India Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic, Beat the Street

Sudarshan Bhandari

India Equity Analyst - Fundamental & Thematic

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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>RBI finalized new provisioning norms for project finance (effective October 1, 2025), significantly softening earlier proposals. Provisioning for under-construction projects has been cut to 1–1.25% (from the proposed 5%).</li>
<li>The change reduces capital strain for lenders, preserves profitability metrics, and encourages fresh credit flow to infrastructure and commercial real estate (CRE) sectors.</li>
<li>Lenders must maintain or improve RoA/RoE while passing on marginal provisioning costs to borrowers. The credit environment for real estate and infrastructure segments could strengthen materially in FY26 and beyond</li>
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RBI finalized new provisioning norms for project finance (effective October 1, 2025), significantly softening earlier proposals. Provisioning for under-construction projects has been cut to 1–1.25% (from the proposed 5%).
The change reduces capital strain for lenders, preserves profitability metrics, and encourages fresh credit flow to infrastructure and commercial real estate (CRE) sectors.
Lenders must maintain or improve RoA/RoE while passing on marginal provisioning costs to borrowers. The credit environment for real estate and infrastructure segments could strengthen materially in FY26 and beyond


RBI’s Relief Push: How Easier Infra & Realty Credit Norms Could Impact Banks & NBFCs

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Akshat Shah

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sagility-india" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43717:1" rel="noopener">Sagility India (2058883D IN)</a> (Sagility) raised around US$250m in its India IPO in Nov 2024. The lockup on its pre-IPO investors is set to expire soon.</li>
<li>Sagility is a pure-play healthcare focused solutions and services provider to Payers (U.S. health insurance companies), and Providers (primarily hospitals, physicians, and diagnostic and medical devices companies).</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the lockup dynamics, possible placement and updates since our last note.</li>
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Sagility India (2058883D IN) (Sagility) raised around US$250m in its India IPO in Nov 2024. The lockup on its pre-IPO investors is set to expire soon.
Sagility is a pure-play healthcare focused solutions and services provider to Payers (U.S. health insurance companies), and Providers (primarily hospitals, physicians, and diagnostic and medical devices companies).
In this note, we will talk about the lockup dynamics, possible placement and updates since our last note.


Sagility India IPO Lockup - US$1.5bn Lockup Release; PE Promoter Will Have to Trim for Free-Float

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

Motilal Oswal

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Piramal Enterprises (PIEL) reported a 2QFY25 net profit of ~INR1.6b (PQ: ~INR1.8b).</li><li>This included an exceptional gain of ~INR770m from recoveries in the AIF portfolio.</li><li>NII rose ~17% YoY and 9% QoQ to ~INR8.8b.</li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Piramal Enterprises (PIEL) reported a 2QFY25 net profit of ~INR1.6b (PQ: ~INR1.8b).This included an exceptional gain of ~INR770m from recoveries in the AIF portfolio.NII rose ~17% YoY and 9% QoQ to ~INR8.8b.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Piramal Enterprises - Strong Retail Loan Growth; Credit Costs Higher QoQ

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Event-Driven

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<li>The <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nifty-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:23617:1" rel="noopener">NIFTY Index</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nse-nifty-next-50-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36053:1" rel="noopener">Nifty Next 50 Index</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nse-nifty-bank-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26811:1" rel="noopener">NSE Nifty Bank Index</a>, CNXIT Index, Nifty Midcap 150 Index, Nifty100 Low Volatility30 Index and the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/cpse-etf" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28191:1" rel="noopener">CPSE ETF</a> rebalance at the close tomorrow.</li>
<li>The round-trip trade across the indices is US$3.3bn and there are 13 stocks with over 1 day of ADV to trade from passive trackers.</li>
<li>Stocks with the largest inflows are <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/trent-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:8410:1" rel="noopener">Trent</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bharat-electronics-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:6636:1" rel="noopener">Bharat Electronics</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/canara-bank" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:543:1" rel="noopener">Canara Bank</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bharat-heavy-electricals" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:460:1" rel="noopener">Bharat Heavy Electricals</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/oil-natural-gas-corp-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:3456:1" rel="noopener">Oil &amp; Natural Gas Corp</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/coal-india-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:9117:1" rel="noopener">Coal India</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hindustan-aeronautics-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26747:1" rel="noopener">Hindustan Aeronautics</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/interglobe-aviation-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:24877:1" rel="noopener">InterGlobe Aviation</a>.</li>
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The NIFTY Index, Nifty Next 50 Index, NSE Nifty Bank Index, CNXIT Index, Nifty Midcap 150 Index, Nifty100 Low Volatility30 Index and the CPSE ETF rebalance at the close tomorrow.
The round-trip trade across the indices is US$3.3bn and there are 13 stocks with over 1 day of ADV to trade from passive trackers.
Stocks with the largest inflows are Trent, Bharat Electronics, Canara Bank, Bharat Heavy Electricals, Oil &amp; Natural Gas Corp, Coal India, Hindustan Aeronautics and InterGlobe Aviation.


NIFTY Indices: Flows (Post Capping) At the Close Tomorrow; Round-Trip US$3.3bn

<ul><li>PIEL is committed to reducing its legacy AUM from ~INR130b as of Jun’24 to ~INR60-70b by Mar’25 and expects (not guidance) that a ~25% haircut could be required to run down the residual stressed legacy book.</li><li>As in the past, the rundown will not impair the company’s net worth thanks to pockets of value in Shriram Life/General investments, AIF recoveries and tax-related gains.</li><li>Unsecured digital loans are still a difficult but unavoidable channel (necessary evil) for lenders primarily focused on customer acquisition.</li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

PIEL is committed to reducing its legacy AUM from ~INR130b as of Jun’24 to ~INR60-70b by Mar’25 and expects (not guidance) that a ~25% haircut could be required to run down the residual stressed legacy book.As in the past, the rundown will not impair the company’s net worth thanks to pockets of value in Shriram Life/General investments, AIF recoveries and tax-related gains.Unsecured digital loans are still a difficult but unavoidable channel (necessary evil) for lenders primarily focused on customer acquisition.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Piramal Enterprises - Making Efforts to Strengthen Retail and Rundown Legacy Wholesale

India

Piramal Enterprises Limited provides diversified commercial services. The Company offers pharmaceutical production and distribution, real estate, healthcare insights and analysis, and financial services. Piramal Enterprises serves customers globally.

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Piramal Enterprises (PIEL IN)

RBI’s Relief Push: How Easier Infra & Realty Credit Norms Could Impact Banks & NBFCs

RBI eases project finance provisioning norms, boosting credit flow to infrastructure and real estate sectors while reducing capital strain for...

Sudarshan Bhandari

Sagility India IPO Lockup - US$1.5bn Lockup Release; PE Promoter Will Have to Trim for Free-Float

Sagility B.V. plans to offload up to 15.02% stake in Sagility India via block deals worth INR26.7bn (US$314.7m). The secondary share sale is priced...

Akshat Shah

Piramal Enterprises - Strong Retail Loan Growth; Credit Costs Higher QoQ

Piramal Enterprises (PIEL) reported a 2QFY25 net profit of ~INR1.6b (PQ: ~INR1.8b).This included an exceptional gain of ~INR770m from recoveries in...

Motilal Oswal

NIFTY Indices: Flows (Post Capping) At the Close Tomorrow; Round-Trip US$3.3bn

The next rebalance of the Nifty family of indices takes place at the close on 27 Sep. The round-trip trade is US$3.3bn and there are 13 stocks with...

Brian Freitas

Piramal Enterprises - Making Efforts to Strengthen Retail and Rundown Legacy Wholesale

We value the lending business at 0.6x FY26E P/BV (unchanged). Retain Neutral with a revised TP of INR1,000 (premised on Mar’26 SOTP).

Motilal Oswal

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RBI’s Relief Push: How Easier Infra & Realty Credit Norms Could Impact Banks & NBFCs

​RBI eases project finance provisioning norms, boosting credit flow to infrastructure and real estate sectors while reducing capital strain for...

Sudarshan Bhandari

Sagility India IPO Lockup - US$1.5bn Lockup Release; PE Promoter Will Have to Trim for Free-Float

Sagility B.V. plans to offload up to 15.02% stake in Sagility India via block deals worth INR26.7bn (US$314.7m). The secondary share sale is priced...

Akshat Shah

Piramal Enterprises - Strong Retail Loan Growth; Credit Costs Higher QoQ

Piramal Enterprises (PIEL) reported a 2QFY25 net profit of ~INR1.6b (PQ: ~INR1.8b).This included an exceptional gain of ~INR770m from recoveries in...

Motilal Oswal

NIFTY Indices: Flows (Post Capping) At the Close Tomorrow; Round-Trip US$3.3bn

The next rebalance of the Nifty family of indices takes place at the close on 27 Sep. The round-trip trade is US$3.3bn and there are 13 stocks with...

Brian Freitas

Piramal Enterprises - Making Efforts to Strengthen Retail and Rundown Legacy Wholesale

We value the lending business at 0.6x FY26E P/BV (unchanged). Retain Neutral with a revised TP of INR1,000 (premised on Mar’26 SOTP).

Motilal Oswal

RBI eases project finance provisioning norms, boosting credit flow to infrastructure and real estate sectors while reducing capital strain for...