Brokerage recommends ‘Buy’ on Radhakishan Damani’s DMart. Here’s why
Brokerage firm Prabhudas Lilladher has given a ‘buy’ rating to Radhakishan Damani led Avenue Supermart even though the stock has corrected from its 52-week high. The brokerage said that it remains ‘positive’ on Avenue Supermart which runs DMart, as it has increased its presence in 22 cities, along with reducing the delivery time to one day. The company has also reduced its delivery charge!
In its note, Prabhudas said that with attractive prices and far better consumer proposition than Big Basket, DMart Ready to turn EBIDTA positive by FY25 and PAT positive by FY27.
The brokerage also said that DMart has a huge growth due to low probability of heightened competition in modern trade, and can scale up in D’Mart Ready. It has given a ‘buy’ with a target price of ₹4699.
“We remain positive on D’Mart Ready as it has increased city presence to 22, reduced delivery time to 1 day with reduction in delivery charges (Flat Rs49 as against 3% earlier). We believe attractive prices and far better consumer proposition than Big Basket (largest online retailer) will enable D’Mart Ready to turn EBIDTA positive by FY25 and PAT positive by FY27. We believe D’Mart has a huge growth runway ahead given low probability of heightened competition in modern trade, 1500+ store potential in existing clusters (current stores 306) and fast scale up in D’Mart Ready. We estimate 25% PAT CAGR over FY23-27 and retain ‘BUY’ with DCF based target price of Rs4699 (Rs4675 earlier),” said Prabhudas Lilladher.
The brokerage noted that D’Mart has corrected by nearly 27 per cent from its 52-week high. It listed concerns which includes slow post covid recovery in sales parameters, deterioration in sales mix, among others.
“Avenue Supermart (DMART IN) has corrected by 27% from 52-week high due to concerns on 1) slow post covid recovery in sales parameters 2) deterioration in sales mix 3) effectiveness of D’Mart to face onslaught of online retail on brick & mortar modern trade and 4) sustainability of growth & profitability metrics. We believe that the deterioration in sales parameters is a result of 3x increase in stores within emerging clusters and 100% increase in number of stores with <2 years’ vintage, which will correct over time,” it noted.
On Wednesday, the company’s scrip ended 0.091 per cent up at ₹3,360.65 on BSE.
Disclaimer: The views and recommendations made above are those of individual analysts or broking companies, and not of Mint.
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