Keeping an optimistic view, credit rating agency, Crisil in its latest report has said that the road construction firms are set to post a 20% compound annual growth in revenue till 2020, backed by government’s push for the roads development in the country. The study report is based on 66 companies which account for more than 80% of the debt in over 300 companies.
Crisil further noted that fiscal 2018 was particularly frenetic, with 17,000 km road projects, the highest ever in a year, being awarded by both the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and NHAI. Besides, it said that FY18 witnessed highest road construction pace of 27 km per day, almost twice than that in the FY14 and over 90% of these contracts were based on hybrid annuity (HAM) and EPC models.
The rating agency further found that HAM projects being awarded over the next two years will need about Rs 70,000 crore of funding through an optimal mix of debt and equity and for this, players will have to raise an additional Rs 12,000 to 15,000 crore of equity to invest in new HAM projects, given the limited playing field and fast pace of project awards anticipated. Crisil further added that this should not pose problems as the market sentiment is positive.
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