Buy ISGEC Heavy Engineering, target Rs 7,093: ICICI Securities

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ICICI Securities has a buy call on ISGEC Heavy Engineering with a target price of Rs 7,093. The current market price of ISGEC Heavy
Engineering is Rs 5,279.35. Time period given by the brokerage is one year when ISGEC Heavy Engineering price can reach the defined target
Investment rationale by the brokerage:Strong order intake from new sectors: Company witnessed strong order intake in Q2FY19 boosted by its
second FGD order of Rs 500 crore from NTPC Gadarwara
Order prospects from process industries and material handling segments are healthy, led by brownfield expansions. Increased market
penetration in domestic boiler market: Leveraging its various global technology partnerships, ISGEC has been able to successfully penetrate
certain key technological boiler segments, e.g
CFBC
The company has been able to win the confidence of quality-conscious customers willing to pay for higher efficiency and quality
Though the sugar industry is under stress, the recent policy support from the government toward distillery unit interest subvention and
focus toward improvement of yield, will lead to capex from the sugar sector. Foray into the promising market of emission control in power
plants: ISGEC has tied up with Babcock Power to offer FGD to control SOx and with Fuel Tech to offer solutions for NOx control
Near-term opportunity is from NTPC bulk tenders for FGD while the overall opportunity in FGD is pegged at Rs340bn
ISGEC has already won two FGD projects amounting to Rs12bn from NTPC. Maintain BUY: Given the strong order book, which will support
execution and overall bottoming-out of margins, we believe the current valuations are benign
Maintain BUY with an SoTP-based target price of Rs 7,093.