Edelweiss Fin Serv Share Price

Edelweiss Financial Services Limited is a prominent financial conglomerate founded by Rashesh Shah and Venkat Ramaswamy in 1996. It caters to a diverse customer base spanning retail credit, asset management, asset reconstruction and insurance segments. In the merchant banking sector, the company serves as a trusted advisor to corporates, entrepreneurs and investors nationwide.

From 2004 to 2008, Edelweiss Financial Services witnessed vertical growth, achieving a remarkable 40-fold increase in revenue, profit after tax (PAT), net worth and total employees. This exponential growth culminated in the company's IPO in 2007.

The market capitalisation of Edelweiss Financial Services Limited stood at ₹6,800 crore as of January 29, 2024. Edelweiss Financial Services share price grew by over 15% in last three years.

Business operations

Edelweiss Financial Services is actively involved in retail credit, asset management, mutual funds, alternative asset advisory services and insurance. It also offers both life and general insurance services across sectors. The company primarily focuses on providing investment banking services and undertaking holding company activities, which involve offering development, managerial and financial support to the various businesses within the Edelweiss group.

Its business line includes various verticals. In the investment banking sector, the company provides a comprehensive range of services including private equity placements, capital raising in public markets, debt financing, mergers and acquisitions and restructuring advisory services, catering to corporations, entrepreneurs, and investors.

Through its subsidiary, Edelweiss Securities, Edelweiss Financial Services Limited offers institutional equities services. This includes equity broking, research services and marketing of equity-related products to domestic and foreign institutional investors. These clients include leading pension funds, hedge funds, mutual funds, insurance companies and banks.

In asset management, Edelweiss Capital offers investment products and advisory services across the risk-return spectrum. These services are available to both individual and institutional investors. The company also provides wealth management services, offering a range of portfolio management services to clients.

With a wide network of 476 offices and nearly 11,000 employees, the company serves over 1.2 million customers. Edelweiss Tokyo Life, its insurance arm, operates through 131 branch offices and collaborates with around 85,000 insurance advisors/agents.

In FY23, customer assets, amounting to ₹4.1 lakh crore, saw a growth of 16% year-on-year. The customer reach expanded to approximately 6.7 million, marking a significant 36% year-on-year increase.

In the life insurance segment, the company served approximately 3,63,000 customers through a network of around 69,000 agents across 109 branches. In FY23, it issued approximately 56,600 policies. In the general insurance segment, the company reported a gross written premium of ₹552 crore with a solvency ratio of 190% and issued 3,88,000 policies. In the wealth management segment, the company managed assets under advice totalling ₹2.25 lakh crore for approximately 1.1 million customers.

Financial highlights

– Edelweiss Financial Services reported a total revenue of ₹8,481 crore in FY23 as against ₹6819.4 crore in FY22, – The net profit for FY23 was ₹405.6 crore as against the previous year's ₹212 crore. – The earnings per share (EPS) was ₹3.83 in FY23 as against the previous year's figure of ₹2.11.