GAIL (INDIA) LTD.

GAIL (India) Ltd. is a Central Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, with the mission of accelerating and optimizing the effective and economic use of Natural Gas and its fractions for the benefit of the national economy. GAIL, having started as a Gas Transmission Company during the late eighties, has grown organically by building a large network of Natural Gas pipelines covering over 11,000 km; two LPG Pipelines covering more than 2,000 km; six Gas Processing plants for production of LPG and other liquid hydrocarbons, with a combined production capacity of around 1.3 MMTPA, and a gas based integrated petrochemical plant of capacity 810,000 TPA. The Company also has 70% equity share in Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL) which has set up 280,000 TPA polymer plant in Assam. Further, GAIL is a co-promoter of ONGC Petro-additions Limited (OPaL) which is implementing a green field petrochemical complex of 1.4 MMTPA polymer capacity at Dahej in the State of Gujarat. The company has integrated upstream into the business of Exploration & Production with participating interests in 11 E&P Blocks, including 2 blocks in Myanmar. GAIL has also integrated downstream into the high growth retail City Gas Distribution business both in India and abroad. The financials of the company is very good, RoNW is 12.69% and at CMP its looks fully priced. Price difference is around 10% and acceptance ratio as per current share holding for retail will be around 8%, so we may expect the final acceptance ratio may be around 20%, so profit may be 1% to 5%. So we give NEUTRAL rating to this buyback.