IHH Healthcare: Can a Premium Platform Earn Premium Returns?

Value Investing Case Study 105-1: A long-term analysis of IHH Healthcare to assess whether it is a compounder or facing headwinds that will mute its return.  

What if a hospital group with world-class brands, deep clinical governance, and real scale could finally turn that into durable returns? That is the question I put to IHH Healthcare - a rare, multi-country platform spanning Singapore/Malaysia, Türkiye/Europe, India and Greater China. 

Over the last decade, IHH built a formidable footprint and post-2020 it has been running sharper. Operationally, the engine looks healthier.

IHH has moats you can point to - reputation & accreditation that attract complex cases; procurement scale and shared services that lower unit costs. It also has a doctor patient flywheel reinforced by data programs and a common digital/HIS layer.

It also has a strong platform logic - multi-hub, multi-brand density that feeds referrals, evens out demand, and lifts utilisation. These are advantages single-country peers struggle to copy. 

But the peer scorecard is mixed. IHH shows strong growth and cash generation, yet trails the best on capital efficiency and EBIT margins. Its balance sheet is more levered than it used to be. 

There are also risks that you cannot handwave away - hyper-inflation and FX in Türkiye and tariff caps and insurer leverage in India. 

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