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Would you play any late-stage real estate ancillary now? For several years they have not worked but look at how Kajaria has come above the Rs 1500 mark. Something else of a similar nature beyond the straightaway direct beneficiary real estate companies?
Anshul Saigal: In the real estate ancillary space, some companies are quite attractive. If you look at the cables and wire space in particular, that is the space where you are seeing significant tailwinds. One is of course because of real estate sector doing very well and second, it is also because the infrastructure space is doing very well.
As regards the cables segment of the cables and wires space, it is because of infrastructure. Wires are because real estate doing well. Now within this, some segments are even more attractive, which are more related to the safety aspect segments as in the sheathing of cables and wires. Now that space is exploding as a result of the underlying demand in cables and wires. And if you can find opportunities in that space, it offers a significant upside even from here.
Of course, near-term volatility cannot be ruled out because markets are where they are. But in the long term, say three to five years, there is significant opportunity in that space. In tiles, in plywood, in MDF, you have some high-quality companies and yet you have a large part of the market which is unorganised. We anticipate that that unorganised market is going to continue to shrink and it will be the organised quality players who will keep gaining market share.
In some of these companies, what is also quite interesting is that the redeployment of capital that they generate is at such high return parameters that you do not find those dynamics in many companies outside of this space. So, we anticipate that space to do exceptionally well going forward. And then, of course, the financiers. We think that the financiers are trading, some of them are trading at highly attractive valuations at this time, and with the outlook for real estate in general, some of these financiers will generate substantial returns going forward.
One, of course, because they are compounding capital at very high rates. Second, because valuations are so reasonable at this time for many of these names you will see multiples expanding from here. Bear in mind that these financiers are holding significant capital at this time. Some of them, have capital adequacy ratios of as high as 42-43% which leaves substantial room for them to grow without raising capital from the markets.
Taking all of this together, we think that if the engine is doing well, which is real estate, then the bogeys will continue to perform quite well going forward. And this is not a one-year, one-quarter story. This is a three-five-ten-year story and you got to be patient. The sector has cleaned up so much. Just sit, take the ride, and do not be too impatient to get off.
The quandary is not whether you have got to stay in banks, which is very well established, but whether or not to pick up the private banking names, the large-cap ones or whether to play the valuation catch-up stories like Bandhan Bank.
Anshul Saigal: You are right that is a conundrum and there is no all-encompassing answer. I can give you the answer that suits my risk profile, and the risk profile of some of the people that I interact with, but that is an answer that each investor will have to look within and figure out. What I mean by that is that in recent times some of the PSU banks have done very well. But despite the price action, these are stocks that are trading at under 10 times price to earnings, maybe at a one-time price to book and so given the situation in the economy where corporate lending is going to pick up and with gusto over the coming few years this space, the PSU banking space, is likely to see tailwinds in advances.
Hence the valuations that they trade at his time despite the price action, those valuations look attractive. However, seeing their performance in the last 10 years, this space is likely to be volatile. So, if you can bear the volatility, then at these valuations over the long term there is very little to lose and much to make.
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