Nava Bharat Ventures Good Power Stock to Stay Invested

Nava Bharat Ventures got into power and sugar and that has been a very wise decision. It is power and sugar which has helped the company face the rough weather in FY09, especially in ferro alloys, where lack of demand since the end of Sep’08, forced the company to curtail production and shut its ferro chrome furnace.
Overall performance for FY09 was good. In the last quarter of FY09, the topline and the bottomline took a dip. The revenues for the quarter fell by 12.14% to Rs 303.36 crore and net profit declined by 16.13% to Rs.108.54 crore. Power segment sales rose by 92% while ferro alloys sales was down 74%.
For FY09, revenues of the company increased by 43.43% to Rs 1,350.05 crore and its net profit increased by a whopping 62.84% to Rs 520.57 crore. The company posted a forex loss of Rs.29.17 crore. It also bought back 1.93 million equity shares of Rs 2 each for Rs 23.26 crore and extinguished equal number of equity shares. After this, the paid up capital has come down to 7.59 million equity shares of Rs 2 each.
The company plans to go full throttle with its power projects and has plans to set up a 1,050MW merchant power plant (50: 50 JV with Malaxmi group) and another 64MW at its existing location in Orissa. Capex envisaged is Rs.4700 crore ad is expected to be commissioned by FY12. It has been allocated Rambia coal mine in Orissa with estimated reserves of 112 million mt. It also plans to put up another power plant in Andhra Pradesh.
This remains a good long term stock as it is power which will power the company in the coming months. thanks