jetking infotrain ltd share price Management discussions


A. Industry structure, Development and Outlook

Indias edtech market is poised to grow to 29 billion dollars by 2030. The 5 year Compound Annual Growth Rate ("CAGR") from 2025 to 2030 is tuned to grow at 24%. This growth is further fueled by the penetration of the internet in India which stands at 61% and more than 600 million smartphone users out of which almost 373 million users are from rural India. These statistics are creating the ultimate opportunities for growth in edtech & skill tech.

India has been poised to become one of the fastest growing economies in the world. While there is turbulence globally with conflict like Russia & Ukraine, energy crisis in Europe & political instability in the USA. India has been moving ahead towards a stable, mature and middle class growing economy.

Today as a hub of IT offshoring, IT development & IT services, there are huge opportunities that will be created in India for employment. The education and training industry has seen a massive shift from offline learning to online learning and now to online to offline learning. While we have tested this model post the pandemic, to scale this model is a journey we have undertaken.

Upscaling vocational training is the most sought after sector due to high employability challenges in India unlike edtech & skill tech, will see huge opportunities due to high job opportunities across different industries. Only online education has encountered unique challenges like poor course completion rate, lack of practical learning. Over burden of content and no touch and no physical touch points.These challenges can only be overcome through online and offline learning methods.

Company Overview:

1. Customer

Our core target audience is 10 + 2 students predominantly non technical who are looking to finish their degrees and parallelly have a employability and employment based diploma or certification. Today with the penetration of the internet, more than 800 million Indians have the world on their smartphone. This makes it an ongoing challenge to gain share of mind as you are not only competing with captive competition but also global competition. In order to target this hyper connected genZ it is crucial we create a good word of mouth by delivering quality services and high salary jobs.

2. Recruiters

As the needs of customers evolve, expectations of recruiters evolve as well. Today recruiters expect an all rounder candidate who can solve not only specialized challenges but also solve generic day to day problems that may help the organization run seamlessly. There is high demand in newer areas of technology like blockchain, AI and Machine learning. Your Company is gearing towards integrating these new technologies in its course portfolio.

3. Courses

Your Company today has created a deep offering of courses in computer networking, cloud computing and cyber security. While this forms the backbone of the course portfolio, we are going deeper in blockchain & metaverse. Over the next 3 to 5 years we anticipate a very similar demand in these courses during which we will have the depth of knowledge to offer to our customers.

B. Product wise Performance Operation Overview:

Product: Your company offers courses aligned to the IT industry and digital services. These courses predominately have a job outcome. While the flagship programs JK DCC and JK MCC have seen a steady growth, we have launched courses in Blockchain, Metaverse and Web 3. These courses while in its nascent stage will see an uptick in the coming years. The delivery of these courses happens in online and hybrid format. Jetking Diploma in Cloud Computing and Masters in Cloud Computing contributes to 78.6% of the total enrolments. New courses, contributed 8% of the total enrolments. There is a thrust to expand new courses in such a way that overtime they contribute to at least 50% of the enrolments.

Channel: As part of our internal strategy, Mission Foundation, we are creating a base of company own centers. In the last year we launched 2 centers in Mumbai. Additionally, there will an addition of 12 more centers in a FOCO model or COCO depending on the geography. These centers are in the process of being re-imagined. These centers will be with best in class infrastructure and a seamless practical first user experience.

C. Opportunities, Threats & Risks / Concerns Opportunities

1. Scale physical model from metro to mini metros to tier 2 cities

2. Offer a life long learning model with subscriptions to students

3. Tap into emerging technologies with wider range of Job openings

Threats and Risks

1. Overall education technology market is seeing a negative word of mouth

2. Global players entering the Indian market thereby acquiring market share

3. Free access to content on the internet by influencers

D. Internal control systems and their adequacy

Section of Internal control systems which is a part of Boards Report discusses the adequacy of internal control systems.

E. Financial performance with respect to operational performance

During the Financial Year under review, the Company earned the Total Income of Rs 1,996.84 Lakhs as against Rs. 1,580.67 lakhs in the previous year and the Net Profit/(Loss) after Tax of Rs. (11.49) Lakhs as against Rs. 189.24 Lakhs in the previous year. The Operational Performance of the company is reflected in the Product Wise Performance covered above.

F. Financial condition Total Income:

Revenue of Jetking aggregated to Rs. 1,996.84 Lakhs in 2022-23 as compared to Rs. 1,580.67 Lakhs in 2021-22.

Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and Amortization (EDITDA)

The EBITDA aggregated to Rs. 197.63 Lakhs in 2022-23 against Rs. 381.30 Lakhs in 2021-22.

Profit/(Loss) before Tax (PBT)

The PBT aggregated to Rs. (11.49) Lakhs in 2022-23 against Rs. 165.90 Lakhs in 2021-22.

Profit/(Loss) after Tax (PAT)

The PAT aggregated to Rs. (11.49) Lakhs in 2022-23 against Rs. 189.24 Lakhs in 2021-22.

Earnings per Share (EPS)

EPS in 2022-23 was Rs (0.19) per share compared to Rs 3.20 in 2021-22.

G. Material developments in Human Resources / Industrial Relations front, including number of people employed:

Your Company received the prestigious Great Place to Work Award in the year 2019 & 2020. We are delighted to share that your Company has achieved this award once again in the financial 2023-2024. Great Place to Work Certification is the most powerful way to attract, retain and engage the right people. This award is achieved after deep research of Company practices, employee satisfaction scores and other HR initiatives benchmarked in the industry.

Talent Hiring:

Your Company is built around a service business, people & talent of that people become the core of the business. During the year the talent strength of your Company was 216 employees, 60% of this is towards management of COCO centers and 40% form part of the corporate team. Appraisals in your Company range between 15-20% in order to remain competitive with the industry benchmarks.

Talent Training and Retention:

The attrition of your Company is between 4-8% which is lower than industry benchmark. This is largely due to certain initiatives undertaken by your Company. Those initiatives are:

Feedback Loop: After on-boarding every employee there is a feedback loop created to understand role clarity, integration with teams & up-to-date with orientation & training formalities of the Company.

Team Connect: Every month the HR department connects with different teams through one to one engagement to understand any challenges, overcoming those challenges and any other feedback to improve their performance. This feedback is shared across the team members in order to align common goals. There are monthly townhalls organized for cross information sharing across the country. These town halls create a healthy communication channel as well as a constructive, competitive environment. Additionally Jetking Jashn is an initiative to celebrate work anniversaries, birthdays & any other big or small victories.

Daily Training Programme: Considering we are a training Company high emphasis is placed on training internally. Your conducted over 100 Daily training programmes on various topics like email etiquette, communication skills, upgradation of current skills, personality development, using of tools such as canva, grammarly, etc.

New Initiatives: After the on slot of the pandemic everyone is grappling with certain monetary challenges, in order to ease the monetary challenges we enabled early loan against salary of employees through a third party vendor in the event there are any financial emergencies, This initiative has allowed a flexible approach to finances for a number of managers in your Company.

H. Key Financial Ratios:

In accordance with SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosures Requirement) (Amendment) Regulations, 2018, the Company is required to give details of significant changes (change of 25% or more as compared to the immediately previous financial year) in key sector-specific financial ratios.

Particulars (ratio) For the Year Ended March 31,2023 For the Year Ended March 31, 2022

Details of significant changes (i.e., change of 25% or more compared to previous year) and reason thereof

Debtors Turnover 7.85 4.85 Decrease in accounts receivable and increase in revenue from operations
Inventory Turnover NA NA NA
Interest Coverage 2.09 4.67 Increase in Sundry balances write back. Decrease in Bad Debts net off expected credit loss and profit after taxes
Current Ratio 3.18 2.50 Increase in Cash, bank and outstanding of working capital loan to subsidiary company.
Debt Equity Ratio NA NA NA
Operating Profit Margin 0.12 0.36 Decrease in this ratio is due to substantial increase in expenses during the year.
Net profit ratio (0.01) 0.18 Loss in the current year as compared to Profit in previous year.
Return on Net worth 0.00 0.04 Decrease in tangible net worth and loss in current year