Dixon Technologies con call was today at 4:00 PM.

"Company will be focusing on expenditure in R&D and disciplined capital allocation for future growth"

Here are the key takeaways of the call. 😀

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Opening remarks

- Company had a good all around performance with highest sales.

- Growth of 120% in revenue

- EBITDA had a robust growth of 89%.

- Growth has been broad based.

- order book continues to be very strong.

- Growth is reflected across businesses.
- Overall demand outlook remains positive

- Due to global trade mismatch in commodity prices resulted in higher input cost and disturbed supply chain

- It could disturb the ODM revenue a bit
- Company is well positioned with robust balance sheet with good cash position.

- Company is focusing towards investing in people and R&D

- Company is extremely focused towards disciplined capital allocation
LED

- govt regulation has helped in growth.

- Company did well in this segment because of backward integration, operating leverage & sales of larger size tv.

- 4.4 million capacity that is 30% of India's total requirement

- Company is expanding its capacity to 5.5 millions
- Lighting

- Within a short span of time company has recached back to pre-covid levels.

- margins expanded to 9.5%

- Solutions for smart lighting segment and emergency lighting.

- Order book is very healthy thus company is expanding the capacity further more
- Decorative lamp capacity has been expanded.

- Company is setting up a new factory for lighting and will be operational by Q3 of next fiscal year.

- Company has started exporting to US & Indonesia.

- Company is in talks with very large retailer internationally.
- The team is developing household lighting solution

- Company is looking to venture into international markets

- Global market is 8 billion dollar. Company is globally no.2 or 3 manufacturer.
Washing machine Business

- Margins would be under some pressure this quarter

- Order book remains very high thus, company is going to expand the capacity of semi automatic in Dehradun.

- Tirupati plant is almost complete
Mobile Phones

- Revenue grew by 114%

- commercial production has started for Nokia

- commercial production for Motorola will start soon

- The new factory under PLI scheme is being constructed.

- The annual capacity for smartphone would be 20 million
- From this quarter company would start reporting the revenues of this vertical separately

- Company has the largest capacity for 2g phones which is used for domestic and export sales

- ROC will be robust and there will be quick payback on the project.
- Company is seriously considering backward integration in Chargers, batteries & mechanics

Medical electronics

- Healthy operating margin with very high level of ROCE

- Company has entered into wearables segments

- Reverse logistics segment: Mainly for set up boxes and LED TV
- Motorola business is going to be mainly for international market.

- 4-5 years is good enough time for government to support the manufacturing industry that is in nascent stage.

- Company will do business in segments that are not in PLI scheme as well
PLI scheme

- Nokia and Motorola are the first 2 customers that the company has finalized.

- The order made by Motorola is almost exceeding the govt ceiling.

- Motorola production is to cater the global markets

- Due to PLI there would be deepening of manufacturing in India
- Samsung has a good relationship with Dixon. The company is producing 2g smartphones

- Samsung is eligible for PLI scheme in smartphone business

Pli scheme

- Due to supply chain constraints the company will not be able to meet the thresholds
- Other competitors would also not be able to achieve the threshold

- Next year threshold will be met fairly faster.

- issue is not with order book. issue is with supply chain management.
- Market has shifted from 32 inches to 43 inches which has led to expansion in revenue and margins.

- Company has added smasung, flipkart's private label, Reliance's private label and tata croma for sales

- Almost 75% of revenue are coming from Xiaomi and Samsung in LED TV
- This revenue from top 2 customer will get lower to 65% with more customer acquisition

Motorola partnership

- By year 3 or year 4 the company would be catering the 30-40% of Motorola's demand. The China production is mainly being shifted to India
- Dixon has passed the the level 1 quality audit & the commercial production will start by next quarter.

- Lower Cost would be achieved by the company.

- Nokia production would be for domestic market.
- Company is in talks with another large mobile brand for smartphone manufacturing.

Backward integration

- Company is not looking for backward integration in terms of PCB
Capex

- Lighting side: Capacity would be coming in Uttarakhand

- PLI week of lighting would be announced by 2nd week of feb and the company would be applying for that.

- 104 crores Capex has been done till now for washing machine and Pli project
Volumes

Consumer electronics volume has been 200%

- Washing machine 2.4 lacs

- 75 lac for mobile phones

- Cctv 9lac

- Setup box 9 lac

- Medical equipment 450 units

- Talent acquisition

- Strengthen the HR department
- Strengthen middle management team in design, manufacturing, quality management system.

- Have tied up with global consultant in this talent management

- Company is strengthening the IT segment
New opportunity for PLI

- Company is looking for IT and wearables PLI.

- For IT the company has a good relationship with a very large brand.

- cost and productivity is better in India than in Vietnam.

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