Rating Rationale
November 16, 2022 | Mumbai
Elin Electronics Limited
Ratings reaffirmed at 'CRISIL A/Stable/CRISIL A1'
 
Rating Action
Total Bank Loan Facilities RatedRs.134 Crore
Long Term RatingCRISIL A/Stable (Reaffirmed)
Short Term RatingCRISIL A1 (Reaffirmed)
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1 crore = 10 million
Refer to Annexure for Details of Instruments & Bank Facilities

Detailed Rationale

CRISIL Ratings has reaffirmed its ‘CRISIL A/Stable/CRISIL A1’ ratings on the bank loan facilities of Elin Electronics Limited (EEL; part of Elin group).

 

The ratings continue to reflect the company’s healthy business risk profile in the form of a diversified product portfolio, long-term relationships with key customers, and healthy financial risk profile. These strengths are partially offset by highly competitive intensity in the contract manufacturing space.

Analytical Approach

CRISIL Ratings has combined the business and financial risk profiles of EEL and its wholly owned subsidiary, Elin Appliances Pvt Ltd (EAPL) on account of strong business and financial linkages.

 

Please refer Annexure - List of Entities Consolidated, which captures the list of entities considered and their analytical treatment of consolidation. 

Key Rating Drivers & Detailed Description

Strengths:

  • Diversified product range and longstanding relationships with key clients: Elin group has a wide product range covering motors, lighting, medical devices, and mouldings and sheet metal fabrication. It manufactures motors under its own brand name while other products are manufactured under contract manufacturing. Motor manufacturing has been critical to the growth of the group, with segmental contribution growing from 12% in fiscal 2018 to 23% in fiscal 2022. Group has reported an operating income of Rs 1094 crore in fiscal 2022, a y-o-y growth of 27% backed by steady demand and increased realization. In current fiscal, group has already achieved a revenue of Rs 604 crore during H1-FY23 (as against Rs 518 crore during H1-FY22). Additionally, uptake of other key products and introduction of new products under contract manufacturing have supported strong revenue growth. Furthermore, the group has longstanding relationships of more than 10 years with its key customers that reduces the offtake risk substantially.

 

  • Healthy financial risk profile: The financial risk profile remains healthy due to high reliance on internal funds, resulting in healthy debt protection metrics, reflected in interest coverage ratio of around 6.2 times and net cash accruals to adjusted debt ratio of 0.52 time in fiscal 2022 (expected to be around 6.5-7.0 times and 0.5 time in fiscal 2023). Networth is robust and stood at Rs 303 crore as on March 31, 2022 (expected to be around Rs 337-338 crore as on March 31, 2023) and supported by the same group has a healthy capital structure, reflected in gearing of 0.34 time as on March 31, 2022 (expected to be around 0.3 time as on March 31, 2023). Additionally, favorable terms of trade with customers helps manage working capital efficiently with gross current assets (GCAs) of 100-130 days. This helps to keep in check the overall indebtedness as reflected in total outside liabilities to tangible networth (TOLTNW) ratio at 0.75 times as on March 31, 2022 (expected to be around 0.7 time as on March 31, 2023). Going forward, sustained profitability and funding of capital expenditure (capex) by internal accruals will keep overall financial risk profile healthy.

 

Weakness:

  • Highly competitive intensity in the contract manufacturing space: The contract manufacturing industry, wherein a company is hired to produce the product based on the hiring firm’s design and quality standards, is fragmented and competitive. It relies on relationships with customers, market reputation and past experience. With value addition being relatively low by the contract manufacturer, possibility of replacement is high which can expose it to the risk of stranded manufacturing lines. Group’s operating margin of 7-8% is constrained by the relatively lower operating margin in the contract manufacturing segment. But the group has demonstrated its ability to pass on commodity price and foreign exchange fluctuations to customers, which helps maintain fairly stable operating margin. Furthermore, increasing share of its own branded products helps mitigate the risk.

Liquidity: Strong

Liquidity remains strong, driven by expected net cash accrual of Rs 50-60 crore per fiscal, against scheduled term debt maturity of about Rs 15-20 crore per fiscal and estimated capex of Rs 20-25 crore over the medium term. Additionally, the utilisation of fund-based bank limits averaged at 49% in the 12 months through September-2022, further strengthening the liquidity profile. The unencumbered cash and bank balance stood at Rs 4.01 crore as on March 31, 2022. Cash and bank balance is expected to be at similar level going ahead. Current ratio was 1.74 times as on March 31, 2022.

Outlook: Stable

CRISIL Ratings believes EEL will continue to post steady revenue growth and stable operating margin, backed by strong product uptake and longstanding relationships with key customers.

Rating Sensitivity factors

Upward factors:

  • Significant increase in scale of operations backed by volumetric growth
  • Material improvement in operating margin, leading to return on capital employed (RoCE) sustaining over 18%

 

Downward factors:

  • Material deterioration in operating margin to below 6% on a sustained basis
  • Significant debt-funded expansion thus leading to increase in financial leverage

About the Group

Incorporated in 1982, EEL manufactured electric motors. Thereafter, the company forayed into manufacturing of tape-recorders. Presently, EEL has a wide range of products, including universal motors, electrical appliances, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), sheet metals and mouldings, among others. EEL has three manufacturing facilities at Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh; Baddi, Himachal Pradesh; and Goa. EEL is part of the Sethia group, with the group holding 91.2% in the company as on March 31, 2021.

 

EAPL is engaged in the manufacturing of small lighting products which are used in LEDs and fans, and small kitchen appliances (mixer grinders, bar blenders, iron, toasters etc.).

Key Financial Indicators

Particulars

Unit

2022

2021

Revenue

Rs. Crore

1094

862

Profit After Tax (PAT)

Rs. Crore

39

27

PAT Margin

%

3.6

3.1

Interest coverage

Times

6.2

7.0

Adjusted debt/adjusted networth

Times

0.34

0.51

Any other information: Not applicable

Note on complexity levels of the rated instrument:
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Annexure - Details of Instrument(s)

ISIN

Name of

instrument

Date of allotment

Coupon Rate (%)

Maturity

Date

Issue Size

(Rs Crore)

Complexity Level

Rating assigned with outlook

NA

Cash Credit

NA

NA

NA

75

NA

CRISIL A/Stable

NA

Letter of credit & Bank Guarantee

NA

NA

NA

10

NA

CRISIL A1

NA

Proposed Long Term Bank Loan Facility

NA

NA

NA

1.86

NA

CRISIL A/Stable

NA

Term Loan

NA

NA

Feb-26

14.04

NA

CRISIL A/Stable

NA

Term Loan

NA

NA

Mar-26

12.98

NA

CRISIL A/Stable

NA

Term Loan

NA

NA

Apr-26

20.12

NA

CRISIL A/Stable

Annexure – List of entities consolidated

Name of company

% shareholding

Extent of consolidation

Rationale for consolidation

Elin Electronics Ltd

100

Full

Strong operating and financial linkages

Elin Appliances Pvt Ltd

100

Full

Strong operating and financial linkages

Annexure - Rating History for last 3 Years
  Current 2022 (History) 2021  2020  2019  Start of 2019
Instrument Type Outstanding Amount Rating Date Rating Date Rating Date Rating Date Rating Rating
Fund Based Facilities LT 124.0 CRISIL A/Stable   -- 05-10-21 CRISIL A/Stable   --   -- --
Non-Fund Based Facilities ST 10.0 CRISIL A1   -- 05-10-21 CRISIL A1   --   -- --
All amounts are in Rs.Cr.
Annexure - Details of Bank Lenders & Facilities
Facility Amount (Rs.Crore) Name of Lender Rating
Cash Credit 19 DBS Bank India Limited CRISIL A/Stable
Cash Credit 16 The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited CRISIL A/Stable
Cash Credit 20 Citibank N. A. CRISIL A/Stable
Cash Credit 20 HDFC Bank Limited CRISIL A/Stable
Letter of credit & Bank Guarantee 10 HDFC Bank Limited CRISIL A1
Proposed Long Term Bank Loan Facility 1.86 Not Applicable CRISIL A/Stable
Term Loan 14.04 Citibank N. A. CRISIL A/Stable
Term Loan 12.98 HDFC Bank Limited CRISIL A/Stable
Term Loan 20.12 The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited CRISIL A/Stable

This Annexure has been updated on 16-Nov-2022 in line with the lender-wise facility details as on 5-Oct-2021 received from the rated entity.

Criteria Details
Links to related criteria
CRISILs Bank Loan Ratings
The Rating Process
Rating criteria for manufaturing and service sector companies
CRISILs Bank Loan Ratings - process, scale and default recognition
CRISILs Approach to Financial Ratios
CRISILs Criteria for Consolidation
CRISILs Criteria for rating short term debt

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