ICICI Securities Limited Broker Research reports

Aditya Birla Capital Limited (ABCL) reported a decent set of numbers with reported PAT at INR 7.36bn for Q3FY25, lower 4% YoY and 15% QoQ (vs. adjusted PAT of INR 8.34bn in Q2FY25).

In H1FY25, Awfis Space Solutions (Awfis) delivered on two of its main FY25 guidance parameters, viz. 30%-plus revenue growth for FY25 and expansion in IGAAP EBITDA margin upwards of 12% (H1FY25 YoY revenue growth of 39% and IGAAP EBITDA margin of 13.3%). With an overall operational and committed pipeline of 150,649 seats (over 110,000 operational) as of Sep’24, we expect continued growth ahead.

Bajaj Finance (BAF) has unveiled its Long-Range Strategy (LRS) 2025-2029 in which it targets – a) total credit market share of 3-3.25% by FY28 and 3.2-3.5% by FY29 from 2.1% as on Sep’24, b) strong customer franchise of 130-140mn by FY28 and 190-210mn by FY29 from 92.1mn on Sep’24,

Voltbek, which is still in an investment mode, is likely to be value accretive from FY25, in our view. It has focussed on gaining volumes and market shares since its inception in FY18. We believe it will have market share of ~10% in its both the key categories i.e. refrigerators and washing machines in next couple of years.

Tata Power hosted its Investor Day at its 4.3GW solar cell and module factory in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu on 6 Dec’24.

Eureka has revamped its servicing business strategy and we believe its benefits are surfacing. These include: (1) It has, now, four different servicing plans with options to buy servicing for one, two or three years, instead of just one plan across consumers. (2) Rolled out an App that provides alerts to consumers about servicing

As of Sep’24, Lemon Tree Hotels (LEMONTRE) has 10,318 operational keys across 112 hotels. The company has an aggressive room expansion plan for H2FY25–FY29 with an incremental 5,220 keys – should take overall operational keys to 15,538 by FY29–30E.

We attended the INOXGFL Group Vision Day held on 2 Dec’24; takeaways being the INOXGFL group’s foray into renewable power generation for the commercial and industrial (C&I) sector with an envisaged capacity of 3GW by FY27/FY28.

Solar Industries’ (SOIL) stock has been running sideways due to the delay in the award of the Pinaka order. However, we believe, Street is underestimating the potential of continuous export order inflows (OI) in defence. With an OI of INR 45bn so far in CY24,for a 3–5-year duration, we believe these orders alone potentially form an annual revenue accretion of INR 11–13bn.

Hatsun Agro’s ice cream business has strong potential to create value, in our view, as it has built multiple competitive advantages such as established brands (Arun and Ibaco), HAP Daily, three manufacturing units which help to cater to a large geography – this results in higher TAM at lower freight costs and storage units which help in reducing capex.