Reblog: Review IndoStar Capital Finance Limited IPO
After a lull in the month of April 2018, long wait for main board IPO for financial year 18-19 is over with a non-banking finance company breaking the ice with its float of around Rs. 1850 crore. Details of the first main board IPO of this fiscal is given hereunder:
Indostar Capital Finance Ltd. (ICFL) is a leading non-banking finance company (“NBFC”) registered with the Reserve Bank of India as a systemically important non-deposit taking company. It is a professionally managed and institutionally owned organization which is primarily engaged in providing bespoke Indian Rupee denominated structured term financing solutions to corporate and loans to small and medium enterprise (“SME”) borrowers in India. ICFL recently expanded its portfolio to offer vehicle finance and housing finance products. Although, the company operated in a challenging credit environment in the initial years of our business operations business has experienced growth since the commencement of operations in 2011. Between fiscal 2013 and 2017, its total credit exposure, total revenue and net profits grew at a CAGR of 30.0%, 31.4% and 23.7% respectively. Its corporate lending business which was at 99.8% in FY 2015 declined to 76.8% for the period ended 31.12.17 and for the said periods, its SME lending business grew from 0.2% to 22.7%. Vehicle financing operations started from November 2017 and housing finance operations started from March 2018.