Rating Rationale
February 04, 2019 | Mumbai
Navkar Traders
Rating Reaffirmed
 
Rating Action
Total Bank Loan Facilities Rated Rs.16 Crore
Long Term Rating CRISIL BB/Stable (Reaffirmed)
Short Term Rating CRISIL A4+ (Reassigned)
1 crore = 10 million
Refer to annexure for Details of Instruments & Bank Facilities
Detailed Rationale

CRISIL has reaffirmed its 'CRISIL BB/Stable' rating on the long-term bank facility of Navkar Traders (NT; a part of the Navkar group), and assigned its 'CRISIL A4+' rating to the short-term bank facility.
 
The ratings continue to reflect the experience of promoters and their established relationships with suppliers and customers, resulting in healthy revenue. However, these strengths are partially offset by large working capital requirement, and a weak financial risk profile.

Analytical Approach

For arriving at the ratings, CRISIL has consolidated the business and financial risk profile of NT with its group entities (hereinafter referred to as the Navkar group), namely Navkar Global Infra (NGI), Cosmos Infra (CI), AS Krishna Associates Pvt Ltd (ASKPL), and Shri Sourab Sagar Trading Co (SSSTC) as the entities are in similar lines of businesses and have common management. Further, there are operational and financial linkages among the entities.
 
Unsecured loans (outstanding at Rs 2.4 crore as on March 31, 2018) extended to the group by the promoters and related parties have been treated neither as debt nor as equity. That is because these loans are low interest bearing, and should support the business over the medium term.

Please refer Annexure - List of entities consolidated , which captures the list of entities considered and their analytical treatment of consolidation.

Key Rating Drivers & Detailed Description
Strengths:
* Experience of the promoters
Benefits from the promoters' experience of around two decades, their strong understanding of local market dynamics, and healthy relations with customers and suppliers should continue to support the business.
 
* Strong relations with well reputed and established clientele
The clientele comprises well-established market leaders such as Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T; rated 'CRISIL AAA/FAAA/Stable/CRISIL A1+'), Tata Projects Ltd (rated 'CRISIL A1+'), and Ashoka Buildcon Ltd (rated 'CRISIL AA-/Stable/CRISIL A1+'). The group has business relationship of around 3-5 years with these entities which results in the group receiving repeat orders from them.
 
Weakness:
* Large working capital requirement
Operations should remain working capital intensive over the medium term, with the expected rise in scale of operations. Gross current assets were 135 days as on March 31, 2018, driven by large debtors of 110 days provided to customers. However, this is partially funded through payables of 49 days. This leads to higher dependency on bank borrowing (bank limit has been highly utilized at 91%, on average, over the 12 months through November 2018) to support the working capital.
 
* Weak financial risk profile
Financial risk profile is weak with large working capital debt. The total outside liabilities to adjusted networth ratio was 4.4 times as on March 31, 2018; the ratio should moderate over the medium term due to improved increased scale of operations followed by stable operating profit before depreciation, interest and tax margins, leading to value-added accretion to reserve. Adjusted networth was moderate at Rs 19.6 crore as on March 31, 2018, and interest coverage ratio was 1.9 times as of fiscal 2018.
Liquidity

Liquidity is likely to remain adequate over the medium term. Cash accrual is projected at Rs 4.5-5.5 crore for fiscal 2019, against repayment obligation of Rs 1.5-2 crore. Current ratio was 1.27 times as on March 31, 2018. Further, the promoters are expected to continue extending timely, need-based unsecured loans to support the business. Bank limit utilization averaged 91% for the 12 months through November 2018.

Outlook: Stable

CRISIL believes the Navkar group will continue to benefit from the experience of the promoters and established relationship with customers. The outlook may be revised to 'Positive' if a substantial and sustainable increase in revenue and profitability strengthens the financial risk profile. Conversely, the outlook may be revised to 'Negative' if a decline in revenue or profitability, or any large, debt-funded capital expedniture weakens the financial risk profile.

About the Group

The Navkar group consist of two companies & three firms engaged in trading of construction material such as coarse sand, aggregate, stone dust, m-sand, steel, cement, shuttering plywood, autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) blocks, stone dust, and fly ash. The group majorly caters to construction & cement industries.
 
ASKPL, incorporated on 22 November, 2010. AS Krishna Associates is registered in Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Core business is supply of coarse sand, fine sand, aggregates, stone dust and manufactured-sand. Mr Sanat Kumar, Mr Amit Jain, Mr Sanjay Gupta and Mr Sandeep Goyal are the directors.
 
SSSTC was incorporated on 14 March, 2012. Core business is filling sand, fine sand and aggregate. It is the major vendor for supplies of aggregates and sand. It has its own stockyard of aggregates and sand in Kundli Industrial Area, Sonepat (Haryana). It owns 30 trucks and five loaders. Presently SSSTC is managed by Mr Ajay Kumar and Ms Kusum Jain, who hold shares in ratio of 41:59, respectively.
 
NT, a proprietorship firm set up in 2007, by Mr Sanat Kumar, and is registered in Haryana, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. It mainly carries the trading business of coarse sand, aggregate, stone dust, m-sand, steel, cement, shuttering plywood, AAC blocks and flyash. NT is one of major vendors for reputed companies such as L&T, Sadbhav Engineering Ltd, BG Shirke Construction Technology Pvt Ltd, ACC Ltd, LafargeHolcim, and Ashoka Buildcon Ltd.
 
CI is a partnership formed in September 25, 2017. Its registered office is in Rohini, New Delhi. This firm trades in rori, sand, cement, dust and other building construction material. CI is presently run by Mr Sambhav Jain and Mr Ajay Kumar.
 
NGI is a partnership firm set up on January 29, 2018. Its registered office in Rohini, New Delhi. This firm trades in aggregate, dust, sand, ballast or any other related items. Mr Sanat Kumar, Mr Dharmender Sadh, and Mr Anil Sharma are the partners, sharing profit & losses in ratio of 68:16:16, respectively.

Key Financial Indicators
As on / for the period ended March 31   2018 2017
Revenue Rs crore 275.34 164.11
Profit after tax Rs crore 2.83 1.10
PAT margins % 1.0 0.7
Adjusted Debt/Adjusted Net worth Times 2.73 3.60
Interest coverage Times 1.9 1.6

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 Issue size (Rs crore) Rating assigned
with outlook
NA Cash Credit NA NA NA 9.75 CRISIL BB/Stable
NA Proposed Bill
Discounting Facility
NA NA NA 6.25 CRISIL A4+
Annexure - List of entities consolidated
Names of Entities Consolidated Extent of Consolidation Rationale for Consolidation
AS Krishna Associates Pvt Ltd Full For arriving at the ratings, CRISIL has consolidated the business and financial risk profiles of AS Krishna Associates Pvt Ltd (ASKPL), Navkar Global Infra (NGI), Cosmos Infra (CI), Navkar Traders (NT), and Shri Sourab Sagar Trading Co (SSSTC). That's because these entities, collectively referred to as Navkar Group, are in similar lines of businesses and have common management. Further, there are operational and financial linkages among the entities.
Shri Sourab Sagar Trading Co Pvt Ltd Full For arriving at the ratings, CRISIL has consolidated the business and financial risk profiles of AS Krishna Associates Pvt Ltd (ASKPL), Navkar Global Infra (NGI), Cosmos Infra (CI), Navkar Traders (NT), and Shri Sourab Sagar Trading Co (SSSTC). That's because these entities, collectively referred to as Navkar Group, are in similar lines of businesses and have common management. Further, there are operational and financial linkages among the entities.
Navkar Traders Full For arriving at the ratings, CRISIL has consolidated the business and financial risk profiles of AS Krishna Associates Pvt Ltd (ASKPL), Navkar Global Infra (NGI), Cosmos Infra (CI), Navkar Traders (NT), and Shri Sourab Sagar Trading Co (SSSTC). That's because these entities, collectively referred to as Navkar Group, are in similar lines of businesses and have common management. Further, there are operational and financial linkages among the entities.
Navkar Global Infra Full For arriving at the ratings, CRISIL has consolidated the business and financial risk profiles of AS Krishna Associates Pvt Ltd (ASKPL), Navkar Global Infra (NGI), Cosmos Infra (CI), Navkar Traders (NT), and Shri Sourab Sagar Trading Co (SSSTC). That's because these entities, collectively referred to as Navkar Group, are in similar lines of businesses and have common management. Further, there are operational and financial linkages among the entities.
Cosmos Infra Full For arriving at the ratings, CRISIL has consolidated the business and financial risk profiles of AS Krishna Associates Pvt Ltd (ASKPL), Navkar Global Infra (NGI), Cosmos Infra (CI), Navkar Traders (NT), and Shri Sourab Sagar Trading Co (SSSTC). That's because these entities, collectively referred to as Navkar Group, are in similar lines of businesses and have common management. Further, there are operational and financial linkages among the entities.
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  16.00  CRISIL BB/Stable/ CRISIL A4+      19-03-18  CRISIL BB/Stable    --    --  -- 
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 9.75 CRISIL BB/Stable Cash Credit 9.75 CRISIL BB/Stable
Proposed Bill Discounting Facility 6.25 CRISIL A4+ Proposed Fund-Based Bank Limits 6.25 CRISIL BB/Stable
Total 16 -- Total 16 --
Links to related criteria
CRISILs Approach to Financial Ratios
CRISILs Bank Loan Ratings - process, scale and default recognition
Criteria for rating trading companies
Rating criteria for manufaturing and service sector companies
CRISILs Bank Loan Ratings
CRISILs Criteria for Consolidation
Criteria for rating entities belonging to homogenous groups
The Rating Process
Understanding CRISILs Ratings and Rating Scales

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