108th AGM Transcript
Our analyst
Read of this earnings call — headline is the investment verdict. Research synthesis, not investment advice.
No conviction:
the AGM was too thin and largely procedural to support a directional investment call. FY24 textile revenue reportedly fell to about ₹197 crore while operating profit rose to ₹21.5 crore from ₹18 crore; real-estate revenue increased to ₹39.85 crore from ₹23.5 crore with operating profit of roughly ₹30 crore versus ₹28.5 crore, but management offered no quantified outlook and there was no substantive shareholder or analyst challenge.
- Textile Demand
- Real Estate
- Capacity Expansion
- B2b Shift
- Dividend
- Fy2024 Performance
Near term
- Track whether the claimed positive revenue momentum after losing the first four months of the fiscal year translates into reported growth and margin recovery.
- Monitor textile demand at the retail stage, which management identified as the source of weaker FY24 activity.
- The proposed ₹1.75-per-share dividend, or 35% of face value, implies an aggregate cash outflow of approximately ₹5.85 crore.
Longer term
- Capacity additions aimed at shifting the business from B2C toward B2B could improve volumes and revenue, but the call provided no investment size, timing, returns, or customer commitments.
- Real estate remains an important earnings contributor given its higher FY24 revenue and operating profit; the durability and project pipeline of this contribution require verification.
- Textile-sector recovery and the company’s ability to convert cost reduction and capacity expansion into sustainable operating leverage remain unresolved.
Red flags
- The call provided no formal revenue, margin, earnings, or capex guidance.
- Management’s claim of positive momentum and confidence in making up lost revenue was unquantified.
- There was no substantive Q&A or analyst pushback, leaving demand, execution, capital allocation, and competitive positioning untested.
- The transcript contains material numerical and wording ambiguities, including the reported textile revenue figure, limiting confidence in the disclosed operating trend.
TRANSCRIPT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 28TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
(“AGM”) OF THE MEMBERS OF THE RUBY MILLS LIMITED HELD ON FRIDAY, 20TH
SEPTEMBER, 2021 AT 4:30 P.M. THROUGH VIDEO-CONFERENCE (“VC”) / OTHER
AUDIO VISUAL MEANS (“OAVM”)
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Good evening. This meeting is being recorded.
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Good evening, one and all. Welcome to the welcome to the 100 and 8th Annual
General meeting of the Rupie Mills Limited. Firstly, I would like to apologize on the delayed start.
There was a technical issue, technical issue which has now been resolved, and we can proceed with the annual General meeting.
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Hope everyone is doing fine, and in the pink of the health, and with that we'll we'll proceed and start with the agm.
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Since we have the requisite quorum, I would like to ask Hensa to take the chair and for us to proceed in the meetings.
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I would request I would firstly introduce all the members on the board, and would like to thank them for attending the annual general meeting. With that I would also like to confirm to all the shareholders present in the meeting that the chairperson, the erstwhile chairperson of the Audit Committee and and the Src. Committee are present in the meeting, and will be available for any questions any questions which may which may arise.
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With that being said, I would like chairman, sir, to take up. Take up the speech and address the shareholders.
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Well, come on.
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I welcome all of you to the 100 and 8th Annual General Meeting of the
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it's a delight to make your acquaintance to him.
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We very much appreciate
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general support, and on behalf of the Board of Directors of the company.
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I thank you all for taking our time from everything to do to join us
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for a period of time the business has continuously evolved to remain relevant to the changing times.
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Very important are foundations of the company and their ethics.
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and who we work together, and collective resources and strength to respond to changing times.
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Principles of satisfying the customer has been the prime importance
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which we have unable to continue.
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Your company has complied with corporate governance laws as stipulated under survey guidelines for more details please refer
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report of corporate governance which involves part of the annual
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in last 4 years India has been one of the greatest and the fastest growing economy. Now the new direction by the present Government to make in India.
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bringing a lot of investments under the pale scheme which should bring results in advancing exports and creating supply.
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All the stakeholders, including the Central and State Government policy makeup
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and public and private sector enterprises are working towards a goal of enhancing India's share
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in export market of the world
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business performance.
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Financial year 2,02324 was not very encouraging as far as the texture industry was concerned.
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At least
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there is a fall in demand, mainly at retail stage
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which slow down also textile production.
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The revenue from textile activity was
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down to 1 97,000,
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and the operating problem
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the current year was 21.5. Compared to 18 crores in the previous year.
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The revenue from real estate activity was 39.8 5 crores compared to 23.5 crores
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the previous year, and the operating profit of 30 tick crumes as against 28 point
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5 growers. In the previous year
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the company continues to manage cash flow exceptionally well.
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which can be seen from management.
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The board of directors have recommended an arms dividend of 35%
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for the year.
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and it will be 1.75
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or any quid share resulting in an outflow of over 585 throws. Approximately.
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we continue to remain optimistic about company's future.
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We are working continuously towards sustainability and creating maximum value
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under shared rooms.
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We continue to focus on cost reduction and optimum utilization of
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existing resources
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and enhance operational affilience.
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We are witnessing positive momentum in revenues, despite losing out on 1st 4 months of the current financial year.
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we are confident of making up
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the same.
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We are mainly A, b 2 c player. And now adding capacities
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to move towards B, 2D. And extract volumes and revenues.
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I would like to express my gratitude to all
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board of members
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for their guidance and support in our pursuit, to maximizing long-term shareholders value also thank all our shareholders and customers for their continuous support
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and confidence in the company.
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Finally, I would like to thank our employees for their dedication
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that has positioned out so well
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for the future.
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or Germany thus far would have been impossible without
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they're unstrating support.
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each one of you I offer you a sincere thanks. Thank you. Take care.
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bye-bye.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you for addressing the shareholders. I would like to further inform the shareholders and the members that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, why its various circulars has permitted
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us to permitted the companies to hold the agm through Video, conferencing without the physical presence of the members being required at a common venue.
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So in compliance with these said circulars, the companies holding the Agm through video conferencing, and the registered of office of the company shall be deemed to be the venue of the Agm.
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Your company has taken all the requisite steps to ensure that the members attend and vote, and and the meeting, and the meeting is conducted in a seamless manner.
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Your company has availed services of Nsdl for conducting, conducting, voting
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for hosting the
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agm through video, conferencing and for conducting the voting as well. The members are requested for their participation.
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and the voting channels will be open open for the members for voting after the meeting is concluded.
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after the meeting is concluded, I would also like to highlight to the members that
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that the statutory auditors and the authorized representatives of our scrutinizers, which is Mmjp. And associates Llp. Are present in the meeting, and have been appointed as scrutinizers.
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This is also to bring to your notice that the Company has received authorizations under section 1, 1, 6 for
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for the member shareholders of Member shareholders in the company.
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Da members. The facility to join the agent through Vc. Is being made available on 1st come 1st serve basis. As for the regulatory regulatory requirements. For any shareholders having any queries, I would request you to keep this queries to the minimum
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address, keep it to the point, and
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keep it to the point, and so that I'll also be respectful of other in members having other queries. Thank you for your time, and I would request Rahulji to unmute the speaker shareholders, if any, in the meeting.
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TechSupport -Imran
As per. Our list of the speakers are older, Mr. Is not available.
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and also
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Mister Satisfa is also not available in the meeting.
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So if if there are no any, if there are any other questions on behalf of the shareholders, we'd be happy to address them. Now
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taking it. There are no no question questions from the shareholders. We'll move on to the next point, which is taking taking on record the annual general
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the report and the agent notice.
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and this audit reports the Secretary auditor for the financial year 31st March ended, 2,024 did not issue any observation.
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The report of the statutory auditor for the financial year 31st March 2024 also does not contain any qualifications, observations, or comment which which has any adverse effect on the functioning of the company.
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Accordingly, these reports are not required to be read out.
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As the notice is circulated to all the members. I take the notice of convening, convening this meeting as read
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up.
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since there are no questions.
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We'd move to the next agenda is, which is taking on
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discussing the ordinary business, ordinary business for which the meeting is convened. The 1st one is to consider and
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to receive, consider, and adopt the audited financial statements of the company for the financial year end. That ended 31st March 2,024,
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with the request of chairman, Sir, I take it as read, and move to the next point.
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The next part. The next point is to declare final dividend of 1.7 ₹5, which is 35% per fully paid equity share, having a face value of ₹5 for the financial year ended 31st March 2024.
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The next point is to to appoint a director in place of Mr. In place of Sri Puraf pure, of Irensha, who retires, who retires by rotation, and being
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eligible for reappointment, offers himself.
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offers himself eligible for reappointment. I would request the chairman, sir, to refrain from voting, as is interested in this resolution.
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I would I would request a member from the Board to take up the chair chairperson's position, especially for this agenda
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charcoal channel, sir.
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I'll take this resolution as read, and with your permission, I'd like to move forward.
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Thank you, sir. The next. The next order of business is to take on record the the ratification of post auditors. Remunitation.
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which is the special business. I would request the members to take note of the same, and with that the formal business of the agm is concluded
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as as
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as discussed before, since there are no questions from the members in this agm. I would.
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if there are no comments to add. We'd like to conclude the meeting
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would like to conclude the meeting. I just just to inform the shareholders the since the formal business of the meeting is concluded. We can
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conclude the meeting now, and
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after the conclusion of the meeting the E-voting of the E-voting shall shall stay active for the next 15 min.
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for the members who have not, who have not concluded their voting. So any and every member desirous of
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having to vote has the next 15 min to vote.
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With that we can conclude the meeting.
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Yes, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.