APSEZ FY24 net profit jumps 50percent

Chennai, 03rd May 2024: Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (“APSEZ”) as we speak introduced its outcomes for the quarter and twelve months ending 31 March, 2024.

# EBITDA consists of the affect of foreign exchange MTM acquire or loss. In This fall FY24, foreign exchange loss is Rs 15 Cr and in This fall FY23, foreign exchange loss is Rs 1 Cr. In FY24, foreign exchange loss is Rs 113 Cr and in FY23, foreign exchange loss is Rs 1,886 Cr. **Based on estimated future earnings, APSEZ has elected to change to the brand new tax regime (u/s 115 BAA of the IT Act) for certainly one of its subsidiaries, AKPL, in Q2 FY24. Consequently, the previous years MAT was written-off, which has diminished the FY24 PAT by Rs 455 Cr.

“FY24 has been a yr of many new milestones for APSEZ on each operational and monetary metrics. APSEZ outperformed its higher finish of steerage offered at the start of the monetary yr on cargo, income, and EBITDA by 6%-8%, whereas closing the yr with net debt to EBITDA ratio of two.3x vs its steerage of two.5x. Clearly, the corporate’s enterprise mannequin of end-to-end service, strategic partnership with key prospects, leveraging the community impact by way of its string of ports, and give attention to operational efficiencies is yielding outcomes,stated Mr. Ashwani Gupta, Whole-Time Director & CEO, APSEZ.

With incremental cargo volumes of 100 MMT achieved in lower than two years, APSEZ is nicely poised to attain 500 MMT of cargo volumes in 2025, aided by not too long ago acquired Gopalpur Port, and the scheduled commissioning of Vizhinjam Port within the present yr and WCT subsequent yr. We proceed to take a position closely within the enterprise to drive progress, significantly within the logistics section. Our newly launched trucking section allows APSEZ to offer the last-mile connectivity answer to its prospects. Our efforts in direction of sustainable enterprise progress are nicely acknowledged within the prime decile ESG ranking from 4 world ranking businesses.”added Mr. Gupta.

Operational Highlights

• In FY24, APSEZ dealt with ~27% of the nation’s whole cargo and ~44% of container cargo
• APSEZ home cargo volumes grew by 21% Y-o-Y vs 7.5% progress in India’s cargo volumes in FY24
• Even after excluding the 2 newly added ports (Haifa – Jan’23 & Karaikal – Mar’23), APSEZ recorded a 18% Y-o-Y progress in cargo volumes
• With cargo volumes of 180 MMT (+16% Y-o-Y) in FY24, our flagship port, Mundra, is nicely positioned to cross 200 MMT mark in FY25
• Mundra Port dealt with 7.4 Mn TEUs throughout the yr, which is 15% greater than its nearest competitor
• Ten of our ports from the India portfolio recorded their lifetime excessive cargo volumes for the yr
• AICTPL (CT-3) terminal in Mundra delivered the very best ever annual container cargo volumes at any terminal in India
• Mundra Port berthed one of many largest container ships ever – MV MSC Hamburg (399 m lengthy x 54 m huge) – with capability of 15,908 TEUs
• Recorded its highest ever quarterly volumes at ~109 MMT in This fall FY24 Highest-ever container rail (+19%) and bulk (+40%) volumes in FY24

Financial Highlights:

• Revenue progress of 28% Y-o-Y to Rs 26,711 Cr in FY24, supported by 30% soar in ports enterprise income and 19% in logistics enterprise
• EBITDA (excl. foreign exchange) jumps 24% Y-o-Y to Rs 15,864 Cr, with Rs 15,246 Cr contributed by ports enterprise and Rs 540 Cr by logistics enterprise
• Domestic port EBITDA margin expanded by ~150 bps with higher sweating of property (capability utilization of 67% in FY24 vs 56% in FY23)
• Record PAT of Rs 8,104 Cr (+50% Y-o-Y), regardless of a write off of Rs 455 Cr ensuing from the change to the brand new tax regime for certainly one of its subsidiaries
• Completed mortgage pre-payments/repayments of Rs 5,584 Cr, exceeding the preliminary steerage of Rs 5,000 Cr offered at first of the yr
• Net debt to EBITDA improves to 2.3x from 3.1x in FY23, regardless of a capex of Rs 7,416 Cr
• For FY24, the APSEZ Board has really useful a dividend of Rs 6 per share, in step with our capital allocation coverage. This implies a payout of round Rs 1,300 Cr for the corporate.
• CARE Ratings assigned ‘AAA’ (the very best doable credit standing in India) to APSEZ, making firm the primary personal company infrastructure developer to be rated AAA S&P and ICRA upgraded firm outlook from ‘unfavorable’ to ‘secure’ throughout the yr.

Business Highlights:

• With acquisition of Gopalpur and Karaikal ports, the overall depend of ports within the India portfolio will increase to fifteen
• Entered into strategic partnership with MSC by forming a JV for Ennore Container Terminal
• Colombo terminal acquired financing dedication of USD 553 Mn from DFC
• With our Marine companies enterprise section successful contracts in Sri Lanka, Mexico and Oman, the overall depend of tugs now stands at 111
• ALL added 34 rakes throughout the yr, taking the overall depend to 127 rakes
• Total depend of logistics park reached 12 with addition of three MMLPs (Virochannagar, Loni, Valvada)
• Total agri silo capability elevated to 1.2 MMT with addition of two agri silos (Samastipur and Darbhanga)
• With commissioning of warehouses in Mumbai and Indore, the overall warehousing capability now stands at 2.4 Mn Sq. Ft. Launched trucking enterprise section throughout the yr with 900 vans to offer final mile connectivity to the purchasers from ports/ICDs/buyer premises

Guidance for FY2025:

• Cargo volumes throughout the interval to be 460-480 MMT
• Revenue for the interval to be Rs 29,000-31,000 Cr
• EBIDTA for the interval to be Rs 17,000-18,000 Cr
• Net Debt to EBITDA to be 2.2-2.5x
• Capex for the interval to be within the vary of Rs 10,500-11,500 Cr

ESG Targets and Performance

• S&P ranked APSEZ within the prime 96 percentile of the 334 corporations within the Transportation & Transportation Infrastructure sector
• Sustainalytics ranked APSEZ within the prime 6 percentile of the ~15,000 corporations rated on ESG
• APSEZ entered into the management band of CDP Climate Change
• TCFD ranked APSEZ 1st within the sub trade disclosures of marine ports
• APSEZ acquired the first rating within the sector globally throughout rising markets on ESG Assessment by Moody’s. Also, receives the ‘Advanced’ standing in Moody’s Energy Transition Rating.
• APSEZ is concentrating on Net Zero by 2040. During FY24 the corporate introduced including 1,000 MW of latest renewable capability.

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