Results     04-Aug-22
Analysis
Aditya Birla Capital
Sharp acceleration in loan growth, asset quality and credit cost under control
Aditya Birla Capital has continued report strong performance with 42% jump in the net profit to Rs 429.47 core in the quarter ended June 2022 compared with Rs 302.03 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. The company has exhibited sharp acceleration in loan growth and improved margins, while maintained stable asset quality.

The overall loan book of the company has increased 22% end March 2022, while accelerated retail loans growth to 39%. The company has maintained stable asset quality in Q4FY2022.

The revenue from Life Insurance increased 37% to Rs 2788.60 crore and NBFC 17% to Rs 1612.05 crore, while the revenue from Health Insurance moved up 70% to Rs 594.59 crore, and Housing Finance 2% to Rs 312.88 crore. The revenue from Other Financial Services also jumped 33% to Rs 40.34 crore, while the revenue from General Insurance Broking moved up 29% to Rs 190.43 crore and Stock & Securities Broking 18% to Rs 62.86 crore. However, the revenue from Asset Management declined 19% to Rs 269.28 crore in Q1FY2023.

The PBT from Other Financial Services increased 134% to Rs 13.06 crore and NBFC 46% to Rs 458.52 crore, while the PBT from Housing Finance moved up 45% to Rs 71.62 crore, Stock & Securities Broking 42% to Rs 11.24 crore and General Insurance Broking 21% to Rs 44.65 crore in Q1FY2023. The PBT from Life Insurance also gained 8% to Rs 33.46 crore, while the PBT from Asset Management declined 32% to Rs 140.80 crore. Health Insurance segment recorded pre-tax losses of to Rs 69.96 crore in Q1FY2023.

Performance for Q1FY2023

Overall OPM eased to 26.88% in Q1FY2023 from 27.90% in Q1FY2022, as other expenditure as a percentage of net sales moved up to 65.78% from 62.22%. The staff cost as a percentage of net sales eased to 4.42% from 4.67% in Q1FY2022. Further, the provisions declined to 2.92% from 5.20% in Q1FY2022.

Interest cost rose 7% to Rs 916.98 crore. Depreciation was up 15% to Rs 32.27 crore. PBT jumped 77% to Rs 561.91 crore in the quarter ended March 2022. The effective tax rate declined to 33.8% from 40.0%. There was profit attributable to non-controlling interest of Rs 5.65 crore in Q1FY2023 compared with 31.69 in Q1FY2022. The share of profit from associates declined 35% to Rs 51.77 crore. Net Profit, increased 42% to Rs 429.47 crore in the quarter ended March 2022.

Book value of the company stood at Rs 65.9 per share, while adjusted book value (net of Net Stage 3 assets and 10% of restructured loans) stood at 60.3 per share end June 2022.

Segment wise performance

Overall lending book (NBFC and Housing) grew 22% year on year, to Rs 69887 crore.

Strong focus on retailisation, with total active customer base at over 4.8 million.

Retail, SME and HNI segments now account for 69% of the total lending book.

Strong funding access and amongst top decile in term of cost of borrowing in the industry.

Raised over Rs 4500 crore of long-term funds in Q1FY23.

NBFC business:

Overall loan book grew 26% year on year, to Rs 57839 crore, while Retail, SME and HNI loan book grew 39% year on year, leading to its contribution in the overall book being the highest ever at 64% end June 2022 against 58% in the previous year .

Strong momentum in gross disbursement at Rs 8039 crore in Q1FY23, up 3.1 times over previous year; in line with the business’s focus. Retail, SME and HNI segments contributed 73% of Q1FY22 gross disbursements

Highest ever net interest margin at 6.47%, expanding by 33 bps year on year, led by growth in retail and SME segments and lower cost of borrowing

Continue to maintain strong quality of assets with Gross stage 3 at 3.2%; reduced by 40 bps year on year. The provision coverage on stage 3 enhanced to 48%, against 42.7% in the previous year

Profit before tax at Rs 459 crore, reflecting a significant growth of 46% year on year

Strong growth in return on assets at 2.5%, compared to 2.0% in the previous year

Return on equity expanded by 330 bps year to year, to 14.3%, compared to 11.0% in previous year

Housing Finance business:

Loan book grew 7% year on year, to Rs 12049 crore, with 94% retail mix

Gross disbursal continues to be strong at Rs 867 crore in Q1FY22; in line with the business focus. The affordable housing segment contributed 48% of disbursements

Affordable housing book grew 45% to Rs 4745 crore, leading to increase in affordable mix at 39%, against 29% in the previous year

Highest ever net interest margin at 4.59%, expanded by 59 bps, year on year

Profit before tax at Rs 72 crore, reflecting strong growth of 45% over the previous year

Strong return on assets at 1.9%, compared to 1.3% in the previous year

Asset Management:

Mutual fund quarterly average assets under management (QAAUM) at Rs 281527 crore

Domestic equity QAAUM grew by 14% year on year, to Rs 116809 crore

In line with ABSLAMC’s focus, domestic equity mix expanded to 41.5% of mutual fund AUM, compared to 37.3% in the previous year

Continued focus on building retail customer franchise with a total of 8.1 million folios

Monthly systematic inflows at Rs 898 crore in Jun ’22 with 3.2 million accounts; registered ~ 2.77 lacs new SIP (Incl. STP) in Q1FY22, grew 23%, year on year

With focus on growing alternate asset segment, passive AUM crossed Rs 12000 crore

Operating profit before tax at Rs 172 crore; flat over previous year. Interest rate and equity market volatility led to Mark-to-Market (MTM) impact on Other Income, leading to reduction in PBT to Rs 141 crore, against Rs 206 crore in the previous year

Insurance:

Total gross written premium of life insurance and health insurance grew 53% year on year, to Rs 3250 crore in Q1FY23

Life Insurance business:

Individual First Year Premium (FYP) grew 26% year on year, to Rs 409 crore

Group business grew 1.9 times year on year, to Rs 885 crore

Renewal premium grew 18% year on year, to Rs 1285 crore, out of which 74% was collected digitally

Total gross premium up 49% year on year, to 2620 crore

Consistent improvement in 13th month persistency to 85%, compared to 83% a year ago

Net VNB margin expanded by a significant 460 bps year on year, to 2.5%

Profit before tax grew 8% year on year, to Rs 33 crore

Health Insurance business:

Gross written premium at Rs 630 crore; grew 71% year on year, with retail and rural contributing 59% of total business

The market share expanded by 299 bps year on year to 12%, amongst SAHI players in Q1FY23

Business now covering 22 million lives, out of which over 17 million lives are through micro and byte size products

Business continues to build scale with focus on expenses, leading to improvement in combined ratio at 109% vs. 154% in the previous year

The Net loss has reduced to Rs 71 crore, against Rs 128 crore in the previous year

General Insurance broking profit before tax grew 21% year on year, to Rs 45 crore

Stock and Securities broking business profit before tax grew 42% year on year, to Rs 11 crore

Stressed assets platform profit before tax grew 87% year on year, to Rs 17 crore

Other businesses:

Profit before tax for the other financial services businesses under ABC grew 41% year on year, to Rs 75 crore, from Rs 53 crore in the previous year

Going forward:

Leveraging synergies across platform including ABG/ABC ecosystem

Leveraging technology and analytics to grow revenue, improve customer experience, optimise costs, and build robust and scalable business model

To accelerate growth momentum across business to build scale

Focus on customer acquisition engines, including direct channels across businesses

Deepening penetration with increased geographic presence

Ajay Srinivasan, Chief Executive, Aditya Birla Capital Limited, said “The Company has built an integrated platform with high quality, significant scale and a retail franchise of 35 million active customers. We have tripled our profits over the last 5 years and nearly doubled our profit over the last two years, in spite of the several external challenges. Our integrated and diversified model backed by our motivated teams have helped us deliver consistent growth in profitability across economic cycles and record results this fiscal. The Company is well placed to capitalise on its strong franchise and the future opportunities in the financial services space”

Financial Performance FY2022

For the year ended March 2022 (FY2022), the consolidated net revenue of the company increased 15% to Rs 22052.72 crore. The revenue in NBFC segment moved up 4% to Rs 5784.86 crore, Housing Finance 187% to Rs 1215.16 crore and Life Insurance 41% to Rs 12386.47 crore. Further, the revenues from Asset Management increased 21% to Rs 1405.85 crore, General Insurance Broking 21% to Rs 691.40 crore and Stock & Securities Broking 19% to Rs 233.44 crore. The revenue from Health Insurance gained 17% to Rs 1633.16 crore, while Other Financial Services revenues declined 7% to Rs 329.26 crore in FY2022 over FY2021.

The interest cost declined 11% to Rs 3479.53 crore, while depreciation moved up 7% to Rs 121.91 crore. PBT jumped 38% to Rs 1768.63 crore in FY2022. The effective tax rate declined to 32.20% in FY2022 from 34.45% in FY2021. Net Profit after non-controlling interest moved up 51% yoy record high of Rs 1705.97 crore in FY2022.

Aditya Birla Capital: Consolidated Results

Particulars

2206 (3)

2106 (3)

Var %

2203 (12)

2103 (12)

Var %

Income from Operations

5590.28

4298.99

30

22052.72

19254.27

15

OPM (%)

26.88

27.90

 

24.30

27.46

 

OP

1502.40

1199.59

25

5358.63

5287.98

1

Other Income

8.76

2.95

197

11.44

19.51

-41

PBDIT

1511.16

1202.54

26

5370.07

5307.49

1

Interest (Net)

916.98

856.50

7

3479.53

3915.76

-11

PBDT

594.18

346.04

72

1890.54

1391.73

36

Depreciation / Amortization

32.27

28.03

15

121.91

114.45

7

PBT before EO

561.91

318.01

77

1768.63

1277.28

38

EO

0.00

0.00

-

177.19

0.00

-

PBT after EO

561.91

318.01

77

1945.82

1277.28

52

Tax Expenses

189.86

127.28

49

626.65

440.04

42

PAT

372.05

190.73

95

1319.17

837.24

58

Profit attributable to non-controlling interest

-5.65

-31.69

-82

-45.90

-20.89

120

Share of profit/loss of Associate

51.77

79.61

-35

340.90

268.41

27

Net Profit after minority and share in associate

429.47

302.03

42

1705.97

1126.54

51

EPS *

7.1

5.0

 

6.6

4.7

 

Adj BV (Rs)

60.3

54.0

 

58.7

52.7

 

* Annualized on current equity of Rs 2416.51 crore excluding EO and relevant tax. Face Value: Rs 10, Figures in Rs crore, PL: Profit to Loss, LP: Loss to Profit

Source: Capitaline Corporate Database

 

Aditya Birla Capital: Segment Results

Particulars

(%) of Total

2206 (3)

2106 (3)

Var (%)

(%) of Total

2203 (12)

2103 (12)

Var (%)

Segment Revenue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NBFC

27

1612.05

1380.75

17

24

5784.86

5518.00

5

Housing Finance

5

312.88

307.09

2

5

1215.16

1280.56

-5

Life Insurance

47

2788.60

2038.20

37

52

12386.47

10379.28

19

Asset Management

5

269.28

333.24

-19

6

1405.85

1201.65

17

General Insurance Broking

3

190.43

147.33

29

3

691.40

591.28

17

Stock & Securities Broking

1

62.86

53.41

18

1

233.44

192.22

21

Health Insurance

10

594.59

350.07

70

7

1633.16

1202.08

36

Other Financial Services

1

40.34

30.42

33

1

329.26

128.74

156

Total Segmental Revenue

100

5871.03

4640.51

27

100

23679.60

20493.81

16

Less: Inter Segment Revenue

 

-12.29

-8.72

41

 

46.74

40.49

15

Total Segment Revenue from Operations (Net)

100

5858.74

4631.79

26

 

23632.86

20453.32

16

Segment Results (Profit Before Tax)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NBFC

65

458.52

314.75

46

52

1487.12

1031.41

44

Housing Finance

10

71.62

49.46

45

9

253.25

176.38

44

Life Insurance

5

33.46

31.08

8

6

174.85

151.46

15

Asset Management

20

140.80

205.89

-32

31

894.71

695.89

29

General Insurance Broking

6

44.65

36.99

21

3

86.02

70.70

22

Stock & Securities Broking

2

11.24

7.90

42

1

35.68

22.40

59

Health Insurance

-10

-69.96

-126.58

-45

-11

-308.68

-199.05

55

Other Financial Services

2

13.06

5.57

134

8

219.76

24.04

814

Total Segment Results

100

703.39

525.06

34

100

2842.71

1973.23

44

Capital employed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NBFC

52

9685.90

8646.10

12

51

9338.07

8417.16

11

Housing Finance

9

1726.92

1515.95

14

9

1665.05

1478.96

13

Life Insurance

15

2827.27

2862.97

-1

16

2936.75

2868.04

2

Asset Management

12

2299.95

1821.28

26

12

2189.58

1710.86

28

General Insurance Broking

1

104.46

86.12

21

0

71.68

55.80

28

Stock & Securities Broking

1

255.29

230.88

11

1

246.10

224.07

10

Health Insurance

4

705.45

425.24

66

3

535.99

428.67

25

Other Financial Services

4

709.93

630.85

13

5

843.80

657.96

28

Total Segment

98

18315.17

16219.39

13

98

17827.02

15841.52

13

Inter-Segment Elimination

0

0.00

0.00

-

0

0.00

0.00

-

Add: Unallocated Corporate

2

362.49

219.71

65

2

371.17

231.03

61

Total

100

18677.66

16439.10

14

100

18198.19

16072.55

13

Figures in Rs crore, PL: Profit to Loss; LP Loss to Profit

Source: Capitaline Corporate Database

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