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On path to build a strong franchise
March 15, 2018 Bandhan Bank, a new aged private bank commenced operations in Aug’2015. Since
then, in a short span of time it has been able to build‐up a decent deposit franchise
Pritesh Bumb and maintained strong opex control, much better than many private peers. Bank
priteshbumb@plindia.com stressed on building its business around micro finance customers and focuses on
+91‐22‐66322232 becoming a retail centric bank. At the upper band of the issue price range of
IPO Note
Rs370‐375, bank will trade at 3.4x FY20 BV of Rs111 which is equivalent to large
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private peers and is fully priced in our view. But given the return ratios, liability build‐
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+91‐22‐66322214 up and the large opportunity of scale up, we recommend to subscribe to the Bank
with a longer term horizon.
Vidhi Shah
vidhishah@plindia.com Loan mix to shift from microfinance to SME & Retail: Current loan mix is
+91‐22‐66322258 concentrated towards MFI which at 88%, but has been coming off due to strong
growth in small enterprise loans (1.5x YoY growth) & retail (2.5x YoY growth) and
Rating Subscribe although growth was slightly impacted in the MFI business due to demonetisation
Price Band Rs370‐Rs375 but growth has resumed again. Strategy of management is to build business
around the Micro loans segment like affordable housing, gold loans and other
retail which will help stronger loan growth momentum of +35% CAGR till FY20.
Deposit build‐up has been good: Bandhan has been able to display traction in
IPO Fact Sheet deposits reaching Rs252.9bn (CD Ratio 90%) as on Dec 2017 of which CASA is
Opening Date March 15, 2018 33.0%. Although CASA market share amongst banks is miniscule, it is catching up
Closing Date March 19, 2018 on CASA efficiency per branch to immediate private peers and is much higher than
BRLMs Kotak IB, Axis Cap, Goldman Sachs, SFBs. Bandhan has been able to display this decent deposit attraction due to focus
JM Financial, JP Morgan of its +850 branches only on liabilities, under penetration in the East & NE India
Issue Size Rs. 44,730mn and much focused offering coupled with higher SA rate.
‐ Fresh Issue Rs. 36,624mn
‐ OFS Rs. 8,106mn
Capital Return ratios better than private peers: Due to MFI biz, margins have
been much higher at 9‐10%, coupled with fee income from PSLC sell down and
strong opex control, keeping ROAs at +4% & ROEs at +25%. Going ahead, optimum
Objects of the Issue capital deployment will be crucial, while we believe margins will be under pressure
and opex control will be a challenge and hence return ratios are likely to be better
To augment capital base for future growth than immediate private peers but lower than current levels.
prospects, offer for sale and listing requirements
under RBI’s new licensing guidelines prior to Key financials (Y/e March) 2016 2017 2018E 2019E
three years of commencing operations Net interest income (Rs m) 9,328 24,035 30,602 42,329
Growth (%) ‐ 157.7 27.3 38.3
Non‐interest income (Rs m) 1,499 4,114 6,788 9,164
Issue Details Operating Profit (Rs m) 4,668 17,929 24,447 33,941
Pre‐issue equity (m shares) 1,095.1 PAT (Rs m) 2,752 11,120 13,364 19,829
Post‐issue equity (m shares)* 1,192.8 EPS (Rs) 2.5 10.2 11.2 16.6
Post‐issue Market Cap (Rs bn)* 447.3 Growth (%) ‐ 304.0 10.3 48.4
Book Value (Rs) 30.4 40.6 79.2 92.8
Profitability & Valuation 2016 2017 2018E 2019E
Spreads / Margins (%) 9.8 11.4 9.3 8.5
RoAE (%) 14.4 28.6 19.2 19.3
Share Holding
RoAA (%) 2.7 4.4 3.5 3.8
(%) Pre‐IssuePost‐Issue*
P/E (x) 148.8 36.9 33.5 22.6
Promoters 89.6 82.3
P/BV (x) 12.3 9.2 4.7 4.0
Public & Others 10.4 17.7
P/ABV (x) 12.3 9.4 4.7 4.0
*Equity issuance calculated on higher band price
Source: RHP; PL Research Note ‐ Valuations based on upper band
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Bandhan Bank
Business Description
Bandhan Bank is the new age full‐service private sector bank which acquired license
from RBI under new licensing guidelines in FY14. The Bank commenced operations in
Aug’15 post which the current parent company Bandhan Financial Services
transferred its Microfinance business to Bandhan Bank.
Bandhan Bank has divided its business in two parts (i) Micro lending which is
centered around the under banked & under penetrated area and (ii) General
banking segment. Currently, Bank has Rs243.6bn in loan assets which is dominated
by Micro Finance at 88% but has been diversifying into other segments and has
Rs252.9bn in deposits of which 33% is CASA. Bank focus will continue to be on micro
lending segment but has more given more thrust on the Retail & SME segment.
Exhibit 1: Bank has been able to scale up well post commencing Exhibit 2: Bank has been slowly winding down its assignment book
operations
On Book Advances Off Book Advances
Gross Advances (Rs bn) Deposits (Rs bn) 5%
20% 12%
300 28%
254 244 253
235 232 221
250
200 156 88% 95%
150 121 80% 72%
100
50
‐ FY16 FY17 H1FY18 9MFY18
FY16 FY17 H1FY18 9MFY18
Source: RHP, PL Research
Source: RHP, PL Research
Exhibit 3: Gross loan book break‐up: Bank has been shifting its loans towards retail and
small enterprises
90.8%
87.4% 88.3%
March 15, 2018 2
Bandhan Bank
Exhibit 4: Micro Loans break‐up: Equal purpose of MFI loans within Exhibit 5: Retail Loans break‐up: Personal loans dominate, but bank
Agri & Business loans moving towards secured lending segments
Bandhan has an advantage on the PSL requirement due to lending to under banked
lower income segment. Currently, 97% of loans are PSL compliant which is much
above the regulatory requirements and has helped garner strong fee income from
PSLC sell downs. Also, PSL compliance has helped the bank avoid drag on margins by
investing in lower yielding assets to achieve targets especially from direct Agri, which
other banks continue to face challenges.
Bank has been able to diversify its offering in the retail lending towards LAP, housing
especially on affordable housing, gold loans and 2W, but geography wise, business
remains highly concentrated in East & NE areas at 81%. Bank has started diversifying
into other geographies selectively and depending on business segment with focus on
west and central India.
Exhibit 6: High concentration of lending in East & North East geography
5.4% 5.3%
8.4% 8.7%
22.2% 22.7%
58.7% 58.2%
H1FY18 9MFY18
Source: RHP, PL Research
March 15, 2018 3
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Exhibit 7: Bank has been improving its network presence at much Exhibit 8: Incremental branch presence has been towards Metro &
faster level Urban geographies
Ratios and Financial Parameters
Exhibit 9: Margins have been coming off on shift in loan mix and pass Exhibit 10: Lowering cost of funds benefit has been passed on to
on off rates to MFI customers customers by lowering MCLR rate
20.6% 21.3%
11.02% 18.6% 18.9%
17.3% 18.0%
10.39% 10.34% 10.44%
10.01% 8.6%
9.86% 7.2% 7.1% 7.6% 7.3% 7.2%
FY16 H1FY17 9M17 FY17 H1FY18 9M18 FY16 H1FY17 9M17 FY17 H1FY18 9M18
Source: RHP, PL Research Source: RHP, PL Research
RoE (%) RoA (%)
4.6% 4.4% 4.5%
28.8% 28.5% 4.3% 4.1%
27.9% 27.2% 25.6%
3.1%
16.0%
FY16 H1FY17 9M17 FY17 H1FY18 9M18 FY16 H1FY17 9M17 FY17 H1FY18 9M18
Source: RHP, PL Research Source: RHP, PL Research
Exhibit 15: Asset quality has deteriorated in recent quarters mainly in Exhibit 16: Capital has always remained adequate, post raising
the MFI business improves much higher than requirement
29.0%
28.7%
26.9%
26.7%
26.6%
26.4%
26.2%
1.43%
24.9%
24.9%
24.8%
24.8%
23.5%
0.80%
0.76%
0.51%
0.48%
0.36%
0.31%
0.31%
0.20%
0.15%
0.08%
FY16 H1FY17 9M17 FY17 H1FY18 9M18 FY16 H1FY17 9M17 FY17 H1FY18 9M18
Source: RHP, PL Research Source: RHP, PL Research
March 15, 2018 5
Bandhan Bank
Stacking up with peers
Bandhan stacks up well with the immediate private peers and also with some of the
large private banks. Bank’s margins have been much stronger complimented by its
microfinance business and coupled with strong opex control its opex/assets (Exhibit
21) & C/I (Exhibit 22) is among the lowest, leading to strong return ratios.
Also, CASA efficiency has been catching up and our interaction with management
had indicated that branche addition will be slow which will further increase CASA
efficiency and position it better than most peer banks.
Exhibit 17: Bandhan enjoys superior margins due to its MFI business Exhibit 18: Bandhan’s fee income though lower than peers, has
improved on PSLC sell down
NIM
10.7%10.4% Fees/Total Income
9.9%
8.7%
7.6% 7.5% 33.9%
5.6% 30.4%
25.9% 24.8%
4.1% 3.7%
3.4% 2.8% 19.9%
16.7% 16.3%
8.7%
IDFC Bk
YES
BhaFin
SHTF
Bandhan
AU
MMFS
Equitas
RBL
DCBB
Ujjivan
YES
HDFCB
Bandhan
IIB
RBL
DCBB
IDFCB
KMB
Source: RHP, Company Data, PL Research
Source: RHP, Company Data, PL Research
Exhibit 19: Bandhan remains still has to do lot of catch up on SA Exhibit 20: ..but has been improving CASA efficiency from last few
efficiency… quarters
SA per Branch CASA per Branch
425.2 417.5 406.5 648.8 621.8 613.7
320.0 474.4
376.8 334.9
212.0
146.4
175.8
78.0 94.7
24.0 44.9 30.8 7.4
IDFC Bk
YES
YES
HDFCB
HDFCB
Bandhan
Bandhan
AU
IIB
IIB
Equitas
Equitas
RBL
RBL
DCBB
Ujjivan
IDFCB
KMB
KMB
Source: RHP, Company, PL Research Source: RHP, Company, PL Research
March 15, 2018 6
Bandhan Bank
Exhibit 21: Opex/assets is better than SFBs and close to large new Exhibit 22: C/I remain the lowest amongst banks as Bandhan enjoys
private banks high loans spreads and low opex model
10.0%
81.4%
Opex / Assets ‐ 9MFY18 C/I ‐ 9MFY18
71.7%
8.5%
61.2%
53.6%
53.1%
53.1%
51.3%
6.5%
47.8%
45.9%
41.2%
40.2%
35.4%
4.2%
2.8%
2.1%
2.1%
1.9%
1.9%
1.8%
1.4%
1.0%
IDFC Bk
IDFC Bk
YES
YES
HDFCB
HDFCB
BhaFin
BhaFin
Bandhan
Bandhan
AU
AU
Equitas
Equitas
RBL
RBL
IIB
IIB
DCBB
DCBB
Ujjivan
Ujjivan
KMB
KMB
Source: RHP, Company, PL Research Source: RHP, Company, PL Research
4.0%
RoA
5.6%
GNPA NNPA
2.4%
5.0%
4.6%
1.8%
1.8%
1.7%
4.2%
1.3%
1.2%
1.2%
2.8%
2.5%
1.9%
1.9%
1.7%
1.7%
1.6%
1.6%
1.0%
1.0%
0.9%
0.8%
0.7%
Equitas ‐0.1%
0.2%
‐0.9%
IDFC Bk
YES
BhaFin
SHTF
Bandhan
AU
MMFS
RBL
DCBB
Ujjivan
IDFC Bk
YES
BhaFin
Bandhan
AU
Equitas
RBL
DCBB
Ujjivan
Source: RHP, Company Data, PL Research
Source: RHP, Company Data, PL Research
March 15, 2018 7
Bandhan Bank
Key Risk Factors
Bank has a high concentration in micro finance business (though it is
diversifying) and past trends have indicated MFI business faces high risk from
external factors which could impact asset quality and earnings. Incremental
ticket size in MFI has been also moved up for the bank and hence improper risk
management can make borrower over leveraged and disturbing credit culture.
Banks has higher concentration in East & North east area in terms of business
and hence any adverse impact economically, socially and politically in these
areas in turn is likely to impact Bandhan’s business.
Post issue, Bank will carry high Tier‐I of ~40% and in‐ability to deploy capital due
to slowdown from macro‐economic factors or limited growth opportunities will
be a drag on return ratios.
Bank has comparatively lower operating costs and as bank focus and diversifies
towards retail, higher investment in technology and feet‐on‐street will be
needed which can translate to higher opex ratios and impact improvement of
return ratios.
March 15, 2018 8
Bandhan Bank
Valuation
At the upper band of Rs375, bank will trade at 4.9x FY18 BV of Rs76 and 3.4x FY20 BV
of Rs111 which is equivalent to large private peers and is fully priced in our view. But
given the return ratios, liability build‐up and the large opportunity of scale up, we
recommend to subscribe to the Bank with a longer term horizon.
Exhibit 25: Valuation Table
9MFY18 ‐ Post
9MFY18 FY18E FY20E
Issue
Networth (Rs mn) 54,042 90,666 94,466 132,170
PAT (Rs mn) 9,577 9,577 13,364 25,767
Source: RHP, PL Research Valuations calculated at Upper Band of Rs375
Exhibit 26: Valuations remains fairly valued but has superior return ratios than peers
4.0 Bandhan
3.5
3.0
RoA (%) ‐ FY19E
AU
2.5 IIB
Ujjivan KMB
2.0 Yes
1.5 ICICI Equitas HDFCB
RBL
1.0 IDFC BK
0.5 DCB Axis
‐
‐ 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0
P/BV ‐ FY19E (x)
Source: Company Data, Bloomberg Consensus, PL Research
Exhibit 27: Issue details
Value
Values in million No. of Shares
@ Lower Band @ Upper Band
Rs.370 Rs.375
Total Issue 11,92,80,494 44,134 44,730
Fresh Issue 9,76,63,910 36,136 36,624
Offer for sale by existing holders 2,16,16,584 7,998 8,106
IFC 1,40,50,780 5,199 5,269
IFC FIG 75,65,804 2,799 2,837
Source: RHP, PL Research
March 15, 2018 9
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Exhibit 28: Shareholding Pattern of Bandhan Financial Services Private Limited (BFSL)
Shareholding of the Company No of Shares % holding
Promoters 5,20,61,424 40.73
FIT 4,20,61,424 32.91
NEFIT 1,00,00,000 7.82
Public 7,38,24,212 57.74
Caladium 2,13,50,912 16.70
Bandhan Employees Welfare Trust (BEWT) 1,86,80,922 14.61
IFC 1,73,68,339 13.59
SIDBI 1,03,93,489 8.13
IFC FIG 36,46,937 2.85
Angshuman Ghosh 23,83,613 1.86
Total 12,58,85,636 98.47
Total O/s Shares 12,78,21,101 100.00
Source: RHP, PL Research
Exhibit 29: Shareholding pattern of Bandhan Financial Holdings Limited (BFHL) – The
Holding Company
Shareholding of the Company No of Shares %
Promoters 2,59,36,04,000 100.00
Bandhan Financial Services Pvt Ltd (BFSL) 2,59,36,04,000 100.00
Source: Company Data, PL Research
Exhibit 30: Shareholding pattern of Bandhan Bank
Shareholding of the Company Pre‐Offer Post‐Offer (at Upper Band)
No of Shares % No of Shares %
Promoters 98,14,83,046 89.62 98,14,83,046 82.28
Bandhan Financial Hldg Ltd (BFHL) 98,14,83,046 89.62 98,14,83,046 82.28
Public 11,36,57,988 10.38 9,20,41,404 7.72
IFC 3,51,26,951 3.21 2,10,76,171 1.77
IFC FIG 1,89,14,511 1.73 1,13,48,707 0.95
Caladium 5,46,48,030 4.99 5,46,48,030 4.58
SIDBI 34,94,060 0.32 34,94,060 0.29
Chandra Shekhar Ghosh 14,74,436 0.13 14,74,436 0.12
Total 1,09,51,41,034 100.0 1,07,35,24,450 90.0
Total O/s Shares 1,09,51,41,034 100.0 1,19,28,04,944 100.0
Source: Company Data, PL Research
March 15, 2018 10
Bandhan Bank
Company Background
Exhibit 1: About the company Bandhan Bank Limited was incorporated on December 2014 at Kolkata and
Employees (Full time) 27,176 commenced operations in August 2015 post getting license from RBI under the new
No. of customers 12 mn licensing rules. The Bank is promoted by Bandhan Financial Services Limited which
Branches 887 transferred its microfinance business to the bank post commencing operations and
DSCs 2,633 currently holds 89.6% (post issue 82.3%) in the Bank through a 100% holding
company. Bandhan’s strength lies in microfinance, including a network of 2,633
Source: RHP, PL Research
doorstep service centres (“DSCs”), 887 branches and 9.86 million microloan & 2.13
million general banking customers as of Dec’17.
Key Management Personnel
Mr. Chandra Shekhar Ghosh is the MD & CEO of the bank. In 2001, he started a
NGO catering to the under banked, under privileged micro finance loans in the
east part of India. Mr. Ghosh holds a master degree in science (statistics) from
Dhaka University.
Mr. Sunil Samdani is the CFO having 21 years of experience and is with the bank
since April 2015. He previously worked with Development Credit Bank, Karvy
Financial services and Bandhan Financial Services.
Mr. Rahul Johri is the Head‐ Retail Banking having +26 years of experience in
banking industry and is with the bank since March 2016. He previously worked
at DBS Bank Limited.
Other personnel
Arvind Kanagasbai – Head Treasury
Biswajit Das – Chief Risk Officer
Nand Kumar Singh – Head – Banking Operations & customer services
Exhibit 31: Board of Directors
Mr. Chandra Shekhar Ghosh Managing Director & CEO
Mr. Ashok Kumar Lahiri Independent Director & Part time Chairman
Mr. Bhaskar Sen Independent Director
Mr. Boggarapu Sambamurthy Independent Director
Mr. Chintaman Mahadeo Dixit Independent Director
Mr. Krishnamurthy Venkata Subramanian Independent Director
Mr. Sisir Kumar Chakrabarti Independent Director
Mr. Thekedathumadam S Raji Gain Independent Director
Ms. Snehomoy Bhattacharya Independent Director
Ms. Georgina Elizabeth Baker Nominee Director
Dr. Holger Dirk Michaelis Nominee Director
Mr. Ranodeb Roy Non‐Executive Director
Source: RHP, PL Research
March 15, 2018 11
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Income Statement (Rs m) Key Ratios
Y/e March 2016 2017 2018E 2019E Y/e March 2016 2017 2018E 2019E
Int. Earned from Adv. 12,828 31,214 38,393 50,426 CMP (Rs) 374 375 375 375
Int. Earned from Invt. 1,312 4,281 6,078 14,355 Equity Shrs. Os. (m) 1,095 1,095 1,193 1,193
Others 1,674 3,592 4,502 3,129 Market Cap (Rs m) 409,583 410,678 447,315 447,315
Total Interest Income 15,814 39,087 48,973 67,911 M/Cap to Advances (%) 329.3 243.9 189.7 146.0
Interest expense 6,485 15,052 18,371 25,581 EPS (Rs) 2.5 10.2 11.2 16.6
NII 9,328 24,035 30,602 42,329 Book Value (Rs) 30.4 40.6 79.2 92.8
Growth (%) 157.7 27.3 38.3 Adj. BV (Rs) 30.4 40.0 79.2 92.8
Treasury Income 20 217 550 600 P/E (x) 148.8 36.9 33.5 22.6
NTNII 1,479 3,897 6,238 8,564 P/BV (x) 12.3 9.2 4.7 4.0
Non Interest Income 1,499 4,114 6,788 9,164 P/ABV (x) 12.3 9.4 4.7 4.0
Total Income 10,827 28,149 37,390 51,494 DPS (Rs) ‐ ‐ ‐ 2.5
Growth (%) 160.0 32.8 37.7 Dividend Yield (%) ‐ ‐ ‐ 0.7
Operating Expense 6,159 10,220 12,943 17,553
Operating Profit 4,668 17,929 24,447 33,941 Profitability & Spreads (%)
Growth (%) 284.1 36.4 38.8 Y/e March 2016 2017 2018E 2019E
NPA Provisions 21 477 2,425 2,711 NIM 9.8 11.4 9.3 8.5
Investment Provisions ‐ 19 420 ‐ RoAA 2.7 4.4 3.5 3.8
Total Provisions 533 884 3,887 3,434 RoAE 14.4 28.6 19.2 19.3
PBT 4,135 17,045 20,560 30,506
Tax Provisions 1,383 5,925 7,196 10,677 Efficiency
Effective Tax Rate (%) 33.4 34.8 35.0 35.0 Y/e March 2016 2017 2018E 2019E
PAT 2,752 11,120 13,364 19,829 Cost‐Income Ratio (%) 56.9 36.3 34.6 34.1
Growth (%) 304.0 20.2 48.4 C‐D Ratio (%) 102.9 72.5 72.5 69.8
Business per Emp. (Rs m) 11.9 16.5 22.1 27.9
Balance Sheet (Rs m) Profit per Emp. (Rs m) 0.1 0.5 0.5 0.7
Y/e March 2016 2017 2018E 2019E Business per Branch (Rs m) 373.9 477.0 623.3 768.5
Par Value 10 10 10 10 Profit per Branch (Rs m) 4.2 13.2 14.8 20.4
No. of equity shares 1,095 1,095 1,193 1,193
Equity 10,951 10,951 11,928 11,928 Asset Quality
Networth 33,345 44,465 94,466 110,708 Y/e March 2016 2017 2018E 2019E
Adj. Networth 33,243 43,853 94,466 110,708 Gross NPAs (Rs m) 188 863 3,074 4,790
Deposits 120,887 232,287 325,201 439,022 Net NPAs (Rs m) 102 612 829 1,789
Growth (%) 92.2% 40.0% 35.0% Gr. NPAs to Gross Adv. (%) 0.15 0.51 1.30 1.56
Low Cost deposits 26,056 68,373 94,959 128,194 Net NPAs to Net Adv. (%) 0.08 0.36 0.35 0.58
% of total deposits 21.6% 29.4% 29.2% 29.2% NPA Coverage (%) 45.5 29.1 73.0 62.7
Total Liabilities 197,565 302,361 451,870 594,938
Net Advances 124,375 168,391 235,747 306,471
Network
Y/e March 2016 2017 2018E 2019E
Growth (%) 35.4% 40.0% 30.0%
Employees 20,548 24,220 25,431 26,703
Investments 37,580 55,165 165,858 238,530
Branch 656 840 900 970
Total Assets 197,565 302,361 451,870 594,938
Source: RHP, PL Research.
Source: RHP, PL Research.
Note – Valuation metrics based on the upper band of the issue price
March 15, 2018 12
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