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HDFC Bank (500180) Apr 2024 Filing Analysis
Does management do what it says?
The bank improved its core cost-to-income ratio to 39.6%, performing better than the previously guided 40-41% range. (5 exceeded across 5 tracked commitments)
“Target to be carbon neutral by FY32”
NIMs have remained stable and range-bound between 3.4% and 3.5% since the merger. (5 met across 5 tracked commitments)
“We want to anchor our thought process in terms of seeing stability of metrices with a positive bias moving slowly and surely over the next 2 years to 3 years. So I'm not sort of giving any outlook on that, but I'm very clear that I want to maintain stability.”
The bank has maintained a stable ROA in the range of 1.9% to 2.1%, which aligns with pre-merger levels. (5 met across 5 tracked commitments)
“The key focus over the medium to long term, the medium as I define it between 2 and 3 years, is to focus on improving our profitability metrics defined as the ROAs and the earnings per share... which is already there in the deck, which is pretty healthy but with a bias of -- on an increasing trajectory.”
The bank has achieved a near-total attachment rate for savings accounts with new home loan disbursals. (1 exceeded, 1 met, 3 in progress across 5 tracked commitments)
“This is one area that we have to ride on in inorganic ways of meeting these two sub-targets. And we are pretty much ceased and aware of the impact of when the third of the HDFC book starts to kick in from October onwards.”
The bank successfully reduced the CD ratio to approximately 95% in the June quarter (Q1 FY26) from 110% at the time of the merger, maintaining the downward trajectory. (1 met, 4 in progress across 5 tracked commitments)
“So willy-nilly, all things remaining same, your LDR or incremental LDR will be a tad lower for a couple of years than what we have seen in the past because we have this obligation of repaying some of the bond maturities.”
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Where does growth come from?
The bank is further strengthening its balance sheet resilience through counter-cyclical floating provisions, which now qualify for Tier 2 capital. (2 steady, 1 accelerating across 3 signals)
“And for now this qualifies for Tier 2 capital within regulatory limits, and so it is part of the Tier 2 capital and total capital as a floating provision. Yes, the floating position is about 50 basis points.”
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