L&T Finance Limited
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Management on call
Dinanath Dubhashi
Managing Director & CEO and other members of the senior
Key numbers — 40 extracted
58%
71%
25%
80%
44%
Rs. 10,000 crore
15%
84%
Rs. 50,000 crore
Rs. 52,000 crore
27%
9%
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Guidance — 20 items
Dinanath Dubhashi
opening
“Within this goal, we aim to pivot from a ‘product-focused’ organization to a ‘customer-focused’ approach by creating a Fintech @ Scale and I believe we are doing it quite well, starting with changing the organization structure which we spoke about in our last call and that has actually brought a lot of focus on various segments and has worked very well.”
Dinanath Dubhashi
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“Even the best in the industry are around the same level and we hope to improve even further from here as we go towards them.”
Dinanath Dubhashi
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“It is in right now conceptualization stage, where we are making some small beginnings in the form of Apps and using the IT knowledge available in the group, we are developing something quite exciting and we will be, over the next year or so, we will be unfolding that slowly.”
Dinanath Dubhashi
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“• Disbursements Our strong business momentum, and we had said, we had promised that we will maintain at least 25% CAGR in retail book and we will achieve 80% Retailisation by 2026 and you know that the same time last year, we were around ~43-44%?”
Dinanath Dubhashi
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“Through our ALM strategy, we believe that our cost will increase less than proportionately than the e L&T Finance Holdings October 21, 2022 market increases in interest rate and by our product mix change and product strengths, we will be able to definitely maintain our NIMs plus fees at very healthy levels.”
Dinanath Dubhashi
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“As you know, our Lakshya goal is below 1% NS3 total and by 2026 most of the books will be retail anyway and this retail NS3 being at 0.88% works extremely well for us.”
Dinanath Dubhashi
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“Now, last time I had indicated that by Q2 end, the impact of OTR will be largely over for us.”
Dinanath Dubhashi
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“• Mutual Fund Last update before I get into the details will be on Mutual Fund divestment.”
Dinanath Dubhashi
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“As I have always said, capital gains received from the deal will be primarily used for strengthening the balance sheet.”
Dinanath Dubhashi
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“Going forward as well, rural cash flow prospects are expected to further brighten on back of several positive cues such as first, elevated crop prices and crop realizations in upcoming quarters especially for the Rabi crop.”
Risks & concerns — 6 flagged
Now, last time I had indicated that by Q2 end, the impact of OTR will be largely over for us.
— Dinanath Dubhashi
So, for us, I can confidently state that the impact of OTR on P&L now is largely over.
— Dinanath Dubhashi
So, it actually shows that we believe that the impact of OTR is over and credit costs are now firmly trending downwards.
— Dinanath Dubhashi
With continuous improvement in collections and with the impact of OTR now largely behind us, credit costs have started showing significantly downward trend from this quarter onwards and we expect this trend of downward moment of credit cost to continue as we go ahead.
— Dinanath Dubhashi
The four pillars were Sustained profit and growth engine, Demonstratable strength in risk management, Fintech @ Scale and Future growth through ESG.
— Dinanath Dubhashi
Yes, and if we have to put out a number in terms of opex to assets, particularly on the Retail side, so where do you see it eventually, may be currently it is around about 4.4% and it has been in that range, but may be DSAs also there is lot of competitive pressure given dealer payouts and we’re still at the lower end, so do we see that this might inch up closer towards 5% or 4.75% or so, as we try to scale up?
— Kunal Shah
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Q&A — 5 exchanges
Speaking time
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Opening remarks
Dinanath Dubhashi
Thank you. A very good morning, ladies and gentlemen and a warm welcome to everybody who is attending this call. A very special quarter for us, we have done extremely well across all business metrics and also well on our way of achieving the milestones which were outlined by us in our Lakshya 26 strategy. In the annual meet that we held in May’22, I had shared with you our strategic plan of Lakshya 26 and its underlying goals. Post that the market scenario has changed considerably, in fact, I can say even drastically, whether in the country or even globally and even it is happening as we speak. We are witnessing new inflation highs in different parts of the world, tightening monetary policies, geopolitical conflicts, increasing interest rates, everything. Amidst all these changing micro variables, I mean there are some very positives also like demand growth in India, for example, especially in rural is very good. Amidst all these changes, I can proudly say that L&T Financial Services h
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