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HDFC Securities Report
Over SBI Life Insurance Company’s FY21E we expect Covid-19 and changes in personal taxation to cause significant disruption to insurance sales (FY21E annual premium equivalent (APE) -13.1% YoY). We however take a longer term view on the business and appreciate the strong distribution footprint of its parent State Bank of India (over 24,000 branches), improving protection share (Q1 FY21: 12.6%, over 137 basis points YoY), lowest operating cost ratios (Q1 FY21: 10.1%).
We expect SBI Life to deliver healthy FY20-23E of new business (VNB) compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.6% and return on embedded (RoEV)s of approximately 13.4-15.4% over FY21-23E. We retain our Buy rating on SBI Life with an unchanged target price of Rs 975 (March 21E EV+ 28.9 times March-22E VNB). The stock is currently trading at FY21/22E P/EV of 2.8/2.5 times and P/VNB of 31.2/25.1 times. Lower growth, renewals, and protection share are key risks.
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