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Bank of Baroda Q1 profit plunges 60 pct as bad loans rise

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Reuters MUMBAI
Last Updated : Aug 11 2016 | 9:48 AM IST

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Bank of Baroda, India's second-biggest state-run lender by assets, said its first-quarter profit fell about 60 percent with a rise in bad loans.

Its shares fell more than 5 percent after the results.

Net profit fell to 4.24 billion rupees ($63.4 million) for the three months to June 30, from 10.52 billion rupees a year earlier, the Mumbai-based bank said in a statement on Thursday.

Analysts on average had expected a net profit of 4.92 billion rupees, according to data compiled by Thomson Reuters.

Gross bad loans as a percentage of total loans rose to 11.15 percent as of end-June from 9.99 percent three months earlier.

Bank of Baroda shares were down 5.5 percent at 151.60 rupees by 0353 GMT in a Mumbai market that fell 0.3 percent.

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($1 = 66.8600 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Devidutta Tripathy; Editing by Sunil Nair)

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First Published: Aug 11 2016 | 9:36 AM IST

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