LIC Housing Finance
BSE SENSEX
24,188
S&P CNX
7,351
18 January 2016
Update
| Sector:
Financials
CMP: INR463
TP: INR539 (+16%)
Buy
3QFY16 Concall highlights: Profitable growth to continue
Focus on margin and profitability; non-core products to drive loan growth
Stock Info
Bloomberg
Equity Shares (m)
M.Cap. (INR b) / (USD
52-Week Range (INR)
1, 6, 12 Rel. Per (%)
12M Avg Val (INR M)
Free float (%)
LICHF IN
505.0
240.9/3.8
526 / 389
1/14/9
1161
59.7
Non-core loan products to drive loan book growth
Financials Snapshot (INR b)
Y/E March
2016E 2017E 2018E
NII
PPP
Adj. PAT
EPS (INR)
EPS Gr. (%)
BV/Sh (INR)
RoAA (%)
RoE (%)
Payout (%)
Valuations
P/E (x)
P/BV (x)
D.Yield (%)
30.0
27.7
16.9
33.5
25.8
181.9
1.5
19.9
20.3
13.8
2.5
1.3
36.1
33.5
21.2
42.0
25.4
1.5
21.2
20.3
11.0
2.1
1.6
40.7
37.6
24.0
47.5
12.9
Continues to focus on non-core products (LAP and developer loans) to drive
loan book growth. Expects to grow loan book at 15% YoY in FY16, with
developer loans growing at 25%+ YoY.
By FY16, LAP + developer loans would constitute 10%+ of the total loan book.
Yields for LAP and developer loans are ~200bp and ~400bp higher, respectively,
than individual home loans; thus margins are likely to improve.
The company does not chase market share, but would focus on improving
margins and profitability.
Property prices largely stable; affordable housing segment witnessing
builder interest
215.7 253.8
1.5
20.2
20.3
9.8
1.8
1.8
The company has not seen much price corrections in the market and expects
property prices to remain largely stable.
Builder interest in affordable housing is on the rise and LICHF would like to
cater to that segment.
The company does not see any dearth in growth for the next 3-4 years and
believes that there is room for new players to enter the market
Margins improve despite reduction in lending rates
Shareholding pattern (%)
As On
Promoter
DII
FII
Others
Sep-15 Jun-15 Sep-14
40.3
7.6
35.4
16.7
40.3
7.3
37.4
15.1
40.3
7.3
39.0
13.5
Margins improved 38bp YoY to 2.58%. The improvement was on the back of
change in product mix (15bp), lower cost of funds (15bp) and conversion to
floating rate product (8bp).
The company has reduced its Prime Lending Rate (PLR) by 30bp during the
quarter on the entire book. Despite the reduction in lending rates, the
company’s margins improved as nearly 60% of the loan book is on fixed
interest rate.
FII Includes depository receipts
Stock Performance (1-year)
LIC Housing Fin.
Sensex - Rebased
570
500
430
360
Bank borrowings likely to reduce further by 100-150bp
Borrowing mix has moved further toward market instruments and bank
borrowing now stands at 12.5% of the total borrowing. The company would
like to reduce the same to 11-11.5% and maintain it at that level.
LICHF does not foresee any impact of recent SEBI guidelines on reducing MFs’
exposure toward NBFC papers as MFs have invested just around 14% of their
total investment in NBFC papers— much lower than the regulatory cap. Of the
outstanding NCDs of INR760b for LICHF, just around INR140b have been
subscribed by MFs; most of the NCDs are generally subscribed by banks.
Sunesh Khanna
(Sunesh.Khanna@MotilalOswal.com); +91 22 3982 5521
Alpesh Mehta
(Alpesh.Mehta@MotilalOswal.com) /
Harshvardhan Agrawal
(Harshvardhan.Agrawal@MotilalOswal.com)
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