'Buy' Aadhar Housing Finance Shares Maintains ICICI Securities On Strong Growth Outlook

ICICI Securities is positive on Aadhar Housing Finance, sees upto 24% potential upside.

Aadhar Housing Finance has been the only affordable housing finance to deliver 18% RoE in the past (FY24) and hence its near-term focus is to reach the historical level of RoE (of 18%) with RoA of 4.2-4.4%.  (Photo: Envato)

Low-income housing represents a huge lending opportunity; Aadhar with largest distribution and differentiated approach to sustain growth momentum.

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We hosted Aadhar Housing Finance Ltd. in Singapore for an investor roadshow. Takeaways:

  1. Housing finance market in India is broadly categorised into three segments - prime (>Rs 3.5 million), mid-income (Rs 1.5 million-3.5 million) and low-income affordable (<Rs 1.5 million), and Aadhar is the largest housing finance company in low-income housing in terms of disbursements (~Rs 20 billion in Q1 FY26), profitability (Q1 FY26 PAT of Rs 2.4 billion) and distribution (591 branches as on Jun’25),

  2. dedicated urban and emerging vertical to ensure growth and spread going ahead and III) relatively lower exposure to South (~30% of total branches) and loan against property (~27% as on Jun’25) to ensure better asset quality outcome in near term.

Retain Buy.

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