February 10, 2017 / 16:40 IST
Escorts delivered healthy Q3FY17 performance with its operating margin coming way above our as well as street’s estimates, benefitted from volume growth and product mix. Its EBIDTA margins increased 378 bps YoY and 147 bps QoQ to 8.4% as against our estimate of 3.9%.
Outlook
We introduce our FY19E estimates and estimate Escorts to record an EPS of Rs 37.2 on revenues of Rs 51.7bn. We roll forward our target price to FY19E and we increase our target price from Rs 435 to Rs 465 per share, valuing the stock at 12.5xFY19E EPS. In view of expected healthy tractor volume over next one and half years and ongoing margin improvement, we reiterate our “BUY “on Escorts.
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