Rating Rationale
April 12, 2019 | Mumbai
Emkay Taps and Cutting Tools Limited
Rating outlook revised to 'Positive'; ratings reaffirmed
 
Rating Action
Total Bank Loan Facilities Rated Rs.11 Crore
Long Term Rating CRISIL BBB+/Positive (Outlook revised from 'Stable' and rating reaffirmed)
Short Term Rating CRISIL A2+ (Reaffirmed)
1 crore = 10 million
Refer to annexure for Details of Instruments & Bank Facilities
Detailed Rationale

CRISIL has revised its outlook on the long term bank facilities of Emkay Taps and Cutting Tools Limited (ETCTL) to 'Positive' from 'Stable' while reaffirming the rating at 'CRISIL BBB+'. The short-term rating has been reaffirmed at 'CRISIL A2+'.
 
The revision in outlook reflects expectation of continued improvement in business risk profile, marked by improvement in revenue at healthy operating profitability. The revenue increased from 45.1 crore in fiscal 2017 to Rs 54.83 crore in fiscal 2018, while operating margins remained healthy at around 42%. Growth in revenue was driven by increased offtake from existing customers leading to better capacity utilization. Further, company has reported revenue of Rs 33.6 crore for H1 of fiscal 2019 against Rs 24.77 crore for H1 of fiscal 2018. The group's financial risk profile particularly liquidity is also expected to strengthen further, despite moderate capex plans, on back of continuing healthy cash accruals.
 
Ratings continue to reflect the established position in the threading taps segment, backed by the extensive experience of the promoters and company's robust financial risk profile, driven by healthy networth and comfortable debt protection metrics, along with ample liquidity, supported by sizeable liquid investments. These strengths are partially offset by moderate scale of operations in a highly fragmented industry, and product concentration in revenue.

Key Rating Drivers & Detailed Description
Strengths
* Established market position and extensive experience of the promoters: Backed by more than 4 decades of extensive industry experience of promoters, company has established its market position in the threading taps segment of the cutting tools industry. Further, company has healthy relationship with customers (automotive original equipment manufacturers) and suppliers along with established distribution network.

* Robust financial risk profile along with ample liquidity: Company's financial risk profile continues to remain robust marked by healthy networth and low total outside liabilities to adjusted networth (Rs 103.79 crore and 0.13 times as on March 31, 2018, respectively) supported by the lower debt availed for the working capital requirement. Debt protection metrics continues to remain comfortable with interest coverage ratio and net cash accruals to adjusted debt estimated at 48.09 times and 5.3 times respectively for fiscal 2018. In addition, the company has about Rs. 70 crores of surplus as on March 2018.

Weakness
* Moderate, but increasing, scale of operations: Revenue increased over the three fiscals through 2018, but remained moderate at Rs 54.8 crore. The company is exposed to competition from players from both organized and unorganized sectors due to highly fragmented nature of the industry. Company's scale of operations is expected to improve as indicated by healthy YTD performance.

* Product concentration: The company manufactures threading taps, which requires high precision. However, product concentration restricts ability to diversify revenue stream. Further company has to maintain moderately high inventory (140-180 days over last 3 years through March 31, 2018) on account of nature of product and to meet just in time requirements.
Liquidity

ETCTL has ample liquidity driven by expected cash accruals of more than Rs. 25 crore per annum in FY19 and FY20 and cash and cash equivalents of Rs.72 crore as on March 31, 2018. The company also has access to fund based limits of Rs.6.5 crore, utilized to the tune of 18% on an average over the 18 months ended January 2019. The company has long term repayment obligation of Rs 0.7-2.6 crore and with no major capex plans over fiscal 2019 and 2020. CRISIL believes the company has sufficient accruals and cash and cash equivalents to meet its incremental working capital needs over the next one year.

Outlook: Positive

CRISIL believes that ETCTL's credit profile will continue to benefit from expected improvement in operating performance, extensive industry experience of its promoters. The rating may be upgraded in case of sustained increase in revenue with continued healthy operating profits and working capital management, leading to better business risk profile. The outlook may be revised to 'Stable' if lower than expected cash accruals or in case of higher than expected debt-funded acquisitions or capex or in case of elongation in working capital cycle resulting in deterioration of financial risk profile particularly liquidity.

About the Company

ETCTL was set up in 1976 as a proprietorship firm by Mr Ajay Prakash Kanoria, a Nagpur-based first-generation entrepreneur. The firm was reconstituted as a private limited company in 1995, and a public limited company in 2015. It is listed on NSE-Emerge. It manufactures high-speed steel (HSS) threading taps and cutting tools mainly for the automobile and auto ancillary industries. It also owns and operates wind-mills in Rajasthan (2 windmills with capacity of 0.8 MW each) and Karnataka (1.2 MW).

Key Financial Indicators
As on/for the period ended March 31 Unit 2018 2017
Revenue Rs crore 54.83 45.06
Profit After Tax (PAT) Rs crore 19.60 11.73
PAT Margin % 36.29 26.29
Adjusted debt/adjusted networth Times 0.04 0.06
Interest coverage Times 48.09 46.90

Any other information: Not applicable

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Annexure - Details of Instrument(s)
ISIN Name of instrument Date of
allotment
Coupon
rate (%)
Maturity
date
Amount
(Rs.Cr)
Rating assigned
with outlook
NA Cash Credit NA NA NA 4 CRISIL BBB+/Positive
NA Letter of Credit NA NA NA 1.35 CRISIL A2+
NA Proposed Long Term
Bank Loan Facility
NA NA NA 4.65 CRISIL BBB+/Positive
NA Term Loan NA NA Mar-2020 1 CRISIL BBB+/Positive
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  9.65  CRISIL BBB+/Positive      31-01-18  CRISIL BBB+/Stable/ CRISIL A2+      07-10-16  CRISIL BBB+/Stable/ CRISIL A2  CRISIL BBB+/Stable/ CRISIL A2 
Non Fund-based Bank Facilities  LT/ST  1.35  CRISIL A2+      31-01-18  CRISIL A2+      07-10-16  CRISIL A2  -- 
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
Cash Credit 4 CRISIL BBB+/Positive Cash Credit 2.25 CRISIL BBB+/Stable
Letter of Credit 1.35 CRISIL A2+ Letter of Credit 1.55 CRISIL A2+
Proposed Long Term Bank Loan Facility 4.65 CRISIL BBB+/Positive Packing Credit .7 CRISIL A2+
Term Loan 1 CRISIL BBB+/Positive Term Loan 6.5 CRISIL BBB+/Stable
Total 11 -- Total 11 --
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 Engineering Sector
CRISILs Criteria for rating short term debt

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