Bajaj Finance Ltd. share price target

Bajaj Finance announced its long-range strategies (LRS-3, FY2025 to FY2029) after seeing exponential growth in LRS-1 (2008-2016) and LRS-2 (2017 to 2024). it is expected to remain a dominant NBFC expanding its share in the total credit to 3.2-3.5% by FY2029 from 2.1% in H1FY2025.

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,

The Board of RBL Bank has decided to terminate its 8-year old co-branded credit card agreement with Bajaj Finance (BAF), resulting in BAF selling nearly 8mn cards cumulatively and logging 3.4mn outstanding cards as of H1FY25.

Bajaj Finance (BAF) has decided to exit the co-branded credit card distribution business. RBL Bank (RBK) announced that the bank and BAF have mutually agreed to terminate their co-branded credit card partnership.

Bajaj Finance (BAF) ended its eight-year-long co-branded credit card partnership with RBL, as per exchange filing. We retain BUY with a TP of INR 8,500, valuing the standalone business at 4.7x FY26E BVPS while assigning INR 1,450/share towards housing subs.

Driven by sustained elevated credit costs (Q2 gross credit cost-to-AUF: 2.16%; Q1: 2.12%), Bajaj Finance (BAF) reported a slight miss on profitability with consolidated PAT of Rs40bn coming slightly lower than consensus/our estimates.

We maintain our BUY recommendation on the stock.

Overall operating performance was in line however higher credit (2.1% versus 1.9% q-o-q) was a key dampener resulting in muted earnings growth.

Bajaj Finance (BAF)’s reported PAT in 2QFY25 grew 13% YoY to ~INR40.1b (in line). NII grew 23% YoY to ~INR88.4b (in line). Non-interest income stood at ~INR21.1b (+3% QoQ).