PNB Housing Finance Ltd

With focus on the affordable segment, PNB Housing Finance aims to expand its loan book size to Rs 5,000 crore by the end of the current financial year. The mortgage lender closed the loan book under the affordable segment called 'Roshini' at Rs 3,000 crore at the end of the second quarter of FY'25. "We hope to expand our loan look under the affordable housing segment to Rs 5,000 crore by this year-end to touch Rs 15,000 crore by March 2027," PNB Housing Finance MD and CEO Girish Kousgi told reporters here. The loan growth will be helped by implementation of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban 2.0 (PMAY 2) and branch expansion. He also said the housing finance company plans to set up a new vertical for 'Loan Against Property' beginning next financial year. To fund loan growth of 17 per cent, he said, the housing finance company plans to raise USD 100-125 million through External Commercial Borrowings (ECBs) this fiscal. The board has already given approval for raising USD 125 million

Till 09:17 am on Wednesday; as many as 26.14 million equity shares representing 10 per cent of total equity of PNB Housing Finance changed hands on the NSE, the exchange data shows.

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HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co on Tuesday bought shares of PNB Housing Finance worth Rs 90 crore through an open market transaction. According to the block deal data available on the BSE, HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Ltd purchased a little over 10 lakh shares or 0.4 per cent stake in PNB Housing Finance. The shares were picked up at an average price of Rs 900 apiece, taking the transaction value to Rs 90 crore. Meanwhile, a foreign investor Asia Opportunities V (Mauritius) Ltd trimmed its stake by offloading shares of PNB Housing at the same price. After the transaction, Asia Opportunities V holding in PNB Housing has come down to 0.94 per cent from 1.34 per cent. Shares of PNB Housing Finance rose 2.33 per cent to close at Rs 922.80 apiece. In August this year, Asia Opportunities V (Mauritius) offloaded a 3 per cent stake in PNB Housing Finance for over Rs 676 crore. Before that, in May, Asia Opportunities V (Mauritius) and General Atlantic divested a cumulative 4.46 p

Technical chart suggests that PNB Housing Finance and Repco Home Finance can potentially rally up to 14 per cent from present levels.

In FY25, Kousgi expects the share of borrowing via ECB, NHB, NCDs, and CPs to slightly increase, while bank borrowings will come down

The uptick in share price came after the company announced that its board of directors will meet on September 9, to consider and approve issuance of NCDs up to Rs 2,500 crore.

While the buyers and sellers could not be confirmed, General Atlantic Singapore Fund FII Pte Ltd was the likely seller in the housing finance company

Stocks to watch on August 21: General Atlantic Singapore Fund FII Pte plans to divest a 5.1 per cent equity stake in PNB Housing Finance through a block deal, with a floor price of Rs 775 per share

PNB Housing Finance block deal: Private equity firm Carlyle Group's Quality Investment Holdings PCC likely sold its partial stake in the housing finance company

The real estate cycle is about 7-8 years. The demand for housing is always increasing, and so is housing shortage. With the government's focus on housing, the housing finance sector will only grow

PNB Housing Finance aims to grow its portfolio by 17 per cent during the current fiscal on the back of the increase in branch network and focus on affordable housing loan. The housing finance company has enough capital to sustain this kind of high growth, PNB Housing Finance managing director Girish Kousgi told PTI. For the next 2-3 years, he said, "we dont need capital as we just raised capital through the rights issue last year". Last year, the mortgage firm raised about Rs 2,500 crore from rights issue. Talking about the strategy to achieve this kind of loan growth, he said, PNB Housing closed the year with the loan book of Rs 63,000 crore and aims to grow it by 17 per cent with focus on affordable segment. Its affordable housing loan book, which it started 15 months back, stood at Rs 1,790 crore. However, PNB Housing Finance's corporate loan book shrank 46 per cent in FY24 to Rs 2,052 crore as it was on a balance sheet cleansing exercise. He said the company would also incre

The net fees and other income increased to Rs 110 crore in Q4 FY24 from Rs 33 crore in the corresponding quarter of the year-ago period

ICRA said the rating action factors in the sustained improvement in the company's credit profile, driven by improved asset quality metrics and the strengthened capitalisation profile

Girish Kousgi, MD and CEO at PNB Housing Finance said that at the current pace, the company may add another Rs 1,000 crore to its loan book in the next six months

PNB Housing Finance on Friday said its board has approved a proposal to raise Rs 3,500 crore via non-convertible debentures (NCDs) to fund business growth. The NCD will be raised on a private placement basis, PNB Housing Finance said in a regulatory filing. The fund will be raised in tranches over the next six months, it said.

Some of the large offerings this year have been PNB Housing Finance's Rs 2,500-crore rights issue in April followed by Capri Global Capital (Rs 1,440 crore), and Piramal Pharma (Rs 1,050 crore)

The net interest income (NII) inched 1.85 per cent up to Rs 661 crore from 649 crore. The Net Interest Margin (NIM) slipped down to 3.95 per cent from 4.14 per cent in Q2FY23

The company's retail loan asset grew by 12 per cent y-o-y to Rs 58,471 crore, which is 96 per cent of the loan asset

In terms of the framework, once an NBFC is classified as NBFC-UL, it shall be subject to enhanced regulatory requirement, at least for a period of five years