Symphony Q1 Results Review - Strong Beat, Sharp Runup In Stock Price Results In Neutral Rating: Yes Securities

Yes Securities Report

Symphony Ltd. on consolidated basis delivered higher than expected revenue on back of strong summer season. Expectations were there for strong growth in domestic air-cooling business; however, the company has even surpassed bullish expectations with domestic air-cooling business growing at 118% YoY. Even on the international front Mexico and GSK China has reported robust performance, while CT Australia continues to remain subdued.

Business transformation in CT Australia is underway and company expects it to turnaround by June-25. Gross margins have seen further expansion of 156 bps on back of tactical pricing, value engineering and softening of input costs.

Ebitda margin on other hand has seen expansion of 1229 bps to 20.9%, even after higher advertising and promotion spends which stands at 9.8% of sales.

The company is confident that turnaround in international subsidiaries is sustainable and performance would further improve once CT Australia turns around.

Symphony is witnessing increased traction in the domestic air-cooling market with South and East witnessing uptick which have not been traditional air-cooling market.

The company is also entering into water heater category where company will provide feature rich water heater at competitive prices. Considering strong demand traction in the domestic market and sustained improvement of subsidiaries performance, we remain positive on the aircooling space.

We had upgraded the stock to Buy in Q4 and stock has rallied ~51% post our upgrade.

Given the strong performance our FY25 and FY26 EPS estimates gets increased by 18% and 15% respectively, however we assign Neutral rating as stock price has seen significant appreciation and now value the stock at 45 times with target price of Rs 1,549.

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