Target Price of Reliance Capital Raised - Merill
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Merill Lynch has raised the stock target price of Reliance Capital [R-Cap] to Rs 1850. R-Cap is expanding its distribution at a very rapid pace which could result in growth, ahead of Merill's estimates, remaining very strong through FY10 and possibly beyond. Based on FY10E sum of parts valuation, a value of Rs 2033/share, the target price for Mar'09 (18 months from now), a 36% upside. Hence, 12 month PO is Rs 1850.By Dec'08, it is likely to have 10,000 touch points in retail in 1 year (v/s 4,000 now), 5,000 locations (v/s 700), 300,000 agents in life insurance (and 400 cities) and +1500 dealers.
- Consumer loan book [Housing, Auto, Personal etc] to expand 10-fold to US$4.1bn by FY10, delivering ROE of +20%.
- General insurance too is likely to show +100% growth through FY09 and 75% in FY10.
- R-Money is likely to be the other strong growth driver as it expands distribution and customers hit 1 million mark.
- Overall, life insurance should, however, remain the biggest contributor at 37% of target value with premia income forecast to rise 7-fold from FY07 levels.
In a separate report, Merill Lynch's most preferred stocks are - BHEL, Bharti Airtel and Grasim Industries. While the least preferred are Hindalco, Tata Motors and Pantaloon Retail India Ltd.
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