State-owned Oriental
Bank of Commerce (OBC) on Tuesday reported a net profit of Rs 145 crore for the
December 2018 quarter, on improvement in asset quality and increase in business
efficiency.
It had posted a net loss of Rs 1,985 crore in the corresponding quarter of the
previous financial year, OBC said in a regulatory filing.
Total income rose to Rs 5,128 crore during the third quarter, compared with Rs
4,756 crore a year ago.
The lender said it has
improved on its efficiency with the net interest margin consistently rising
from 1.95 per cent in the December quarter of 2017-18 to 2.80 per cent in the
third quarter of this year. Sequentially, it increased from 2.58 per cent in
the second quarter of this fiscal.
The bank's
cost-to-income ratio also improved to 49.50 per cent in the quarter, from 50.87
per cent a year ago and 50.19 per cent in the second quarter.
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Net interest income, difference between interest earned and expended, increased
to Rs 1,419 crore, compared with Rs 1,018 crore a year ago and Rs 1,275 crore
in the previous quarter.
Meanwhile, OBC said it would issue more than 2.61 crore new equity shares under
the employee purchase scheme at a price of Rs 71.76 per share.
The bank is expected to raise up to Rs 187.52 crore in this issue that is
slated to offer for subscription by employees on January 31.
Moreover, the Gurugram-based lender also reported that its asset quality has
also improved with gross non-performing assets (NPAs) falling to 15.82 per cent
of the total advances in the quarter, against 16.95 per cent in the year-ago
period.
Net NPAs stood at 7.15 per cent as compared with 9.52 per cent.
Value-wise, gross NPAs were Rs 24,352.98 crore in the December 2018 quarter,
against Rs 27,550.88 crore a year ago. Net NPAs stood at Rs 9,972.61 crore as
against Rs 14,195.07 crore. Provisions for bad loans, however, increased to Rs 4,082 crore in the quarter,
from Rs 2,340 crore parked aside a year ago.
The bank said it made cash recovery of Rs 543 crore in written-off bad debt in
the nine months to December 2018, up from Rs 149 crore during same period of
the preceding fiscal.
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