Gross loan book at ₹ 30,344 crore up 14% YoY;
Secured book at 34.9%at Sep’24 vs 31.3% atJun’24;
Deposits at ₹ 34,070 crore up 17% YoY; CASA up 26% YoY; CASA ratio at 25.9%
Bengaluru, October, 2024: UjjivanSmall Finance Bank ltd.[BSE:542904;NSE: UJJIVANSFB],todayannounced its financialperformance forthequarter ended September 30,2024
Summary of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Business Performance – Q2FY25
Assets
Gross loan book at ₹ 30,344* crore up 14% (YoY)/1% (QoQ)
Secured book at 34.9% as of Sep’24 vs 31.3% as of Jun’24
Disbursements at ₹ 5,376 crore in Q2FY25 down 6% (YoY) and up2% (QoQ)
Collection and Asset Quality
Collection Efficiency at ~97% in Sep’24; NDA collection consistently at ~99%
Portfolio at risk* at 5.1% as ofSep’24; GNPA* at 2.5% as of Sep’24 vs 2.3% as of Jun’24; NNPA* at 0.6% as ofSep’24 vs 0.4% as of June’24
Q2FY25 write-off at ₹ 140crore; Provision coverage ratio as on Sep’24 is 78%#
Deposits
Deposits at ₹34,070 crore as of Sep’24 up 17% (YoY)/5% (QoQ)
CASA at ₹ 8,832 crore up 26% (YoY); CASA ratio at 25.9% as of Sep’24 vs 25.6% as of Jun’24
Retail TD^ at ₹ 15,914 crore,up 35% (YoY)/2% (QoQ)
Financials
Q2FY25 NII of ₹ 944 crore up 15% (YoY)/ 0.2%(QoQ); NIM at 9.2% for Q2FY25
Cost to Income ratio at 60% in Q2FY25
Q2FY25 PPoP at ₹ 461 crore; Q2FY25 PAT at₹ 233Crore
RoA/RoE at2.2%/15.7% inQ2FY25
Capital and Liquidity
Capital adequacy ratio at 23.4% with Tier-1 capital at 21.6%
Provisional Daily Average LCR for Sep’24 was 130%
Mr. Sanjeev Nautiyal, MD & CEO, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank said, “Ujjivan has always stood strong and successfully navigated headwinds in the industry. Similarly, our resilient business model and sound reading of the on-ground situation has always kept us better prepared to identify and manage such issues confidently. As we had mentioned in our previous interactions, we had emanated pockets of stress across the country due to elevated indebtedness levels. Hence, we have proactively developed a cautious approach in terms of growth in microfinance space and have beefed up our vigilance to manage asset quality.
Ujjivan has constantly strategized to de-risk its portfolio by introducing more secured products in its offerings. In last 18 months Bank has launched products like Micro Mortgages, Gold Loan, Vehicle Loan, Agri and Working Capital (SME) loans and they are increasingly contributing to the overall asset book each month. This also reflects in our faster growth in secured asset portfolio, growing 12% sequentially. Currently our secured book contribution stands at 34.9% in Sep’24 vs 31.3% in Jun’24. Total asset book grew 14% YoY/1% QoQ to ₹ 30,344 crores in Sep’24. CD ratio is at 89%, with healthy total deposit growth at 17% YoY/5% QoQ to ₹ 34,070 crores. Introduction of solution-based products and increasingly enhancing product suite and delivery of quality service has continued to bring customer delight. Our CASA deposits continue to improve at ₹ 8,832 crore up 6% QoQ now contributing ~26% to the total deposits. Our service channels like Hello Ujjivan, our home-grown app is enabled with self-onboarding processes of repeat, pre-approved, and top-up loans for Individual Loans segment. Additionally, we continue to evolve and improve our business net banking by offering tax payment facility. We have also secured AD-1 licence that will enable us to offer range of forex services, increasing offerings to our MSME and retail customers. This will also benefit our Other Income in the upcoming quarters. Collections are slightly impacted, primarily on the Group loan segment at 97% in Sep’24 vs 98% in Jun’24. This also reflects in the stress appearing on overall GNPA at 2.5% in Sep’24 vs 2.3% in Jun’24. Our cautious approach by introducing stricter norms compared to MFIN guidelines will ensure quality acquisition.
NIM for the quarter at 9.2% was supported by cost of funds stable at 7.5%. PPoP for the quarter was at ₹ 461 crore and PAT for the quarter was ₹ 233 crore. This was impacted due to much slower growth vs previous quarters on account of impact on our Micro Finance Business book and due to rising credit cost. We are confident of our business as we progress to build a ‘bank of the future’ diversifying our portfolio, increasing secured asset portfolio, leveraging on our strengths and presenting ourselves as widely accepted Bank for the masses.
