RUSSIA | STRATEGY AUGUST 8, 2012
Equity Strategy Who Owns the Equity Market and
Why It Matters
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. Jack Welsh At a glance █ Ownership structure matters for valuations. Companies dominated by strategic foreign investors generally have the best net margins and the highest Companies controlled by foreign strategic shareholders (like E.ON dividend payouts. Companies with the highest minority investor content are Russia) generally have better margins more often near the bottom of the table in terms of valuation, while than others, while state controlled state controlled companies still have a much lower dividend payout than others. companies still have plenty of scope to █ Operating environment influences financial metrics. When we look at the raise dividend payouts. companies’ operating environment, private, regulated companies that have to Private companies in state regulated compete against state corporations appear to be the most profitable in terms industries, such as NOVATEK, of net margin, have the highest dividend payout and low leverage in terms of generally have very high net margins. net debt/EBITDA, but moderate P/E and P/BV.
█ Relative freedom implies higher valuation at expense of lower Companies operating with a high degree of relative freedom often profitability. We also look at companies under the category of “relative have lower EPS growth but are more freedom”, which combines the industry characteristics and restraints with the highly rated by investors. equity ownership structures. Here we find that the greater the freedom a company enjoys, the lower its net profitability but, in general, they have a The state currently owns a 30% stake high dividend payout. Greater freedom also implies lower EPS growth but in the equity market, valued at higher P/E and P/BV ratios. $223 bln, which is down from $441 bln in mid 2008 ($80 bln of the █ Russian equity market owned primarily by state and minority investors. difference can be accounted for by the The total value of the Russian equity market is currently $749 bln, or 40% of expansion of Russia’s risk premium). the expected value of GDP in 2012. The free float is currently 27%, while the state’s equity stake is today at 30% and worth $223 bln. At the market’s peak in May 2008, the value of the state’s holding was $441 bln.
The authors would like to gratefully █ Recent years marked by unrealized IPO plans. In mid 2008, a total of acknowledge the assistance of close to $50 bln worth of equity issuance was planned from state and private Anastasia Lapotko in the preparation enterprises. The total amount actually listed was less than $5 bln in both 2009 of this report. and 2010, while in 2011 the total came close to $10 bln. Only $322 mln has been raised YTD via two IPOs (RusPetro and EPAM Systems), and $520 mln via the recent Globaltrans SPO.
█ Privatization program about to regain missed figures. The state’s “fast track” privatization list has a current value just above $12 bln, while the full five year program would yield circa $81 bln if sold at current valuations Chris Weafer +7 (495) 933 9886 and under the terms previously proposed. If all of the planned equity issues [email protected] from the state, via the privatization program and from other expected IPOs Ovanes Oganisyan +7 (495) 933 9868 [email protected] and SPOs, were to take place over the next five to six years, then the state’s
Iskander Abdullaev +7 (495) 787 2346 equity stake in the market would be cut to roughly 20%, while the free float
[email protected] would be boosted closer to 40%.
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Contents
Who Owns Russian Equities?...... 4
Ownership categories...... 5
Summary Tables – By Category ...... 6
Ownership Sector Breakdown ...... 8
Ownership structure on the sector level...... 8
Does Ownership Matter? ...... 10
Does the Operating Environment Matter?...... 11
Does Relative Freedom of Companies/Industries Matter? ...... 12
Privatization Program...... 13
TROIKA DIALOG 3 AUGUST 8, 2012 EQUITY STRATEGY – WHO OWNS THE EQUITY MARKET AND WHY IT MATTERS
Who Owns Russian Equities?
█ The state is the main equity player. The government is the biggest owner of Russian equities with a 30% stake, valued at $223 bln, though its ownership is highly concentrated in a few names and mostly in the energy and banking sectors. Oligarchs (see below for our definition of who is classified as an oligarch and who is a businessman) own 15%, while businessmen have a 14% stake in the market. The free float owned by both institutional and private investors is calculated at 27% and currently worth an estimated $205 bln.
Value of owners’ stakes, $ bln State 223 Free float 205 Oligarchs 109 Businessmen 106 Foreign strategic investors 39 Other 67 Source: Companies, Troika estimates
█ All categories suffering since 2008. At the peak of the market, in May 2008, the state’s holding was 34%, worth $441 bln, while free float was 30% and worth $380 bln. In the intervening period, the value of the state’s holdings has lost $218 bln, while oligarchs lost $52 bln and the free float fell by $175 bln.
█ The state lost an extra $80 bln due to the expansion of Russia risk. If the Russian equity market had fallen in line with the decline of the MSCI EM Index over that period, then the current value of the stock market would be roughly $1 trln, and the state’s equity holding would be worth $310 bln (taking the average) or about $80 bln more than its current value. That is almost equal to the total the state wants to raise from privatizations over the next five to six years.
█ Reasons for expansion of Russia risk. We believe that a combination of the following reasons is responsible for Russia’s underperformance relative to the MSCI EM Index since mid 2008.