Indian Banking Sector – Some Uncommon Numbers & Ratios

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Indian Banking Sector – Some Uncommon Figures & Ratios

This blog is in continuation to our blog series on Banking sector, where we have tried to explain the Banking sector as whole from scratch (explaining the terms and jargons) and have deep dived into how Indian Banking sector has evolved over decades. In the current blog we focus on the ‘not-so-trivial’ data points of banks, which are commonly not looked at, but are worth looking at!

Note: All the data is as of 31^st March 2018 / FY 18, unless specified.

Fee Income Of A Bank

Fee Income As % Of Total Income

We can see how all the PSU Banks have had weaker Fee Income as share of Total Income compared to their private peers.

Fee Income per Employee

Banking Sector being a service industry, productivity of the employee is a key variable to track. We can see how productivity of PSU bank employees have been. However, there are few private banks as well who have lower Fee Income per Employee as of FY18.

Bancassurance Of A Bank

Bancassurance is selling of life assurance and other insurance products and services by banks. This is another higher yield product for banks. Higher the better!

Retail Advances 

We can see how some of the most valued banks have better performance in terms of Retail Advances.

Retail Advances per Employee (Rs cr)

CASA

Better CASA numbers by top private banks has helped them achieve lower cost of funds and hence maintain better NIMs.

Net Interest Income Per Employee

Operating Expense per Branch

We can see how the top performing private banks have higher operating expenses per branch! These banks are continuously investing to sustain their growth rates.

Employees per Branch

We can also see how the top performing private banks have higher employees per branch! i.e. higher sales force, customer service executives etc. Top private banks have double employees per branch compared to their PSU peers. Banking is the only sector where the PSU companies have lesser employees than their private counterparts!

Leverage (Advances/Net Worth)

The following chart describes how many times its Net Worth is the respective bank’s Advances.

Market Cap / Advances

The following chart describes how many times is the market valuing the bank’s loan book.

Pre-Provisioning ROA

It is basically the ROA of a bank assuming zero Provisioning for the bank.

Pre-Provisioning ROA = [Report PAT + (Provisioning)*(1 – tax)] / [Total Assets]

Debit & Credit Card

The higher the number of credit and debit cards, better is the bank’s fee income. HDFC Bank has more credit cards than entire PSU banking sector combined!

Exposure Towards Various Sectors

Below we have shown credit exposure of each bank towards different sectors, wherever the data was available.

Home Loans

Interestingly, almost ~25% of ICICI Bank’s book comprises of home loans.

Auto Loans

HDFC Bank is most aggressive when it comes to Auto Loans, with over 10% of its book comprising of Auto Loans. We can see, the top private banks have higher portion of exposure towards auto loans compared to their PSU peers.

Power Sector

Iron & Steel Sector

Agriculture Sector

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