LIC Housing Finance's Q4FY16 standalone net profit rises18% yoy to Rs.448 crore : In line with estimates
The company’s standalone NII stood at Rs. 862.13 crore, up by 26.39% yoy and 9.92% qoq.
Apr 18, 2016 02:04 IST India Infoline News Service

For the year ended March 31, 2016, the company reported net profit of Rs. 1,660.78 crore, registering growth of 19.81% yoy. It's NII for the current period of Rs. 3,089.38 crore was up 30.96% yoy.
On consolidated basis, for the year ended the company reported net profit of Rs. 1,667.69 crore, rising by 19.49%. It reported total income from operations of Rs. 12,410.34 crore, recording growth of 16.04%.
Rationale:
LIC Housing Finance Ltd Q4FY16 earnings were broadly in-line with estimates. Both the top-line and bottom-line came slightly below IIFL Estimates by 1.36% and 2.18%. Main reason for bad performance were tax expenses which stood at Rs. 246.25 crore growing 8.42% qoq and 24.93% yoy. Other expenses at Rs. 31.89 crore rose by 21% qoq and 15% yoy. Also the provisions rose by 9.32% qoq and clocked nearly three-folds jump yoy.
Result Highlights: (Rs. in crore)
Reported Results | IIFL Estimates | Variance (%) | |
Standalone Revenue | 862.13 | 874 | [1.36] |
Standalone Net Profit | 448.01 | 458 | [2.18] |
Standalone EPS for the quarter stood at Rs. 8.88.
Bloomberg estimated the company’s standalone net profit at Rs. 4,653.81 crore.
Corporate Action :
LIC Housing Finance' board of directors at its meeting held on April 18, 2016 have approved recommendation of dividend for financial year 2015-2016 @ 275% i.e. Rs. 5.50 per equity share of Rs. 2/-each. The dividend on equity shares, will be paid on or after August 20, 2016.
Stock Commentary:
LIC Housing Finance Ltd is currently trading at Rs. 483.55, up by 2.75 points or 0.57% from its previous closing of Rs. 480.8 on the BSE.
The scrip opened at Rs. 482.6 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 490 and Rs. 479.7 respectively. So far 3385445(NSE+BSE) shares were traded on the counter. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 24263.57 crore.
The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 2 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 526 on 06-Aug-2015 and a 52 week low of Rs. 389 on 25-Feb-2016. Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 487.4 and Rs. 461.9 respectively.
The promoters holding in the company stood at 40.31 % while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 33.66 % and 26.03 % respectively.
The stock is currently trading below its 200 DMA.