Buy Apollo Tyres, target price Rs 400: ICICI Securities

ICICI Securities has buy call on Apollo Tyres with a target price of Rs 400. The current market price of Apollo Tyres is Rs 313.9.

Apollo Tyres, incorporated in the year 1972, is a Mid Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 19973.92 Crore) operating in Tyres sector.

Apollo Tyres key Products/Revenue Segments include Tyres, Tubes & Flaps, Other Operating Revenue and Scrap for the year ending 31-Mar-2022.


Financials
For the quarter ended 31-12-2022, the company has reported a Consolidated Total Income of Rs 6429.48 Crore, up 7.82 % from last quarter Total Income of Rs 5962.90 Crore and up 12.32 % from last year same quarter Total Income of Rs 5724.43 Crore. Company has reported net profit after tax of Rs 292.08 Crore in latest quarter.

The company’s top management includes Mr.Onkar S Kanwar, Ms.Lakshmi Puri, Mr.Francesco Gori, Mr.Vinod Rai, GeneralBikram Singh, Mr.Vikram S Mehta, Mr.Robert Steinmetz, Mr.Akshay Chudasama, Mr.Sunam Sarkar, Mrs.Pallavi Shroff, Mr.Francesco Crispino, Mr.Satish Sharma, Mr.Neeraj Kanwar, Mr.Vishal Mahadevia. Company has Walker Chandiok & Co. LLP as its auditors. As on 31-12-2022, the company has a total of 64 Crore shares outstanding.

Investment Rationale
Controlled capex, steady profitability, recovering RoCE and consistency in FCF generation makes the brokerage prefer Apollo Tyres in the tyre space as its top pick.

Promoter/FII Holdings
Promoters held 37.34 per cent stake in the company as of 31-Dec-2022, while FIIs owned 22.88 per cent, DIIs 17.03 per cent.