*BUY FIRSTSOURCE SOLUTION (532809)*

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*CMP: 13*

*Target: 25 in 7 months*

 

Formerly known as ICICI OneSource, incorporated in 2001, Firstsource 
Solutions Limited provides a range of business process outsourcing services.

It offers business process management services to the banking, financial 
services and insurance (BFSI); telecommunications and media; and healthcare 
industries. Firstsource has a “rightshore” delivery model with operations 
in India, U.S., UK and Philippines.

 

Firstsource Recognized with Top Honors at the International Quality and 
Productivity Council (IQPC) Conference. About 40% of the revenue comes from 
its healthcare vertical catering mainly to US markets. The Company works 
with more than 1000 clients. 7 of the top 10 clients have grown during the 
quarter. It has added 7,819 employees increasing its strength to 31,872 
employees in this Fiscal year.

 

The company that managed to get RP-SP Goenka group as promoters on board in 
FY13 saw its sequential numbers impacted as it plans of restructuring the 
company to profitable growth was put in action. FSL repaid Rs.1422 crore 
(including redemption premium) worth of FCCB in Dec’12. Thus, reducing the 
current gross debt levels to Rs.1380 crore (net Rs.1290 crore).  Currently, 
FSL is generating cash on quarterly run-rate of Rs.66 crore (Approx.). The 
company is pretty confident of servicing these outflows through internal 
cash generation and will be debt free company by 2016-17. 

 

Fiscal 2013 revenues of INR Rs 2,818.5 crore, Y-o-Y growth of 25.0%; 
Operating EBIT of INR 191.2 crore, Y-o-Y up by 99.5%, PAT (profit after 
tax) of INR 146.6 crore, Y-o-Y up by 136.3%.

Rupee depreciation from 52 to 60 will benefit the company’s profitability. 
Ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala picked up nearly 4 per cent stake for an 
estimated Rs 25 crore from private sector lender ICICI 
Bank<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/icici-bank-ltd/stocks/companyid-9194.cms>and
 others further boosting the company. A total of 2.5 crore shares were 
acquired by Jhunjhunwala, as per the bulk deal information with stock 
exchanges.

With healthy pipeline, Rupee depreciating & better than expected execution 
capabilities, we recommend strong BUY rating on the stock with a price 
target of Rs 25 within 7 months.

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