Bajaj Finance
BSE SENSEX
26,515
S&P CNX
8,171
12 December 2016
Update
| Sector:
Financials
CMP: INR845
TP: INR1,053(+25%)
Buy
Riding the wave of demonetization
2W business impacted; portfolio performance broadly in line
Stock Info
Bloomberg
Equity Shares (m)
52-Week Range (INR)
1, 6, 12 Rel. Per (%)
M.Cap. (INR b)
M.Cap. (USD b)
12M Avg Val (INR M)
Free float (%)
Strong granular growth in most segments
BAF IN
535.5
1180 / 535
0/12/47
468.0
7.0
996
42.7
Disbursement growth across segments was encouraging in November. Barring LAP,
self-employed home loans and RM loans, all other products grew by a strong 10%+
YoY. Management clarified that of the 30% decline in LAP portfolio AUM, 23-24%
can be attributed to company-specific outlook on LAP and only 6-7% to
demonetization. Management expects velocity to slow down in the luxury real
estate market, but is unsure of any price correction. Logins in CD portfolio were up
10% YoY, but this was due to intentional scaling back in this business, as discussed
earlier by management. Without the scale back, growth would have been 20-25%.
Financials Snapshot (INR b)
Y/E March
2017E 2018E 2019E
This performance has been especially strong in the wake of 20% decline in daily
NII
51.4
66.3 85.7
average enquiry volumes at TransUnion CIBIL for the industry.
PPP
33.3
PAT
17.0
EPS (INR)
31.8
EPS Gr. (%)
33.1
BV/Sh. (INR)
163.9
RoA on AUM (%) 3.3
RoE (%)
21.1
Payout (%)
14.0
Valuations
P/E (x)
26.6
P/BV (x)
5.2
Div. Yield (%)
0.3
44.1
22.1
41.3
30.1
199.2
3.3
22.8
14.0
20.4
4.2
0.4
58.8
30.4
56.7
37.2
247.6
3.4
25.4
14.0
14.9
3.4
0.5
Impressive collection efficiency
The biggest impact of demonetization has been on its 2W/3W business as BAF
mainly deals with middle- and lower-middle-class borrowers. Over the past three
decades of BAF’s presence in this business, collection efficiency has been close to
90%. However, with 30% of collections generally being in cash, collection efficiency
declined to 84% in November due to the lack of currency. Collection efficiency from
overdue customers (under electronic/PDC repayment mode) too declined
significantly to ~68% from ~90% in October. However, given that this book forms
only 8% of total AUM and is secured, we do not foresee major asset quality issues.
LAP book has performed well with collection efficiency of 99%+. Interestingly,
collection efficiency in CD business, wherein management had turned cautious
recently, improved from 96.8% in October to 98.1%. Even for overdue accounts,
collection efficiency has been rather stable at ~95%.
Shareholding pattern (%)
As On
Jun-16 Mar-16 Jun-15
Promoter
57.4
57.4
57.6
DII
5.1
5.5
6.3
FII
19.8
20.1
17.6
Others
17.8
17.1
18.5
FII Includes depository receipts
Stock Performance (1-year)
Bajaj Fin.
Sensex - Rebased
1,190
1,010
830
650
470
Guidance largely unchanged; we cut FY17E/18E EPS by 3%/2%
While management refrained from providing any specific guidance, it maintained
the outlook of 25% balance sheet growth and 20% PAT growth in the short,
medium and long term, driven by continuous market share gains. Strong growth
(10% YoY) in CD portfolio is particularly impressive given the subdued environment.
While we are impressed by the company’s strong performance in November, we
cut our EPS for FY17E/18E by 3%/2% to factor in lower-than-expected AUM
growth. While we had predicted bottoming out of LAP portfolio growth from
3QFY17, we now expect the run-down to continue for two more quarters. We,
however, view this as a prudent decision given the sharp spike in delinquencies
across the industry. We use RI model with Rf of 7.25%, CoE of 13.3% and terminal
growth rate of 4.5% to arrive at a TP of INR1,053 (4.8x Sep 2018E BVPS). Maintain
Buy.
Sunesh Khanna
(Sunesh.Khanna@MotilalOswal.com); +91 22 3982 5521
Alpesh Mehta
(Alpesh.Mehta@MotilalOswal.com)/Piran
Engineer
(Piran.Engineer@MotilalOswal.com); +91 22 6129 1539
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