December 2024 Results Preview | Sector: Financials - NBFCs
Financials - NBFCs
Result Preview
Demand and asset quality trends remain rather weak
Improvement expected in asset quality for 3Q has not materialized
Company
Aavas Financiers
Bajaj Finance
Can Fin Homes
Chola Inv. & Fin.
CreditAccess Grameen
Five Star Business Finance
Fusion Microfinance
HomeFirst
IIFL Finance
L&T Finance Holdings
LIC Housing Finance
M&M Financial Services
Manappuram Finance
MAS Financial Services
Muthoot Finance
PNB Housing Finance
Poonawalla Fincorp
Power finance Corporation
Repco Home Finance
Rural Electrification Corporation
Shriram Finance
Spandana Sphoorty
Demand trends remained relatively weak except for a minor improvement in
Vehicle Finance:
We expect ~9% YoY growth in AUM for our coverage HFC
universe, including both affordable and other HFCs. Vehicle financers are
projected to report ~22% YoY AUM growth. Gold lenders (including non-gold
products) are likely to record ~24% YoY growth. NBFC-MFIs are estimated to
post ~3% YoY growth, while diversified lenders are expected to post ~21% YoY
growth in AUM. For our coverage universe, we estimate a loan growth of ~16%
YoY/~4% QoQ in 3QFY25. Loan growth (relative to our earlier expectations)
continued to remain weak due to calibrated growth in unsecured retail, muted
disbursements in microfinance, and some weakness seen in mortgages
(particularly for select affordable HFCs).
NIMs exhibit slight contraction; expected repo rate cuts to give a breather:
CoB for most NBFCs has remained stable or experienced a slight increase, driven
by higher costs of debt-market borrowings (from a rise in T-bill rates). NIM and
spreads for NBFCs showed signs of slight contraction, primarily due to a rise in
CoB and to a lesser extent from higher liquidity on the balance sheet. Fixed-rate
lenders, such as vehicle financiers, who had implemented lending rate hikes in
previous quarters, will witness healthier NIM expansion, driven by expected
repo rate cuts in 1HCY25. At the sectoral level, we expect NIM to either contract
or remain broadly stable for all NBFCs/HFCs in our coverage except Aavas, CIFC,
and CREDAG, where we expect NIM to expand.
Improvement expected in asset quality for 3Q has not materialized:
Improvement in asset quality expected in the seasonally stronger second half of
the fiscal year has not materialized in 3QFY25. While there was no alarming
deterioration, for most NBFCs/HFCs in our coverage, the asset quality either
remained stable (relative to expectations of an improvement) or exhibited
minor deterioration. Credit costs are expected to remain elevated in MFI, with
expectations of a sequential increase (in absolute terms) for CREDAG and
Spandana but a decline for Fusion. Except for affordable housing and power
financiers, credit costs are expected to remain elevated for vehicle financiers
(except MMFS) and diversified lenders.
PAT growth of ~8% YoY for the coverage universe, driven by weaker NIM,
sticky credit costs, and yet another stressed quarter for NBFC-MFIs:
We
estimate ~15%/15%/8% YoY growth in NII/PPoP/PAT in 3QFY25 for our NBFC
coverage universe. Excluding NBFC-MFI, we estimate ~12% YoY growth in PAT
for our coverage. Among NBFC sub-sectors, our preference is Power Finance,
Housing Finance/Mortgages, and Vehicle Finance (primarily to play the NIM
expansion from repo rate cuts). We maintain underweight in microfinance as
the recovery is likely to be further prolonged, following MFIN’s decision to
postpone the implementation of its three-lender cap to Apr’25. Our top picks in
the sector: SHFL, PFC/REC, and PNBHF.
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Abhijit Tibrewal - Research Analyst (Abhijit.Tibrewal@MotilalOswal.com)
Research Analyst: Nitin Aggarwal
(Nitin.Aggarwal@MotilalOswal.com) |
Raghav Khemani
(Raghav.Khemani@MotilalOswal.com)
October 2020
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