70% rise in footfalls in Q2 – Muthoot Finance

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70% rise in footfalls in Q2 – Muthoot Finance
Excerpts from an interview of Mr.George Alexander Muthoot, MD, Muthoot Finance with CNBC-TV18 dated 1st October 2020:
● There is an increase in average daily footfall. The increase is by 70% as compared to Q1.
● Q2 is much better as more customers are coming to the branch as lockdown is lifted and travel is becoming possible.
● Customer transactions are also increasing. There is a 40% increase in customer transactions.
● There is a 10% increase in online transactions. Q1 also saw a rise in online transactions. The company did 3mn transactions in Q1.
● Muthoot Finance has started a new loan scheme with a free COVID-19 insurance policy.
● This scheme was started late in Q2 and in the southern branches. The company offered 46k COVID-19 policies to customers free of cost.
● The customers have a small ticket size. The average loan size is Rs 50,000.
● The company expects Q2 to be much better as there is a new loan disbursal as well.
● The company continues to maintain the guidance of 15% growth in the gold loans.
● On the home loans business, he said there was no new lending in Q1 and Q2. The company will start new lending going ahead. The recovery is 85-90% in the home loan business.
● People who took moratorium earlier have not utilized it fully and already paid installments.
● The customers are coming back for payments but the company will start lending in Q3 and Q4.
● On the change in LTV for banks, he said there is always a high competition in the gold loan sector. There is no decrease in business for the company.
Consensus Estimate: (Source: market screener website)
● The closing price of Muthoot Finance was ₹ 1,164/- as of 04-October-2020. It traded at 3.2x/ 2.6x/ 2.3x the consensus Book value per share estimate of ₹ 363/445/510 for FY21E/ FY22E/ FY23E respectively.
● The consensus average target price for Muthoot Finance is ₹ 1,300/- which implies a Pb multiple of 2.4 times on FY23E BVPS of ₹ 510/-.
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