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ICICI Lombard General Insurance Analyst Meet Mar 24
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percentage for price quotes has gone up 1.2x and there has been a 30% improvement in
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productivity for customer support teams. From a security perspective, the NIST and CIS Mar-23 Jul-23 Nov-23
score are both above 95%. In terms of cost control, servers can be scaled down based on 1M 3M 1Y
demand. Production cloud cost has stayed stable over the last 2 years even though policy Absolute return -2.4% 17.1% 58.0%
count has moved up nearly 2x.
Shareholding pattern (As of Dec’23 end)
ICICIGI possesses a very robust internal data science practice, which is Promoter 47.9%
having a significant impact on business outcomes FII+DII 41.1%
ICICIGI has flagged that it has a lot of data available to it and is obtaining a significant Others 11.0%
amount of data from the insurance eco-system itself, particularly the IIB or Insurance
∆ in stance
Information Bureau. Data products have been developed to manage various customer (1-Yr) New Old
journeys. For the Motor business, Vahan possesses data available to all players but Rating ADD ADD
ICICIGI has married its data to it to extract incremental benefit. This allows ICICIGI to Target Price 1875 1850
distribute products targeted on a micro-segment basis. Further, ICICIGI has put
Financial Summary
together One View for customers, which helps ICICIGI map out the customer life cycle
Rs mn FY24E FY25E FY26E
and understand the nuances in customer behaviour. With the agent data product, one of NEP 170,574 197,958 230,540
the goals is to prevent agents from leaking business to other players. Due to the claims % yoy 15.1% 16.1% 16.5%
data product, the experience in the 2015 Chennai flood was not repeated in the 2023 Op profit 27,721 34,507 39,919
% yoy 16.4% 24.5% 15.7%
Chennai flood since ICICIGI had taken mitigating steps. The incidence rates are 2x lower PAT 18,224 23,327 26,832
in the motor business. Lastly, the use of Generative AI has resulted in a benefit of 30% in % yoy 5.4% 28.0% 15.0%
productivity and the RIA chatbot has seen a 33% reduction in response time. EPS (Rs) 37.1 47.5 54.6
P/E (x) 45.4 35.5 30.8
Existing digital solutions are doing well, ICICIGI is managing climate risk, P/B (x) 7.0 6.1 5.3
doing better in Motor and focusing on the health indemnity business RoE (%) 15.4% 17.2% 17.1%
The growth in GWP sourced through ILTakecare has increased 3.2x YoY in 3Q and there
∆ in earnings estimates
has been a 2x rise in DIY journeys using RIA chatbot in 3Q. Risk from climate change is a
Rs. FY24E FY25E FY26E
key emerging risk since the frequency of nat cats has gone up. However, ICICIGI has EPS (New) 37.1 47.5 54.6
been able to enhance data quality to manage this risk better and offset the rise in nat cat EPS (Old) 37.1 47.4 54.5
events. ICICIGI’s market share in the motor segment has moved up in recent times. % change -0.1% 0.2% 0.3%
While ICICIGI would not link this only to digital and analytics initiatives, modeling has
helped ICICIGI cover white spaces and, at the same time, avoid riskier business. Health
indemnity has been an area of fast growth for ICICIGI but the decision to grow this
business faster was taken only 18-24 months ago. The intention is to take the current
3% market share to 4.5-5% in about 3-5 years. SHIVAJI THAPLIYAL
Head of Research
We maintain an ADD rating on ICICIGI with a revised price target of Rs & Lead Analyst
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We value ICICIGI at 39x FY25 P/E for an FY23-26E EPS CAGR of 16%. At our target, the
implied FY25E P/B is 6.8x whereas the prospective RoE profile is at ~17%.
SIDDHARTH RAJPUROHIT, Analyst
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▪ Vahan
• Vahan possesses data with 90% accuracy and is available to all players but ICICIGI has
married its data to it to extract incremental benefit.
• It allows ICICIGI to distribute products with focus on a micro-segment basis.
▪ One View
• ICICIGI has put together One View for customers with 78% accuracy.
• This helps ICICIGI map out the customer life cycle and understand the nuances in
customer behaviour.
▪ Agent data product
• One of the aims is to prevent agents from leaking business to other players, including for
high-performing agents.
• There is also an intention to prevent fraud committed by agents.
▪ Claims data product
• Disease, hospital and geographical data is being fed into a machine learning engine to
identify fraud.
• The experience in the 2015 Chennai flood was not repeated in the 2023 Chennai flood
since ICICIGI had taken mitigating steps.
• The classification of business into low risk, medium risk and high risk had allowed ICICIGI
to focus on low risk business and avoid high risk business.
• The incidence rates are 2x lower in the motor business.
▪ New-age technology / Generative AI
• The use of Generative AI has resulted in a benefit of 30% in productivity.
• The RIA chatbot leverages Generative AI now and there has been a 33% reduction in
response time.
Motor segment
▪ ICICIGI market share in the motor segment has moved up in recent times.
▪ However, ICICIGI would not link this only due to digital and analytics initiatives.
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▪ At the same time, modeling has helped ICICIGI cover white spaces and, at the same time, to
avoid riskier business.
▪ ICICIGI intends to operate in the 9.5-11% market share range, depending on the
opportunities.
Retail branding
▪ While ICICIGI takes pride in its commercial business, three-fourth of its business is retail in
nature.
▪ Expenses on brand awareness will continue as the company still manages to deliver a CoR of
102-103% after these expenses.
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ANNUAL FINANCIALS
Exhibit 1: Profit & Loss Statement
Rs mn FY22 FY23 FY24E FY25E FY26E
Gross written premium 185,624 217,718 259,592 304,435 358,057
Net written premium 134,896 155,395 182,087 211,803 247,235
Net earned premium 130,321 148,228 170,574 197,958 230,540
Net claims 97,819 107,257 124,167 140,975 163,656
Net commission 6,339 4,722 7,283 7,413 7,417
Expense of Management 39,201 45,148 49,164 57,187 66,754
Underwriting profit/(Loss) (13,038) (8,898) (10,039) (7,617) (7,286)
Investment income 30,978 32,721 37,761 42,124 47,205
Operating profit 17,940 23,823 27,721 34,507 39,919
Shareholder's account
Operating profit 17,940 23,823 27,721 34,507 39,919
Investment income 7,061 7,757 8,374 9,395 10,577
Total income 25,001 31,579 36,095 43,902 50,496
Expenses 8,166 10,454 11,058 12,717 14,624
PBT 16,835 21,125 25,037 31,186 35,872
Tax 4,125 3,835 6,813 7,859 9,040
PAT 12,710 17,290 18,224 23,327 26,832
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Application of funds
Investments - Shareholders 89,179 98,583 110,317 123,940 139,699
Investments - Policyholders 298,684 333,221 384,393 443,780 512,942
Fixed assets 5,775 5,640 5,840 6,040 6,240
Deferred tax asset 3,456 2,653 2,653 2,653 2,653
Cash and bank balances 2,926 2,031 23,181 47,236 74,291
Advances and other assets 108,463 108,734 105,472 102,307 99,238
Total Assets 508,483 550,862 631,855 725,956 835,063
Source: Company, YES Sec – Research
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Valuation ratios
P/E (x) 65.1 47.8 45.4 35.5 30.8
P/B (x) 9.1 8.0 7.0 6.1 5.3
Growth (%)
Gross written premium 29.6% 17.3% 19.2% 17.3% 17.6%
Net earned premium 30.1% 13.7% 15.1% 16.1% 16.5%
Claims 42.4% 9.6% 15.8% 13.5% 16.1%
Commissions 5.5% -25.5% 54.2% 1.8% 0.1%
Net income -13.7% 36.0% 5.4% 28.0% 15.0%
Source: Company, YES Sec – Research
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