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Poonawalla FincorpPOONAWALLA.NSCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

India · INR·Financials›Finance/Rental/Leasing

Diversified Indian NBFC (Poonawalla/Serum Institute group) offering consumer, MSME and supply-chain finance loans.

Momentum strong 64
Mkt cap
$4.42B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
39%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$23.0M
20-day average traded
P/B
3.02×
price to book
ROE
9.2%
delivered
Implied ROE
47.4%
what the price asks
Next earnings
84 days
29 Jan 2027
Close · INR₹473.90
1D-0.2%
1W+2.6%
1M+5.6%
3M-3.5%
6M+4.0%
YTD-1.9%
1Y-1.9%
ATR %4.3%
Beta1.39
52w lowhigh7.4% off high

What Poonawalla Fincorp does

Diversified Indian NBFC (Poonawalla/Serum Institute group) offering consumer, MSME and supply-chain finance loans.

Earns the gap between what it pays on borrowed money and what it charges borrowers, plus fees on loans it originates. Adar Poonawalla's group bought control of the former Magma Fincorp in 2021, renamed it, and shifted the loan book from its earlier focus on vehicle and farm-equipment loans toward consumer and business lending.

Products and services

  • Consumer loans
  • MSME/business loans
  • Loan against property

Customers

  • Consumers
  • Small & medium enterprises

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Financial services
  • Non-bank consumer/MSME lending
  • Retail unsecured & secured loans

What could go right

  • Consumer credit growth in India
  • Group backing/capital infusion

What could go wrong

  • Unsecured lending asset-quality risk
  • Rising bank/fintech competition

Moat: none (distribution). Growing digitally-led lender in a crowded NBFC space without a structural scale edge yet.

Headquarters: Pune, India · Founded: 1991 · Employees: 5,860

Named competitors

Poonawalla Fincorp at a glance

Size Poonawalla Fincorp (POONAWALLA.NS) is an India Financials company (Finance/Rental/Leasing) with a market value of $4.42B, the 225th largest of 1,058 India companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ₹473.90 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 4.0%, against -11.5% for the median peer and 0.0% for the India market (cap-weighted) — 6th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 77.1% over the last twelve months (peer median +7.0%); the operating margin is 31.4% (peer median 30.4%).

Valuation It trades at 3.02× book value against a peer median of 1.67× (5th most expensive of 20).

Price implies The share price implies a return on equity of about 47.4%; Poonawalla Fincorp delivers 9.2%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.

Next results Next results expected around 29 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

809010011011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026POONAWALLA.NS 103Peer median 89
Six months, rebased to 100: Poonawalla Fincorp against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Poonawalla Fincorp financials

Reported figures in INR; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue₹87.8B₹66.9B₹41.1B₹30.9B₹20.0B
Revenue growth—+63%+33%+55%—
Gross profit₹51.2B₹62.0B₹38.2B₹29.3B₹18.6B
EBITDA₹28.7B₹37.0B₹16.1B₹17.8B₹11.0B
Net income₹10.9B₹5.42B-₹983M₹16.8B₹6.84B
Free cash flown/a₹26.2B₹15.8B₹13.4B₹4.42B
Capital expendituren/a₹1.07B₹433M₹179M₹810M
Total debt₹593B₹484B₹261B₹152B₹112B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Poonawalla Fincorp competitor charts

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Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-20%0%-10%0%+10%+20%0004158572OTFENVACARNNIHDBFSM&MFIN3769SUNDARMFINBFHHRIFIGRSIX2CACC8253EFN3360WSCPFSIPOONAWALLA.NS6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Poonawalla Fincorp is the large dot.

Fundamentals: return on equity against price-to-book

0%10%20%20×40×0004158572OTFENVANNIHDBFSM&MFIN3769SUNDARMFINBFHHRIFIGRSIX2CACC8253EFN3360WSCPFSIPOONAWALLA.NSReturn on equity →Price / book →
A bank or insurer earning more on its equity usually trades at a higher multiple of book; points far above the trend are priced for more. Poonawalla Fincorp is the large dot.

Capital: ROE delivered against the ROE the price implies

0%20%40%0%20%40%0004158572OTFENVANNIHDBFSM&MFIN3769SUNDARMFINBFHHRIFIGRSIX2CACCWSCPOONAWALLA.NSROE delivered →ROE the price implies →
Above the diagonal = the price asks for a higher return on equity than the business earns today. Poonawalla Fincorp is the large dot.

Poonawalla Fincorp competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (POONAWALLA.NS vs BAJFINANCE.NS vs CHOLAFIN.NS vs LTF.NS)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROE
Poonawalla Fincorp POONAWALLA.NS$4.42B+4%+77%9%3.02×47.4%
Bajaj Finance BAJFINANCE.NS$71.6B+12%+19%19%5.50×77.1%
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance CHOLAFIN.NS$16.2B+6%+21%21%4.43×67.7%
L&T Finance LTF.NS$7.36B-9%+17%12%2.38×45.8%

How Poonawalla Fincorp compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Poonawalla Fincorp against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasurePOONAWALLA.NSPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+5.6%-2.2%7th highest of 21
6-month return+4.0%-11.5%6th highest of 21
Return on equity9.2%13.8%8th lowest of 20
Price / book3.02×1.67×5th most expensive of 20
Trailing P/E37.0×13.3×2nd most expensive of 19
ROE the price implies47.4%15.8%most demanding of 20
ROE delivered9.2%13.8%8th lowest of 20

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROEDelivered ROE
Poonawalla Fincorp POONAWALLA.NSIndia$4.42B+4%+77%9%3.02×47.4%9.2%
Bohai Leasing 000415.SZChina$4.44B+2%-7%18%0.90×6.3%17.8%
ACOM 8572.TJapan$4.38B-12%+7%9%0.96×5.6%9.3%
Blue Owl Technology Finance OTFUnited States$4.36B-13%+95%5%0.58×4.9%4.8%
Enova International ENVAUnited States$4.22B-1%+20%27%2.72×26.6%26.8%
Avis Budget CARUnited States$4.20B-18%-1%n/an/an/an/a
Nelnet NNIUnited States$4.67B+7%-7%8%1.24×10.1%8.1%
HDB Financial Services HDBFS.NSIndia$4.71B-24%+11%14%2.01×30.2%14.3%
Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services M&MFIN.NSIndia$4.12B-15%+15%14%1.41×23.7%13.8%
GMO Payment Gateway 3769.TJapan$3.98B+6%+13%22%5.02×32.4%21.5%
Sundaram Finance SUNDARMFIN.NSIndia$4.95B-11%+14%14%2.89×35.3%14.4%
Bread Financial BFHUnited States$3.87B+17%+2%16%1.13×12.2%15.9%
Herc HRIUnited States$5.08B+14%+19%6%2.56×33.3%6.3%
Figure Technology Solutions FIGRUnited States$5.10B-40%+66%26%3.58×26.5%26.2%
Sixt SIX2.DEGermany$3.67B+4%+7%15%1.67×15.8%15.0%
Credit Acceptance CACCUnited States$5.37B-1%+2%23%3.86×38.2%22.7%
Credit Saison 8253.TJapan$3.62B-10%+10%9%0.73×6.3%9.2%
Element Fleet Management EFN.TOCanada$5.61B-31%+5%11%2.06×9.2%10.6%
Far East Horizon 3360.HKHong Kong$3.44B-25%+1%8%0.45×4.5%7.6%
WillScot WSCUnited States$3.42B-33%-3%-7%3.75×35.8%-7.1%
PennyMac Financial Services PFSIUnited States$3.41B-28%+4%6%0.78×10.2%5.6%

Questions

Who are Poonawalla Fincorp's main competitors?
Named competitors: Bajaj Finance (BAJFINANCE.NS), Cholamandalam Investment & Finance (CHOLAFIN.NS), L&T Finance (LTF.NS). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Bohai Leasing (000415.SZ), ACOM (8572.T), Blue Owl Technology Finance (OTF), Enova International (ENVA), Avis Budget (CAR), Nelnet (NNI).
Is Poonawalla Fincorp expensive compared with its peers?
On price / book it trades at 3.02× against a peer median of 1.67×, 5th most expensive of 20 in its peer set. The share price implies a return on equity of about 47.4%; Poonawalla Fincorp delivers 9.2%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.
How has Poonawalla Fincorp stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +4.0% against -11.5% for the median peer; over one year -1.9%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.