Forex moves contributed to reduction of other expenses, says KK Singh, CMD of Rolta India.
In an interview with CNBC-TV18, KK Singh, CMD of Rolta said that the company has been consciously cutting down software work to focus on its IP business and does not expect more erosion of revenue due to pruning of system integration work.
An increase in Rolta India's receivables period, an from average 120-125 days to almost 185-190 days led to a cash crunch, because of which it missed an interest payment, CMD KK Singh told CNBC-TV18.
KK Singh, CMD of Rolta India says the company has transferred defence technology to a wholly-owned subsidiary and is open to bringing in a strategic partner in the subsidiary.
KK Singh CMD, Rolta India said they were in the process of evaluating the valuation of defence business that would be transfered into a wholly owned subsidiary.
Under the contract, Rolta will load the system with engineering data, documents and drawings which provide the critical technical engineering information required to operate the plant
The company plans to streamline the defence business as a separate and distinct wholly owned subsidiary mainly because the regulatory environment is different for the defence and IT business, said KK Singh, CMD, Rolta India.
Shares of Rolta India gained 4.6 percent intraday Wednesday on partnership with Hitachi India to explore new business opportunities.
For the third quarter ended December 2014, the total income for the company was up 9% at Rs 966.8 cr versus Rs 885.3 cr quarter on quarter (Q-o-Q).
"We have no plans to delist the company," says KK Singh, CMD, Rolta India.
With its topline having advanced by 21 percent and EBITDA by 19 percent QoQ, Rolta anticipates its PAT and revenue growth to be higher than their expected guidance.
Rolta announced that it has been awarded a prestigious 3D City Modeling contract by a major Middle-East country.
KK Singh, CMD, Rolta India, says the rationale behind hiking promoter stake holding is on account of the condition that defence sector companies need to have atleast 50 percent promoter stakeholding to be able to participate in manufacturing and in defense make India programmes.
The company‘s quarter ended June 30 was disappointing with a net loss of Rs Rs 1,046 crore against a profit of Rs 73 crore in the year-ago period. It reported 7.3 percent revenue growth at Rs 612.2 crore against Rs 569.96 crore. Its EBITDA stands at Rs 227.29 crore against Rs 219 crore.
Margins for the entire year has been at 40 percent. Though it is still lower than 44 percent that the company reported last year, but it is on the back of a new acquisition in the US. The company also expects to prepay or repay the Rs 2,500-crore debt that it has on its books in the next two-three years.
In an interview to CNBC-TV18, KK Singh, CMD, Rolta India speaks about the multi-million dollar order from Saudi-based Sadara Chemical
KK Singh, CMD, Rolta India says that the 11.4-percent rise in PAT to Rs 70.39 crore and healthy order-book levels have allowed the company to increase its guidance from the earlier levels of 10-15 percent for the whole year. Going forward, Singh told CNBC-TV18, the company will focus on intellectual property.
Rolta India recently got a USD 31 million contract from Memphis Light Gas and Water for Oracle enterprise resource planning (ERP) Project. KK Singh, CMD of Rolta India told CNBC-TV18 the importance of such a large order, strategies and the future expectations.
In an interview to CNBC-TV18, KK Singh, the chairman and managing director of Rolta India talks about the funding of USD 135 million which it has tied up via external commercial borrowings to buyback and or redeem its Zero Coupon Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds due on June 29.
KK Singh, chairman and managing director, Rolta India said, the company is hopeful of seeing a reversal of mark-to-market (M-T-M) losses of FCCBs in the third quarter
KK Singh, chairman and managing director of Rolta says, external commercial borrowings (ECB) funding for FCCB repayment is almost finalised. “It’s almost in the last leg of finalisation. We should be able to do that in the first week of January.”
In an interview to CNBC-TV18, KK Singh, chairman and managing director of Rolta says, for this year (July 2011-June 2012), the company has given a guidance of 12-15% top-line growth.
The Indian rupee has hit a fresh two-year low as it fell to 48 against the dollar in early trade on Wednesday. KK Singh, chairman and managing director of Rolta India, discusses the impact of rupee’s decline on Indian companies on CNBC-TV18.
Chairman and managing director, KK Singh gave guidance for the next year that they would do 15% for both, margins and revenues. The company had begun an Intellectual Property (IP) oriented company and saw an improvement in its margins. The company’s order book is also getting healthier now, he added.
Rolta has announced that it has sold 50% of its stake in Shaw Rolta. In an interview with CNBC-TV18, KK Singh, CMD, Rolta India threw light on the stake sale.