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Q2 Review: Shriram Finance's Profit Rises 13%, Meets Estimates
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10/27/2023
#Q2WithBQ | #ShriramFinance's stock up 9% post September quarter earnings.
Executive Vice Chairman Umesh Revankar talks about the interim dividend announcement and growth outlook for the coming quarters. #BQLive
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Welcome to BQ Prime. I am Pragati Oberoi. Thanks so much for tuning in to this special broadcast.
00:05
Now, Sriram Finance reported its second quarter earnings on 25th October and the numbers look
00:10
pretty decent so far. The net profit was up about 13% year on year. The total income was up about
00:16
15.4% year on year. This morning, the stock also hit its 52-week high. Now, joining me for this
00:23
very special conversation is Mr. Umesh Rewangar, who is the Executive Vice Chairman of Sriram
00:28
Finance. Mr. Rewangar, thank you so much for joining us for this conversation and for decoding
00:33
the numbers with us going ahead. Yeah, my pleasure.
00:37
So, sir, banks and NBFCs this quarter are facing this problem of margins compression,
00:44
but yours have expanded about 60 basis points. I can see that on a quarterly basis.
00:49
What explains this expansion to us?
00:54
Yeah, there are multiple reasons. One is we have been carrying excess liquidity on the balance
01:00
sheet for last one year, more than a year, and because of uncertainties. Now, since we have
01:08
reduced the liquidity, additional liquidity, the negative carry is gone. That's one thing.
01:14
From average four to five months, we have now brought it down to three months average
01:21
liquidity in the balance sheet. Second is better product mix. We have changed the product mix and
01:28
high yielding products we have launched across the network, and that also has helped. And in fact,
01:35
this is the benefit of the merger. We did and went through a merger of Sriram Transport Finance and
01:44
Sriram City Union Finance last year. Now, multiple products being available in all the branches,
01:50
and we are able to have a better product mix, which has given us this kind of a spread.
01:56
So, sir, since you're talking about this better product mix, could you help us understand what
02:02
are the some of the high margin products that you're referring to or that the company has
02:05
started in? See, gold loans, MSME and the personal loan, they're all high margin business,
02:14
including passenger vehicle. Passenger vehicle also is little higher margin for us
02:19
than the CVs. So, this has helped us in increasing our spread.
02:25
And I can also see it in the numbers, the CVs and the PVs have definitely shown steady growth.
02:32
But do you have any plans of increasing movement in the two wheeler and the gold loan segment?
02:37
And what is the near term outlook if I have to look at it?
02:39
The two wheeler will definitely grow this quarter because normally, traditionally,
02:46
people do buy a two wheeler during Dasara. In fact, in this October 24, we had a very record
02:55
delivery of two wheelers. So, you can see a two wheeler book expanding this quarter for us.
03:02
And definitely, this will help us in improving our yields this quarter.
03:07
Okay, fair enough. So, I want to also touch base upon with you another segment, which is the farm
03:13
equipment. If I look at the numbers here, the gross and the net stage three have gone slightly
03:18
up on a quarterly basis. Why is that? And is it like seasonal? Or do you see this trend persisting
03:24
from here? It's a seasonal. In fact, uncertainties in the monsoon did have some impact on the
03:33
collections. But we are not worried on the farm equipment because we have seen in the last, maybe
03:42
one decade or so, farm equipment behaves very well on credit costs, even though there is a delay in
03:48
repayment. But credit cost wise, it behaves much better than many of the products.
03:53
Okay, so you're not really worried about this segment in particular?
03:57
Yes.
03:59
Okay. But so overall, if we see the rural economy is having a muted recovery, and everyone has
04:04
different opinions on this. So, how do you see that affecting the business at this point?
04:10
Now, we do see a good recovery in the rural economy and the demand both. September rains
04:18
have been very good and that has really helped. We do see the increased crop acreage, especially
04:28
for oil seeds because of September rains. And this will now help for rabbi crop because good rains in
04:36
the September and the groundwater level going up, even the stored water level going up is helping
04:42
in the rabbi crop. And I believe the rabbi crop is going to be a record high. Even this
04:50
kharif crop, the acreage has increased compared to the previous year. That means even that also
04:56
should hold good. So, in total, I should say, even the government announced the higher MSP price for
05:03
the wheat, our rabbi crops. So, that is all is going to help the rural economy.
05:10
Okay. So, I think that's a very positive perspective from you, sir. So, largely,
05:13
you are very positive and you don't see any adverse impacts on the business coming from that side.
05:18
Largely.
05:18
Yes.
05:19
All right. So, I was just seeing the figures and if I talk about your customer base here,
05:24
those who are taking personal loans for the first time, they're largely in the average ticket size
05:29
of 40 to 50,000. I'm sorry about that. But, sir, this is also a segment where others have been
05:36
raising alarms on. So, how do you see this panning out? Because recently, even RBI has been talking
05:42
about increased number of problems in this segment. So, how do you see this panning out
05:47
for the company at this point?
05:48
See, the way we have gone about personal loan is totally different. The customers who have already
05:57
having a track record with us in the past, only those people we are giving a personal loan. That
06:04
means people who already repaid a loan and have built a track record, only to those customers we
06:10
are giving the personal loan. Not to the new to Sriram kind of a customer or new to credit kind
06:20
of a customer. That is not the policy. The company is offering only to our existing known good
06:27
track record customer. So, I don't really see any kind of a challenge in this particular loans.
06:34
Just one clarification on that front, sir. So, if we talk about this average ticket size of
06:41
45 to 50,000, it would be the existing customer only that Sriram Finance has.
06:46
Yes, you're right.
06:47
Okay, got your point, sir. So, any new loan segments that you're planning to enter?
06:52
Right now, no, we are not really planning for any new sector. I think our hands are full.
07:01
The existing product itself reaching to all our branches, it will take some more time because we
07:08
are to reach out with our SME product in all our branches. So, it will take some time.
07:15
Okay, fair enough. So, one last bit I would like to understand from you. The cost to income ratio
07:20
has gone slightly down on a quarterly basis. Is there any guidance on how you see this panning
07:26
out in the near future for the company? We did give the guidance in the beginning
07:32
of the year that our cost to income would remain between 25 to 26 and it is around that average. So,
07:41
we will remain at this level for coming quarters also.
07:45
Coming quarters are the next two, particularly here we're talking about?
07:50
Yes, this particular year. It may go down towards that depending upon how our
07:56
digital initiative take place. Okay, all right. Thank you so much,
08:03
Mr. Ravankar for joining us for this conversation and all the very best for the coming quarters as
08:07
well. Thank you very much.
08:17
Thank you.
08:17
Thank you.
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