Rating Rationale
December 13, 2019 | Mumbai
Datamatics Global Services Limited
Rating Reaffirmed and Withdrawn
 
Rating Action
Total Bank Loan Facilities Rated Rs.50 Crore
Short Term Rating CRISIL A1 (Rating Reaffirmed and Withdrawn)
1 crore = 10 million
Refer to annexure for Details of Instruments & Bank Facilities
Detailed Rationale

CRISIL has reaffirmed its rating on the bank facilities of Datamatics Global Services Limited (DGSL) and subsequently withdrawn the rating at the company's request and on receipt of a no-objection certificate from the bankers. The withdrawal is in line with CRISIL's policy on withdrawal of bank loan ratings.
 
The rating continues to reflect the Datamatics group's healthy financial risk profile and strong relationships with customers, supported by the promoter's extensive experience in the information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services (ITES) industry. These strengths are partially offset by exposure to intense competition and geographic concentration risk in revenue.

Analytical Approach

CRISIL has combined the business and financial risk profiles of DGSL, with DGSL's wholly owned subsidiaries. Team has amortised the goodwill pertaining to the acquisition of CIGNIX, Vista, Cybercom & Lexicon Publication Services Private Limited (LPSPL) over a five year period.

Key Rating Drivers & Detailed Description
Strengths
*Healthy financial risk profile
Financial risk profile is healthy, and should remain so over the medium term, backed by steady cash accrual of about 110-120 cr and the absence of any debt-funded capital expenditure. Networth and gearing were robust as on September 30, 2019. Debt protection metrics were strong, too with interest coverage and net cash accrual to total debt was steady at 32.51 times and 2.59 times as on Sep 30, 2019 as compared to 30.51 times and 3.13 times on March 31, 2019.
 
*Healthy relationships with customers, supported by the extensive experience of the promoter
The group's founder chairman, Mr Lalit Kanodia, was also the co-founder of Tata Consultancy Services, which he served till 1970 before establishing the Datamatics group. His experience of more than four decades has helped forge healthy relationships with customers, and develop an established presence in the digital publishing (which is expected to be demerged under Lumina) and banking, financial services, and insurance domains.
 
Weaknesses
*Geographic concentration in revenues
Around 56% of the revenue is derived from the US-like with many peers in the industry-rendering the business vulnerable to regulatory changes in the country. While the company has been expanding into newer geographies, the US will continue to be its main market over the medium term, leading to geographic concentration risk in revenue.
 
*Exposure to intense competition
Business environment for the IT industry continues to be challenging. Indian IT players have, therefore, been scaling up operations, moving towards value-added solution-oriented digital services, and improving their cost economics. Given the competiveness in IT and ITES industry, service quality, reliability, and breadth of services determines margins. Hence, players need to realign their product offerings and cost structure, and improve operating efficiency to ensure growth and profitability are not constrained.
About the Group

The DGSL group was set up in 1987 by Dr Lalit Kanodia. It provides non-voice business process outsourcing and software development services in the areas of content management, accounts and finance, research and analytics, telecommunications-embedded solutions, product management, independent testing, and enterprise applications. The group is headquartered in Mumbai and is present in the US, the UK, Germany, Australia, Mauritius, and Switzerland through its subsidiaries.

Key Financial Indicators
As on March 31, Unit 2019 2018
Revenue Rs .Cr 1133 910
Profit After Tax^ Rs. Cr 64 45
PAT Margins % 5.6 5.0
Adjusted debt/Adjusted Networth^ Times 0.12 0.26
Interest Coverage Times 24.14 20.75
^CRISIL adjusted numbers on account of goodwill amortization
 
Year to Date Figures
For the 6 months ended Unit Sep 30, 2019 Sep 30, 2018
Revenue Rs .Cr 587 541
PAT Rs. Cr 42 45
PAT margins % 7.2 8.3
Interest Coverage Times 32.51 29.44

Any other information: Not applicable

Note on complexity levels of the rated instrument:
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Annexure - Details of Instrument(s)
ISIN Name of Instrument Date of Allotment Coupon Rate (%) Maturity Date Issue Size
(Rs.Cr)
Rating Assigned
with Outlook
NA Packing Credit# NA NA NA 20 Withdrawn
NA Packing Credit NA NA NA 15 Withdrawn
NA Proposed Short Term Bank Loan Facility NA NA NA 15 Withdrawn
#Interchangeable with overdraft to the extent of Rs 5 crore, import letter of credit to the extent of Rs 3 crore, and bank guarantee to the extent of Rs 3 crore.
 
Annexure - List of entities consolidated
Subsidiaries Extent of consolidation Rationale for consolidation
Cignex Datamatics Corporation Full Step Down subsidiary
Cignex Datamatics GMBH Full Step Down subsidiary
Cignex Datamatics Pte Ltd Full Step Down subsidiary
Cignex Datamatics UK Limited Full Step Down subsidiary
Cignex Datamatics Inc USA Full Step Down subsidiary
Cignex Datamatics Technologies Limited Full Step Down subsidiary
Duo Consulting Inc Full Step Down subsidiary
Cybercom Datamatics Information Solutions Limited Equity Method Joint Venture
Datamatics Global Services FZ-LLC Full Wholly owned subsidiary
Datamatics Global Services Inc Full Wholly owned subsidiary
Datamatics Global Services Pty Limited Full Wholly owned subsidiary
Datamatics Global Technologies Ltd Full Wholly owned subsidiary
Datamatics Global Technologies AG Full Wholly owned subsidiary
Datamatics Global Technologies GMBH Full Wholly owned subsidiary
Datamatics Digital Limited Full Wholly owned subsidiary
Lumina Datamatics GMBH Full Step Down subsidiary
Lumina Datamatics Inc Full Step Down subsidiary
Lumina Datamatics Limited Full Wholly owned subsidiary
LDR eRetail Limited Full Step Down subsidiary
LD Publishing and eRetail Limited Full Wholly owned subsidiary
Attune infocom Pvt Ltd Full Wholly owned subsidiary
Datamatics Staffing Services Limited Full Step Down subsidiary
Datamatics Robotics Software Limited Full Step Down subsidiary
RJ Globus Solutions Pvt Ltd Full Step Down subsidiary
TechJini Inc Full Step Down subsidiary
Datamatics Global Services Corporation Full Step Down subsidiary
Datamatics Robotics Software Inc Full Step Down subsidiary
RJ Globus Inc Full Step Down subsidiary
RJ Globus Solutions Inc Full Step Down subsidiary
Lumina Datamatics Assessment and Analytics LLC Full Step Down subsidiary
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  50.00  Withdrawn      21-12-18  CRISIL A1  19-05-17  CRISIL A1  08-02-16  CRISIL A1  CRISIL A1 
            28-03-18  CRISIL A1           
Non Fund-based Bank Facilities  LT/ST    --    --    --    --    --  CRISIL A1 
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
Packing Credit# 20 Withdrawn Packing Credit# 20 CRISIL A1
Packing Credit 15 Withdrawn Packing Credit 15 CRISIL A1
Proposed Short Term Bank Loan Facility 15 Withdrawn Proposed Short Term Bank Loan Facility 15 CRISIL A1
Total 50 -- Total 50 --
#Interchangeable with overdraft to the extent of Rs 5 crore, import letter of credit to the extent of Rs 3 crore, and bank guarantee to the extent of Rs 3 crore.
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
Rating Criteria for Software Industry
CRISILs Criteria for Consolidation

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