New Delhi, Nov 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Banks are entering a period of low revenue growth for 2HFY24 as the cost of funds is yet to peak for all players, Kotak Institutional Equities said in a report.
Diversifying books may sustain high loan growth for non-banks, even as asset quality in select pockets may be under watch. Broadly, keep a negative outlook on NIM but a positive outlook on credit costs as it is likely to be below long-term averages, the report said.
Healthy earnings print but slowing momentum marked the performance of the quarter as NIM declined for most led by re-pricing of cost of deposits/bank loans; loan growth was comfortable at 15 per cent yoy for banks/20 per cent for private non-banks, and (2) earnings growth of 33 per cent yoy for banks was led by reduction in credit costs.
A key challenge has been weak price performance by large banks, ignoring strong earnings trends. On the other hand, valuation premiums are shrinking between large and mid-private/public banks led by better asset quality and SFBs (AU SFB with Equitas, Ujjivan SFB).
“We enter a period of NIM contraction. Large private banks (ICICI Bank and Axis Bank) will not be well-placed in this leg of the cycle but we should expect public banks and HDFC Bank (given the construct of liabilities) to be relatively well-positioned,” the report said.
“We believe that despite the above concern on NIM trajectory, investors are probably better-off with large private banks over mid and small banks as the valuation premiums are far lower than what is comfortable,” it said.
Source: IANS
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