Monday 18 September 2017

CONART ENGINEERS LTD.- Debt free, Cash Rich Infrastructure Company

CONART ENGINEERS LTD.

(BSE Code: 502175) (CMP: Rs.54.50)

COMPANY PROFILE

Incorporated in 1973 in Mumbai, Conart Engineers Ltd (formerly known as Conart Builders Pvt Ltd) provides general contracting and project management services for industrial, commercial and residential construction projects. It offers general contracting services such as cost monitoring and control, schedule development and control, subcontractor management, field engineering and site management, safety assurance, project accounting, change management, shop drawings and material submittal review and quality control. It also undertakes design-build and turnkey projects. In addition, it provides construction project management services (i.e. material planning, concept design, rough estimate, constructability review and construction bidding), cost estimating, CPM scheduling, change order evaluation, project cost controls, safety, quality management/field inspections, technology services and constructability review services. It serves the heavy manufacturing, chemical and petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, residential and commercial, textiles, research and development, heavy engineering, electronics and computer markets.  



SERVICES

GENERAL CONTRACTING
Conart, a diversified full-service contractor has been providing its clients with general contracting services for more than four decades. The demand for quality contractors skilled at planning, building, and commissioning schedule driven, fast-tracked projects has brought them to the forefront. They are capable of performing a variety of work with our own forces including: Structural and miscellaneous steel fabrication, multi-storey concrete forming and placement, heavy foundations, specialized concrete floors, roads, ETP tanks, concrete repairs and restoration, demolition and much more.

DESIGN BUILT
The design-build process is one that can potentially bring great value to an owner – so long as it is done right.

Fortunately, Conart is one of the country’s most experienced design-build contractors.

Our collaborative approach with construction professionals fulfills multiple parallel objectives to the design process by providing input on functionality, constructability, aesthetics, cost control, and schedule management.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT (PM)
Their Construction PM services functions as an agent to improve and control the quality, cost and schedule of a project for the Owner's benefit. They represent the interests of Owners and Developers by managing a timely, cost-efficient, and high quality construction project including procedures and policies for a multi-project building program.
  
ONGOING PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

 CLIENTS FROM VARIOUS FIELDS AND INDUSTRIES



INDUSTRY GROWING OPPORTUNITIES

Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping, announced the target of Rs.25 tn ($370.6 bn) for investment in infrastructure over the next three years including Rs.8 tn ($118.6 bn) for developing 27 industrial clusters and an additional Rs.5 tn ($74.11 bn) for road, railway and port connectivity projects. India’s 2016-17 Union Budget has budgeted nearly Rs.2.2 lakh crore ($32 bn) for the infrastructure sector, which is expected to boost India’s GDP to 9%. The total length of National Highways is expected to cross ~2,00,000 km in the next 5 years thereby offering significant opportunities in the State/National Highway segment. States like Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal have planned several projects both on EPC and PPP basis. The Central and State Governments have granted infrastructure status to affordable housing for urban and rural housing projects in the current Budget. The Central Government aims to complete 1 crore houses by 2019 under various schemes.


 Conart Engineers is working very intensively in Infrastructure Space, it is the space where India will invest as much as Rs 3,96,135 crore in creating and upgrading infrastructure in this financial year, and this will increase year on year as India is a Developing Country and will remain so for many years to come. Infrastructure will play a very vital role in India's Growth Story and Conart has the potential to make the most of this massive opportunity.


FINANCIAL SNAPSHOT
Conart Engineers has equity capital of just Rs.3 crore supported by reserves of around Rs.12.96 crore and Debt is only 12 lacs so virtually it is a DEBT FREE COMPANY.  For FY17, Conart Engineers has posted PAT of Rs.1.30 against PAT of Rs 1.12Cr in FY16. For Q1FY18 company has posted  PAT at Rs.50 lacs on sales of Rs.7.63 crore against PAT of 20 lacs in Q4FY17 on sales of 9.28cr which signifies significant increase in margins. PAT on QoQ basis surged 150%.

Currently, the stock trades at a P/E of 12.04 while the industry PE is 35.80

Share book value works out to Rs. 53.19, so it is trading at Price to Book. Debt free, Cash Rich Infrastructure