AUBANK / Q4-FY24 / claim-ledger

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PositiveQ4-FY24 · 2024-04-30Back to quarter ↗

Questions audited

12

Answered directly

79%

Numeric claims

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What was answered, and how?

Renish Patel · ICICI

direct

Steady state credit cost for merged entity after one-time MFI provision

I think anything about 1%-1.1% on overall advances and anything around about 70-75 basis points on total assets is where we should work with.

Renish Patel · ICICI

partial

NIM outlook for FY25 given cost of funds increase

On a merger basis, our endeavor would be to protect the margins on the overall level for next financial year, at least. ... we want to defend 1.6 ROA next year too.

Kunal Shah · Citi

direct

Integration expenses and net worth after merger

Yes. Yes, yes, Kunal. Yes.

Kunal Shah · Citi

direct

Levers to improve ROA besides Fincare and OPEX

I believe that retail asset ROA will go up. ... The second lever, which I strongly believe, is this that the branch banking has to be more efficient and profitable by building CAR because our CAR is around 5%, right? And even if we increase it by 1%, right, it saves us a lot of money.

Nitish Bhanushali · Investec

partial

Credit card business drag on P&L and profitability outlook

We'll not be issuing more than 600,000 credit cards this year too. ... difficult to assess when it will become profitable or when we'll achieve the break-even. But I think one thing is sure that for next two years, it's not getting profitable.

Nitish Bhanushali · Investec

partial

Incremental yields on housing and microbusiness loans

After acquiring Fincare, so in South market, we have seen that on MBL business, that team do around 18% kind of yield. So we really want to focus more in South market through the Fincare unit because MBL is more competitive in North nowadays.

Prakhar Agarwal · Elara Capital

direct

Yield adjustments made in products and room for further hikes

Just the Q3 of FY and the Q4 of FY, we have an incremental of 27 bps on the rate purely just in the ... vehicle business. ... In the HL business also, we have been able to increase it by 20 bps.

Nitin Aggarwal · Motilal Oswal

partial

Sustainability of strong fee income growth

I believe that there is only the sustainability is already on the table. It will be more firmed up in coming years.

Param Subramanian · Nomura

direct

Quarter-on-quarter margin walk from 5.5% to 5.1%

Last quarter's margins had one-off impact from the securitization income, which we had taken for an additional month last quarter because of the matching principle that we followed. So it was one-time adjustment. ... The last quarter's margin should ideally be looked at as 5.3 after adjusting that.

Manish Shukla · Axis Capital

direct

Microfinance lending rate and impact of potential RBI yield cap

Our lending rates in microfinance are about 25% at this point of time. ... banks are typically not governed on a margin or a pricing cap for any portfolio.

Aravind R · Sundaram Alternates

direct

Credit card expenses not declining despite similar acquisition rate

The cost is yes, there was an increment of just 11,000 cards from quarter three to quarter four. That impacts only the sourcing cost, but the rest of the cost remains same because we have already a base which continues to give us cost in the third quarter also, the same base as given the cost in the fourth quarter also.

Pritesh Bumb · DAM Capital

partial

Tier 1 capital ratio post-merger as of April 1

Total network will be around 15,000. ... Tier 1 capital. So total capital will be INR 14,981. ... It will be around 21%. ... 20-21, more around that.