BPCL, HP, and IOC have the potential for increased PE multiples. OMCs derive over 50% of their EBITDA from retailing petrol and diesel, leading to stable YoY earnings. In the good cycle, that is when the oil prices are benign, all the oil marketing companies tend to trade in double-digit PE multiples. ONGC and Oil India need a clear roadmap for sustainable volume growth to achieve re-rating.
Financial sectors stocks tend to do well, where there is inflow from foreign portfolio investors, the reason, it is their preferred sector for taking exposure to the Indian market for decades as it can also act as a proxy for GDP growth. After a gap of two months, September and October, FPI have been net buyers in the month of November and till date in December. Given the fact that in the last one year there has been a sort of underperformance by financials stocks, there is high probability that we might see some of them making a come back, we take a look at stocks from this sector where one of one of valuation matrix meets the criteria for investing for long term.
The reason the stock is trading so high is that EPS from the past 12 months stands at ₹46, and investors seem to believe the company can improve on this. But it would be wrong to assume Tata Motors has somehow become immune to the vicissitudes of the auto industry.
At some point in time, say a year back, some of these companies had more than 50% net cash on their balance sheet and they were available at three and four PE multiple.
Such businesses that are going through a bad phase may not be really attractive even compared to their own historical valuations, but may re-rate when the segment bounces back.