China is done and dusted. Last year, Xi Jinping started a relentless crackdown on tech giants like Tencent and Jack Ma’s Alibaba, which soon expanded into crackdowns against edutech enterprises, English teachers and tight borrowing regulations and real estate giants. Today, the entire Chinese economy is under stress and no private business in China can breathe easily due to the ongoing carnage in the Chinese economy.
Meanwhile, as factories in China face blackouts, ports get jammed and factory gate inflation rises rapidly, Indian businesses and small companies are being embedded in global supply chains to fill in the vacuum being left behind by China’s downfall. Indian tech and edutech enterprises are, in particular, growing at China’s expense.
Tech companies in India witness amazing growth
As per Bloomberg, some little-known Indian stocks that are expected to benefit from expanding global supplier lists, as well as national efforts to create worldwide champions, are witnessing amazing growth.
Electronic-parts maker Dixon Technologies (India) Ltd., for example, has jumped 80% this year. It is a Samsung Electronics Co. supplier and believes that it will be able to successfully sell its products globally. Similarly, Amber Enterprises India Ltd., which supplies air conditioner parts to LG Electronics Inc., is up 37% on similar expectations. It has even beaten the 28% rise in the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex Index.
Data compiled by Bloomberg shows that Dixon’s stock is trading close to 75 times its 12-month forward earnings estimate, whereas Amber is trading at about 48 times.
India already has a pool of companies exporting pharmaceuticals and software services to the United States and Europe. Now, with China battling mayhem in its economy, these companies believe that they will cash in on the vacuum in the global supplies market.
Sumeet Rohra, a fund manager at Smartsun Capital Pte. in Singapore said, “A lot of these stocks have gained on the concept of global companies looking to diversify away from China.”
Edutech entrepreneurs also make big gains
In a bid to reduce Chinese education into a personal propaganda project, Xi has also clamped down heavily on the edutech reducing several billionaire entrepreneurs into millionaires.
However, Indian edutech is rising by leaps and bounds. India’s online education startup Vedantu, for example, is looking to double its revenue as the effects of the Pandemic fade. Vedantu is now a part of the Unicorn club- private companies worth $1 billion or more.
The edutech sector is bound to grow exponentially given a large audience of over 250 million students who rely increasingly on Edutech enterprises for higher education entrance examinations and competitive jobs examinations. A National Statistical Organization survey conducted between 2017 and 2018 revealed that a fifth of all students relied on some sort of private coaching which creates a sizeable market for edutech entrepreneurs. Also, the presence of democratic values and freedom to private tutors allows edutech enterprises to grow even further, as China-like crackdowns remain alien to India.
There are five edutech unicorns in India today, all of whom are competing for greater market share in sharp contrast to China where for-profit after-school tutoring has been banned and all existing companies forced to turn into non-profit entities.
Indian tech companies are not facing any power disruptions or vindictive antitrust probes, unlike China’s tech enterprises. The world is getting bullish on the Indian tech sector. As such, the demise of the Chinese tech sector has emerged as a shot in the arm for India’s little-known tech companies to grow into big and popular giants.