Showing posts with label SBI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SBI. Show all posts

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Rockers & shockers!

Imagine selling rock guitars when classical music comes into vogue! Surely, a difficult external environment can overwhelm the best of them. B&E profiles three key sectors that merit a mention for profitable or not-so-profitable reasons. psus, of course have been included for their prominence in the list

Sub-prime?: Who is he?

Despite global slowdown, interest rate uncertainties & mounting inflation, Indian banks have a great opportunity to move ahead. But consolidation is also looming on the horizon, says gyanendra kashyap

The paradigm shift in the dynamics of the banking industry is overwhelming; thanks to the continued strong economic cycle. A total of 23 banks made it to the B&E Power 100 list this year. This shows that we are either quite immune from the sub-prime crisis or the impact is yet to come.

Bankex, which trailed around the 3,000 mark a couple of years ago, crossed the 12,000 mark on January 14, 2008. Once dominated by public sector entities, the industry is witnessing unprecedented changes and shareholders are having the last laugh (even though 19 of the 23 are PSBs); and why not, for Indian banking has topped the charts in value creation in FY ’08 (Boston Consulting Group’s report entitled “Managing Shareholder Value in Turbulent Times”). What is more interesting is the sharp decline in NPAs (from 8% in 2000 to about 1% today). Private players as well as their foreign counterparts are making deep inroads into the highly untapped markets; on the backdrop of an efficient technological set up and customer service; and slowly and steadily increasing their market share. Estimates suggest that the duo have been adding 1% of market share on an annualised basis. Their growth in terms of market share (by total assets) has been phenomenal; in 2003, market share of private banks was 17.5% and of foreign banks was 6.9%; by the end of 2007, the private sector banks commanded 21.5% of the market share, while their foreign counterparts increased their share to 8% (Moody’s report). ICICI, HDFC and AXIS are challenging the PSBs both in terms of quality and profitability; nevertheless the banking major State Bank of India (SBI) still tops the charts as far as profitability is concerned.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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Friday, July 27, 2012

SBI in a Flux, Time to Regain Momentum

More than external factors, it’s internal inefficiency that is troubling SBI. To continue as the big gun, it now needs to go through a reality check.

When State Bank of India’s new Chairman Pratip Choudhary announced the bank’s fourth quarter performance for FY 2011, it came as a shocker to almost everyone. It was down by 99% to a paltry Rs.208.80 million from Rs.18.67 billion in the year ago period. This even made the bank’s share to plunge as much as 18% at the bourses as compared to its pre-result prices. But the fact was that it was only because the bank took a bold step to make an one time provision for its non-performing assets and sidelined as much as Rs.23.30 billion, which could have easily bolstered the banks bottomline for the quarter. Nevertheless, despite a 9.84% fall in the bank’s net profit for the year, SBI still stands tall as the 5th most profitable company in the country with its registered net profit of Rs.82.65 billion. But with the first quarter of the fiscal approaching an end the question remains, after the disastrous performance in Q4, is everything alright now with SBI? Is it on track to hold onto its position in the current fiscal?

The answer perhaps is, tough, if not impossible. And the reasons, well, some are external to the company and some are self created. Talking about the problems that’s not in control of SBI, the biggest is of course the current sluggish economic conditions including inflation and continuous rate hikes by the Reserve Bank of India. With the apex bank raising its policy rates by 25 basis point early this month marking the tenth hike since April 2010, credit growth in the current financial year looks to be in jeopardy, more for the fact that the banks have no other option than passing the burden on to the customers. And with SBI being forced to shut down its teaser scheme, which was instrumental in the bank’s 20.32% credit growth last year, it may find itself in deep water in terms of lending. The bank too have understood the very fact. Thus, to prepare its stakeholders, it has already slashed its credit growth forecast by around 300 basis points to 16-19% from 19-22% given earlier.