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Symphony – Understanding Competitive advantages

Previously I have written about how to identify stock investments

Like Peter Lynch here

Using Pause and Play here

By following smart money here

One of the pointers in Ten point investment map is to identify whether company has sustainable competitive advantages. Many of the investors have this question on how to define/find competitive advantage of company. We will try to ascertain competitive strength of  Symphony Ltd one of our top picks in Model Portfolio.  I am borrowing heavily from Warren Buffet’s letters to his shareholders.

1.  Will Company be in business for next 10 years ? Is there a big market to address – Symphony limited makes air coolers, also known as evaporative cooler, swamp cooler, desert cooler and wet air cooler, works on the evaporation technique; it uses the hot air in the room and water to generate cool air.  This is what I picked from there 2012-13 Annual report

In India,about 132 million households live in hot dry climatic regions (about 54% of the total) and about 11 million households live in moderate climatic regions. This represents an aggregate 143 million households (58% of total) of potential customers.

So we can safely assume that there is a … Read the rest

Why I bought Symphony at a high PE ?

We recently added Symphony to our model portfolio . Here is my complete analysis and reasoning for adding it to model portfolio

Symphony Limited manufactures and sells consumer durable products in India. It’s name synonymous to Air coolers in India.

Business

Symphony Limited manufactures and sells consumer durable products in India. The company provides domestic, commercial, and industrial air coolers across various models under the Symphony name. It offers desert, tower, room, and personal coolers for residences, shops, showrooms and offices; heavy duty industrial air coolers for factories, offices, schools, malls, assembly halls, warehouses, and metro stations. The company also provides storage and instant water heaters under the Sauna name. Symphony develops its own models, designs and prototypes of air coolers before giving it to OEM’s for large scale manufacturing. In addition, Symphony Limited holds intellectual property comprising 8 patents, 49 designs, 108 trademarks, and 7 copyrights. The company also exports its products to approximately 60 countries. It offers its products through a network of approximately 750 distributors and approximately 15,000 dealers across India.

Positives

–          Well positioned to encash the growth

–          Leading player in the air coolers market

–          Huge product portfolio with innovative products

–          Strong dealer Read the rest

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