Indium Hospital Valuation Update - March 2024

Welcome to Indium Capital’s Quarterly update on Hospital Valuations in India. The key highlights are summarized below.

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Hospital Valuation Trends - Executive Summary

• Indian hospital valuations (tracked via Indium Hospitals Index - IHX) have grown by ~105% in the last 2 years (~82% in the last 12 months) – see Charts 1 & 2
• While combined Revenue for Listed Hospitals grew at a CAGR of ~19% over last 2 years, there was a higher growth in combined EBITDA (~24% CAGR over two years) – see Charts 3 & 4
• There was a net addition of ~3,200 beds in the last 2 years (~2,574 beds added in FY23) – see Chart 5
• Overall average EV/EBITDA & EV/Bed multiples are at ~26x and Rs 6-7Cr/Bed, however, there is a wide variation in multiples across hospitals – see Chart 6 & 7

IHX stock-wise 2-year market cap performance (Chart 1)

IHX stock-wise 1-year market cap performance (Chart 2)

Overall Hospitals’ Financial & Operating Performance in the last 2 years (Chart 3, 4 & 5)

• Combined Revenue of all Listed Hospitals* has grown ~36% over the last 2 years (~19% CAGR over 2 years)
• Higher growth in combined EBITDA at ~24% CAGR over 2 years
• ~3,200 new beds were added (CAGR: ~5%) in the last 2 years via a mix of organic and inorganic expansion

Hospital Valuation Trends - All Listed Hospitals (Chart 6 & 7)

Overall average EV/EBITDA is ~26x & EV/Bed is ~Rs 6-7Cr/Bed, with a wide variation across individual hospitals

• High-ARPOBn (Rs 55-80k)?hospitals (Apollo, Max, Fortis, Medanta,?Rainbow, Jupiter and Artemis): ~33x EV/EBITDA and ~Rs 10Cr EV/Bed
• Mid-ARPOBn (Rs 25-45k) hospitals (Narayana, KIMS Hyderabad, Aster DM, HCG, Kovai, Shalby and Yatharth): ~18x EV/EBITDA and ~Rs 3-4Cr EV/Bed

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