Shriram Housing expects to raise external equity by end Q1 FY24

Shriram Housing Finance (SHF), the housing finance subsidiary of Shriram Finance (SFL) is in the process of raising $100 mn growth capital. It targets to conclude the fund raise by end June 2023 Market is speculating Baring to be close to finalise a deal. MD has informed that multiple people are in the fray. SHF … Read more

Maruti targets to regain old glory

Maruti has set two targets for itself – Become No. 1 in SUV by FY 24 Which would help it regain it’s 50% market share (as was the case earlier) Over the years, Maruti has lost some ground to the competitors. It was controlling almost half (50%) of the Indian passenger vehicles (cars) sales for … Read more

Poonawalla Fincorp sells housing unit to TPG at an attractive price

Poonawalla Fincorp (PFL) is selling 100% of it’s housing subsidiary Poonawalla Housing Finance Limited (PHFL) to TPG. Consideration is Rs 3,900 cr PHFL reported financials for FY 22 Revenues of Rs 470 cr Net Worth at Rs 1082 crore Above implies a valuation of 8.3x on trailing revenues and 3.6x on Net Worth. (This is … Read more

Paytm announces buyback. Controversial step.

Paytm has announced buyback totalling maximum of Rs 850 crore @ maximum price of Rs 810/ share. Buyback price is at 57% premium to the closing price on December 13, 2022 (before the announcement); It will be an open market buyback; Will be executed over a maximum period of 6 months; Company’s directors and Key … Read more

Post corporate restructuring, Shriram Finance shares business outlook

Shriram Finance (SFL) is the consolidated NBFC arm of the Shriram group. It is formed through the merger of Shriram Transport Finance (STFC), Shriram City Union Finance (SCUF) and Shriram Capital (SC). The management has shared the following key pointers on the way ahead – In next 3 years, Vehicle loans will reduce from 77% … Read more

Some notable highlights by Shriram Housing Finance’s MD

Shriram Housing finance (SHF) is a 85% subsidiary of Shriram City Union Finance (SCUF). SHF’s MD & CEO, Ravi Subramanian has informed the following – They are looking to grow both organically and inorganically Organically, the Company clocked a 54% year-on-year loan asset growth to Rs 6,546 crore at the end of September 2022 and … Read more

Mahindra plans a significant capacity expansion for SUVs

Mahindra & Mahindra riding high on the success of it’s recent launches (XUV700, Scorpio N), is sitting on a healthy order book of more than 2,60,000 SUVs. Checkout the model wise order book (taken from Company’s investor PPT). Company’s current production capacity is 29,000 SUVs per month i.e., 3,48,000 p.a. implying an average order book … Read more

We are not trying to be profitable in a hurry: Policybazaar Chairman

In an interview, Yashish Dahiya, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PB Fintech highlighted the following – “We started our new initiatives after the market started focusing on profitability. We are not reducing our new initiatives or killing them. We are only getting a little more efficient, which is exactly what we would do anyway. … Read more