IndusInd Bank Wednesday reported a drop of over 62 per cent in March quarter net profit at Rs 360.10 crore.
Net profit in the same quarter of 2017-18 financial year stood at Rs 953.09 crore.
But, total income for the latest quarter increase to Rs 7,550.43 crore as against Rs 5,858.62 crore in the same period a year ago, the bank said in a regulatory filing.
For the entire 2018-19, the profit was dropped 8 per cent to Rs 3,301 crore as against Rs 3,606 crore in 2017-18.
Total income during the last fiscal rose to Rs 27,907.87 crore from Rs 22,030.85 crore a year ago.
The bank’s gross non-performing assets (NPA) was up 2.10 per cent of gross advances as at March-end 2019 as against 1.17 per cent by the end of the previous fiscal.
Net NPAs or bad loans were 1.21 per cent, higher than 0.51 per cent at the end of March 2018.
In value terms, gross NPAs stood at Rs 3,947.41 crore by the end of 2018-19 as against Rs 1,704.91 crore by March-end 2018. Net NPAs were at Rs 2,248.28 crore, up from Rs 745.67 crore a year ago.
Advances to various companies and special purpose vehicles to a group in infrastructure sector was calculated at Rs 3,004 crore (exposure to holding company of Rs 2,000 crore and operating companies/SPVs Rs 1,004 crore) were classified as ‘non-performing – sub standard’.
The private sector lender said it has provided for, in excess of prudential norms on income recognition, asset classification and provisioning to the advances under this account.
The bank’s board has suggested a dividend of Rs 7.50 per equity share for 2018-19, it said.
Stock of the bank traded 1.77 per cent down at Rs 1,421.95 on BSE.
