ANY UPDATE ON GGAUTOMOTIVE

Ans: G.G Automotive Gears was incorporated in Feb.'74 as a private limited company, was converted into a public limited company in 1994. The company was promoted by the Gajra family of Bombay.

The company started manufacturing gear box housing and other type of housing for automobile vehicles in 1978. Subsequently, it started manufacturing precision gears for the Indian Railways, industrial gears for cooling towers and in various process industries like cement, steel and sugar. In 1993, it started manufacturing industrial gear boxes for oil extraction plant, gears for plastic extrusion machines and material handling equipment for Port Trusts.

A project for manufacturing locomotive gears and gear pumps with an installed capacity of 3000 Pa each has been completed during 1995.

BHEL, Indian Railways, Uranium Corporation, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, etc, are some of its reputed customers. The company successfully entered the export market by securing a trial order from General Electric, US.

In 2000-01 the company has PPAP (Production Part & approval Process) milestone of General Motors Corporation, USA, This will facilitate the company to compete in the international market. The company had launched Hydraulic Gear Pumps for Loaders/Earthmovers on trial basis.

Positives:
Strong Annual EPS Growth
Effectively using its capital to generate profit - RoCE improving in last 2 years
Effectively using Shareholders fund - Return on equity (ROE) improving since last 2 year
Efficient in managing Assets to generate Profits - ROA improving since last 2 year
Growth in Quarterly Net Profit with increasing Profit Margin (YoY)
Increasing Revenue every Quarter for the past 4 Quarters
Strong cash generating ability from core business - Improving Cash Flow from operation for last 2 years
Increasing profits every quarter for the past 4 quarters
Promoters increasing shareholding QoQ

Negatives:
Stock is trading at 21.4 times its book value
Though the company is reporting repeated profits, it is not paying out dividend
Company has low interest coverage ratio.
Promoter holding is low: 32.2%
Company has a low return on equity of -0.16% over last 3 years.
Company might be capitalizing the interest cost

The company is NANO cap category with market cap of only 48 crores. If you dont understand the business and the risks involved in the same than its better to stay away and if you plan to invest than make sure you keep track of business and its perfomance on regualr basis to take informed decisions.

Hope this should help you. happy Investing

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