December 4, 2024
Cut back Vijaya Diagnostic Centre; goal of Rs 590: ICICI Securities

ICICI Securities analysis report on Vijaya Diagnostic Centre

Vijaya Diagnostic Centre (Vijaya) has acquired 100% stake in Pune-based PH Diagnostic Centre Personal Restricted (PH) for a money consideration of INR 1,475mn (together with INR 128mn for debt compensation). The enterprise dynamics of PH Diagnostic are an identical to Vijaya and might be swiftly built-in. Apart from, PH’s skill of excessive finish testing pertaining to allergy and genomic can also add new capabilities to the mixed portfolio. The acquisition additionally addresses issues on replicating Vijaya’s enterprise mannequin past Andhra/Telangana area because the share of those areas might come all the way down to 89% in FY25E vs ~97% presently. We increase our EBITDA for FY24/25E by 2-8% to issue on this acquisition.

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Outlook

The inventory trades costly at 21.8x FY25E EV/EBITDA, we retain our REDUCE suggestion. Nonetheless, we increase goal value to INR 590.

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