Feb 18 2024, 09:27
10 stocks from different sub-segments of FS space with more than 25% upside potential:
PSU banks strongly out performing the private banks. But we have seen a divergence in recent times. This probably is a reflection that finally the street has realized that it is wrong to paint all the companies in the banking sector with the same brush. It is even more true for the other parts of the financial service sector with the same brush.
Just because of the stock, HDFC bank came under pressure, a narrative got built, that the whole banking and financial services sector is facing headwinds. But the fact is financial service is a very broad term, it would be wrong to look at them with the same lens. Each segment is an industry in itself which is governed by an operating matrix which is very different from another. For example, a Housing finance company can be happy with 10 percent net margins, but for an average asset management company (AMC) the net margin would be more than 30 percent.
Similarly, a gold loan company is best of the NPA provisioning ability but the margins are not very high. The only common thing which binds the financial service sector is the GDP growth rate as the growth in all segments have a certain well defined relationship with growth in GDP. To some extent it appears that the street is now making some distinction, as there have not been many instances where one would have seen PSU banks strongly out performing the private banks. But we have seen a divergence in recent times. This probably is a reflection that finally the street has realized that it is wrong to paint all the companies in the financial service sector with the same brush.
List of NIFTY Financial Services stocks ex-banks with 'Strong
Buy/Buy/Hold/Sell' recommendations.
NIFTY Financial Services ex-Bank Stocks
Upside Potential - Feb 16, 2024
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Company Name
Avg Score
Analyst Count
* Upside Potential %
Inst Stake %
MarketCap Rs Cr
Reco
Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Co
8
Buy
32
45.8
32.1
94,403
HDFC Life
5
Buy
30
45.3
24.0
125,878
Max Financial Services
8
Buy
16
42.2
81.6
32,748
SBI Cards
5
Hold
25
38.7
22.7
67,871
ICICI Prudential Life
6
Buy
31
32.7
16.1
72,701
Aditya Birla Capital
Strong Buy
7
9
32.4
8.4
47,098
Power Finance Corporation
8
Strong Buy
8
30.7
22.9
143,620
Muthoot Finance
8
Buy
20
30.3
19.1
53,870
General Insurance Corp of India
8
Hold
3
29.8
9.4
67,448
M&M Financial Services
6
Buy
33
25.7
36.7
35,373
Calculated from highest price target given by analysts
source: et
Feb 18 2024, 09:29