Uco Bank Q2 results: Profit surges 7-fold

 

State-owned Uco Bank reported a near seven-fold jump in net profit for the September quarter, riding on higher interest income and write-back of provisions made earlier.

Its net profit stood at Rs 205.4 crore as against Rs 30.1 crore in the year-ago period.

Net interest income (NIM), a key parameter of profitability, remained flat at 2.79% for the quarter under review, despite lower lending rates.

"We expect NIM to be at 3% or more in the near future," managing director AK Goel said. He said the lower cost of funds, better collection efficiency from stressed accounts as well as higher credit growth would help in the improvement of NIM.

We expect advances to grow around 10% for the full year, Goel added.

The Kolkata-based lender's operating profit rose 24% at Rs Rs 1,334 crore as compared with Rs 1,076 crore in the year-ago quarter. Net interest income rose about 15% at Rs 1,598 crore from Rs 1,393 crore over the same period last year. Other income grew 31.2% YoY to Rs 936 crore.

Goel said the bank made an additional provision of Rs 250 crore towards Covid-19 related risk on asset quality, taking the total additional Covid-related provision to Rs 750 crore. Total bad loan provisions rose to Rs 1,595 crore in the September quarter from Rs 1,032 crore in the year-ago period.

The bank's total provision, however, came down to Rs 1,019 crore during the period from Rs 1,301 crore on account of write-backs of provisions made earlier. The bank has recovered Rs 550 crore from written-off accounts, taking the total recovery and upgradation to Rs 1,876 crore during the quarter.

Uco's asset quality improved with the gross non-performing assets (NPA) ratio falling to 8.98% at the end of September from 11.62% a year back. Net NPA stood at 3.37%, down from 3.63%. Its provision coverage ratio rose to 90% from 89.82% over the same period.

Its total advances grew 5.7% to Rs 1.22 lakh crore with retail, agriculture and MSME sectors now contributing about 64% to it.

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Axis Bank Q2 results: Lender posts highest ever quarterly profit, up 86% YoY

Axis Bank on Tuesday reported an 86 per cent year-on-year (YoY) rise in net profit at Rs 3,133 crore for the September quarter compared with Rs 1,683 crore in the same quarter last year. This was the highest ever quarterly profit for the bank, the lender said in a BSE filing.

Net interest income (NII) for the bank rose 8 per cent YoY to Rs 7,900 crore compared with Rs 7,326 crore in the year-ago quarter. Net interest margin (NIM) for the recently concluded quarter came in at 3.39 per cent.

Specific loan loss provisions for the September quarter stood at Rs 927 crore compared with Rs 2,865 crore in the June quarter and Rs 724 crore in the year-ago quarter. Total Provisions & contingencies for the quarter fell to Rs 1,735 crore from Rs 3,302 crore in the preceding quarter and Rs 4,343 crore in the corresponding quarter last fiscal.

Gross NPA ratio fell to the lowest level in 20 quarters to 3.53 per cent for the July-September period. The figure stood at 3.85 per cent in the June quarter and 4.28 per cent in the year-ago quarter.

Gross slippages for the said quarter came in at Rs 5,464 crore, lower than Rs 6,518 crore in the June 2021 quarter but higher than Rs 1,751 crore (as per IRAC norms) in the same quarter last year.

"Slippages in Q2FY21 moderated due to regulatory forbearances that do not exist in the current quarter. Recoveries and upgrades from NPAs during the quarter were Rs 4,757 crore while write-offs were Rs 2,508 crore. Consequently, there were net slippages in NPAs (before write-offs) for the quarter of Rs 707 crore compared to Rs 3,976 crore in Q1FY22. Net slippages in NPAs (before write-offs) for retail loans stood at Rs 697 crore, and for SME there was a Rs 16 crore decrease in NPAs (before write-offs)," the bank said.

Fee income for the quarter rose 17 per cent YoY to Rs 3,231 crore. Retail fees jumped 19 per cent YoY and

constituted 63 per cent of the bank’s total fee income. The corporate & commercial banking fee grew 15 per cent, the bank said.

"The trading profits and miscellaneous income for the quarter stood at Rs 473 crore and Rs 95 crore, respectively. Overall, the non-interest income (comprising of fee, trading profit and miscellaneous income) for Q2FY22 stood at Rs 3,798 crore, up 6 per cent YoY," the bank said.

The bank’s provision coverage, as a proportion of Gross NPAs, stood at 70 per cent against 77 per cent as of September 2020 and 70 per cent as of June 30. Provisions prior to technical write-offs remained stable at 88 per cent.

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IndusInd Bank Q2 results: Profit jumps 72% YoY

Private sector lender IndusInd Bank on Wednesday reported a 73 per cent rise in its consolidated net profit to Rs.1,146.73 crore for the second quarter ended September 30. It had posted a net profit of Rs.663.08 crore in the year-ago period.

Total income during the July-September quarter rose to Rs.9,488.06 crore from Rs.8,731.52 crore a year ago, IndusInd Bank said in a regulatory filing.

Interest income moved up at Rs.7,650.36 crore from Rs.7,177.21 crore.

On a standalone basis, the net profit increased by 72% to Rs.1,113.53 crore from Rs.647.04 crore. And the total income rose to Rs.9,487.56 crore against Rs.8,731.05 crore.

Bank's provisions for bad loans and contingencies fell to Rs.1,703.36 crore for the quarter from Rs.1,964.44 crore reserved for the year-ago period.

However, there was an uptick in the bank's gross bad loan proportion at 2.77 per cent of gross advances as of September 30, 2021, against 2.21 per cent a year earlier.

Net NPAs too increased to 0.80 per cent from 0.52 per cent.

The annualised return on asset (RoA) stood at 1.26 per cent compared with 1.12 per cent in the preceding quarter of this fiscal and 0.83 per cent in the same quarter last fiscal.

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Kotak Mahindra Bank Q2 Results: Standalone profit falls 7%

Private sector lender Kotak Mahindra Bank on October 26 reported a 7 percent year-on-year decline in standalone profit at Rs 2,032 crore for the September 2021 quarter due to higher provisions. But supported by higher other income, the profit was ahead of analysts' estimates. However, net income sequentially grew by 24 percent on sharp decline in bad loan provisions.

Standalone net interest income in Q2FY22 rose 3.2 percent year-on-year to Rs 4,020.6 crore - meeting street expectations - with healthy 15 percent YoY (8 percent QoQ) loan growth. Net interest margin contracted 5 bps year-on-year and 15 bps sequentially to 4.45 percent in Q2.

"Advances during the quarter increased by 14.7 percent to Rs 2,34,965 crore, and deposits grew by 11.5 percent to Rs 2,91,711 crore compared to year-ago period," said the bank in its BSE filing on Tuesday.

Profit was estimated at Rs 1,792.2 crore and net interest income was expected at Rs 4,008.1 crore for the quarter, according to average of estimates of analysts polled by CNBC-TV18.

Asset quality improved during the quarter ended September 2021 with gross non-performing assets as a percentage of gross advances falling 40 bps QoQ to 3.2 percent and the net NPA declined 20 bps to 1.1 percent on sequential basis. 10 basis points is 0.01 percent.

Provisions and contingencies declined sharply by 40 percent sequentially to Rs 424 crore in September 2021 quarter, but the same increased by 27.3 percent year-on-year which resulted into a drag in profitability.

Kotak Mahindra Bank said Covid related provisions as of September 2021 were maintained at Rs 1,279 crore and did not utilise in the first half of FY22. "The bank has implemented total restructuring of Rs 495 crore (0.21 percent of advances), and in addition, the bank has implemented total restructuring of Rs 767 crore (0.33 percent of advances) as on September 30, 2021."

"Total provisions (including specific, standard, COVID-19 related etc.) held as on September 2021 at Rs 7,637 crore, around 100 percent of gross NPA," the bank said.

The bank further said SMA-II (special mention account) outstanding at the end of September 2021 quarter was at Rs 388 crore, down compared to Rs 430 crore as of June quarter.

Non-interest income (other income) grew significantly to Rs 1,812.6 crore in the quarter ended September 2021 driven by fee and services business, up from Rs 1,432.4 crore in corresponding quarter of last fiscal. Fee and services included distribution & syndication income, and general banking fees.

On consolidated basis, the profit growth was significant, rising 65.5 percent year-on-year to Rs 2,989 crore and the year-on-year growth was 1.4 percent.

Subsidiaries - Kotak Securities recorded 22.1 percent year-on-year growth in profit at Rs 243 crore and Kotak Mahindra Prime clocked 80.5 percent growth in profit at Rs 240 crore in the quarter ended September 2021.

Kotak Asset Management and Trustee Company's bottomline grew by 15.5 percent year-on-year to Rs 97 crore and Kotak Mahindra Capital Company registered a massive 314.3 percent growth YoY at Rs 58 crore, but Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance's profit declined 9.4 percent YoY to Rs 155 crore during the quarter.

The bank said consolidated customer assets grew by 16 percent year-on-year to Rs 287,831 crore as of September 2021. "Total assets managed / advised by the Group as of September 2021 were Rs 3,81,058 crore, up 40 percent over the corresponding period last fiscal."

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Indian Overseas Bank net profit up 154%

State-run Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) has posted a 154 per cent increase in net profit during the second quarter of the current financial year ended on September 30 to Rs 376 crore, as compared to Rs 148 crore during the same quarter in 2020-21.

The lender's total income for the reporting quarter was down marginally by about 1 per cent to Rs 5,376 crore, from Rs 5,430 during the July to September quarter of 2020-21. The bank’s managing director and chief executive officer P P Sengupta said the reasons for the better financial numbers is owing to a better outlook in the economy due to higher rates of vaccination and better performance in retail, agriculture, MSME (RAM) and corporates.

The bank’s asset quality showed signs of improvement with its gross non-performing assets falling by 11.29 per cent from Rs 17,660 crore during the second quarter in 2020-21 to Rs 15,666 during the same quarter this fiscal. During the quarter GNPA reduced by Rs 286 crore. GNPA ratios improved to 10.66 per cent from 13.64 per cent on a quarter on quarter basis. The bank came out of RBI's Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) on September 29, 2021.

Reduction in NPA for the quarter ended September 2021 stood at Rs. 1798 crore as against Rs.1,616 crore achieved for quarter ended June 2021. Net NPA during the quarter was seen at Rs 3,741 crore with a ratio of 2.77 per cent as against Rs 3,998 crore with a ratio of 3.15 per cent during the previous quarter.

The bank's net interest margin was 2.43 per cent in Q2 FY22, as against 2.57 per cent a year ago. During the quarter under review, IOB’s operating profit zoomed by 5.42 per cent to Rs 1,419 crore, as compared to Rs 1,346 crore seen during the September quarter last fiscal. Total deposits were seen up by 9 per cent to Rs.2,50,890 crore as on September end as compared to Rs 2,42,941 crore as on the quarter ended in June 2021.

Gross advances stood at Rs 1,46,940 crore during the quarter compared to Rs 1,38,944 crore during the end of Q1. The bank said that it has grown its retail and agri segments and rebalanced the advance balance by consciously reducing the stressed sector in the corporate segment.

CASA of the bank improved to 42.57 per cent during the period under review compared to 40.26 per cent during the same time last financial year. Total CASA also increased to Rs 106,806 crore as against Rs 92,436 crore during the second quarter of 2020-21. Provision Coverage Ratio improved to 92 per cent as against 89.36 per cent in Q2FY21.

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Central Bank of India net profit jumps 55% in Q2

Public sector Central Bank of India on Tuesday reported an over 55 percent jump in net profit at Rs 250 crore for the quarter ended September.

The lender had posted a net profit of Rs 161 crore during the same quarter of the previous fiscal.

However, total income of the bank during July-September period of 2021-22 was down at Rs 6,503.39 crore, as against Rs 6,762.36 crore in the year-ago period, it said in a regulatory filing.

Net interest income rose 5.99 percent to Rs 2,495 crore, as against Rs 2,354 crore earlier.

Net interest margin (NIM) improved from 3.21 percent to 3.36 percent on a year-on-year basis, registering an improvement of 15 basis points, it added.

On the asset quality front, net non-performing assets (NPAs or bad loans) reduced to 4.51 percent as of September 30, 2021, from 5.60 percent by end of the same month last year.

Gross NPAs moderated to 15.52 percent from 17.36 percent.

Also, the bank's cost of deposit declined to 3.84 percent from 4.45 percent for the reported quarter.

However, there was a slight uptick in provisions and contingencies for the quarter at Rs 1,048.52 crore, as against Rs 1,033.34 crore parked aside in the September 2020 quarter.

The state-owned lender said its slippage ratio stood at 1.45 percent as against 0.08 percent as there was a moratorium granted by RBI due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the June 2021 quarter, it was 0.95 percent.

"Slippage ratio during the quarter increased due to slippage of two corporate accounts of Rs 1,150 crore. Had these accounts not slipped during the quarter then the slippage ratio for Q2FY22 would have been 0.67 percent," the bank said in a release.

Total business stood at Rs 5,12,094 crore as on September 30, 2021, compared to Rs 5,00,737 crore earlier, registering a growth of Rs 11,357 crore (2.27 percent) year-on-year.

Total deposits have increased by Rs 13,056 crore and stood at Rs 3,36,500 crore at the end of the quarter, from Rs 3,23,444 crore in the year-ago period, reflecting an increase of 4.04 percent, it added.

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Canara Bank Q2 Net profit jumps three times

 

State-owned Canara Bank reported a three-times rise in net profit at Rs 1,333 crore for the September quarter, riding on treasury and non-interest income and higher cash recovery.

The bank’s net profit was Rs 444 crore in the year-ago period.

Its net interest margin (NIM), a key profitability parameter, however, dipped to 2.72% in the quarter under review from 2.82% in the same period last year. Net interest income (NII) was a shade lower at Rs 6,273 crore from Rs 6,305 crore while total income rose a slim 2.6% at Rs 21,331 crore.

Its operating profit grew 22% to Rs 5,604 crore as against Rs 4,597 crore. Treasury income jumped 95% to Rs 1,754 crore while non-interest Income rose 37.5% at Rs 4,268 crore. Provision to cover bad loans fell 24% at Rs 2678 crore with improvement in recovery of loans that were already covered.

Bank chief executive LV Prabhakar expects corporate loans to grow at 7.5% for the full year despite muted demand so far, raising hopes of pick up in industrial activities. He expects retail loans to continue to grow by over 10%.

Canara’s gross advances grew 5.8% year-on-year (YoY) to Rs 6.87 lakh crore while the corporate loan portfolio rose 2.2% to Rs 2.96 lakh crore. The retail lending book rose 10.46% to Rs 1.19 lakh crore.

The lender’s asset quality improved sequentially, with gross non-performing assets (NPA) ratio falling to 8.42% at the end of September from 8.5% three months back. Net NPA stood at 3.21% as against 3.46%.

Prabhakar said the bank with 14.37% capital adequacy is comfortably placed for growth and meeting regulations. The lender has just recently raised Rs 1,500 crore in AT-1 capital while the board has approved raising another 2500 crore each in AT-1 bonds and tier-2 bonds. It raised Rs 2500 crore through share sales during this quarter.

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ICICI Bank reports highest ever net profit in Q2 as provisions fall

Country's second largest private sector lender ICICI Bank on October 23 recorded profit after tax of Rs 5,511 crore for the September 2021 quarter, increasing significantly by 30 percent compared to year-ago period, as provisions for bad loans declined, with improved asset quality performance. Double digit growth in net interest income, operating profit and other income also aided earnings for the quarter.

Net interest income, the difference between interest earned and interest expenses, has grown 25 percent to Rs 11,690 crore in Q2FY22, with 43 bps improvement YoY (11 bps QoQ) in net interest margin at 4 percent, said the bank in its BSE filing on October 23. One percent is equal to 100 basis points.

Loan and Deposits Growth

The bank further said total advances grew by 17 percent year-on-year to Rs 7.64 lakh crore in Q2FY22, with retail loan book (which accounted for 62.1 percent of total loan portfolio) growth at 20 percent, and 19 percent increase in domestic loan growth.

"The business banking portfolio grew by 43 percent year-on-year, and SME segment, comprising borrowers with a turnover of less than Rs 250 crore, registered a 42 percent YoY growth, for the September 2021 quarter," it added.

The bank, which had a network of 5,277 branches and 14,045 ATMs at September 2021, said total deposits increased by 17 percent year-on-year to Rs 9.77 lakh crore in Q2.

Asset Quality

Asset quality of the private sector lender improved further with increase recoveries & upgrades, and decline in NPA additions during the quarter. Gross non-performing assets (NPA) as a percentage of gross advances at 4.82 percent fell by 33 bps sequentially and net NPAs at 0.99 percent, the lowest since December 2014, declined 17 bps QoQ, in Q2FY22.

In absolute terms, "The net NPAs declined by 12 percent sequentially to Rs  8,161 crore at September 2021 from Rs 9,306 crore at June 2021," said ICICI Bank.

The bank further said the net addition to gross NPAs declined to Rs 96 crore  during Q2FY22 from Rs 3,604 crore in Q1FY22. The gross NPA additions declined to Rs 5,578 crore from Rs 7,231 crore in the same period.

"Recoveries and upgrades of NPAs, excluding write-offs and sale, increased to Rs 5,482 crore from Rs 3,627 crore on sequential basis. The gross NPAs written off were Rs 1,717 crore in Q2FY22," it added.

Excluding NPAs, the bank said the total fund based outstanding to all borrowers under resolution was Rs 9,684 crore or 1.3 percent of total advances at September 2021 compared to Rs 4,864 crore June 2021. "The bank holds provisions amounting to Rs 1,950 crore against these borrowers under resolution."

The loan and non-fund based outstanding to performing borrowers rated BB and below, reduced to Rs  12,714 crore from Rs 13,975 crore on quarter-on-quarter basis, said the bank.
Provisions. In addition, ICICI Bank continued to hold Covid-19 provisions of Rs 6,425 crore as of September 2021, the same level as June 2021.

The bank had provisions and contingencies at Rs 2,713.48 crore as of September 2021, declining 9.4 percent year-on-year and 4.8 percent quarter-on-quarter.

NII & PPOP

Non-interest income (other income) during the quarter grew by 19.1 percent YoY to Rs 4,797.18 crore, including few income, which contributed 79 percent to other income, grew 21 percent YoY to Rs 3,811 crore. However, there was a fall in treasury income to Rs 397 crore from Rs 542 crore YoY due to high base in Q2FY21 that included gain of Rs 305 crore from sale of shares in ICICI Securities.

Pre-provision operating profit (PPOP) during the quarter increased by 20 percent to Rs 9,915 crore compared to corresponding period previous fiscal.

The bank said with the increase in economic activity, disbursements across all retail products increased sequentially in Q2FY022. "Mortgage disbursements were close to the level seen in the quarter ended March 2021, reflecting the increase in demand coupled with the bank’s seamless customer onboarding experience through pre-approved offers and digitisation. Disbursements of personal loans and auto loans were also close to Q4FY21 levels."

The consolidated profit after tax (which included key subsidiaries and associates) was Rs 6,092 crore in Q2FY22, increasing from Rs 4,882 crore in Q2FY21.

Earlier this month, global rating agency Moody's has affirmed the long-term local and foreign current deposit ratings of ICICI Bank at Baa3. At the same time, its rating outlook has also been changed to stable from negative.

"The affirmation of ICICI Bank's deposit ratings and change in outlook to stable follows the change in outlook on the sovereign rating to stable. The previous negative outlook on the sovereign rating drove the negative outlook on the bank, because of strong linkages to the sovereign credit profile," said Moody's in its report dated October 6, 2021.

The private sector lender on October 1 acquired 9.9 percent equity stake in Midland Microfin, a non-banking financial company - microfinance institution, for Rs 52.42 crore.

Apart from this, in August, the bank had received approval from banking regulator Reserve Bank of India to re-appointment of Sandeep Bakhshi as Managing Director & CEO of the bank with effect from October 15, 2021 till October 3, 2023.

The stock has given significant return in the current financial year FY22, rising more than 30 percent with more than Rs 5 lakh crore in market capitalisation, outperforming Nifty Bank index by a strong margin which gained 21 percent in the same period. In fact both bank as well as index hit fresh record highs on Friday.

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