About the Company
HDFC Bank Ltd. is an Indian banking and financial services company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It has a base of 1,04,154 permanent employees as of 30 June 2019. HDFC Bank is India’s largest private sector lender by assets. It is the largest bank in India by market capitalization as of March 2020.
Q2FY23 Updates
Financial Results & Highlights
Standalone Financials (in Crs) | ||||||||
Q2FY23 | Q2FY22 | YoY % | Q1FY23 | QoQ % | FY22 | FY21 | YoY% | |
Sales | 46181.96 | 38754.16 | 19.17% | 41560.27 | 11.12% | 157263.01 | 146063.11 | 7.67% |
PBT | 14152.04 | 11882.63 | 19.10% | 12180.11 | 16.19% | 49015 | 41659 | 17.66% |
PAT | 10605.78 | 8834.31 | 20.05% | 9195.99 | 15.33% | 36961 | 31116 | 18.78% |
Consolidated Financials (in Crs) | ||||||||
Q2FY23 | Q2FY22 | YoY % | Q1FY23 | QoQ % | FY22 | FY21 | YoY% | |
Sales | 49182.1 | 41436.36 | 18.69% | 44202.32 | 11.27% | 167695 | 155885 | 7.58% |
PBT | 14956.4 | 12323.5 | 21.36% | 12823.3 | 16.63% | 50873 | 42796 | 18.87% |
PAT | 11162.59 | 9119.96 | 22.40% | 9616.67 | 16.08% | 38151 | 31857 | 19.76% |
Detailed Results:
- HDFC bank had a good growth quarter with revenue and profit increased by 21% and 22% respectively on a consolidated basis.
- Advances growth of 23%, total deposits growth of 19% and retail deposits growth of 20.4%, core operating profit growth excluding bond sales of 16.6%, profit after tax increased by 20% delivering the return on asset of over 2%, and ROE of over 17%. Earnings per share reported in the quarters are 19.1 book value per share stands at Rs.456.2.
- Total deposits amounted to 1673000 Crores, an increase of 4.3% over the prior quarter and up 19% over the prior year.
- In retail deposits, the company has added 71,000 Crores during the quarter and 2,35,000 Crores since the prior year September.
- Retail constitutes about 83% of total deposits.
- CASA deposits recorded a growth of 15.4% year-on-year ending the quarter at 7,59,000 Crores with the CASA ratio at 45.4%.
- Retail CASA grew by 19% and retail total deposits grew by 20.4% year-on-year.
- Term deposits registered a growth of 22% year-on-year ending the quarter at 9,13,712 Crores.
- Advanced were at 14,79,873 Crores grew by 6.1% sequentially and 23.4% over the prior year.
- Retail advances grew by 21.4% year-on-year and 4.9% quarter-on-quarter.
- Card spending has grown 9% over the prior quarter.
- Commercial and rural banking or MSME and PSL books continued their momentum with a year-on-year growth of 31% and quarter-on-quarter growth of 9.4%.
- The company’s SME businesses are present in 90% of the districts in the country, and rural business reach expanded to 1.42 lakh villages and is on track to reach the objective of 2 lakh villages according to the management.
- Wholesale segment witnessed a strong growth year-on-year of 27% and quarter-on-quarter growth of 9%.
- LCR for the quarter was at 118%, capital adequacy ratio is at 18% and CET one is at 16.3% including profits for the half year that ended September 30, 2022.
- Net interest income for the quarter at 21000 Crores grew by 18.9% over the prior year and 7.9% over the prior quarter.
- The core net interest margin for the quarter was at 4.1%; the prior year was also at 4.1% and the prior quarter was at 4%. Based on interest-earning assets, the core net interest margin was at 4.3%.
- Cost to income ratio for the quarter was 39.2%.
- Core Pre-provision operating profit grew by 16.6% year-on-year and 5.8% sequentially. POPP was at Rs.17,392 Crores. POPP for the quarter is 5.37 times of total provisions.
- The GNPA ratio was at 1.23% as compared to 1.35% the prior year and 1.28% in the prior quarter. Core GNPA ratio is at 1.04.
- Net NPA ratio was at 33 basis points, the prior year was at 40 basis points, and the preceding quarter was 35 basis points.
- The slippage ratio for the current quarter is at 36 basis points or about Rs.5700 Crores
- During the quarter recoveries and upgrades were about 2500 Crores or about 19 basis points.
- Writeoffs in the quarter were about 3000 Crores are approximately 22 basis points.
- There were no sales of stressed or written-off accounts in the quarter.
- The total provisions reported were around 3200 Crores as against 3900 Crores for the prior year and 3200 Crores during the prior quarter. The provision coverage ratio was at 73% as against 71% in the prior year and it was at 73% in the prior quarter two.
- At the end of the current quarter, contingent provisions and floating provisions remained close to the prior quarter level at 11000 Crores, and general provisions were 6800 Crores.
- Total provisions comprising specific floating, contingent, and general provisions were about 171% of gross nonperforming loans.
- Floating and contingent and general provisions were about 1.19% of gross advances as of the September quarter end.
- the total annualized credit cost for the quarter was 87 basis points, the prior year was 130 basis points, and the prior quarter was 91 basis points.
- Recoveries which are recorded as miscellaneous income amounted 22 basis points of growth advances for the quarter as against 23 basis points of the prior year as well as the prior quarter.
- The total credit cost ratio net of recovery was at 64 basis points as compared to 103 basis points in the prior year and 68 basis points in the prior quarter.
- Time deposits grew by 22% and HDFC Bank has a very low penetration of 14% to 15% of their customers with time deposits.
- Fees and commission income constituting 3/4th of other income was at 5800 Crores and grew by 17% over the prior year and 8% over the prior quarter.
- Retail constitutes approximately 93% of the fees.
- The fixed and derivatives income at 948 Crores was higher by 9.3% compared to the prior year.
- Trading and mark-to-market losses were 253 Crores loss. The mark-to-market losses are mainly from our AFS investments in our corporate bonds and PTCs due to rate moments in the front-end yield curve. The prior quarter was also at a negative 1312 Crores and the prior year was a gain of 676 Crores, which were then opportunistic from an investment portfolio.
- Other miscellaneous income of 1098 Crores includes recoveries from written-off accounts and dividends from subsidiaries, excluding trading on mark-to-market losses, total other income at Rs.7849 Crores grew by 16.7% over the prior year.
Investor Conference Call Highlights
- On the distribution expansion, HDFC bank added 121 branches and 248 ATMs during the quarter. Management stated that about 500 more branches are in various stages in the pipeline to be opened in the next few months.
- The company has 15,691 business correspondence an increase of 73 over the prior quarter.
- Gold loan processing is now offered in 2960 branches an increase of 900 branches in the current quarter and up 2.2 times over March 2022.
- Payment acceptance points have grown by 269000 in the quarter to 3.5 million and have grown by over 1 million versus the prior year, a growth of 41%.
- Wealth management has now been offered in 502 locations through a hub and spoke model, expanded by 145 new locations in the quarter.
- The management plan to drive an increase in the market share through deepening in B30 City.
- In customer franchise building, the company has acquired 2.9 million new liability relationships exhibiting a healthy growth of 22% over the prior year and 11% over the prior quarter.
- Over the last five quarters, the company has steadily acquired over 2 million new customer liability relationships per quarter.
- The company has issued 1.2 million cards and closed 2.4 million cards during the quarter. Total card base is now 16.3 million.
- HDFC Bank One that is the customer experience hub was launched and the company migrated phone banking, virtual relationship banking, and telesales from this platform in the recent quarter. It enhances customer relationship management process using AML and conversations BOT enabling round-the-clock self service capabilities to human interaction
- Phone banking voice support role out is underway across the country adding more cities along with multilingual support.
- The company launched PayZapp 2.0 to closed user group for performance optimization and improved payment experiences, the management expect to broad base the role out shortly.
- SmartHub Vyapar app the one stop merchant solution platform is adding more than 60,000 merchants every month. As of end September over 1.6 million small businesses are on the SmartHub platform.
- In Q2 the company received a total of 261 million visits on website, averaging about 30 million unique customers per month with a year-on-year growth of around 12%.
- Highlights on HDB Financial Services:
- Disbursements during the quarter which was at 9860 Crores registering a healthy growth of 29% year-on-year and 8.5% sequentially.
- Customer franchise grew to 10.4 million customers with a 6% addition during the quarter and an increase of 33% year-on-year.
- HDB Financial Services has started to augment the distribution network and opened four branches in the quarter taking it to 1407 branches spread across 1009 cities and towns.
- The total loan book as of September end stood at 63112 Crores with secured loans comprising 75% of the total book.
- The provision coverage ratio on secured and unsecured books stood at 46.5% and 92% respectively.
- Profit after tax for the quarter that ended September 30, was 471 Crores as against 192 Crores for the quarter that ended last year same time.
- Capital adequacy ratio at 20.8%
- Highlights on HSL:
- HSL has 215 branches across 147 cities and towns as of the end of September.
- HDFC Securities has grown its client with a year-on-year growth of 36% over the prior year September taking the overall client base to 4.14 million.
- The total reported revenue for the quarter was at 468 Crores as against 489 Crores in the prior year and net profit after tax was at 191 Crores as against 240 Crores in the prior year.
- On the margin side, management gave guidance that, earlier they have operated between 3.94% to 4.45%, which is a typical range, and when they operate at that range, the mix of products which is the retail mix between 53% to 55% and the wholesale mix, a wholesale component of that mix is 45% to 47%. Over the last two, or three years it is switched to retail is now at 45% wholesale is at 55%. That’s why the NIM is on the lower end of the range. The wholesale book is floating assets and the retail book is mostly fixed.
- The management stated there is a ramp-up going to happen in the second half of the branch build. At the moment more than 500 branches are in the pipeline in various stages of completion in the coming months to be open soon.
- The company sees a good amount of traction coming on the transactor-driven spending, management stated customers who are spending have very good liquidity.
- The revolver rates have not picked up, and are still not that 70%, 75% of the pre-COVID level so last quarter; this quarter revolvers have not picked up.
- Management stated one to three months of revolver-type profile customers are slightly picking up.
- Out of 1,61,000 employees, around 45,000 is the sales force.
- The management stated HDFC bank generally has a 5-year period where it grows loans and deposits around 2.5 times and expects the same for the next 2023 to 2027 block.
- The company has moved to 1.42 lakh villages now, which was 1 lakh 12-15 months ago, and it is on track to go to 2 lakh villages. They are opening up around 3000 branches originating the gold loan and they wanted to do around 5000 branches.
Analyst’s View
HDFC Bank is the biggest bank in the country by market capitalization. The bank saw a good Q2 with 19% YoY growth in NII and 23% YoY growth in advances. It has seen good growth in the wholesale segment with rising demand for credit from PSUs and the like coupled with lower prepayments. The management has stated that the next leg of growth in NII will be coming from the retail segment with the company working to establish itself in the payment ecosystem in the country. It has increased the traction on its SmartHub Vyapar app, adding 60,000 merchants every month. It remains to be seen how the company will combat the rising competition in the payments space from tech majors like Paytm and consumer finance giants like Bajaj Finance and how will the announced merger with parent HDFC pan out. Nonetheless, given the bank’s customer set, strong liquidity profile, and enduring brand image, HDFC Bank remains an indispensable banking stock for every investor.
Q4FY22 Updates
Financial Results & Highlights
Consolidated Financials (In Crs) | ||||||||
Q4FY22 | Q4FY21 | YoY % | Q3FY22 | QoQ % | FY22 | FY21 | YoY% | |
Sales | 43960 | 40909 | 7.5% | 43365 | 1.4% | 167695 | 155885 | 7.6% |
PBT | 13690 | 11266 | 21.5% | 14218 | -3.7% | 50873 | 42796 | 18.9% |
PAT | 10475 | 8444 | 21.4% | 10616 | -1.3% | 38151 | 31857 | 19.8% |
Standalone Financials (In Crs) | ||||||||
Q4FY22 | Q4FY21 | YoY % | Q3FY22 | QoQ % | FY22 | FY21 | YoY% | |
Sales | 41086 | 38017 | 8.1% | 40652 | 1.1% | 157263 | 146063 | 7.7% |
PBT | 13045 | 10839 | 20.4% | 13782 | -5.3% | 49015 | 41659 | 17.7% |
PAT | 10055 | 8186 | 22.8% | 10342 | -2.8% | 36961 | 31116 | 18.8% |
Detailed Results:
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- Net standalone revenues rose 8% YoY in Q4.
- Other income formed 28.8% of net revenues at Rs 7637.1 Cr
- Fees & Commissions: Rs 5630.3 Cr vs 5023.3 last year.
- FX & Derivatives: Rs 892.5 Cr vs 879.3 Cr last year.
- Gain on sale/revaluation: Rs (40.3) Cr vs 655.1 Cr last year.
- Miscellaneous Income: Rs 1154.7 Cr vs 1036.2 Cr last year.
- NII grew 10% to Rs 18872.7 Cr driven by growth in advances of 16.5% and core NIM of 4% of total asset.
- Operating expenses were up 10.6% YoY.
- Pre-provision Operating Profit grew 10.2% YoY.
- Total Credit Cost ratio was at 0.96%.
- The Bank maintained a CAR of 18.9%.
- The Bank maintained floating provisions of Rs 1451 Cr and contingent provisions of Rs 9685 Cr. Total provisions were at 182% of GNPAs.
- HSL saw revenues for the quarter rose 16% YoY. However PAT de grew 3.7% YoY.
- HDB Financial Services Net revenues grew 7.9% YoY. CAR was maintained at 20.2%
Investor Conference Call Highlights:
- Rural & commercial banking biz grew at 30% YoY, retail bz grew at 15% YoY & wholesale biz grew at 17.4% YoY.
- The company opened 2.4 million new liability relationships during the quarter and 8.7 million new liability relationships during the year exhibiting growth of 25% over prior year.
- CASA ratio stood at 48%.
- Retail constitutes 80% of total deposits.
- The bank added 8.2 lakh new card users in Q4 and 21.8 lakh cards since lifting of embargo.
- Credit card spends grew by 28% YoY, while UPI and direct pay grew at 30% YoY.
- Market share and advances improved from 10 to 11%.
- Incremental share of credit growth in the economy was at 24%.
- In deposit mobilization, market share improved from 8.8% to 9.5% during the year.
- The LCR average for the quarter was 112%.
- Shifting of Asset mix towards higher rated segments during the COVID period albeit at lower yield has resulted in lower growth of NII.
- The company added 563 branches for the quarter and for the year 734 branches and 2,043 ATMs taking the total network strength to 6342 branches, 18,130 ATMs and 15,046 business correspondents who manage the common service centers.
- Net NPA was at 0.32 while annualized slippage ratio for the current quarter is at approximately 1.3% about ₹ 4,000 Crores as against 1.6% in the prior quarter.
- Write-offs in the quarters were ₹ 1,700 Crores for approximately 16 basis points.
- Restructuring under the RBI resolution framework for COVID-19 as of March end stands at 114 basis points of ₹ 15,700 Crores.
- specific provision coverage ratio was at 73%
- floating and contingent and general provisions were 1.28% of gross advances as of March quarter end
- As of March 2022 HDBFSL had 1,374 branches across 989 cities and towns
- ROA for the quarter was >2% while ROE > 17%
- Higher growth of wholesale loans Vs retail has led to reduction in margins.
- The company is trying to generate profitability through the safer given the pandemic led volatility since although retail loans are decreasing but the management believes increase in retail loan will also have its own perils in the form of higher cost to income as credit costs will rise.
- Yield on commercial banking is approximately about 8% & that of agriculture is 9-10%.
- The bank has branch productivity of 250 Crores per branch which is best in the industry as per management.
- The management is focused on increasing branch count since it believes that the radius around which the customers can be serviced is currently at 4-5 Km radius which needs to come down to 1-2 Km radius because of which the branch in the catchment area can effectively manage the customers relationships better.
- The management expects CASA ratio to taper down to historical levels of 40-42 Vs current levels of 48.
- Wholesale biz grew substantially due to higher credit demand from PSU’s and Telecom sector coupled with lower prepayments.
- Floating rate: fixed rate is 54:46 of total loan book now.
- Out of the floating rate, repo linked is 29-30% while T-bills linked is 10%.
- PayZapp is expected to be launched in Q1FY23.
Analyst Views:
HDFC Bank is the biggest bank in the country by market capitalization. The bank saw a mediocre Q4 with 10% YoY growth in NII and 16.5% YoY growth in advances. It has seen good growth in the wholesale segment with rising demand for credit from PSU’s and the likes coupled with lower prepayments. The management has stated that the next leg of growth in NII will be coming from the retail segment with the company working to establish itself in the payment ecosystem in the country. It also sees good potential for growth in the MSME lending space and expansion of the addressable market with programs like Kirana and Dukandar Overdraft. It remains to be seen how the company will combat the rising competition in the payments space from tech majors like Paytm and consumer finance giants like Bajaj Finance and how will the announced merger with parent HDFC pan out. Nonetheless, given the bank’s customer set, strong liquidity profile, and enduring brand image, HDFC Bank remains an indispensable banking stock for every investor.
Q3FY22 Updates
Financial Results & Highlights
Consolidated Financials (In Crs) | ||||||||
Q3FY22 | Q3FY21 | YoY % | Q2FY22 | QoQ % | 9MFY22 | 9MFY21 | YoY% | |
Sales | 43364 | 39838 | 8.9% | 41436 | 4.7% | 123734 | 114975 | 7.6% |
PBT | 14218 | 11813 | 20.4% | 12323 | 15.4% | 37183 | 31530 | 17.9% |
PAT | 10615 | 8760 | 21.2% | 9119 | 16.4% | 27676 | 23412 | 18.2% |
Standalone Financials (In Crs) | ||||||||
Q3FY22 | Q3FY21 | YoY % | Q2FY22 | QoQ % | 9MFY22 | 9MFY21 | YoY% | |
Sales | 40651 | 37522 | 8.3% | 38754 | 4.9% | 116177 | 108045 | 7.5% |
PBT | 13781 | 11771 | 17.1% | 11882 | 16.0% | 35970 | 30819 | 16.7% |
PAT | 10342 | 8758 | 18.1% | 8834 | 17.1% | 26906 | 22930 | 17.3% |
Detailed Results:
- Net standalone revenues rose 12.1% YoY in Q3.
- Other income formed 30.7% of net revenues at Rs 8183.6 Cr
- Fees & Commissions: Rs 5075.1 Cr vs 4974.9 last year.
- FX & Derivatives: Rs 949.5 Cr vs 562 Cr last year.
- Gain on sale/revaluation: Rs 1046.5 Cr vs 1019 Cr last year.
- Miscellaneous Income: Rs 1112.5 Cr vs 797.1 Cr last year.
- NII grew 13% to Rs 18443.5 Cr driven by growth in advances of 16.5% and core NIM of 4.1%.
- Operating expenses were up 14.9% YoY.
- Pre-provision Operating Profit grew 10.5% YoY.
- Total Credit Cost ratio was at 0.94%.
- Bank maintained a CAR of 19.5%.
- Bank maintained floating provisions of Rs 1451 Cr and contingent provisions of Rs 8636 Cr. Total provisions were at 172% of GNPAs.
- HSL saw revenues for the quarter rose 58% YoY. PAT grew 58% YoY.
- HDB Financial Services Net revenues grew 15% YoY. CAR was maintained at 20.3%
Investor Conference Call Highlights:
- Private issuance raising almost INR 82,000 crores, Company was mandated for 8 IPOs.
- The Bank maintained its ranking as one of top 3 arrangers in the INR bond market.
- Liquidity is strong as reflected in average LCR for the quarter at 123%.
- The company onboarded more than 5,000 people in the quarter, 14,300-plus people during the 9 months period and about 17,400 people over the past 21 months.
- The bank saw capacity for UPI triple, while net banking and mobile banking capacity have been doubled to manage 90,000 users concurrently.
- The bank has migrated 4 data centers in Bangalore and Mumbai to state-of-the-art facilities.
- During Q3, the company received a total of 245 million visits on our website, averaging 31 million unique customers per month.
- As per company analysis, 30% to 70% visits on website with vis-a-vis public-private sector sales, close to 60% of the visits were through mobile device indicating the mobile simplicity.
- During Q3, the company opened about 2.4 million new liability relationships, 6.4 million new liabilities during the 9 months period of this financial year, exhibiting a growth of 29% over the same period last year
- In Q3, the company achieved the highest ever issuance with 9.5 lakh card issuances.
- Credit cards print for the bank has grown 22% year-on-year and debit card print has grown 14% year-on-year.
- The Bank have signed MOUs with 2 large payment banks for distributing certain products.
- The Bank has 2.85 million acceptance points as of December with a year-on-year growth of 35%.
- The Bank’s acquiring market share stands at approximately 47% with a 19% share in terminals processing about 300 million transactions per month
- Over 50% of new merchant sourcing is from SURU locations.
- Corporate banking and other wholesale loans grew by 7.5% over prior year and 4.4% over prior quarter. On retail assets front, momentum pickup observed during Q2 continued its stride in Q3 as well, witnessing a robust sequential asset growth of 4.7% and year-on-year growth of 13.3%.
- Retail constitutes approximately 93% and wholesale constitutes 7% of fees and commission income.
- Fees, excluding payment products, grew year-on-year by 17%.
- FX and derivatives income at INR949 crores was higher by 69% compared to prior year, reflecting pickup in activities and spreads.
- Trading income was INR1,046 crores for the quarter, prior year was at INR1,109 crores and prior quarter was at INR676 crores.
- Expenses for the quarter at INR9,851 crores.
- Company added 294 branches, bringing total branches to 5,779 and added 1,697 ATM cash deposit and withdrawal machines, taking the total to 17,238.
- Cost-income ratio for the quarter was at 37%, which is similar to the prior-year level.
- GNPA ratio was at 1.26% of gross advances as compared to 1.35% in previous quarter.
- Net NPA ratio was at 0.37% of net advances however preceding quarter was at 0.4%.
- Annual slippage ratio for the current quarter is at 1.6%, about INR4,600 crores as against 1.8% in prior quarter.
- Agri seasonally has contributed approximately INR1,000 crores to slippages or about 25 basis points annualized rate.
- During Q3, recoveries and upgrades were about INR2,400 crores or approximately 25 basis points.
- Sale of NPA, about INR260 crores, approximately 2 basis points in the Quarter included in one of the categories above.
- Restructuring under RBI resolution framework for COVID-19 as of December end stands at 137 basis points at the borrower level and includes approximately 28 basis points of other facilities of the same borrowers, which are not restructured, but included here.
- In restructured accounts, 30% are secured with good collateral and the predominant good CIBIL score and the unsecured portion, approximately two-thirds are salaried customers and about 40% have good CIBIL scores.
- Specific loan loss provisions for the quarter were INR1,821 crores as against INR2,286 crores during prior quarter.
- Credit cost ratio, that is the specific loan loss ratio, is at 57 basis points for the quarter against the 76 basis points for the prior quarter.
- Total annualized credit cost for the quarter was at 94 basis points, which includes impact of contingent provision of approximately 30 basis points.
- Total deposits amounting to INR14,45,918 crores is up 13.8% over prior year.
- CASA deposits registered a robust growth of 24.6% year-on-year
- Profit after tax for the quarter was INR304 crores compared to a loss of INR146 crores for the prior-year quarter and a profit after tax of INR192 crores for the sequential quarter.
- HDFC Securities Limited, with its wide network presence of 213 branches in 147 cities and towns in the country has shown an increase year-on-year in total revenue to INR536 crores.
- Payment and credit card-related fees declined in Q3.
- There was no new restructuring done in this quarter.
- Focus is on customer acquisition, customer servicing, and relationship management according to the management.
Analyst Views:
HDFC Bank is the biggest bank in the country by market capitalization. The bank saw a good Q3 with 13% YoY growth in NII and 16% YoY growth in advances. It has seen good growth in the retail segment with consumer spending rising and credit card issuance also rising a lot. The management has stated that the next leg of growth in NII will be coming from the retail segment with the company working to establish itself in the payment ecosystem in the country. It also sees good potential for growth in the MSME lending space and expansion of the addressable market with programs like Kirana and Dukandar Overdraft. It remains to be seen how the company will combat the rising competition in the payments space from tech majors like Paytm and consumer finance giants like Bajaj Finance. Nonetheless, given the bank’s customer set, strong liquidity profile, and enduring brand image, HDFC Bank remains an indispensable banking stock for every investor.
Q2FY22 Updates
Financial Results & Highlights
Standalone Financials (In Crs) | ||||||||
Q2FY22 | Q2FY21 | YoY % | Q1FY22 | QoQ % | H1FY22 | H1FY21 | YoY% | |
Sales | 38754 | 36069 | 7.44% | 36771 | 5.39% | 75526 | 70523 | 7.09% |
PBT | 11883 | 10110 | 17.54% | 10306 | 15.30% | 22189 | 19048 | 16.5% |
PAT | 8834 | 7513 | 17.58% | 7730 | 14.28% | 16564 | 14172 | 16.88% |
Consolidated Financials (In Crs) | ||||||||
Q2FY22 | Q2FY21 | YoY % | Q1FY22 | QoQ % | H1FY22 | H1FY21 | YoY% | |
Sales | 41436 | 38438 | 7.80% | 38934 | 6.43% | 80370 | 75137 | 6.96% |
PBT | 12324 | 10378 | 19% | 10642 | 15.81% | 22965 | 19717 | 16% |
PAT | 9120 | 7711 | 18% | 7940 | 14.86% | 17060 | 14652 | 16.43% |
Detailed Results:
- The net standalone revenues rose 7.44% YoY in Q2.
- NII grew 12.1% YoY to Rs 17684 Cr driven by growth in advances of 15.5% YoY and core NIM of 4.1%.
- Other income formed 29.5% of net revenues at Rs 7400 Cr which was up 21.5% YoY.
- The breakup of other income is:
- Fees & Commissions: Rs 4946 Cr vs 3940 Cr last year.
- FX & Derivatives: Rs 867 Cr vs 560 Cr last year.
- Gain on sale/revaluation: Rs 676 Cr vs 1016 Cr last year.
- Miscellaneous Income: Rs 912 Cr vs 576 Cr last year.
- Operating expenses were up 15.2% YoY. The cost to income was at 37%.
- Pre-provision Operating Profit grew 14.4% YoY. Provisions and contingencies for the quarter were at Rs 3924.
- The Total Credit Cost ratio was at 1.3% vs 1.41% last year.
- Standalone PBT & PAT rose to 17.5% and 17.6% respectively YoY in Q2.
- Total Balance Sheet size rose 14.6% YoY. Total Deposits rose 14.4% YoY while CASA deposits rose 28.7% YoY. Time deposits grew 4.2% YoY.
- Total advances rose by 15.5% YoY. Retail advances grew 12.9% while commercial and rural banking loans grew by 27.6% and other wholesale loans grew by 6%. Overseas advances were at 3.5% of total advances
- H1 figures were also good with consolidated revenues up 7% YoY & PAT up 16.4% YoY.
- The bank maintained a CAR of 20%. with Tier I CAR at 18.7%.
- GNPAs were at 1.35% on 30th Sep 2021. NNPA was at 0.4%.
- The bank maintained floating provisions of Rs 1451 Cr and contingent provisions of Rs 7756 Cr. Total provisions were at 163% of GNPAs.
- The bank increased its network by 256 branches YoY to 5686 in 2929 cities/towns in Q2FY21.
- HSL saw revenues for the quarter rose 42% YoY to Rs 489.5 Cr vs Rs 344.3 Cr last year. PAT grew 44% YoY to Rs 240 Cr vs Rs 166 Cr last year.
- HDB Financial Services saw total loan books rise by 0.44% YoY and LCR at 157%. Net revenues for the subsidiary grew 12.5% YoY. PAT grew 8.6% YoY. GNPA here was at 6.1%. CAR was maintained at 19.8%.
Investor Conference Call Details:
- HDFC Bank has become the 1st bank in India to deploy a hybrid multi-cloud strategy for hosting applications on the cloud. This is expected to enable the bank to build and deploy highly scalable platforms with flexible capacity utilization while conforming to the high-security posture of the bank according to the management.
- The bank’s website traffic has also grown 24% YoY with 60% of visits through the mobile app.
- The bank established 2.4 million new liability relationships which is a record and was up 31% YoY and 45% QoQ.
- Credit card spends for the bank has grown 36% YoY and 27% QoQ.
- IN the last 5 weeks, HDFC bank issues 4,16,000 new credit cards.
- The bank has a P2P market share of 10% and a P2M market share of 15%.
- The consumer finance business is enabled across 1.3 lakh merchant points.
- As of 30th Sep 2021, the bank has around 1 million small businesses on its payment ecosystem and the management is confident of taking this number to 20 million and become the largest payment ecosystem in India in the future.
- In retail assets, incremental disbursals have grown 50% QoQ and 71% YoY.
- Incremental auto loan disbursal for HDFC Bank in value terms has increased 36% YoY despite Domestic vehicles volumes falling 37% YoY in Sep 2021.
- The management expects the incremental disbursals in 2 wheeler finance and microfinance to peak in the next 2 months.
- Commercial and rural banking assets have grown 27.4% YoY.
- The wholesale SME business has grown 33% YoY. Disbursals in retail SME finance have grown 83% QoQ.
- In Q2, the bank piloted its Dukandar Overdraft program supporting street vendors and small hawkers. It also piloted Kirana Overdraft with an FMCG major.
- The SME book is fairly diversified with no industry having more than 5% exposure, except the agricultural, which is largely focused on the priority sector.
- In HDB, 70% of the loan book is secured. The management expects a rise in disbursals in HDB in Q3 & Q4.
- Over 70% of the Stage 3 book is secured, which has more than 100% collateral in the SME book and more than 80% collateral in the asset finance book and still carries a provision coverage of 43%. The unsecured Stage 3 book had a provision coverage of 88% as of the end of September.
- The RoA stands at 1.9% and the book value stands at Rs 395 per share.
- The management maintains that growth in NII will be driven by the retail business.
- The total impact from the restructured book is expected to be around 10-20 bps at most according to the management.
- The management states that other expenses have risen mainly due to a rise in front-end costs for retail customer acquisition.
- The management mentions that there is a lot of room for growth in the MSME and rural lending space. Of the total 6.5 Cr MSMEs in India, only 1.5 Cr are using MSME finance of which HDFC bank has a small share, indicating a big potential for growth for both the MSME finance sector and HDFC bank in this segment.
- The current technology spending is at 2.7-2.8% of revenues which comes to 7.5-8% of total expenses.
- Corporate lending is at 1/3rd of the total book for HDFC bank and corporate lending is expected to grow according to the management.
Analyst Views:
HDFC Bank is the biggest bank in the country by market capitalization. The bank saw a good Q2 with 12.1% YoY growth in NII and 15.5% YoY growth in advances. It has seen good growth in the retail segment with consumer spending rising and credit card issuance also rising a lot. The management has stated that the next leg of growth in NII will be coming from the retail segment with the company working to establish itself in the payment ecosystem in the country. It also sees good potential for growth in the MSME lending space and expansion of the addressable market with programs like Kirana and Dukandar Overdraft. It remains to be seen how the company will combat the rising competition in the payments space from tech majors like Paytm and consumer finance giants like Bajaj Finance. Nonetheless, given the bank’s customer set, strong liquidity profile, and enduring brand image, HDFC Bank remains an indispensable banking stock for every investor.
Q1FY22 Updates
Financial Results & Highlights
Standalone Financials (In Crs) | |||||
Q1FY22 | Q1FY21 | YoY % | Q4FY21 | QoQ % | |
Sales | 36771 | 34553 | 6.42% | 38017 | -3.28% |
PBT | 10306 | 8937 | 15.32% | 10839 | -4.92% |
PAT | 7729 | 6658 | 16.09% | 8186 | -5.58% |
Consolidated Financials (In Crs) | |||||
Q1FY22 | Q1FY21 | YoY % | Q4FY21 | QoQ % | |
Sales | 38933 | 36698 | 6.09% | 40909 | -4.83% |
PBT | 10641 | 9339 | 14% | 11265 | -5.54% |
PAT | 7940 | 6940 | 14% | 8444 | -5.97% |
Detailed Results:
- The net standalone revenues rose 18.0% YoY in Q1.
- NII grew 8.5% YoY to Rs 17009 Cr driven by growth in advances of 14.4% YoY and core NIM of 4.1%.
- Other income formed 27 % of net revenues at Rs 6288.5 Cr which was up 54.3% YoY.
- The breakup of other income is:
- Fees & Commissions: Rs 3885.4 Cr vs 2230.7 Cr last year.
- FX & Derivatives: Rs 1198.7 Cr vs 436.6 Cr last year.
- Gain on sale/revaluation: Rs 601 Cr vs 1086.7 Cr last year.
- Miscellaneous Income: Rs 603.5 Cr vs 321.3 Cr last year.
- Operating expenses were up 18.1% YoY. The cost to income was at 35.0%.
- Pre-provision Operating Profit grew 18.0% YoY. Provisions and contingencies for the quarter were at Rs 4830.8.
- The Total Credit Cost ratio was at 1.67% vs 1.54% last year.
- Standalone PBT & PAT rose to 16.1% and 15.3% respectively YoY in Q4.
- Total Balance Sheet size rose 13.5% YoY. Total Deposits rose 13.2% YoY while CASA deposits rose 28.1% YoY. Time deposits grew 3.1% YoY.
- Total advances rose by 14.4% YoY. Retail advances grew 9.3% while commercial and rural banking loans grew by 25.1% and other wholesale loans grew by 10.2%. Overseas advances were at 3% of total advances
- The Bank’s has healthy liquidity coverage ratio at 126%, well above the regulatory requirement.
- The bank maintained a CAR of 19.1%. with Tier I CAR at 17.9%.
- GNPAs were at 1.47% on 30th June 2021. NNPA was at 0.48%.
- The bank maintained floating provisions of Rs 1451 Cr and contingent provisions of Rs 6596 Cr. Total provisions were at 146% of GNPAs.
- The bank increased its network by 327 branches to 5608 in 2917 cities/towns in FY21.
- HSL saw revenues for the quarter rose to Rs 457.8 Cr vs Rs 273.7 Cr last year. PAT was at Rs 260 Cr vs Rs 137 Cr last year.
- HDB Financial Services saw a total loan books rise by 1.3% YoY and LCR at 242%. NII for the subsidiary grew 2.8% YoY. PAT fell to Rs 130.6 Cr from Rs 232.7 Cr last year. GNPA here was at 7.75%. CAR was maintained at 19.8%.
Investor Conference Call Details:
- At the end of the June quarter, they have signed up 1.12 Lakh Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs). This removes the Bank’s intervention and enables the VLE to do end-to-end processing of the loan sanction.
- The Bank has declared the dividend of Rs6.5 per equity share for FY ’21
- Tele-channel sales for this quarter grew to 400% in business because of the remote working.
- UPI transactions by the value of P2P and P2M in aggregate have sequentially grown by 11% to Rs 165,000 Cr. P2P market share is about 10% and P2M market share is about 14%.
- Mobile banking and net banking users have grown YoY by 31% and 21%, respectively.
- The HDB bank has a market share for the card is about 23.8%(around 14.9 million cards) of the total industry and about three-fourth of the bank credit card customers are retail.
- The Average ticket size of the transaction is 1.2 times higher than the industry, which reflects the strength of the franchise and the depth of our customer relationship.
- The Bank has 2.3 million acceptance points as of June with the YoY growth of 24%, acquiring business volumes, including credit, debit, UPI, direct pay.
- The bank has opened 45 new branches this quarter which bring to the total of 5653 branches. On average, one branch every alternate day.
- The bank added 1.64 million new liability relationships in Q1 an increase of 40% QoQ.
- PPoP grew by 18 % YoY in Q1FY22.
- The core annualized slippage ratio (good loan turning to bad loan) for the current quarter is at 2.54%, as against 1.66% in the prior quarter.
- Excluding the agriculture segment, the slippage in the current quarter is 2.2% compared to the prior quarter.
- Management told that the Second wave of Covid has impacted two-thirds of the quarter this lead to a drop in efficiency in collection, they believe it will take the next few months to get the missed collections to a regular schedule.
- Commercial and Rural Banking had an end of period growth in total assets of 24% Y-o-Y and 4% QoQ.
- HDB Banking business, or wholesale SME business, saw an asset growth of 33% Y-o-Y and 4% QoQ.
- HDB Emerging Enterprises and retail SME business, had a 52% Y-o-Y growth and 9% QoQ growth.
- HDB transportation finance business, a mix of working capital and EMI businesses, remained flat over the prior quarter.
- HDB large in market share but small in size, healthcare finance business saw a quarterly decline of 4%.
- The HDB has Write-off INR3,100 crores compare to INR 1500 crores of the previous year.
- At the portfolio level, the bank is 80%- 85% covered by collateral.
- According to NASH data has consistently had a 50% better bounce ratio.
- The recent ban on MasterCard management says they are looking for alternatives.
- Collateralization of the HDB bank is around 80% against their exposure
- The average internal rating of the bank wholesales is about 4.3 and the unsecured wholesale portfolio is 3.5 rated portfolio on an average
- On ESG development, the bank has promised to become carbon neutral by the financial year ’31-’32
Analyst Views:
HDFC Bank is the biggest bank in the country by market capitalization. The bank CASA deposits grew by 28.1 % in Q1FY22. Despite the rise in NPA due to Covid complexity which has impacted two-thirds of the quarter HDB bank, it still remains attractive to the customer as well as borrower in terms of liquidity. It has deservedly earned its stellar reputation over the years. Nonetheless, given the bank’s customer set, strong liquidity profile, and enduring brand image, HDFC Bank remains an indispensable banking stock for every investor.
Q4FY21 Updates
Financial Results & Highlights
Standalone Financials (In Crs) | ||||||||
Q4FY21 | Q4FY20 | YoY % | Q3FY21 | QoQ % | FY21 | FY20 | YoY% | |
Sales | 38018 | 35918 | 5.85% | 37523 | 1.32% | 146063 | 138073 | 5.79% |
PBT | 10839 | 9174 | 18.15% | 11772 | -7.93% | 41659 | 36607 | 13.80% |
PAT | 8187 | 6928 | 18.17% | 8758 | -6.52% | 31117 | 26257 | 18.51% |
Consolidated Financials (In Crs) | ||||||||
Q4FY21 | Q4FY20 | YoY % | Q3FY21 | QoQ % | FY21 | FY20 | YoY% | |
Sales | 40909 | 38287 | 6.85% | 39839 | 2.69% | 155885 | 147068 | 6.00% |
PBT | 11266 | 9682 | 16% | 11813 | -4.63% | 42796 | 38195 | 12.05% |
PAT | 8444 | 7297 | 16% | 8760 | -3.61% | 31857 | 27296 | 16.71% |
Detailed Results
- The net standalone revenues rose 16.4% YoY in Q4.
- NII grew 12.6% YoY to Rs 17120 Cr driven by growth in advances of 14% YoY and core NIM of 4.2%.
- Other income formed 30.7% of net revenues at Rs 7593.9 Cr which was up 25.9% YoY.
- The breakup of other income is:
- Fees & Commissions: Rs 5023 Cr vs 4201 Cr last year.
- FX & Derivatives: Rs 879 Cr vs 501 Cr last year.
- Gain on sale/revaluation: Rs 655 Cr vs 565 Cr last year.
- Miscellaneous Income: Rs 1036 Cr vs 766 Cr last year.
- Operating expenses were up 10.9% YoY. The cost to income was at 37.2% vs 39% a year ago.
- Pre-provision Operating Profit grew 19.9% YoY. Provisions and contingencies for the quarter were at Rs 4693.7 Cr.
- The Total Credit Cost ratio was at 1.64%.
- Standalone PAT rose 18.2% YoY in Q4.
- Total Balance Sheet size rose 18.6% YoY. Total Deposits rose 16.3% YoY while CASA deposits rose 27% YoY. Time deposits grew 8.5% YoY.
- Total advances rose by 14% YoY with domestic advances rose 14.1% YoY. Retail advances grew 6.7% YoY while wholesale advances grew 21.7% YoY. Retail to the wholesale mix was at 47:53. Overseas advances were at 3% of total advances
- FY21 revenues grew 5.8% YoY while Profits grew 18.5% YoY.
- The bank maintained a CAR of 18.8%. with Tier I CAR at 17.6%.
- GNPA was at 1.32% on 31st Mar 2021. NNPA was at 0.09%. If the bank classified borrower accounts as NPA after 31st Aug 2020, Gross NPA would come out to 1.38% and NNPA would be 0.4%.
- The bank maintained floating provisions of Rs 1451 Cr and contingent provisions of Rs 5861 Cr. Total provisions were at 153% of GNPAs.
- The bank increased its network by 354 branches to 5608 in 2902 cities/towns in FY21.
- HSL saw revenues for the quarter rose to Rs 439 Cr vs Rs 300 Cr last year. PAT was at Rs 253 Cr vs Rs 157 Cr last year.
- HDB Financial Services saw a total loan books rise by 5% YoY and LCR at 265%. NII for the subsidiary grew 15.4% YoY. PAT fell to Rs 284.6 Cr from Rs 341.7 Cr last year. GNPA here was at 3.9%. CAR was maintained at 19%.
Investor Conference Call Highlights
- The bank added 2 million new liability relationships in Q4 and 7 million such relationships in FY21. It also acquired 2.5 million salaried customers in FY21.
- The management reported that the video KYC process was instrumental in digital CASA acquisition with the entire KYC process being reduced down to less than 5 mins.
- The bank saw good growth in mid-sized corporates and SMEs aided by new-to-bank customer acquisition, deeper geographical penetration and higher utilization.
- The bank also added 10,177 business correspondents in FY21.
- PPoP grew by 19.9% YoY in Q4FY21.
- All business lines continued their growth momentum, with the secured business of LAP and vehicle segments providing the largest contribution to sequential growth.
- NII for HDB grew 15.4% YoY in Q4 due to favourable product mix & lower cost of funds.
- The average internal rating of the bank’s wholesale business is at 4.24 on a scale of 1-10 where 10 is the worst and 7 is investment grade. 62% of the portfolio is rated AA or above.
- The weighted average rating of the top 20 borrowers of the bank is 2.92. The average for the unsecured portfolio is 3.36 while the rating for the secured portfolio is 4.57.
- The bank is 80% to 85% covered with collateral at the portfolio level.
- At the current rate of growth, the MSME book is expected to surpass the private sector large corporate book in 12 to 18 months’ time frame. The management has also stated that for every rupee of lending in wholesale SME the earnings is 2.2x of equivalent lending to large corporates, considering the difference in risk profiles.
- The reported slippage of 1.86% includes proforma slippage according to the management.
- The MSME book is around 18% of total advances.
- The management maintains that the bank is in no way constrained in capacity in terms of technology and it has even seen its market share in the merchant space rise to 50% in Jan ‘21 from 47% in Jan ‘20.
- 3/4th of card sourcing is done from existing customers of the bank.
- The management clarifies that all the contingent provisions are not anticipatory but precautionary and thus the change in provisions should not be seen to be related to the bank’s estimation of the impact of 2nd wave of COVID.
Analyst’s View
HDFC Bank is the biggest bank in the country by market capitalization. It has deservedly earned its stellar reputation over the years. The bank has performed well in Q4FY21 and continued its consistent growth momentum with 27% growth in CASA. The bank has seen a good 7 million new deposit customers which highlights the market reputation of the bank. The bank’s Video KYC seems to have had a good impact with customer onboarding time reduced to less than 5 mins. It remains to be seen what economic impact will the 2nd wave of COVID-19 have to the bank and industry in general. Nonetheless, given the bank’s resilient customer set, strong liquidity profile, and enduring brand image, HDFC Bank remains an indispensable banking stock for every investor, more so because of the recent correction in valuation.
Q3FY21 Updates
Financial Results & Highlights
Standalone Financials (In Crs) | ||||||||
Q3FY21 | Q3FY20 | YoY % | Q2FY21 | QoQ % | 9MFY21 | 9MFY20 | YoY% | |
Sales | 37523 | 36039 | 4.12% | 36069 | 4.03% | 108046 | 102156 | 5.77% |
PBT | 11772 | 9902 | 18.89% | 10110 | 16.44% | 30820 | 27433 | 12.35% |
PAT | 8758 | 7416 | 18.10% | 7513 | 16.57% | 22930 | 19330 | 18.62% |
Consolidated Financials (In Crs) | ||||||||
Q3FY21 | Q3FY20 | YoY % | Q2FY21 | QoQ % | 9MFY21 | 9MFY20 | YoY% | |
Sales | 39839 | 38326 | 3.95% | 38438 | 3.64% | 114976 | 108781 | 5.69% |
PBT | 11813 | 10249 | 15.26% | 10378 | 13.83% | 31530 | 28513 | 10.58% |
PAT | 8760 | 7660 | 14.36% | 7711 | 13.60% | 23412 | 20000 | 17.06% |
Detailed Results
- The net standalone revenues rose 4% YoY in Q3.
- NII grew 15.1% YoY to Rs 16317 Cr driven by growth in advances of 15.6% YoY and core NIM of 4.2%.
- Other income formed 31.3% of net revenues at Rs 7443 Cr.
- The breakup of other income is:
- Fees & Commissions: Rs 4975 Cr vs 4527 Cr last year.
- FX & Derivatives: Rs 562 Cr vs 526 Cr last year.
- Gain on sale/revaluation: Rs 1109 Cr vs 677 Cr last year.
- Miscellaneous Income: Rs 797 Cr vs 940 Cr last year.
- Operating expenses were up 8.6% YoY. The cost to income was at 36.1% vs 37.9% a year ago.
- Pre-provision Operating Profit grew 17.3% YoY. Provisions and contingencies for the quarter were at Rs 3414 Cr. Total Provisions include Rs 2400 Cr for proforma NPA.
- The Total Credit Cost ratio was at 1.25%.
- Standalone PAT rose 18.1% YoY.
- Total Balance Sheet size rose 18.6% YoY. Total Deposits rose 19.1% YoY while CASA deposits rose 29.6% YoY. Time deposits grew 12.2% YoY.
- Total advances rose by 15.6% YoY with domestic advances rose 14.9% YoY. Retail advances grew 5.2% YoY while wholesale advances grew 25.5% YoY. Retail to the wholesale mix was at 48:52. Overseas advances were at 3% of total advances
- 9M revenues grew 5.8% YoY while Profits grew 18.6% YoY.
- The bank maintained a CAR of 18.9%. with Tier I CAR at 17.6%.
- GNPAs was at 0.81% on 31st Dec 2020. NNPA was at 0.09%. If the bank classified borrower accounts as NPA after 31st Aug 2020, Gross NPA would come out to 1.38% and NNPA would be 0.4%.
- The bank maintained floating provisions of Rs 1451 Cr and contingent provisions of Rs 8658 Cr. Total provisions were at 195% of GNPAs.
- HSL saw revenues for the quarter rose to Rs 337 Cr vs Rs 216 Cr last year. PAT was at Rs 167 Cr vs Rs 102 Cr last year.
- HDB Financial Services saw a total loan books rise by 1.6% YoY and LCR at 285%. NII for the subsidiary was at Rs 924 Cr vs Rs 971 Cr last year. PAT fell to Rs (44) Cr from Rs 217 Cr last year. GNPA here was at 2.7% while NNPA was at 1.7%. CAR was maintained at 19.5%.
Investor Conference Call Highlights
- HDFC bank signed up approximately 1.6 lakh village-level entrepreneurs, of which 1.02 lakh are on-boarded as business facilitators and 13,502 business correspondents. These business correspondents are not only executing financial transactions through the use of other enabled payment systems, which works on biometric authentication but also — but have also enabled them to sell multiple products, including CASA, fixed deposits, loans, including gold loan, 2-wheeler loan, car loan, tractors and home loans.
- The bank has also opened more than 2.3 million CASA accounts in FY21 so far.
- It also saw a growth of 20% YoY in savings account acquisition and 15% YoY in current account acquisition due to focus on new customer acquisition complemented with video KYC, like full KYC accounts and digitally powered smart accounts.
- Personal loan customers are now on-boarded through VKYC through the digital channel. VKYC will extend to auto-loans, 2-wheeler loan,s and card customers in the future.
- Card sales volumes were up 32% QoQ due to the festive season.
- Merchant acquisition volumes were also up 20% QoQ.
- The bank maintained an average LCR of 146%.
- The bank opened 231 branches during 9MFY21.
- Retail constituted about 80% of total deposits and 100% of incremental contribution during the quarter.
- The credit deposit ratio was at 85% for the current quarter.
- The wholesale portfolio for the bank is now at Rs 5,80,000 Cr.
- The gross incremental portfolio during the quarter was rated 4.37 on the 1-10 HDB scale which corresponds to the AA/AAA rating.
- Around 68% of the portfolio is rated HDB 5 and above, which measures into AA.
- The collateral coverage was between 85% and 90%.
- The restructuring is 0.5% of the total book.
- Slippages in Q3 have been at Rs 5100 Cr.
- Under ECGLS 1.0, HDFC Bank disbursed Rs 22,103 Cr. In ECLGS 2.0, it disbursed Rs 579 Cr across 58 customers.
- The management assures that the bank is working on technology upgrades and has several action plans from strengthening of the disaster recovery or the recovery point and the recovery time and automating the orchestration tool to get on to the DR side of architectural efficiencies, cloud strategy, etc.
- The bank is back to pre-covid levels of demand resolution and collections.
- The management stated that it is not fair to compare asset quality for HDB and HDFC Bank as HDB has a higher-risk customer segment than HDFC Bank’s and it operates in a different product range.
- Total provisions for HDB stand at Rs 800 Cr.
Analyst’s View
HDFC Bank is the biggest bank in the country by market capitalization. It has deservedly earned its stellar reputation over the years. The bank has performed well in Q3FY21 with almost 30% growth in CASA. The bank has been able to successfully capitalize on the festive season which was evident from the QoQ increase in card accounts. The bank has also launched Video KYC for personal loans and will look to expand this into other segments which should help enhance customer experience and reduce costs and improve efficiency. It remains to be seen how the post-COVID-19 recovery will pan out in the near future and whether there are any surprises in store from COVID-19 still. Nonetheless, given the bank’s resilient customer set, strong liquidity profile, and enduring brand image, HDFC Bank remains an indispensable banking stock for every investor, more so because of the recent correction in valuation.
Q2FY21 Updates
Financial Results & Highlights
Standalone Financials (In Crs) | ||||||||
Q2FY21 | Q2FY20 | YoY % | Q1FY21 | QoQ % | H1FY21 | H1FY20 | YoY | |
Sales | 36069 | 33755 | 6.86% | 34453 | 4.69% | 70523 | 66117 | 6.66% |
PBT | 10110 | 8997 | 12.37% | 8938 | 13.11% | 19048 | 17531 | 8.65% |
PAT | 7513 | 6345 | 18.41% | 6659 | 12.82% | 14172 | 11913 | 18.96% |
Consolidated Financials (In Crs) | ||||||||
Q2FY21 | Q2FY20 | YoY % | Q1FY21 | QoQ % | H1FY21 | H1FY20 | YoY | |
Sales | 38438 | 36131 | 6.39% | 36699 | 4.74% | 75137 | 70455 | 6.65% |
PBT | 10378 | 9429 | 10.06% | 9340 | 11.11% | 19717 | 18264 | 7.96% |
PAT | 7711 | 6649 | 15.97% | 6941 | 11.09% | 14652 | 12340 | 18.74% |
Detailed Results
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- The net standalone revenues rose 6.9% YoY in Q2.
- NII grew 16.7% YoY to Rs 15776 Cr driven by growth in assets of 21.5% YoY and core NIM of 4.1%.
- Other income formed 27.9% of net revenues at Rs 5589 Cr.
- The breakup of other income is:
- Fees & Commissions: Rs 3940 Cr vs 4054 Cr last year.
- FX & Derivatives: Rs 560 Cr vs 552 Cr last year.
- Gain on sale/revaluation: Rs 1016 Cr vs 481 Cr last year.
- Miscellaneous Income: Rs 576 Cr vs 502 Cr last year.
- The impact of COVID-19 on other income is estimated to be at Rs 800 Cr in Q2.
- Operating expenses were up 8.8% YoY. The cost to income was at 36.8% vs 38.8% a year ago. Operating expenses were lower primarily due to lower loan origination and sales volumes.
- Pre-provision Operating Profit grew 18.1% YoY. Provisions and contingencies for the quarter were at Rs 3703 Cr. Total Provisions include Rs 2300 Cr for proforma NPA.
- The specific Credit Cost ratio was at 0.47%. Core Credit Cost ratio was at 0.91% vs 0.9% a year ago and 1.08% in June 2020.
- Standalone PAT rose 18.4% YoY.
- Total Balance Sheet size rose 21.5% YoY. Total Deposits rose 20.3% YoY while CASA deposits rose 27.5% YoY. Time deposits grew 15.7% YoY. The bank maintained an LCR of 153%.
- Total advances rose by 15.8% YoY with domestic advances rose 15.4% YoY. Retail advances grew 5.3% YoY while wholesale advances grew 26.5% YoY. Retail to the wholesale mix was at 48:52.
- H1 revenues grew 6.6% YoY while Profits grew 19% YoY.
- The bank maintained a CAR of 19.1%. with Tier I CAR at 17.7%.
- GNPAs was at 1.08% on 30th June 2020. NNPA was at 0.17%. If the bank classified borrower accounts as NPA after 31st Aug 2020, Gross NPA would come out to 1.38% and NNPA would be 0.35%.
- The bank maintained floating provisions of Rs 1451 Cr and contingent provisions of Rs 6304 Cr. Total provisions were at 195% of GNPAs.
- HSL saw revenues for the quarter rose to Rs 341 Cr vs Rs 189 Cr last year. PAT was at Rs 167 Cr vs Rs 91 Cr last year.
- HDB Financial Services saw a total loan books rise by 2.3% YoY and LCR at 214%. NII for the subsidiary was at Rs 924 Cr vs Rs 971 Cr last year. PAT fell to rs 23 Cr from rs 213 Cr last year. GNPA here was at 4.3% while NNPA was at 3.1%. CAR was maintained at 19.6%.
Investor Conference Call Highlights
- The fees and commission income has been impacted by around INR 700 crores due to COVID pandemic.
- The bank has added 297 branches YoY and 104 branches QoQ.
- The bank has also added 11,931 business correspondents since last year and has added 5,589 in Q2.
- The reported slippage ratio is at 0.8% in the current quarter.
- GNPA ratio reported excluding NPAs in the agricultural segment was at 0.9%.
- The branch channel and other channels managed to mobilize 1.2 million customer acquisitions in the quarter ended June. The bank has added 1.8 million new liability relationships in Q2 thanks to digitization.
- Disbursals in Q1 were at 80-85% of last year’s levels and 2.5 times June levels.
- The bank added 1550 new wholesale SME customers in Q2. The bank made a disbursal of greater than Rs 5000 Cr in Q2 in this segment.
- The management stresses that despite the growth in assets, the bank has managed to improve NIM which should be close to the question of NIM dilution from growth in assets. Given the quality of the bank’s book, it has also seen more instances of prepayments from top-rated corporates.
- The bank has announced a partnership with the Apollo Hospitals Group to provide customers access to quality health care with instant financing delivered digitally.
- The bank has also seen a surge of gold loans with robust growth of almost 60%.
- In both loans against property and retail working capital loans, the bank is back at pre-covid levels.
- The bank has been cautious in the MFI business and expects a full-scale recovery within the next 90 days in this segment.
- The management reports a rise in demand of 34% for two-wheelers at the industry level.
- The management sees a significant opportunity to transform the automotive landscape over the next 3 to 5 years. They believe that 90% of the car purchase journeys in the industry are actually initiated online, which should facilitate the shift from physical to digital purchases in this segment. The bank aims to form a distinctive loan experience that will include a customer’s journey from search to probably test drive, maybe exchange, and a couple of sales initiatives.
- In the unsecured personal loan business also, the bank sees good opportunity over the next 3 to 5 months to substantially digitize the open-market acquisition.
- The wholesale portfolio of the bank remains at the AA rating level and at 4.4 in its 10-point (10 being riskiest) scale which is unchanged in the last 6 months.
- 75% of the externally rated portfolio is either AAA or AA.
- The management estimates that the reported 9% stressed part of the portfolio can be brought down to 3%.
- The non-moratorium portfolio already has a demand resolution of 99%.
- The collection efficiency on the moratorium portfolio as a whole is expected to be at 97%.
- The management maintains that although the overall economy has some ways to go before full recovery, the bank is seeing a faster recovery in operations as its customers are primarily top end corporates and the top-end salaried population segment in India who are expected to recover the fastest.
- The management maintains that the bank shall continue to maintain NIM at 4-4.5% range in the future.
- The fall in PAT in HDB financial services is mainly due to the YoY rise in provisions. Pre-provision PBT was up 10%+ for the entity.
Analyst’s View
HDFC Bank is the biggest bank in the country by market capitalization. It has deservedly earned its stellar reputation over the years. The bank has performed well in Q2FY21 with more than 20% growth in Balance Sheet and advances. It is a testament to the bank’s brand image that the bank is able to bring back operations to pre-covid levels in almost all of its operating segments. The management remains optimistic about the potential opportunity for the bank from digitization and its role in creating never before seen user experience journeys in diverse segments like unsecured personal loans and car loans. It remains to be seen how the whole COVID-19 scenario will pan out in the near future and whether there are any surprises in store from it still. The bank has seen its iconic CEO Mr. Aditya Puri step down and the new CEO Mr. Sashidhar Jagdishan assumes the post. Nonetheless, given the bank’s resilient customer set, strong liquidity profile, and enduring brand image, HDFC Bank remains an indispensable banking stock for every investor, more so because of the recent correction in valuation.
Q1FY21 Updates
Financial Results & Highlights
Standalone Financials (In Crs) | |||||
Q1FY21 | Q1FY20 | YoY % | Q4FY20 | QoQ % | |
Sales | 34453 | 32363 | 6.46% | 35918 | -4.08% |
PBT | 8938 | 8534 | 4.73% | 9174 | -2.57% |
PAT | 6659 | 5568 | 19.59% | 6928 | -3.88% |
Consolidated Financials (In Crs) | |||||
Q1FY21 | Q1FY20 | YoY % | Q4FY20 | QoQ % | |
Sales | 36699 | 34324 | 6.92% | 38287 | -4.15% |
PBT | 9340 | 8835 | 5.72% | 9682 | -3.53% |
PAT | 6941 | 5691 | 21.96% | 7297 | -4.88% |
Detailed Results
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- The net standalone revenues rose 6.5% YoY in Q1.
- NII grew 17.8% YoY to Rs 15665 Cr driven by growth in advances of 20.9% YoY and growth in deposits of 24.6% YoY.
- Other income formed 20.06% of net revenues at Rs 4075 Cr vs Rs 4970 CR last year.
- The breakup of other income is:
- Fees & Commissions: Rs 2231 Cr vs 3552 Cr last year.
- FX & Derivatives: Rs 437 Cr vs 577 Cr last year.
- Gain on sale/revaluation: Rs 1087 Cr vs Rs 875 Cr last year.
- Miscellaneous Income: Rs 321 Cr vs Rs 630 Cr last year.
- The impact of COVID-19 on other income is estimated to be at Rs 2000 Cr.
- Operating expenses were down 2.9% YoY. The cost to income was at 35% vs 39% a year ago. Operating expenses were lower primarily due to lower loan origination and sales volumes.
- Pre-provision Operating Profit grew 15.15 YoY. Provisions and contingencies for the quarter were at Rs 3891.5 Cr
- Standalone PAT rose 19.6% YoY.
- Total Balance Sheet size rose 22.1% YoY. Total Deposits rose 24.6% YoY while CASA deposits rose 26% YoY. Time deposits grew 23.7% YoY. The bank maintained an LCR of 140%.
- Total advances rose by 20.9% YoY with domestic advances rose 21% YoY. Retail advances grew 7.2% YoY while wholesale advances grew 37.6% YoY. Retail to the wholesale mix was at 48:52.
- The bank maintained a CAR of 18.9%. with Tier I CAR at 17.5%.
- GNPAs was at 1.36% (1.2% excluding agricultural NPAs) on 30th June 2020. NNPA was at 0.33%.
- The bank maintained floating provisions of Rs 1451 Cr and contingent provisions of Rs 4002 Cr. Total provisions were at 149% of GNPAs.
Investor Conference Call Highlights
- During the quarter, the bank acquired 1.2 million liability customers.
- The bank will keep on digitizing current accounts onboarding, video KYC, and so on to supplement its existing digital offering. 95% of bank branches are operational.
- At the time of the call, the bank had already launched its video KYC on a limited pilot basis. This capability will be scaled up in Q2.
- Payment business volumes, both acquiring and issuance saw a bounce back to about 70% of Jan 2020 levels in June.
- Incorporate and wholesale banking, the bank went in for AAA corporates only. Overall, the bank improved the risk rating of its balance sheet by 30 bps to 4.3%.
- The company has restricted consumer loans until the recovery comes back. The management hopes recovery to come back by September.
- Retail originations fell by 70% during the quarter, both as a combination of tightening of credit standards as well as some amount of pessimism in the borrowers.
- Personal loans saw a drop of 86% in originations. Credit cards dropped by 87%, and spends fell by 40%, leading to a book contracting by 4.5% during the quarter.
- The management has stated that the company has set a goal that to provide frictionless service, benchmarking against an Amazon or a Google, with an enjoyable customer journey across a wide product range and geography in the most convenient manner to the customers.
- The company is 65th in brand recognition globally, among all global companies.
- The company has changed its technology from core banking to middleware, to enterprise, and now SaaS to be able to deliver across all channels an Omni-channel experience.
- The company has added 6,381 business correspondents, managed by Common Service Centres, including 1,002 opened during the quarter. It also has around 200 branches are in various stages of readiness to open in a short time.
- The annualized slippage in the quarter is at 1.2%.
- The core credit costs were at 1.08% of advances.
- Corporate collections in April 2020 was at 45% of last year’s level. May collections rose 47% MoM and June increased 38% MoM and was at 94% of last year’s June level.
- An analysis of top 25 disbursements by value in TLTRO 1.0 during the quarter showed that 46.5% was ultimately towards CapEx; 30.2% was towards working capital requirements; 9.5% was for supporting other banks and market participants with liquidity through participatory certificates and secondary purchases; 7.5% comprised of other reasons, including availing existing lines for building liquidity buffers; and the balance, 6.3%, was towards on lending for PSL purposes.
- The bank saw a significant increase in electronic straight-through processing transactions in its collections and payments businesses from 86% in June 2019 to 94% in June 2020.
- Average Corporate CASA grew 37% YoY and average corporate FDs grew 31% YoY.
- 86% of the externally rated portfolio is either AAA or AA in the corporate lending space.
- In terms of historical trends of delinquency, there is a 55% lower probability of default in the unsecured wholesale book than there is in the secured wholesale book.
- 68% of the new-to-bank disbursements had a ticket size of less than Rs 1 Cr in the wholesale SME lending space.
- The bank acquired 533 new SME customers in Q1. Collateral cover for the new-to-bank disbursements for 89% of the cases was greater than 100%.
- In gold loans, originations fell 15% but the book was up by 3% at the same time.
- The unsecured portfolio primarily consists of the personal loan, the business loan, and the credit card. The personal loans are given entirely to salaried individuals only. For customers in the moratorium portfolio, 98% of them continue to receive salary credits and 97% are 0 DPD customers.
- Auto loans are moving to 60-70% of pre-COVID levels.
- The management has stated that the bank will remain cautious and maintain tight filters for unsecured loans despite a massive fall in originations in this segment.
- The bank is comfortable with 4.7% of the 9% high-risk assets. It has thus created further contingent provisions for the remaining 4.3%.
- The management maintains that the bank has excellent capital adequacy and a great portfolio and it does not need to raise any external capital at the moment.
- The management maintains that the bank will continue to maintain NIMs at 4.1-4.5% band. This is mainly due to its robust risk-based price methodology which ensures that ensures that the bank knows what is the minimum return that it needs to get from each and every product, net of cost, and net of expenses.
- The management remains confident of the succession planning for the top posts within the bank.
- From the first moratorium customers, 70% of them paid up their June installments.
- The bank has kept both Moratorium 1 & 2 as opt-in only.
- Retail to wholesale fees remains at close to 90:10.
- The management maintains that the bank is not chasing growth and will only do business as long as the bank’s credit criteria are met.
Analyst’s View
HDFC Bank is the biggest bank in the country by market capitalization. It has deservedly earned its stellar reputation over the years. The bank has performed well in the first quarter of FY21 with more than 22% growth in Balance Sheet and advances. It is a testament to the bank’s brand image that the bank saw deposits and advances growth even in times of COVID-19.
The management has assured that the bank has adapted to the new normal due to the COVID-19 disruption and that its balance sheet and customer set are resilient enough to weather the uncertainty ahead. It maintains that 98% of customers under moratorium have not seen any decline in salaries and thus the bank is safe from any negative surprises coming from the moratorium ends. It remains to be seen how the whole COVID-19 scenario pans out and how it changes consumer behaviour especially for the banking industry going forward. Nonetheless, given the bank’s resilient customer set, strong liquidity profile, and enduring brand image, HDFC Bank remains an indispensable banking stock for every investor, more so because of the recent correction in valuation.
Q4 2020 Updates
Financial Results & Highlights
Standalone Financials (In Crs) | ||||||||
Q4FY20 | Q4FY19 | YoY % | Q3FY20 | QoQ % | FY20 | FY19 | YoY% | |
Sales | 35918 | 31204 | 15.11% | 36039 | -0.34% | 138073 | 116598 | 18.42% |
PBT | 9174 | 8954 | 2.46% | 9902 | -7.35% | 36607 | 32200 | 13.69% |
PAT | 6928 | 5885 | 17.72% | 7416 | -6.58% | 26257 | 21078 | 24.57% |
Consolidated Financials (In Crs) | ||||||||
Q4FY20 | Q4FY19 | YoY % | Q3FY20 | QoQ % | FY20 | FY19 | YoY% | |
Sales | 38287 | 33260 | 15.11% | 38326 | -0.10% | 147068 | 124108 | 18.50% |
PBT | 9682 | 9583 | 1.03% | 10249 | -5.53% | 38195 | 34318 | 11.30% |
PAT | 7297 | 6311 | 15.62% | 7660 | -4.74% | 27296 | 22446 | 21.61% |
Detailed Results
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- The net standalone revenues rose 18.2% YoY in Q4.
- Pre-provision operating profit rose 19.5% YoY.
- The net interest margin was 4.3%.
- Other income formed 28.4% of net revenues.
- The breakup of other income is:
- Fees & Commissions: Rs 4201 Cr vs 3665 Cr last year.
- FX & Derivatives: Rs 501 Cr vs 403 Cr last year.
- Gain on sale/revaluation: Rs 565 Cr vs Rs 229 Cr last year.
- Miscellaneous Income: Rs 766 Cr vs Rs 574 Cr last year.
- The impact of COVID-19 on other income is Rs 450 Cr.
- Operating expenses rose 16.3% YoY.
- PAT rose 18% YoY.
- Total Balance Sheet size rose 23% YoY. Total Deposits rose 24.3% YoY while CASA deposits rose 23.9% YoY.
- Total advances rose 21.3% YoY with domestic advances rose 21.4% YoY. Retail advances grew 14.8% YoY while wholesale advances grew 28.2% YoY.
- The bank maintained a CAR of 18.5%.
- GNPAs was at 1.26% (1.1% excluding agricultural NPAs) on 31st March 2020.
- The bank maintained floating provisions of Rs 1451 Cr and contingent provisions of Rs 2996 Cr. Total provisions were at 142% of GNPAs.
- In HDB, consolidated net profit rose 15.5% YoY while advances grew 20.1% YoY.
Investor Conference Call Highlights
- The bank has taken all adequate measures to ensure the safety of employees and customers across all of the bank’s locations.
- The management is confident that the bank is well-positioned to expand its market share.
- The management has also mentioned that the rate of rejection has risen as a consequence of stricter requirements and the loan approval process.
- The company added 315 branches in FY20 with 71 added in Q4. Around 250 branches are in various stages of readiness to open in a short time.
- The cost-to-income has remained stable at 39%.
- The total credit cost in Q4 was at 151 bps with COVID-19 impact of 62 bps.
- The bank got a reaffirmed standalone credit rating of BBB+ from S&P and is the only bank in the country with this rating which is even above the BBB- for India.
- Retail lending is expected to stay subdued for the next few quarters.
- The main growth for the bank came from lending to liquidity rich companies (MNCs & PSUs) and epidemic resistant sectors like power.
- 6% of all funds disbursed to corporates in Q was used for working capital requirements.
- The management ensures that the bank did not relax its high-risk assessment criteria during its growth at all.
- The bank gained over 1500 SME clients in Q4.
- About 85% of disbursement in Q4 had collateral in excess of 100% and 65% of the total book was allocated to priority sector lending areas.
- The management believes that the bank should stay stable due to flight to safety in times of economic distress and more high-quality borrowers would approach the bank for stable funding.
- The management stresses that the retail unsecured lending for the bank has been robust with lower than industry average delinquency. This is mainly due to the extensive risk assessment done by the bank and the extensive internal credit rating done by the bank.
- The SME loan book is 77% collateralized using real estate properties owned by the promoters of the borrowing SMEs.
- The bank conducted stress tests of 3 scenarios namely- normal, strong, and extreme stress. In the strong stress case, the bank found that 9% of the portfolio will be impacted and may not be able to fulfill payment obligations. This case is without taking into account any concessions provided by the bank as mandated by regulatory bodies like the RBI moratorium.
- The bank has not received many applications for the loan moratorium and the management stresses that it is still too early to assume anything in this area.
- The management has stated that they arrived at the current level of contingent provisions by assuming collection efficiency to be 0 in April, less than normal in May, and near normal in June.
- In retail accounts, around 95-98% of moratorium applicants were not in the default state, and according to the bank survey, the customers had mostly applied to it out of caution. The bank has not specified any cut-off date for the moratorium application.
- The management has stated that because of the rising financial stress in the past year in the economy, the bank has been continually refining all of its credit policies and filtering mechanisms for all kinds of products and thus the bank stands in a much better position to deal with the current financial uncertainty as compared to a year ago.
- The management has clarified that according to the strong stress test case, the rise in NPAs would not be 9% rather it would be 0.5% incrementally only.
- The AUM growth in HDB was modest at 6%.
- The cost of deposits has come down 15-20 bps in Q4.
- Over 80%% of the unsecured book is loaned out to salaried professionals where around 80% work at MNCs and big AAA-rated corporates.
- The company is also focussing on digitizing as many processes as it can and due to the COVID-19 scenario, the company’s plans to do so have been on overdrive.
- The management expects the cost-to-income to decline going forward. It also expects the impact of COVID-19 on revenues should be there for the next 2 quarters.
- The management has not seen any significant change in farm NPA levels in Q4.
- HDB provided an opt-out facility for the moratorium as opposed to the opt-in facility that the HDFC bank had done.
- The management believes that as long as the mix of wholesale to retail is maintained at near about 50-50, the ALM should be maintained at current levels.
- The bank has an MFI exposure of Rs 8500 Cr. It has already done a 25 bps cut in savings rate on 15th April and thus is not expected to do another cut anytime soon.
- The investment book rose from Rs 3.1 trillion to Rs 4 trillion. This was mainly due to the big increase in new deposits and the not so high increase in lending which resulted in excess cash which was invested according to the management.
- The management is still assessing potential partners for participation in LTRO 2.0.
Analyst’s View
HDFC Bank is the biggest bank in the country by market capitalization. It has deservedly earned its stellar reputation over the years. The bank has performed very well in the last quarter of FY20 with more than 21% growth in Balance Sheet and advances. It is a testament to the bank’s brand image that deposit growth has outpaced advances growth considering the size and reach of the bank.
The management has assured that the bank has adapted to the new normal due to the COVID-19 disruption and that its balance sheet and customer set are resilient enough to weather the uncertainty ahead. It remains to be seen how the whole COVID-19 scenario pans out and how it changes the world and especially the banking industry going forward. Nonetheless, given the bank’s resilient customer set, strong liquidity profile, and enduring brand image, HDFC Bank remains an indispensable banking stock for every investor, more so because of the recent correction in valuation.
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