Reliance Petroleum Valuation

By Prabhu on 23 November 2007
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Reliance Petroleum, RPL, is entered into the capital market on April 13 with a public issue of 135 crore equity shares of Rs 10 each for cash at a premium to be decided through 100% book building route.

The issue was made to part finance the Rs 27,000 crore (Rs 270 billion) export-oriented refinery being set up in a special economic zone, SEZ, at Jam agar, Gujarat. The export-oriented refinery will have a capacity to process 5,80,000 barrels per day making it the sixth largest refinery in the world. As a part of this project, RPL is also setting up a 900,000 tonne per annum polypropylene plant.

The project is likely to go on stream by December 2008.

The book running lead managers are Citigroup Global Markets India, Deutsche Equities India Private, DSP Merrill Lynch, Enam Financial Consultants Private, HSBC Securities & Capital Markets (India) Private, ICICI Securities, JM Morgan Stanley Private, SBI Capital Markets, UBS Securities India Private and Karvy Computer share Private is the registrar to the issue.

RPL was incorporated on October 25, 2005, and as such has yet to complete a year of operations. Since the project is slated to be completed only by December 2008, revenues would flow in only from FY09.

Work on the project has already started, with more than Rs 20 billion invested and orders worth Rs 150 billion already placed for long lead items. Although the refinery is slated to start commercial production by December 2008, yet, considering RIL’s execution capabilities, positive surprises are likely. We recommend you subscribe to the stock at the cut-off price.

CURRENT CAPITAL STRUCTURE

COMPANY HOLDINGS
RIL 75%
CHEVRON 5%
REST 20%

STRATEGIC ADVANTAGES HIGHLIGHTS

Best of world crude oil has already been tapped and newer ones are high dense with high sulphur which needs special refinery and RPL is few among the one.

Most of refineries are set to process high quality only.

Norms of emissions are now becoming strict (US, EUROPE) and existing refineries are inflexible to meet this norms.

  • Demand could outstrip refining capacities and existing refineries unable to process so called dirty crude may have to be shut down
  • Heavy (dirty crude) is cheaper than light crude around 5 dollar/barrel and RPL can capitalize on it.
  • This leads to gross refining margin go up with the ability to produce superior products from cheaper crude.
  • Some of other refineries that plan to expand also will complete their project only on 2011.
  • RPL will be one of the 5% with ability to process heavier crude in the world.
  • But capital cost for a high tech refining set up is higher than older method by 4 dollar/barrel/day.
  • But RPL has managed itself to set up in SEZ, which has tax-redemption on exports 100% for 5 years and later 50% for next 5 years.
  • Duty free import of crude oil and capital equipments because of SEZ.
  • Technology, knowledge, marketing expertise of RIL can be shared with RPL and hence synergy between both.

EQUITY VALUATION

Since RPL is yet to start its operations we cannot use FCFE or FCFF to arrive at the value of RPL share. Hence we have used statistical tool of multiple regression to arrive at the value of RPL.we know FCFE is a function of growth rate, share price and cost of equity. These values for five different firms in the refinery industry are taken and a multiple regression is done and the output is tested for a significance level of 5%.

INPUT FOR REGRESSION

FCFE PRICE KE GROWTH
10806.85 1068 19.775 23.13
2099.97 360 15 8.6
183.74 331.5 13.16 15.7
1440.2 510 13.945 7.6
1861.17 276.5 13.85 6.2

LOGFCFE LOG KE LOGG
4.033699123 1.296116 1.364176
3.32221309 1.176091 0.934498
2.264203712 1.119256 1.1959
3.158422807 1.144419 0.880814
3.269786044 1.14145 0.792392

OUTPUT
The output resulted in such a way that market price was not statistically significant and hence again regression was done using growth rate and cost of equity of all the firms.

The model obtained was

Model R R Square Adjusted R Square Std. Error of the Estimate
1 .998 .995 .991 6.019E-02

ANOVA
Model Sum of Squares Df Mean Square F Sig.
Regression 1.585 2 .792 218.705 .005
Residual 7.245E-03 2 3.623E-03
Total 1.592 4
A Predictors: (Constant), VAR00004, VAR00003
B Dependent Variable: VAR00001

COEFFICIENTS

Unstandardized Coefficients Standardized Coefficients t Sig.
Model B Std. Error Beta
1 (Constant) -8.579 .565 -15.172 .004
VAR00003 11.599 .563 1.295 20.615 .002
VAR00004 -1.785 .166 -.674 -10.731 .009

For a significance level of 5 % we can see both f-value and t-value are highly significant and hence the model can be taken for describing the FCFE for RPL.

LOG (FCFE)=11.599*LOG (COST OF EQUITY)-1.785*LOG (GROWTH RATE)-8.579

Substituting the value of cost of equity for RPL and growth rate (average industry growth rate)

We obtained a FCFE for RPL as Rs.8288.11 crores
Right now free floating shares of RPL are 720 crores

From this we found expected earnings per share to be Rs. 11.55

CALCUALTION OF PRICE:

The average P/E of the competitors are taken into consideration and the EPS thus obtained is equated to that value of 13.

ONGC-17
BPCL-9
IOCL-10
CHENNAI PET-11
GAIL-18
HINDUSTHAN PET-9

AVERAGE P/E =13

Price of RPL=13*11.55
=149.6

RPL PRICE=150

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3 Comments

AP says: 24 November 2007 - 12:42 pm

I’ll really do that, you can check it in my blog. Thx.

ecoholic says: 29 September 2008 - 12:19 pm

hy how can i calculate future p/e ratio n eps n income for particular stocks

Anil says: 17 October 2008 - 10:12 pm

hy how can invest money in to RIL and how much equity share prices rate.

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