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Colgate FY01: Where is the smile? - Views on News from Equitymaster
Colgate Palmolive (India) Limited has posted a net profit of Rs 625 m for the year ended March 31, 2001. This is up 21% YoY. On the face of it the growth looks good. But the company has earned Rs 55 m from the sale of real estate and this is included in this growth. If we remove the effect of this one time gain, Colgate's net profit actually went up by only 10%.
(Rs m)
FY00
FY01
Change
Gross Sales
11,212
11,769
5.0%
Other Income
152
240
57.9%
Expenditure
10,231
10,801
5.6%
Operating Profit (EBDIT)
981
968
-1.3%
Operating Profit Margin (%)
8.7%
8.2%
Interest
2
3
Depreciation
232
202
-12.9%
Profit before Tax
899
1,003
11.6%
Tax
381
433
13.6%
Extraordinary items
0
55
Profit after Tax
518
625
20.7%
Net profit margin (%)
4.6%
5.3%
Effective tax rate (%)
42.4%
43.2%
No. of Shares (eoy) (m)
136.0
136.0
Diluted earnings per share
3.8
4.6
P/E ratio
34.8
Gross sales of the company have shown a 5% increase YoY to Rs 11,769 m during the same period. The company has shown a sharp jump in other income and its depreciation provisioning has come down by 13%. This has helped Colgate in improving its net profits.
Colgate's fourth quarter results seem to have caused the damage to its full year performance. In its previous 9 months of FY01, the company's turnover growth stood at 10% YoY. Its bottomline had improved by 22%. Going by these figures, it seems that Colgate actually saw a miniscule 0.2% growth in 4QFY01 turnover and a 16% decline in its net profit during the same period.
At the current price of Rs 160 the stock is trading at a P/E multiple of 34.8 x its FY01 earnings (including the extraordinary gains). If we exclude the extraordinary gains the Colgate stock is trading at a P/E multiple of 38 times FY01 earnings. The valuations of the company are high considering the current slowdown facing the FMCG sector.
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Colgate-Palmolive (India) has announced the second quarter results financial year 2016-2017 (2QFY17). While the topline increased by 9.5% YoY, the bottomline has increased by 15.6% YoY.
Colgate-Palmolive (India) has announced the first quarter results financial year 2016-2017 (1QFY17). While the topline increased by 12.4% YoY, the bottomline has increased by 8.4% YoY.
Colgate-Palmolive (India) declared results for the quarter and year ended March 2016. The company's revenues were up by 7% YoY, while profits declined by 11% YoY during the quarter.
Colgate-Palmolive (India) announced its results for the quarter ended December 2015. The company's revenues were up by 2% YoY, while profits rose by 22% YoY.
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