Kotak Mahindra Bank Q4 Net Profit Jumps 40%

Private sector lender Kotak Mahindra Bank's standalone net profit jumped 40.3 per cent to Rs. 976.48 crore during the last quarter ended March 2017.

The bank had reported a net profit of Rs. 695.78 crore in the corresponding quarter of 2015-16 fiscal.

Total standalone income rose by 9.9 per cent to Rs. 5,434.65 crore during the concluding quarter of 2016-17 as against Rs. 4,947.32 crore in 2015-16, the bank said in a regulatory filing.

Looking at bank's asset quality, there was a marginal uptick in gross non-performing assets (NPAs) ratio at 2.59 per cent of the gross advances as on March 31, 2017 from 2.36 per cent a year ago.

Likewise, net NPAs or bad loans were 1.26 per cent of the net advances as on March 31, 2017, slightly up from 1.06 per cent a year ago.

Thus, provisions for bad loans and contingencies too were restricted to Rs. 267.37 crore for the quarter, against Rs. 200.41 crore a year earlier.

For full fiscal 2016-17, Kotak Mahindra Bank's net profit increased to Rs. 3,411.50 crore from Rs. 2,089.78 crore.

Total income in the last fiscal was Rs. 21,176.09 crore, up from Rs. 18,996.42 crore a year ago.

At the board of directors meeting held today, lender has proposed a dividend of Rs. 0.60 per share for 2016-17.

Bank's assets size grew to Rs. 214,589.96 crore as at the end of March 2017 from Rs. 192,259.79 crore in the year-ago period.

The stock was trading 1.26 per cent higher at Rs. 911.70 on BSE.