Net interest income for the Indian Market leader in Private Banks rose to INR 43 B from INR 33 B 26% on year/year growth. As dividends from insurance have also started showing up regularly every two quarters consolidated PAT has been growing unbridled past our 30% watermark. PAT for Q4 ended up at INR 18.90 B, a substantial shoring up of business performance in the last six quarters when it began a series at a strong but smaller share of the indian market with INR 12.5 B quarterly profits and INR 26B NII
A CASA of nearly 48% however with Advances at INR 2.4 Tln nearly not growing fast enough, deposits have closed in on the INR 3 Tln mark. Though its cost income efficiencies rival the most superior in the industry, the funding structure of the bank still shows up in a heavy 16.8% Capital Ratio in Basel I terms which would not get negatively impacted in the Basel 3 regime for Indian banks and an Advance / Deposit ratio near 85% and gross NPAs of less than 1%.
Though flash reports have not mentioned it yet, Fee income likely tracked more than INR 28.8B and the bank needs to attend to credit growth as a main objective and define trade credit /transaction banking and commercial lending separately going forward as also wealth vs traditional retail and loan product income in retail where new blood is likely to strike alongwith limited competition from indusind and kotak bank
The detailed exposition of year end results will appear in our traditional HDFC Bank vs ICICI Bank face off after the Chanda kochchar led bank’s results are