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Agria Corporation(GRO)

 
123Jump Rating: - Long-Term Growth   Underwriters: Credit Suisse First Boston
     
Status: Priced  
 
Address: Huantai Building, No. 12A South Street Zhongguancun,
FiledDate: 10/18/2007
     
  Filed Price Range ($): $14.50-16.50
       
Telephone: 86-10- 6210-9288 Filed Offer Amount ($ Million): $325.40
       
Fax: Shares Offered (Millions): 17
       
Websites: www.agriacorp.com Shares Outstanding (Millions): 17.1
       
Management: Guanglin Lai & Kenneth Hua Huang, CEO
IPO Date: 11/06/2007
     
  Final Offer Price ($): $16.00
       
Industry: Agricultural Final Offer Size (Millions of Shares): 17.20
       
Employees: 333 Final Offer Amount ($ Million): $275.20
       
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Major Stock Holders   (Prior To Offering)

Name

Class A
Brothers Capital Limited 84.60%
Dubai Investment Group L.L.C 6.40%
Guanglin Lai 84.60%
Investment funds affiliated with TPG, represented by TPG Growth AC Ltd. and TPG Biotech II, Ltd. 8.40%
Zhaohua Qian 84.60%

Major Stock Holders  (After Offering)

Name

Common Stock Class A Class B Class C Class L ADS
Brothers Capital Limited 0% 60.40% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Dubai Investment Group L.L.C 0% 5.20% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Guanglin Lai 0% 60.40% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Investment funds affiliated with TPG, represented by TPG Growth AC Ltd. and TPG Biotech II, Ltd. 0% 6.80% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Zhaohua Qian 0% 60.40% 0% 0% 0% 0%

Business Environment

China’s economy has grown rapidly in recent years. According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China, China’s gross domestic product in 2006 was RMB20.9 trillion ($2.7 trillion), which represented growth at a CAGR of 13.8% from 2001 to 2006, making China one of the fastest growing economies in the world.

China’s agricultural industry has also grown significantly, driven by the growth of the overall economy. According to the China Statistical Abstract, in 2006, China’s agricultural output totaled RMB2,155 billion ($283.1 billion), accounting for 10.3% of gross domestic product and representing growth at a CAGR of 8.3% from 2001 to 2006.

The increase in China’s agricultural production is the result of an increase in the consumption of food products such as crops and meat proteins for human and animal nutrition, as well as food products for industrial uses, such as fuels and materials. However, while domestic production has grown, it has not kept pace with consumption, resulting in imports of many agricultural products such as corn seed and sheep.

Despite its recent rapid growth, the agricultural industry in China remains at an early stage of modernization, with significant manual labor and less usage of advanced machinery and irrigation than that of developed economies. In an effort to modernize and promote development of the agricultural industry in China, the Chinese government has provided substantial financial support to agricultural and related businesses through low interest loans, preferential tax treatments, financial subsidies and other measures. In the meantime, Chinese farmers are increasingly using improved production techniques and products, including hybrid seeds and sheep breeding products.

Company Strategy
The Company is a fast-growing China-based agri-solutions provider engaged in the research and development, production and sale of upstream agricultural products.

Product/Services Portfolio
The Company specializes in three types of products: corn seeds, sheep breeding products and seedlings. The Company currently offers 20 corn seed products, 34 sheep breeding products and 17 seedling products in 15 provinces in China.

In 2006, the Company sold approximately 31,100 tonnes of corn seed products. The Company currently produces four types of proprietary corn seed products: Primalights III — 591, Primalights III — 391, Primalights III — 891 and Primalights III — 28.

In addition to its proprietary products, the Company is the exclusive distributor in Shanxi for four varieties of corn seed produced by other seed companies outside Shanxi. The Company also produces and sells four popular generic corn seeds whose intellectual property rights have expired in China.

The Company’s sheep breeding business consists primarily of the production and sale of frozen semen, embryos, breeder sheep and its Primalights III hybrid sheep.

The Company owns approximately 6,100 breeder sheep including Poll Dorset, Suffolk, Texel, Merino and Dorper sheep, domestic Small-tailed Han sheep. The Company also has approximately 9,700 Primalights III hybrid sheep and approximately 900 breeder goats including foreign pure breed Boer goats and domestic goats.

The Company primarily produces and sells four types of seedlings, blackberries and raspberries, dates and white bark pine. The Company has four seedling propagation bases that occupy approximately 380 acres of land that it has leased or acquired the land use rights for between five and 46 years.

Investment Analysis
Total revenues increased by 3.8% from RMB269.2 million in the six months ended June 30, 2006 to RMB279.4 million ($36.7 million) in the six months ended June 30, 2007.

Total cost of revenues increased by 8.4% from RMB112.2 million in the six months ended June 30, 2006 to RMB121.6 million ($16.0 million) in the six months ended June 30, 2007.

Selling expenses increased by 5.3% from RMB7.5 million in the six months ended June 30, 2006 to RMB7.9 million ($1.0 million) in the six months ended June 30, 2007.

Research and development expenses decreased by 61.5% from RMB2.6 million in the six months ended June 30, 2006 to RMB1.0 million ($0.1 million) in the six months ended June 30, 2007.

Net income increased from RMB142.1 million in the six months ended June 30, 2006 to RMB143.4 million ($18.8 million) in the six months ended June 30, 2007.

Income Data 
Year Revenues Costs Oper Income Taxes Net Income EPS
2004 152,284 0.00 -16,635 0.00 57,772 0.58
2005 384,089 0.00 -18,372 0.00 169,080 1.69
2006 489,703 0.00 -25,169 0.00 253,903 2.54
2007 279,407 0.00 -12,524 0.00 143,351 1.43
*All data in RMB
*As of period ended June 30, 2007

Balance Sheet Data

Year

Cash Acct Recv. Inventory Total Cur Assets Total Cur Liability PPE Total Assets LT Debt SH Equity
2005 29,477 67,200 82,659 190,562 141,532 42,965 351,866 141,532 208,834
2006 42,782 156,440 58,007 280,872 127,344 40,126 490,476 127,344 354,136
2007 325,562 166,954 53,270 622,625 344,636 40,146 871,500 0.00 296,829
*All data in RMB
*As of period ended June 30, 2007

Cash Flow Summary

Year

Net Cash-Ops Net Cash-Inv Net Cash-Fin Net Change
2004 58,062 -51,197 -1,160 5,705
2005 140,447 99,130 -32,849 8,468
2006 162,051 -51,309 -97,437 13,305
2007 94,234 -27,134 215,680 282,780
*All data in RMB
*As of period ended June 30, 2007
 

 


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