June 2024 Results Preview | Sector: Financials
Financials: Banks
Result Preview
Earnings growth to moderate; margins bias slightly negative
Asset quality outlook healthy; credit cost a key monitorable in FY25
1QFY25 earnings estimates (INR b)
1Q
YoY QoQ
PAT (INR b)
FY25E (%) (%)
Private Banks
AUBANK
4.2
9.3 14.1
AXSB
64.1 10.6 -10.1
BANDHAN
8.1 12.9 1,390
DCBB
1.4 11.4 -9.2
EQUITAS
1.7
-8.7 -16.0
FB
9.7 13.8 7.2
HDFCB
154.6 29.3 -6.4
ICICIBC
106.3 10.2 -0.7
IDFCFB
6.8 -11.0 -5.9
IIB
23.4 10.1 -0.5
KMB
35.9 4.0 -13.2
RBK
3.4 18.6 -3.1
Private Total
419.8 15.6 -3.7
PSU Banks
BOB
46.0 13.1 -5.8
CBK
39.6 12.0 5.3
INBK
22.1 29.1 -1.8
PNB
30.1 139.7 -0.1
SBIN
168.6 -0.2 -18.6
UNBK
35.8 10.6 8.1
PSU Total
342.1 11.5 -9.7
Banks Total
761.9 13.7 -6.5
SBICARD
6.4
8.7 -2.7
Paytm
-8.4
NA
NA
Credit growth to remain healthy; estimate 14% growth in systemic loans over
FY25-26:
The systemic credit growth remained healthy at 15.5% for the
fortnight ended 14
th
Jun’24. The growth was fueled by sustained momentum in
retail and business banking, while the corporate segment experienced a
moderate recovery. The home, vehicle, real estate, and small business segments
continued to do well, while CV demand remained healthy. Inflation has been
showing a downward trend, and we continue to monitor the potential turn in
the rate cycle. We estimate systemic loans to clock a 14% growth over FY25-26.
Deposit growth sustains at 12.6% YoY; margins bias slightly negative:
The FY25
credit growth has started on a good note, and while deposit accretion remains a
challenge, the gap between deposit and credit growth has narrowed to ~3.5% in
Jun’24 due to a push for deposits, and competitive TD rates offered by banks.
The CD ratio, however, has remained elevated at 79.9%, with most of the banks
reporting an increase over the past year. Among the banks under our coverage,
we will monitor deposit growth for HDFCB and AXSB. While sector margins have
compressed over the past year, select banks have further revised their rates
upwards, mainly for short-term deposits amid tight liquidity conditions. This,
coupled with a slight moderation in Weighted Average Lending Rate for the
system (mainly PSU banks), points to the continued pressure on sector margins
in the near term, albeit, at a more calibrated pace.
Asset quality outlook healthy; farm loan waivers raise concern on the
medium-term performance:
Credit quality for most banks has been robust,
leading to controlled provisioning expenses. However, the recent developments
related to farm loan waivers could potentially upset the credit culture and
would result in an uptick in credit costs, particularly in the agri and unsecured
segments (like MFI). We would thus closely monitor the asset quality outlook
over the medium term. Nevertheless, we factor in a modest rise in provisioning
expenses as: 1) the recovery from the existing NPA/TWO pools moderates, 2)
the first quarter is a seasonally weak quarter and is characterized by some rise
in agri NPAs, and 3) credit costs normalize gradually after being extremely
benign over the recent period.
Estimate earnings for our banking coverage universe to clock ~16% CAGR over
FY24-26:
We estimate NII for our banking coverage universe to grow ~12.6% YoY
in 1QFY25, while PPoP is likely to increase at a modest rate of 9.2% YoY (-5.7%
QoQ). For 1QFY25, we thus estimate Private/PSU banks to report earnings
growth of 15.6%/11.5% YoY.
We also estimate the earnings of the MOFSL
Banking Universe to grow 13.7% (~10.3% ex-HDFCB)/16.3%/16.6% YoY over
1QFY25/FY25/26.
Consequently, we estimate the
Banking sector’s earnings to
post a >16% CAGR over FY24-26.
Interestingly, we believe
that FY25 is going to
be an inflection year as earnings growth after some period of moderation
(~27% YoY growth in FY23-24) bottoms out in second half and thereafter
begins to accelerate from 2HFY25.
Nitin Aggarwal - Research Analyst
(Nitin.Aggarwal@MotilalOswal.com)
Research Analyst: Dixit Sankharva
(Dixit.sankharva@motilaloswal.com) |
Disha Singhal
(Disha.Singhal@MotilalOswal.com)
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