Reading well detailed annual reports have their own pleasure. Today, post is on annual review of Poddar developers , I have written couple of times on Poddar here and here

Numbers first

Increase in Sales by 47.97% and increase by 156.88% in PAT

The company made allotment of 11,10,900 Equity Shares of Rs. 10/- each fully paid at a premium of Rs. 1115.21/-

Opportunity size is very big, here is extract from AR

The recently released Report of the Technical Group on Urban Housing Shortage (TG-12) (2012-17) has estimated the Housing shortage to be 18.78 million out of which 56.18 per cent is in the economically weaker segments and 39.44 per cent is in the Lower income group categories. As per projections of a report by the McKinsey Global Institute, the housing shortage under business as usual circumstances could go up to 38 million units by 2030

There is a thrust from central govt. as well for affordable housing

 Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation has undertaken studies and extensive consultations with a variety of stakeholders including the private sector, non-governmental sectors, state governments and urban local bodies as well as other Government of India departments as well as

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