Lahore, February 08, 2023 (PPI-OT):The ratings of Denim-E (Pvt.) Limited incorporates progressive growth of the Company in the initial years. The Company is a family-owned business. Apart from this company, the sponsor family is involved in real estate and Biogas businesses. Denim-E is principally engaged in the manufacturing and export of garments/made-up, clothing, knitwear, and the weaving of apparel. The Company’s management is cognizant of the textile industry’s volatility and has planned phase-wise gradation of machinery to remain competitive. Healthy growth has been recorded over the last three years.
The Company’s topline has reflected improvement to PKR 2.3bln (FY21: PKR 1.1bln); a result of higher capacity utilization accompanied by better prices. The sales mix represents the contribution from the export market. The Company enjoys a customer base with several export destinations where various retailers are also on board. The net profitability also observed improvement while margins observed slight improvement. Ratings incorporate sound financial risk manifested by significant improvement in coverage YoY. The Company has an adequate financial profile characterized by adequate coverages, low-leveraged capital structure, and improving working capital management. Going forward, the planned CAPEX is expected to bring in efficiency and improve margins.
During 5MFY23, textile exports were valued at $7.44bln compared to $7.76bln, reflecting a 4% dip YoY – the declining trend recorded in the last two months. The fall in export value has mainly come from volumetric decline as prices of almost all categories have either increased or stayed flat. This has taken a fiscal year to date exports into negative with a 1.4% decline in the first four months (July – October) FY23. Among value-added items, bed wear has witnessed the largest decline of 19% (on an MoM basis), down to $217 million. Knitwear remained on the downward path in October 2022 and declined by 10% to $392 million. Among non-value-added items, cotton yarn has shown the largest decline of 35%. Moreover, a slowdown is expected in textile demand amid burgeoning inflationary pressures in the exporting destinations, especially in the US and European countries. The import of raw materials has become a challenge, to manage which is quite essential for continued operations.
The ratings are dependent on the management’s ability to uphold the entity’s growing performance trend. Meanwhile, maintaining strong margins and coverages to fulfill financial obligations will remain critical. The company is expected to adhere to conservative financial discipline, which would be crucial to ratings.
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