   
            08-03-18  CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative  25-05-17  CRISIL A3/Watch Negative       
                17-05-17  CRISIL A3/Watch Negative       
                07-02-17  CRISIL A3/Watch Negative       
All amounts are in Rs.Cr.
 
Annexure - Details of various bank facilities
Current facilities Previous facilities
Facility Amount (Rs.Crore) Rating Facility Amount (Rs.Crore) Rating
Bill Discounting 15 CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative Bill Discounting 15 CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative
Cash Credit 190 CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative Cash Credit 190 CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative
Letter of credit & Bank Guarantee 13.25 CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative Letter of credit & Bank Guarantee 13.25 CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative
Long Term Loan 100.51 CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative Long Term Loan 100.51 CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative
Overdraft 9 CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative Overdraft 9 CRISIL A4+/Watch Negative
Proposed Long Term Bank Loan Facility 48.12 CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative Proposed Long Term Bank Loan Facility 48.12 CRISIL BB+/Watch Negative
Total 375.88 -- Total 375.88 --
Links to related criteria
CRISILs Approach to Financial Ratios
CRISILs Bank Loan Ratings - process, scale and default recognition
Rating criteria for manufaturing and service sector companies
CRISILs Approach to Recognising Default
CRISILs Criteria for rating short term debt

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