MUTHOOTFIN said it expects borrowing costs to go up gradually during FY23. Gold AUM grew by 11% in FY22 and the company expects a growth of 12-15% for FY23.
Q&A Insights: Abhijit Tibrewal of @MotilalOswalLtd asked about weak gold loan demand in core customer segments of 40,000-60,000 ticket size. George Muthoot MD replied that that ticket size has gone up to much higher levels due to economic growth. People now are borrowing more.
Q&A Insights: Abhijit T of @MotilalOswalLtd asked about yield compression of about 200 bp sequentially. George MD said it had consciously done teaser rates on the yields so that it can get more customers, which was successful as the company got a lot of new customers during 4Q22.
Q&A Insights: Abhijit Tibrewal of @MotilalOswalLtd asked about the quantum of auctions in the accrued interest as on March 2022. Oommen Mammen CFO replied that auctions for 4Q22 was INR2,100 crores and the accrued interest was INR2,071 crores.
Q&A Insights: Deepak G of SBI asked about the impact on the Sri Lankan subsidiary due to economic crisis there. George MD said it has mostly gold loan portfolio in Sri Lanka and due to the crisis the gold prices have gone very high, which makes the company very safe in Sri Lanka.
Q&A Insights: Deepak Gupta of SBI asked about last years’ credit growth guidance of 12-15%, which ended at 11%, if for FY23 the guidance will be the same. George Muthoot MD clarified the company will maintain the 12-15% guidance.
Q&A Insights: Gaurav Kochar of @miraeasset asked about the MFI environment for FY23 and growth targets. George Muthoot MD answered that MFI sector will continue to grow and there is potential for MFI going forward with new regulations about interest rate etc. also supporting MFI.
Q&A Insights: Subhransu Mishra of @UBS asked about the proportion of AUM below INR1 lakh, between INR1-2 lakh and above INR2 lakh. Oommen Mammen CFO replied that loans above INR1 lakh will be 58% and below INR1 Lakh will be 42%. Above INR3 lakhs will be 22%.
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Q&A Insights: Gaurav Jogani with @AXIS_Capital asked if the company took any price increase beyond the price increase announced in Dec. VS Ganesh CEO replied that the company didn’t have any further price increase other than the one it had in Dec.
Q&A Insights: Gaurav J of @AXIS_Capital asked that given the raw material stock PAGEIND has, if further price increase will be needed given the higher cotton prices. VS Ganesh CEO said it is closely monitoring the situation. If there is a need, PAGEIND will be touching the prices
KOLTEPATIL said that further from a new business development perspective, the company is focusing on newer micro markets in Pune.
Q&A Insights: Prithvi R of @unificapital asked what kind of price hikes was taken across projects and geographies. Rahul Talele CEO said wherever it got the opportunity of price rise, it has taken it. KOLTEPATIL has hiked price in range of 5-8% in Pune, Mumbai and Bangalore areas
Q&A Insights: Anubhav A of @CreditSuisse asked about Brazil market, how much the 5 launches the company did in 4Q22 contributed as a percentage of sales. Sanjay Gupta ED said it showed a growth of about 21% and roughly about 13-14% of that is the contribution from new launches.
Q&A Insights: Anubhav A of @CreditSuisse asked how Brazil sales growth is expected in FY23. Sanjay Gupta ED replied that Brazilian GDP growth was about 4-4.5% and next year forecast is less than 1%. So assuming market grows at 8-10%, the company should be well above that.
INDIGO said it swung from a profitable 3Q22 to a loss-making 4Q22 because of about 15% higher fuel prices and on 11% lower capacity due to Omicron and a lower RASK of 2.9%.
In 1Q23, INDIGO expects the capacity to rebound at almost 2.5 times the capacity deployed in 1Q22.
Q&A Insights: Rohit Ohri of @progressiveshar asked about any growth capex plan related to property at Bangladesh. Vikash President said that due to COVID in last 2, 3 years, it was unable to take off, but RUPA is hopeful it will be able to start some business activity in FY22.
Q&A Insights: Rohit Ohri from @progressiveshar also asked about the turnover expectation from the Bangladesh property. Vikash Agarwal President answered that it’s difficult to comment but anywhere between INR50-100 crores is quite achievable. RUPA is looking for some partners.
SAIL said it clocked its best ever production and sales during FY22. The sales have been the highest ever at 16.15 million tonnes as compared to 14.94 million tonnes in FY21. For the first time in history of SAIL, the company crossed revenues from operation of INR1 lakh crores.
Q&A Insights: Amit Dixit of @EdelweissFin asked about coking coal cost in 4Q22 in dollar terms and how it’s expected to change in 1Q23. Anil Tulsiani ED said it is likely to go up substantially. In Q4 it was in range of INR28,000-29,000 and it is expected to be up 10-12% in 1Q23.