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Is Haryana Capfin a value trap?

As discussed in an earlier post, Haryana Capfin is one of the holdings of Tactica Capital run by well known investor Prof Sanjay Bakshi.

What is interesting about this company is that it is basically a shell company with hardly any business of its own or any employees to speak of.The entire salary of its management is less than the summer stipend of an IIM-A grad (only 4 Lakhs for the whole year !!)

The DP Jindal group uses this shell company to park 28.52 L shares of Maharashtra Seamless…a value of roughly 85.56 Crores (considering today’s CMP of 300 Rs for Maharashtra Seamless)

Now the enterprise value of Haryana Capfin is 16.64 Crores (considering today’s CMP of 32.05 Rs).

So you are getting a dollar for pennies !!

But before we call the broker and load the truck with Haryana Capfin, let us consider what another market expert Tulsian said about this company

Tulsian told CNBC-TV18, “The market cap of Haryana Capfin is Rs 22 crore, the value of the shares which they are holding is Rs 80 crore that means the shares are ruling just at 27% of the market cap because they are holding 26.87 lakh shares of Maharashtra Seamless. This is a tiny company holding one class of share but the highest potential of appreciation or the undervaluation exists in this stock because you are getting the shares at net asset value (NAV) of about 27%.”

 

This statement was made on 5th June , 2009 when Haryana Capfin was around Rs.44

So the stock has gone nowhere fast in the last 3 and half years.

The same story was prevalent then too.So why didn’t the market resolve this anomaly?

Well, maybe its because there is no catalyst on the horizon.One possible catalyst could be this company getting a banking license.But then lets not hold our breath on this.

Tulsian,Bakshi- You guys got value trapped !!!!

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