This auto ancillary stock is worth adding to long-term portfolio

Market Outlook

SEL’s diversification across products and clients, promising aftermarket and export potential, and attractive valuations make it worthy of investor consideration

This auto ancillary stock is worth adding to long-term portfolio

PRO Only Highlights
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Quarterly performance largely backed by improved realisations
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Medium-term triggers China plus and protectionist measures for tyre industry
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Valuations not inexpensive; but improved medium-term outlook

Suprajit Engineering Ltd. (SEL) (CMP: Rs 323, Mcap: Rs 4,470 crore), a manufacturer of automotive and non-automotive cables, reported an expected set of numbers for Q1 FY22 amid the challenges posed by the second wave of COVID-19. Sequentially, net revenues saw a significant decline and operating margin contracted due to a negative operating leverage. However, SEL’s diversification across products and clients, promising aftermarket and export potential, and attractive valuations (17.8 times FY23 projected earnings) make it worthy of investor consideration….