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  • CMP : 2,736.1 Chg : 0.0 (0.0%)
  • Target : 3,100.0 (9.54%)
  • Target Period : 12-18 Month

22 Apr 2022

Aspiring to reach US$1 bn revenue in second half of decade

About The Stock
  • Mastek Ltd (Mastek) offers data, apps, cloud services to public & private enterprises in the UK, US, Middle East, Asia Pacific and India
  • The company’s recent acquisition of Evosys has enabled Mastek to provide end-to-end solutions and improve margins from ~14% to 21%
  • Net debt free and healthy double digit return ratio (with RoCE of 20%)
Q4FY22

We attended the Analyst Day of Mastek with key takeaway being:

  • Mastek aspires to reach US$1 bn revenue in five to six years from now. The revenue number includes five to six acquisitions in that period
  • The company is looking to aggressively expand in US market (17.6% revenue mix in FY22). As a result, it expects this pie to reach 33.8% by FY25
  • Mastek aligned leadership for US market growth wherein it has appointed Umang Nahata, CEO of Evosys, as president, North America business
  • The company has 10-15% wallet share in the UK public market and has significant growth headroom
What should Investors do?

Mastek's share price has grown by ~12x over the past five years (from ~₹ 238 in April 2017 to ~₹ 2,830 levels in April 2022).

  • We change our rating from BUY to HOLD
Target Price Valuation

We value the stock at 22x FY24EPS with a target price of ₹ 3100

Key Triggers for future price performance
  • Growth in new logo acquisition, increasing deal size, expansion of sales & marketing and market share gains in the UK market to drive revenues
  • Management change in the US market may help it to grow stronger and achieve the desired revenue mix
Alternate Stock Ideas

Apart from Mastek, in our coverage we like Infosys

  • Key beneficiary of improved digital demand, industry leading revenue growth and healthy capital allocation prompt us to be positive. HOLD with a target price of ₹ 1,775

Key Financial Summary

Particulars FY19 FY20 FY21 FY22 5 Year CAGR(FY17-FY22) FY23E FY24E 2 Year CAGR (FY22-FY24E)
Net Sales 1,033.2 1,071.5 1,721.9 2,183.8 31.3 2,575.2 3,025.9 17.7
EBITDA 131.5 155.4 364.5 462.5 57.0 522.8 614.3 15.2
EBITDA Margins (%) 12.7 14.5 21.2 21.2 - 20.3 20.3 -
Net Profit 100.9 133.0 209.4 295.1 55.5 332.9 402.1 16.7
EPS (|) 40.1 52.4 81.9 103.8 - 117.1 141.4 -
P/E 70.6 54.0 34.6 27.3 - 24.2 20.0 -
RoNW (%) 14.1 16.8 24.4 27.5 - 24.8 24.0 -
RoCE (%) 17.0 11.3 21.5 26.7 - 25.4 25.1 -
Source: Company, ICICI Direct Research

Key Highlights and meet takeaways

UK & Europe Business

  • As per the company, the UK public sector software & IT services market is pegged at £13.6 billion (bn). The market is growing at 2% per annum
  • Digital demand in the market is growing at 13% YoY. Mastek is servicing four of the five major spenders in the market. Mastek is strongest in terms of SAAS offering
  • The market presents an annuity business (run & maintain) opportunity for Mastek, which is evidenced from large deal (>£10 mn) acceleration. The company has won seven large deals in FY22 vs. three in FY21
  • Mastek has a wallet share of 10-15% and has significant growth room. As per the company, 50% of Oracle business in the UK is in public sector
  • The company is also looking to scale up UK private business as well as they are looking to expand into Nordic countries, Netherlands, France, etc
  • Private sector opportunity includes fraud analytics in BFSI (£218 mn fraud happens every year in UK, identity management (3,000 defence persons in UK uses Mastek’s identity management system, vehicle leasing platform (especially on the EV side), managed services (annuity revenues)
 

North America business

  • The company has re-aligned leadership in the America region. Umang Nahata , who is CEO of Evosys, has been given charge of Americas business and he has been appointed as President, Americas for Mastek. Raman Sapra, who was earlier President, Americas has been given responsibility of Global service line and M &A
  • After this leadership change, Mastek will operate as one entity in the region
  • Earlier they had three capabilities in the region viz. Oracle cloud applications, digital commerce and Oracle SAAS enhancement services
  • Now they will be operating under five capabilities viz. A) Glid 4.0. They are focusing on cloud transformation and legacy modernisation. Deal sizes are also increasing from US$0.5 mn earlier to US$1 mn now. Peers include Oracle focused players and Global system integrators (GSI) B) Full stack CX- they are focusing on digital commerce and customer analytics/experience (in CX, they do not have sizable presence and they are looking to scale up the business). As per the company, 25% of the Oracle business comes from customer experience (CX). C) cloud enhancement (CES): Focus is on managed services since the products as well as platforms needs constant upgrading D) Vertical cloud capabilities: the focus is on offering more capabilities E) Data & automation: The focus area is to acquire data assets, which are into the domain of digital commerce, CX, ERP & data analytics
  • The company is looking for strategic account mining of top 30 accounts where the is a potential opportunity of US$1.5 bn. Verticals where they are focusing are healthcare & lifesciences, manufacturing & industrial, retail & consumer, etc
  • They will also look at new alliances here with Microsoft, Salesforce, UIpath, Pega & other for cloud & allied services

 

Other Key highlights

 

  • It is also looking to diversify its geographical concentration. Mastek is looking to scale up the US business under new leadership so that US region would contribute 33.8% of the revenue mix in FY25 vs. 17.6% in FY22. As a result, contribution from the UK business (which currently forms 64.2% of the revenue mix) would come down to 46.5% in FY22 and that of AMEA would come down from 14.4% to 9.7%
  • The company is looking to reach US$1 bn revenue in the second half of the decade. The aspiration revenue numbers include acquisitions (they are looking at five to six acquisitions in the next five to six years i.e. one acquisition every year. The company is looking to acquire companies having annual sales in the range of US$20-40 mn. Mastek is looking to fund these acquisitions through a combination of internal accruals, fund raising as well borrowings
  • The 12 month’s order back-log (new deals) grew 15.5% QoQ and is at US$193.8 mn
  • The company has | 794 crore cash on books
  • Client portfolio is quite diverse now as top five, top 10 client’s revenue mix is now at 30%, 43% vs. 40%, 58%, respectively, in FY20. Utilisation has improved 340 bps in the last two years to 80% now

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