LIC Housing Finance (LICHF) has agreed to sell 19.3% stake (out of 39.3%) in LIC Mutual Fund to Nomura group for Rs1.4bn. The deal values LIC MF at Rs7.2bn. Nomura will also pick up 11.2% stake from GIC Housing Finance and 4.5% from LIC taking its total stake to 35%.
LIC MF had assets worth Rs286bn (USD6.0bn) under management as of May 2009. The deal thus values company at 2.5% of AUMs. The valuations are thus lower than 5-7% of AUMs that we have seen in earlier deals like Standard Chartered – IDFC and CanBank MF and Robeco group.
For LICHF, the upside works out to Rs1.4bn (balance 20% stake) or just Rs16.5/share, which is less than 3% of the current market prices. The stock is currently trading at 1.8x FY10E ABV and 1.4x FY11E ABV. We maintain our ACCUMULATE rating on the stock with price target of Rs450.
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