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SBI, UBI, Indian Bank post steep fall in profit
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SME Times News Bureau | 12 Feb, 2016
Led by State Bank of India (SBI), three government-owned banks on
Thursday declared steep fall in their net profits and two other banks
reported net loss for the third quarter of the current fiscal.
The fall in profit or posting of net loss is due to higher provisioning towards bad loans or non-perfoming assets (NPA).
As
a result, on the stock bourses, banking stocks witnessed fall in their
prices and in the process wiped out investors' wealth by several crores.
The Nifty Bank index on Thursday went down to 14,028.55 points after opening at 14,518.65 points.
The Nifty PSU Bank index touched down to 1,983.90 points after opening at 2,045.30 points.
India's
largest bank SBI declared a net profit of Rs.1,115.34 crore for the
quarter ended December 31, 2015 as compared to Rs.2,910.06 crore for the
quarter ended December 31, 2014.
The bank had provided Rs.8,483
crore (loan loss alone Rs.7,645 crore) during the period under review as
against Rs.6,477 crore (loan loss Rs.4,810 crore) provided during the
corresponding period of previous year.
The bank's total income
has increased from Rs.43,783.97 crore for the quarter ended December 31,
2014 to Rs.46,731.01 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2015.
According
to SBI, its gross NPA stood at 5.10 percent at the end of third quarter
as against 4.90 percent for the period ended December 31, 2014.
On
its part, Union Bank of India (UBI) declared a lower net profit of
Rs.78.54 crore for the third quarter as against Rs.302.42 crore for the
corresponding period of the previous year.
The bank's total
income also came down from Rs.8,921 crore in last fiscal's third quarter
to Rs.8,802.06 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2015.
According
to UBI, it has recognized deferred tax assets amounting to Rs.332.04
crore which was hitherto recognised as at the year-end, in accordance
with the applicable Accounting Standards.
Similarly city-based
Indian Bank also reported a steep fall in its net profit. The bank has
posted a net profit of Rs.42.30 crore for the quarter ended December 31,
2015 as compared to Rs.277.52 crore for the quarter ended December 31,
2014.
Indian Bank's total income has increased from Rs.4,321.46
crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2014 to Rs.4,438.40 crore for
the quarter ended December 31, 2015.
On the other hand, Bank of India and Oriental Bank of Commerce declared net losses for the period under review.
Bank
of India posted a net loss of Rs.1,505.58 crore as compared to net
profit of Rs. 173.38 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2014.
The
bank's total income has decreased from Rs.11,947.45 crore for the
quarter ended December 31, 2014 to Rs.11,086.95 crore for the quarter
ended December 31, 2015.
Oriental Bank of Commerce declared a net
loss of Rs.424.69 crore as compared to net profit of Rs.19.56 crore for
the quarter ended December 31, 2014.
The bank's total income has
decreased from Rs. 5,458.79 crore for the quarter ended December 31,
2014 to Rs. 5,350.48 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2015.
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