Geojit Financial Services Limited
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7executives
Management on call
C J George
MANAGING DIRECTOR & CEO – GEOJIT FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED
Satish Menon
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR – GEOJIT FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED
A Balakrishnan
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR – GEOJIT FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED
Jones George
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR – GEOJIT FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED
Mini Nair
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER – GEOJIT FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED
Liju K Johnson
COMPANY SECRETARY – GEOJIT FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED
C J
George
Managing Director & CEO; Mr. Satish Menon – Executive Director; Mr. A
Key numbers — 40 extracted
122.8
Crore
5%
1%
500.29 Crore
18%
46.15 Crore
3%
202.31
Crore
22%
4%
154.42 Crore
82.78
Crore
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Guidance — 11 items
Satish Menon
opening
“Quite a few details have been given in the presentation in terms of number of clients in terms of mutual fund AUM , mutual fund clients, I am sure you would have gone through it and of course if there are any questions we will be happy to answer.”
Mini Nair
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“Cash in the group will be around 700 Crores.”
Satish Menon
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“While CFO was talking about the cash, the cash utilization is going up with the sort of margin lending book is growing so there has been significant deployment of cash in the financial year we see that growing up next year too.”
Satish Menon
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“In terms of employees, yes we plan to hire 350 plus people in this financial year and the most of them would be in the sale side we also have a plan to hire close to 75 to 100 people in the technology side and that will be part of Geojit Technologies.”
C J George
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“We are opening 28 offices also these are largely in semi urban places in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, 6 of these 28 are operational and the balance offices will be operational by the end of second quarter so the projected number of employees also includes the incremental recruitment for the offices that we are now planning.”
A Balakrishnan
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“Regarding Geojit technologies we have at this point in time 160 people and we will be adding more people.”
A Balakrishnan
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“For that actually this year we will be planning around addition of 100 plus employees.”
Chander Bhatia
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“Sir what could be the kind of cost you expect to increase on your employee’s vertical because of increase in number of employees.”
Chander Bhatia
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“Okay Sir and it can be based out accordingly because it will be spread over the year.”
A Balakrishnan
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“Yes, technology will be costlier it can go up to 4.5 lakh per annum average I am talking about.”
Risks & concerns — 1 flagged
This is primarily due to the decline in volumes in the normal stock markets primarily coming from the cash market.
— Satish Menon
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Q&A — 5 exchanges
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Opening remarks
Satish Menon
Thank you Margaret. Good morning to everyone who have joined this call and a warm welcome from Geojit. We have already uploaded the shareholders presentation to the exchange’s website as well as in our website. You can go through the presentation in detail as per your convenience. Just to kick start the call, I will talk about some numbers and then we can open for Q&A. In terms of the operational income for the quarter ended March 2022, we have done 122.8 Crores which is 5% down from the December quarter and 1% up from the same quarter previous year. The operational Income for the year 2021-22 is 500.29 Crores which is 18% up Y-on-Y that is compared to the financial year 2021. In terms of PBT for the quarter ended March 2022, we did 46.15 Crores which is 3% down from the same quarter last year and in terms of full year for FY2022, the PBT is 202.31 Crores which is 22% up from FY2021. PAT is 35.8, 4% down from the previous year same quarter and for the full year the PAT is 154.42 Crores
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