Rating Rationale
September 17, 2020 | Mumbai
Jatin & Company
Suspension revoked; 'CRISIL BB-/Stable/CRISIL A4+' assigned to bank debt
 
Rating Action
Total Bank Loan Facilities Rated Rs.27.6 Crore
Long Term Rating CRISIL BB-/Stable (Assigned; Suspension Revoked)
Short Term Rating CRISIL A4+ (Assigned; Suspension Revoked)
1 crore = 10 million
Refer to annexure for Details of Instruments & Bank Facilities
Detailed Rationale

CRISIL has revoked the suspension of its ratings on the bank facilities of Jatin & Company (JC) and has assigned its 'CRISIL BB-/Stable/CRISIL A4+' ratings to the bank facilities of JC. CRISIL had suspended the ratings on October 3rd, 2016 on account of non-cooperation by JC with CRISIL efforts to undertake a view of the ratings. JC has now shared the requisite information enabling CRISIL to assign its ratings.
 
The ratings reflect JC's extensive industry experience of the promoters and moderate networth and capital structure. These strength are partially offset by its susceptibility to susceptibility to price volatility risk, working capital intensive operations, and average debt protection metrics.

Analytical Approach

Unsecured loans from promoters Rs 9.41 crores is treated as neither debt nor equity since it is estimated to be retained in business for the medium term.

Key Rating Drivers & Detailed Description
Strengths: 
* Extensive industry experience of the partners: The partners have an experience of over 30 years in processing of agro products. This has given them an understanding of the dynamics of the market, and enabled them to establish relationships with suppliers and customers.
 
* Moderate networth and capital structure: JC's networth is estimated to be moderate at Rs 12.07 crores and total outside liability to adjusted networth (TOL/ANW) of 2.52 times estimated as on March 31, 2020. In absence of any major increase in reliance on outside borrowings capital structure is estimated to remain moderate over the medium term.
 
Weaknesses:
* Susceptibility to price volatility risk: The price volatility risk is attributed to agro-climatic risk which is dependent on adequate and climatic condition. Thus, JC is exposed to the risk of limited availability of its key raw material during a weak climatic condition. Also raw material price is linked to international prices of commodity.
 
* Working capital intensive operations: Gross current assets are estimated at 552 days as on March 31, 2020. It's large working capital requirements arise from its high debtor (149 days) and inventory levels (165 days). It is required to extend long credit period. Furthermore, due to its business need, it hold large work in process & inventory. Lower support from creditors have led to high reliance on bank lines.

* Average debt protection metrics: Interest coverage and net cash accruals to total debt is average at 1.39 times and 0.03 time estimated in fiscal 2020. Going forward, debt protection metrics is estimated remain average as reliance on outside borrowings are significant.
Liquidity Stretched

JC has average liquidity driven by expected cash accruals of more than Rs 0.6-0.8 crores per annum in fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2022 against which repayment obligation is around Rs 0.1 cr and Rs 0.21 cr in the respective year. Cash and cash equivalents is estimated around Rs 3 crores as on March 31, 2020. JC also has access to fund based limits of Rs. 20 crores, utilized to the tune of 99% on an average over the 12 months ended June 2020. No major capex plans expected in the medium term. CRISIL expects internal accruals, cash & cash equivalents and unutilized bank lines to be sufficient to meet its repayment obligations as well as incremental working capital requirements.

Outlook: Stable

CRISIL believe JC will continue to benefit from the extensive experience of its partner, and established relationships with clients.

Rating Sensitivity factors
Upward factor
* Increase in scale of operation or operating margin, improving its net cash accruals to above Rs 1.5 -2.0 crores
* Improvement in working capital management
 
Downward factor
* Decline in scale of operation or operating margin weakening net cash accruals to below Rs 0.4 crore
* Deterioration in TOL/ANW to above 3.5 time
About the Firm

JC was establish in 1979. JC is owned & managed by Mr. Jatin J. Bhuta and Mr. Tushar J. Bhuta. JC is engaged in exports of agricultural commodities such as basmati rice, mustard seeds, black pepper, cardamom, cashew, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, fenugreek seeds, red chillies and turmeric fingers & powder, coriander seeds & powder. JC sorting & packing facility is located in Karnal, Haryana with an installed capacity of 5000 MTPA.

Key Financial Indicators
As on/for the period ended March 31  Unit 2020 2019
Operating income Rs.Crore 33.45 34.18
Reported profit after tax Rs.Crore 0.77 0.54
PAT margins % 2.30 1.57
Adjusted Debt/Adjusted Networth Times 2.95 2.86
Interest coverage Times 1.36 0.92

Status of non cooperation with previous CRA
JC has not cooperated with Credit Analysis & Research Ltd. (CARE) which has classified it as non-cooperative vide release dated 15-Apr-2020. The reason provided by CARE is non-furnishing of information for monitoring of ratings.

Any other information: Not applicable

Note on complexity levels of the rated instrument:
CRISIL complexity levels are assigned to various types of financial instruments and are included (where applicable) in the Annexure -- Details of Instrument in this Rating Rationale. For more details on the CRISIL complexity levels, please visit www.crisil.com/complexity-levels.
Annexure - Details of Instrument(s)
ISIN Name of instrument Date of allotment Coupon rate (%) Maturity date Issue size (Rs.Crore) Complexity level Rating assigned with outlook
NA Foreign Bill Discounting NA NA NA 13 NA CRISIL BB-/Stable
NA Packing Credit NA NA NA 10 NA CRISIL A4+
NA Proposed Working Capital Facility NA NA NA 3.1 NA CRISIL BB-/Stable
NA Term Loan NA NA Mar-2025 1.5 NA CRISIL BB-/Stable
Annexure - Rating History for last 3 Years
  Current 2020 (History) 2019  2018  2017  Start of 2017
Instrument Type Outstanding Amount Rating Date Rating Date Rating Date Rating Date Rating Rating
Fund-based Bank Facilities  LT/ST  27.60  CRISIL BB-/Stable/ CRISIL A4+                  Suspended/ Suspended 
Non Fund-based Bank Facilities  LT/ST     --                 Suspended 
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
Foreign Bill Discounting 13 CRISIL BB-/Stable -- 0 --
Packing Credit 10 CRISIL A4+ -- 0 --
Proposed Working Capital Facility 3.1 CRISIL BB-/Stable -- 0 --
Term Loan 1.5 CRISIL BB-/Stable -- 0 --
Total 27.6 -- Total 0 --
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 Retailing Industry
CRISILs Criteria for rating short term debt

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