PNB Housing Finance Q4 Result Review: On Track To Achieve FY27 Business Goals; ICICI Securities Maintains Buy

ICICI Securities maintains Buy on PNB Housing Finance with an unchanged target price of Rs 1,200, valuing the stock at 1.6 times price-to-book value Sep’26E (earlier: 1.75x PBV Sep’25E).

PNB Housing Finance's net interest income grew 6% QoQ driven by 5% QoQ AUM growth and 5bps QoQ net interest margin expansion to 3.75% during Q4 FY25.

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Improving trajectory in earnings continued with PNB Housing Finance’s Q4 FY25 PAT growing 14% QoQ to Rs 5.5 billion and RoA at a multi-quarter high of 2.75%. Strong traction in high-yielding (emerging + affordable) segments contributed 25% of retail assets and 40% of retail disbursements in Q4FY25, provision write-backs (recovery of Rs 3.3 billion from w/off pool during FY25) and effective liability management led to consistent improvement in RoA.

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ICICI Securities Report

PNB Housing Finance Ltd.’s Q4 FY25 and FY25 financial performance reflects management’s successful execution of revamped business strategy with retail loan growth at 18% YoY in FY25 exceeding guidance of 17%, gross non-performing loan touching 1% as on Mar’25, benign credit cost (as indicated it continued to benefit from strong recovery of Rs 3.3 billion in FY25) and affordable housing crossing Rs 50 billion AUM in Mar’25.

FY25 performance also indicates it is steadily moving towards meeting its FY27 business goals –

  1. scaling retail loans to Rs 1 trillion with 15% affordable housing + 25% emerging segment + 50% prime housing,

  2. NIM at ~4% (3.75% as on Mar’25) and

  3. RoE in mid-teens (12.2% in FY25).

More importantly, while scaling retail loan book, it focused on quality and the same reflected in loans originated in past 12 months and 24 months having - 30+ / 90+ dpd at 0.13% / 0.03% for 12 months and 0.48% / 0.14% for 24 months.

Maintain Buy with an unchanged target price of Rs 1,200, valuing the stock at 1.6 times price-to-book value Sep’26E (earlier: 1.75x PBV Sep’25E).

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