Sammaan Capital is a housing finance NBFC that earns net interest margin and fee income by originating secured mortgage loans and increasingly newer retail products, then selling down roughly a third of originations through co-lending and direct assignment while retaining the rest. As of Q1 FY27, its AUM stood at INR 56,239 crores, with disbursements of about INR 3,900 crores across five products to 12,000 new customers. The business is moving from a legacy wholesale construction book into prime and affordable mortgages, loans against property, loans against securities, and planned personal loans, gold loans and micro-LAP, with 97% of current disbursements secured. The competitive structure is a scale game at the top: the company competes with 14 AAA-rated NBFCs and 5-6 relevant AA+ peers, yet it is already the third largest issuer among AA+ rated peers and targets a domestic AAA rating in H2 FY27. Net NPA is 0.15%, capital adequacy is 20.1%, and the guided trajectory is NIM expanding from 3.5% toward 8% over five years, with ROE moving from 6.8% to 18.7%.
The economics persist because of a cost-of-funds advantage and a demonstrated asset-light distribution engine. The incoming promoter IHC has already led to rating upgrades to AA+ across three domestic agencies within 50 days; management guided cost of funds down 270 bps on a stock basis by March 2027, with 60-70 bps more after reaching consensus AA+ and AAA later. The company has sold or assigned INR 1.05 lakh crores of loans across 24 bank and non-bank relationships, with 90-day past due on those sold pools at 0.54%, a sell-down capability that most NBFCs cannot replicate quickly. Its legacy credit cycle experience is an underappreciated barrier: it ran down INR 3.6 lakh crores of historical disbursements to an opening AUM of INR 53,160 crores with zero NPA on that opening book, and its security receipt recoveries have been 61% versus an industry average of 40%. These are not commodity advantages; they come from having already absorbed the terminal credit costs of a full cycle and from funding access that keeps incremental borrowing costs near 9%.
The inflection is already underway. IHC's INR 8,850 crore preferential allotment has partially funded; warrants for about INR 3,200 crores remain to convert within 18 months, and the merger of Sammaan Finserve will consolidate lending operations. By the middle of FY28, roughly 18-24 months from now, the company expects to have around 800 branches versus about 240 at end-H1 FY27, FY28 disbursements of INR 40,000-50,000 crores versus the FY27 target of INR 30,000 crores, and a workforce scaled enough to support tenfold borrower growth. FY27 itself is guided at INR 30,000 crores disbursements and INR 1,400 crores PAT, with H1 at INR 10,000 crores and H2 at INR 20,000 crores; the digital personal loans app, micro-LAP and rural home loan strategy are scheduled to go live in H2 FY27, while gold loans and two-wheeler or BNPL products arrive in FY28. Over that window the product mix shifts from 97% secured today to about 80% secured next fiscal year, meaning the earnings base broadens beyond mortgages. Fee income will grow from credit fund platform management fees, with the first deal at INR 840 crores and 80% managed for third parties, and from direct assignment programs starting around October of the current fiscal year.
Management walk-talk has been consistent. On earlier calls it committed to a legacy rundown of INR 8,000 crores and delivered INR 12,834 crores of net collections; it held annualized credit cost guidance at around 100 bps and finished FY25 at 95 bps; it kept leverage inside the guided 2-2.5x band, ending Q3 FY26 at 2.2x. It has since raised guidance to FY27 disbursements of INR 30,000 crores and PAT of INR 1,400 crores, then to FY28 disbursements of INR 40,000-50,000 crores, and it has consistently restated the cost-of-funds reduction target of 270 bps by March 2027. Capital allocation is deliberate: 30% of disbursements will be sold down through co-lending or direct assignment; gearing is planned to rise from 2.2x to 3.5-4x by around 2030 while capital adequacy stays above 20%; and a dividend payout policy of at least 25% of profits, targeting 40% in the long term, has been announced. The balance sheet is being repositioned to fund growth without further dilution beyond the already committed warrant conversion.
Earnings visibility over the 18-24 month horizon is high enough to frame the kill shot. The cost-of-funds decline alone is quantified: a 90 bps saving already achieved translates to roughly INR 450 crores annualized on INR 50,000 crores of borrowings, and another 70 bps would bring cumulative annualized savings to about INR 1,000 crores by end-FY27. That, plus disbursement growth and fee income, is the bridge to the INR 1,400 crores FY27 PAT and a materially higher FY28 earnings base. For that to hold, cost of funds must keep falling to 9.3% by end-FY27 and below 8% within three years, credit costs must stay near 100 bps even as unsecured lending rises to 20% of disbursements next fiscal year, and the branch and hiring plan must execute despite a 90-120 day lead time from offer to joining. The single most important falsifier is asset quality slippage in the new unsecured and micro-LAP products; if annualized credit cost moves structurally above the guided 100 bps, the margin expansion thesis is broken. Conversely, if the rating upgrade to AAA lands and the app-led cost-to-income ratio falls from about 50% toward the 30-35% target by FY29, the business should be operating with a much larger origination engine, a lower funding cost and a demonstrably more diversified earnings stream.
companyname: Sammaan Capital Limited (formerly known as Indiabulls Housing Finance Limited) ticker: SAMMAANCAP sector: Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) / Housing Finance Sammaan Capital is an RBI-regulated non-bank mortgage lender, classified as an Upper Layer NBFC under the Scale-Based Regulation framework (Annual Report FY25). It was incorporated in 2005 as Indiabulls Housing Finance and rebranded to Sammaan Capital in FY25, after completing de-promoterization and receiving a fresh certif...
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FY27 revenue growth guided at INR30,000 crores disbursement and INR1,400 crores PAT driven by cost of funds reduction and asset-light strategy
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