Comments
Infrastructure lending firm IDFC Ltd has registered 15.7 per cent drop in standalone net profit at Rs 400.80 crore for third quarter ended December, 2014—15, on account of higher provisioning for bad loans.
The company had registered net profit of Rs 475.44 crore in the October—December quarter of 2013—14.
“Total income has increased from Rs 1,995.01 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2013 to Rs 2,318.65 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2014,” IDFC said in a filing to the BSE.
On consolidated basis, group’s net profit declined by 15.8 per cent to Rs 421.60 crore as against Rs 500.68 crore in the same quarter of the previous fiscal.
Total income increased to Rs 2,462.08 crore in Q3 FY’15 from Rs 2,122.84 crore in the same period year ago.
Company’s provisioning for bad loans was raised to Rs 153.13 crore in the third quarter of current fiscal, from Rs 37.82 crore a year ago.
On asset quality, gross non—performing assets (NPAs) were marginally up at 0.68 per cent of gross advances, from 0.62 per cent a year earlier.
Net NPAs, however, were trimmed to 0.47 per cent of net advances from 0.5 per cent in year ago period.
IDFC scrip closed 1.27 per cent down at Rs 170.65 on the BSE.
Comments
COMMENT NOW
Comments
Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.
We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of TheHindu Businessline and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.