Delivered at an IIF in Hyderabad. Name the seven companies listed here in the Case Studies section. Would be glad to receive your emails.

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Decoding Investment in Equity Market
Significance of Operating Cash Flow (CFO/OCF)
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- Very quickly understand: What’s OCF and why it is
important
- Exception and other parameters to look for
- Case studies
What we are covering?

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Cash flow concept

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A Scooter Manufacturer… A quick example
Cash
Credit
Cash recorded
in OCF
P&L
Sales, Profits
recognized
Cash
Received
Yes Bad debts
No
Warning sign:
Check Receivables…

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Exceptions
- Companies that sells more and more cash through lending
- e.g.: Banks and Financial Institutions
Other helpful parameters along with OCF
- Interest paid v/s net profit
(a ratio of more than 0.4/0.5 is risk)
- Equity dilution?
- Promoters unpledged holding in the company
- Trend in receivables
- Investing and financial cash flows
Exceptions

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Case Studies

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Case 1: A vertically integrated multinational medical
technology Group
From Rs140 to
now Rs25

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Case 2: Education and training company based in Chennai
 ‘Darling’ of punters
 Several stories around the business model
 FII holding close to 28% (now less than 1.4%)
 Some prominent names on the board could also
not save it
 CBI caught one of the directors of the company
in a bribery case
Parameter Mar-11 Mar-10 Mar-09 Mar-08
Net Profit 67.64 45.45 22.08 13.8
CFO 16.01 25.13 -8.98 13.31
Signal
In INR Crs
Poor
shareholding
pattern
From Rs350 to
now Rs23

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Case 3: a leader in the Security Surveillance domain, the first
company of its kind to be
 “Big names” leaving dangerously
 Promoters holding 21% (unpledged 8.4%)
 Big stories =>
poor cash flow & receivables numbers
In INR Crs
Parameter March-08 March-09 March-10 March-11 March-12 March-13 March-14 March-15
Net Profit 1.45 19.36 15.03 44.46 16.84 30.32 41.94 50.59
CFO -9.02 -40.41 0.46 -114.28 -15.53 -42.34 2.87 -51.66
Signal
Parameter March-12 March-13 March-14 March-15
Share Capital 12.7 17 17.6 20.2
Borrowings 160.37 318.3 436.82 555.7
Equity dilution
+
Borrowings
From 185 to 45 in no time

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Case 4: A ‘fast growing’ Indian Pharmaceutical company
 A recent casualty
 Analysts/research house giving aggressive
targets
 Several stories around the company
 Promoters pledged the shares
In INR Crs
Parameter Jun-13 Jun-12 Jun-11 Jun-10 Jun-09 Jun-08
Net profit 53.71 42.77 33.18 22.33 18.63 27.19
CFO -70.44 -53.43 -35.84 -28.11 -50.78 -40.46
Signal
Poor
shareholding
pattern
From 75 to 11 in no time

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Case 5: Unified Supply Chain & Infrastructure Group
From Rs140 to
now Rs30
Poor
shareholding
pattern

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Case 6: the largest commercial real estate developers in India
Parameter Mar-08 Mar-07 Mar-06 Mar-05
Net Profit 7812.03 1933.65 411.03 86.5
CFO -1780.9 -6563.5 -873 575.4
Signal
 A high profile developer with expansion in multi-sectors
 Brought India’s largest IPO (June 2007)
 At IPO price Rs525 (market cap 96K Crore)
 Touched Rs1200 (market cap 2Lac Crore) Jan 2008
 Today Rs157 (market cap 28K Crore)
 Some “smart investors” searching value again
From peak price Rs1200 to below Rs160

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Case 7: India's second largest real estate investment company
Parameter Mar-10 Mar-09 Mar-08 Mar-07 Mar-06 Mar-05
Net Profit 675.05 1196.43 1661.34 1306.14 84.07 33.36
CFO -1339.5 -5.39 -975.03 -2074.5 -224.67 96.89
Signal
 Another high profile developer
 Touched Rs500 (market cap 1Lac Crore) Jan 2008
 Today Rs8 (market cap 4K Crore)
 98% loss of wealth from peak
From Rs500 to now Rs8

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About the presenter:
Niteen is an MBA and cleared CFA Level 2, CFA Institute USA.
A firm believer in long-term financial planning, and a 20
years veteran of the stock market. He also conducts free
investor awareness sessions.
He likes reading books/magazines/news papers on the
topics as diverse as general management, technology,
investment, fiction, marketing and the Gita.
He is a person who believes in "Everything else can stop but
learning".

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- Money a company brings in from regular business
activities
- It is a part of cash flow statements
- It is more important than Net Income because Cash
flow is harder to manipulate and Cash is the King
- If company is selling at credit then can still show
net income but can’t show positive Operating Cash
Flow as the Cash is yet to be received.
- Ideal “CFO:Net Income” ratio -> Close to 1
Importance of CFO

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How to get CFO from Net Income
No calculation.
Directly available…

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Cash From Operations (CFO/OCF)