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Time of India
14-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
How Safexpress bootstrapped its way to build India's largest PTL Express business
For Delhi-based Rubal Jain and his family, who run India's largest Express Part Truck Load (PTL) business, the roadmap to success has always been simple: don't bite off more than you can chew — or as they put it, 'Utna karo jitna kar sakte ho.' Stay frugal, focus on profits, and let cash flows call the shots. 'We are a conservative Marwari family and hence the concept of profit and positive cash flows was very high. So, there were years where we
Economic Times
14-07-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
How Safexpress bootstrapped its way to build India's largest PTL Express business
For Delhi-based Rubal Jain and his family, who run India's largest Express Part Truck Load (PTL) business, the roadmap to success has always been simple: don't bite off more than you can chew — or as they put it, 'Utna karo jitna kar sakte ho.' Stay frugal, focus on profits, and let cash flows call the shots. 'We are a conservative Marwari family and hence the concept of profit and positive cash flows was very high. So, there were years where we
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Prestal Holdings (ASX:PTL) shareholders are up 13% this past week, but still in the red over the last three years
Prestal Holdings Limited (ASX:PTL) shareholders should be happy to see the share price up 13% in the last week. But that doesn't change the fact that the returns over the last three years have been disappointing. Regrettably, the share price slid 87% in that period. So it is really good to see an improvement. After all, could be that the fall was overdone. We really feel for shareholders in this scenario. It's a good reminder of the importance of diversification, and it's worth keeping in mind there's more to life than money, anyway. While the stock has risen 13% in the past week but long term shareholders are still in the red, let's see what the fundamentals can tell us. AI is about to change healthcare. These 20 stocks are working on everything from early diagnostics to drug discovery. The best part - they are all under $10bn in marketcap - there is still time to get in early. Prestal Holdings isn't currently profitable, so most analysts would look to revenue growth to get an idea of how fast the underlying business is growing. Shareholders of unprofitable companies usually desire strong revenue growth. That's because fast revenue growth can be easily extrapolated to forecast profits, often of considerable size. Over the last three years, Prestal Holdings' revenue dropped 61% per year. That's definitely a weaker result than most pre-profit companies report. And as you might expect the share price has been weak too, dropping at a rate of 23% per year. Never forget that loss making companies with falling revenue can and do cause losses for everyday investors. It's worth remembering that investors call buying a steeply falling share price 'catching a falling knife' because it is a dangerous pass time. The company's revenue and earnings (over time) are depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers). We consider it positive that insiders have made significant purchases in the last year. Even so, future earnings will be far more important to whether current shareholders make money. Dive deeper into the earnings by checking this interactive graph of Prestal Holdings' earnings, revenue and cash flow. Investors should note that there's a difference between Prestal Holdings' total shareholder return (TSR) and its share price change, which we've covered above. Arguably the TSR is a more complete return calculation because it accounts for the value of dividends (as if they were reinvested), along with the hypothetical value of any discounted capital that have been offered to shareholders. Prestal Holdings' TSR of was a loss of 53% for the 3 years. That wasn't as bad as its share price return, because it has paid dividends. Investors in Prestal Holdings had a tough year, with a total loss of 61%, against a market gain of about 13%. Even the share prices of good stocks drop sometimes, but we want to see improvements in the fundamental metrics of a business, before getting too interested. Unfortunately, last year's performance may indicate unresolved challenges, given that it was worse than the annualised loss of 7% over the last half decade. We realise that Baron Rothschild has said investors should "buy when there is blood on the streets", but we caution that investors should first be sure they are buying a high quality business. I find it very interesting to look at share price over the long term as a proxy for business performance. But to truly gain insight, we need to consider other information, too. Take risks, for example - Prestal Holdings has 2 warning signs we think you should be aware of. There are plenty of other companies that have insiders buying up shares. You probably do not want to miss this free list of undervalued small cap companies that insiders are buying. 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Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Delhivery Ltd (BOM:543529) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Highlights: A Profitable Turnaround and ...
Q4 Revenue: INR2,192 crore, up 6% YoY, sequential decline of 8% from Q3. Q4 EBITDA Margin: 5.4%, an expansion of 320 basis points YoY and 110 basis points QoQ. Q4 PAT: INR73 crore, a PAT margin of 3.1%, compared to a loss of INR69 crore in the same quarter last year. Full Year Revenue from Services: INR8,932 crore, nearly 10% growth YoY. Full Year PAT: INR162 crore, 1.7% margin, compared to a PAT loss of INR249 crore in fiscal '24. Cash and Cash Equivalents: INR5,493 crore on the balance sheet. Express Parcel Business: 177 million packages delivered in Q4, broadly flat YoY. PTL Business Revenue: INR517 crore in Q4, 24% growth YoY. Full Year PTL Revenue: INR1,889 crore, 25% growth YoY. Supply-Chain Services Revenue: INR230 crore in Q4, largely flat YoY and QoQ. Truckload Services Revenue: INR151 crore in Q4, broadly flat from Q3. CapEx Intensity: Dropped to 5.2% of revenue in fiscal '25. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 5 Warning Signs with BTBT. Release Date: May 16, 2025 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Delhivery Ltd (BOM:543529) reported its first profitable year with a PAT of INR162 crore, marking a significant turnaround from a PAT loss of INR249 crore in the previous fiscal year. The company achieved a revenue growth of nearly 10% year-over-year, with total income reaching INR9,372 crore. The PTL (Part Truck Load) business showed strong performance with a 25% revenue growth year-over-year, contributing significantly to the company's profitability. Delhivery Ltd (BOM:543529) maintained a strong cash position with INR5,493 crore in cash and cash equivalents, ensuring financial stability. The company successfully expanded its customer base from 33,000 to 44,000, indicating strong market penetration and customer acquisition. Despite overall profitability, the express parcel business experienced a decline in service EBITDA margins from 18.4% in fiscal '24 to 16.2% in fiscal '25 due to competitive pricing pressures. The supply-chain services segment faced challenges, with service EBITDA margins dropping from 6.8% to 2.2% due to participation in the quick-commerce segment. There was a sequential decline in Q4 revenues by 8% compared to the peak quarter (Q3), indicating potential seasonal or market-related challenges. The integration of Ecom Express is expected to incur INR300 crore in integration costs, which could impact short-term financials. The company faced headwinds in the express parcel business due to extreme pricing actions from competitors, affecting margins. Q: Can you provide insights into the growth trajectory and operating efficiencies in the PTL segment? A: Sharjeel Suleman, CFO, highlighted that Delhivery's PTL business has significantly outperformed the industry, driven by investments in capacity and automation. The market remains largely unorganized, offering substantial growth potential. Yield management and operating leverage have contributed to margin improvements, with fleet utilization and automation playing key roles. Q: What are the expectations for margin expansion in the express parcel segment following the Ecom Express acquisition? A: Sharjeel Suleman explained that the acquisition is expected to enhance margins due to high incremental margins in Delhivery's network. As volumes increase, service EBITDA margins are anticipated to rise, although some pricing adjustments may be made to reward customers. Q: How does Delhivery view the competitive landscape in the express parcel industry post-acquisition? A: Sharjeel Suleman stated that Delhivery remains the only profitable player in the industry at current pricing levels. The acquisition of Ecom Express signals inevitable consolidation for loss-making networks, and Delhivery's cost and service advantages position it strongly against competitors. Q: What are the integration costs associated with the Ecom Express acquisition, and how will they impact financials? A: The integration costs, estimated at INR300 crore, include lease liabilities and anticipated operating losses during the integration phase. Delhivery aims to repurpose facilities and negotiate lease terms to minimize costs. Q: How is Delhivery addressing the insourcing trend in the express parcel business, and what is the outlook for FY26? A: Sharjeel Suleman emphasized that Delhivery's focus is on its own volume growth rather than industry trends. The acquisition of Ecom Express is expected to drive faster growth, and Delhivery's competitive position is strengthened in both growing and sluggish market scenarios. For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
06-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘Doing something for the Lord': Wichita man who built hundreds of churches dies
The first church Ronald Roe Messner built was the Douglas Avenue Assembly of God in Wichita. He was around 22 when he finished it with a company he started when he was 17. His mother had to sign the paperwork to form the company since he was under 18, his son said. Messner, known by many as Roe, went on to design and/or build over 1,700 more churches, including the megachurch the Carpenter's Home Church in Lakeland, Florida. The Wichita East High School graduate died at his Wichita home on March 24 surrounded by family. He was 89. He is survived by his first wife, three of his four children, 18 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. He was known for golf prowess, his ability to make a sale, hard work and devout faith. A private funeral service and memorial was planned for April 4 and 5. Dale Hill, a retired senior pastor who Messner built a New Mexico church for in the late 1980s, planned to attend. 'I've often said what Billy Graham was to the evangelical world, or … what Jackie Robinson was to the baseball world, or even Steve Jobs to the computer world, Roe was to the church building world, powerful,' Hill said. 'He was a trailblazer.' Messner looked at his work as a ministry. 'I have a goal to build a church in every state,' he told The Wichita Eagle-Beacon in a 1980 interview when his company had designed 491 churches in 45 states and built 293 in 34 states. 'But I have the satisfaction of knowing that I've helped more churches build for less. I feel I am doing something for the Lord with my ability.' Messner saw great success in his real estate ventures, but also faced adversity as the chief builder for Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's televangelist empire, PTL, which included a Christian amusement park, Heritage USA. The Bakkers' TV program from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s took in more than $100 million in donations a year at its height. But a sex and financial misconduct scandal brought down PTL and landed Jim Bakker in prison. Messner was in the national tabloids as rumors sparked about a romance between him and Tammy Faye, who married him after divorcing Jim while he was in prison. His entanglement with the Bakkers led to his business going bankrupt. He later went to prison for just over two years in the late 1990s after being convicted of hiding assets during the bankruptcy filing. But he was able to rebuild his business. He also maintained his innocence and showed unwavering faith through the process. 'He was uniquely honest about everything that had happened in his life. I mean, he was completely forthcoming. And even during his prison days, Roe stood by principle,' Hill said, adding Messner told him if he had to do everything all over again, he would do it the exact same way. 'Roe was uniquely a man of principle … and sometimes it hurt him. In fact, a lot of times it hurt him.' After Messner was found guilty by a federal jury in 1995, his attorney, Steve Joseph, told The Eagle: 'Roe Messner is the most optimistic and upbeat man I have ever met in my life … He is not emotionally distraught over this verdict.' His children and Hill say that was because of his devout faith in Jesus. He took his Bible with him everywhere. He carried it with him to school as a child. In his later years, his children said, he was always standing in the kitchen, since it was easier on his back to stand than to sit, reading his Bible. The idea of being a builder started at a young age for Messner. When he was born, his family lived on a rural farm. They moved to Wichita when his father took a job with Beechcraft. They lived in the Beechwood apartments, which were built to house people who worked in aircraft factories during World War II. Messner knew he wanted more than to work in a factory for his life. He worked on and built his first house in 1949 when he was 14. It was off to the races from there. He met his first wife, Ruth Ann Messner, while she was studying at a Bible college in Springfield, Missouri. They married after about a year, in the mid 1950s, and started their family in Wichita. He completed his first church, Douglas Avenue Assembly of God, in 1957. Work kept him busy. He drove and flew to projects all over the country. He even got his own plane and hired a pilot since that was more efficient at the time than commercial flights. He was often gone during the week, but always made it back to be with his family on the weekend. They went to church every Sunday, without fail. 'We were always very active and involved in the church,' said his oldest child, Roann Messner. 'A lot of fond memories. (We were) a very happy family.' His children worked for him: Ronnie 'Ron' and Richard at the site and Roann and Robin, who died in 2016, in the office. Messner taught his children the importance of hard work. In 1980, Messner was getting ready to take on his grandest project to date: a $13 million, 165,000-square-foot church in Lakeland, Florida. The First Assembly of God, later called Carpenter's Home Church, was built to hold up to 10,000 people. It also had a hydraulic pulpit. Other large churches he built included the First Assembly of God in Phoenix, later called the Dream City Church, and the Capital Christian Center in Sacramento, California. Both of those large First Assembly of God churches were octagon or pie-shaped sanctuaries, a trademark of many Messner churches. For years, he had attended the Assembly of God church. During the undertaking of the Lakeland megachurch, he told The Wichita Eagle-Beacon that 40% of his business was Assembly of God, 40% Baptist and the rest Nazarene. Derald Musgrove, then the superintendent of the Kansas Assembly of God Churches, told the paper that: 'Roe understands what our congregation needs. His churches fit our style of worship. That's why he gets many of the contracts. He doesn't get them all by any means.' Messner told the paper that: 'Churches are a close-knit people. They like to keep business at home if they can. I see nothing wrong with that.' In the same article, Messner said: 'I can sell anything with a pretty picture and a floor plan. I'm a salesman.' He built churches of all sizes all over the country. Another he built in Wichita was the Central Community Church on Maple. He also built the Central Baptist Church in Clovis, New Mexico, for a congregation of less than 1,000 people when Hill was the senior pastor. It was the 1980s. A congregation member drew the design and recommended Messner for the build. But the quote they got for the design was $8.5 million, and they only had $4 million to spend. 'Roe, we are in trouble,' Hill remembers telling him. Messner redid the plans and built the church. 'He saved the project.'' Messner's knowledge of how churches function gave him an edge, allowing him to help churches build what they needed to operate without wasting space, which saved them money, Hill said. Hill said Messner would often fly in and check on the project. He always brought his golf clubs and the two would golf together. They hit it off and became best of friends. 'For a while there he was just so busy he could hardly take a breath,' Hill said. 'But you know, you would never know that talking to Roe. When Roe talked to you, it was as if you were the only person in the room, and your project was the most important project he had ever considered.' He also started many other ventures outside of building churches. He owned a doctor's clinic in Springfield, Missouri, a mobile home park in Nixa, Missouri, apartments and rental properties and two farms in Butler County, the 1980 article says. 'I am a firm believer that real estate is where to invest money,' he said in the article. 'Whenever I have extra money, I buy land. Some people like stocks, but fortunes have been made in real estate.' He and his wife, Ruth Ann, would also go on to start KS Magazine, which she worked on as the editor. The 1980 article said 'life is pretty sanguine these days for Messner' who had built a dream home on 20-acres outside of Andover that had a pond stocked with bass and where he trapped mink and muskrat along the creeks and gulches. It said he had already 'achieved financial and professional goals at age 44' but was still looking for the day when other ventures would preoccupy him. Just a few years later, his pet project and business venture would be owning and building the Terradyne golf course and country club. But then bankruptcy came. Messner, well-known for building churches, connected with the Bakkers, who were also members of the Assembly of God. He was hired to do work on Heritage USA, the Bakkers' Christian water and theme park, shopping complex and hotel. But then scandal broke involving Jim Bakker. His misuse of funds, including to fund an extravagant lifestyle, left PTL ministry approximately $72 million in debt, with Messner being the largest creditor at $14 million owed, The Associated Press reported in 1987 based on court filings about PTL. Messner also had to file for bankruptcy with his company, Commercial Builders of Kansas, but he started a new company, Roe Messner & Associates. 'He lost a lot of friends,' son Ron Messner said about when he lost his business and much of what he owned. 'But he came through it, and, you know, and you just really knew who was with you, who was against you.' After divorce, he married Tammy Faye, who he was with for roughly 14 years until her death in 2007. 'They got together, of course, very quickly, and that's just how my dad goes … that's just the religious guy in him,' Roann Messner said. 'He's not gonna, he wants to get married.' They spent most of their time in California and near Charlotte, North Carolina. Ronald Messner and his children, Ron and Roann, all said Tammy Faye Messner was much different in person than the media portrayed her. 'She was the most common, down-to-earth person you ever saw,' Ronald Messner told The Eagle after she died in 2007. 'The press always made her out to be some nitwit type of person. She was totally different. Her IQ was 165. She was so sharp and different than everybody thought she was.' He said he got thousands of sympathy cards after her death. Her ashes were buried in a plot in a small cemetery in Waldron, Kansas, where Messner lived as a child and where he will be buried alongside his parents. 'Dad was the happiest when he was with Tammy,' Roann said. 'Tammy is hilarious … They laughed all the time. And just, you know, they were very, very happy.' Ronald Messner went to prison in the mid 1990s, a few years after they married. Around the same time, he had been dealing with prostate cancer. He would often write his family while serving his 27 months. 'It was always … 'how are you doing?'' Ron Messner said, and not about what he was going through. 'Always.' Messner said he never heard his dad cuss, or saw him drink or smoke. 'He was a special, special guy,' he said. 'No doubt about it. He was a one-of-kind guy.' Family said he stayed positive, kept his faith and never stopped working. He continued to rebuild his business. Both of his sons also started their own businesses. The three would at times work together. The last project Ron and Ronald Messner finished together was the New Heights Church in College Station, Texas, in 2024. Ron Messner said they are still in talks with other churches and he will see those projects through. His father, he said, had been working just weeks before his death. Ron and Roann Messner said they will always remember their father for his hard work and devout faith. He read the Bible all the way through every six months, Ron Messner said. He did not want to go to the hospital and died peacefully at his home. His children and their families had been coming daily the last few days as they expected his passing. Roann said her last words to him were that she loved him and he was the 'best dad ever.' 'He was very peaceful,' she said. 'When you are a Christian, you can be peaceful about it.' Hill said Ronald Messner was the epitome of the greatest generation. 'Because he did build his own story,' Hill said. 'But more than that, he created spaces for other people to build their stories, in the churches that he built.' There are thousand of churches around the country tied to Ronald 'Roe' Messner, including dozens in the Wichita area. 'I consider building churches a ministry,' Messner said in the 1980 interview. 'I consider every bid as meaningful as preaching every Sunday.'
