UCO Bad Loans

UCO Bank on Tuesday reported more than two-fold jump in profit at Rs 653 crore for the quarter ended December 2022, driven by increase in interest income and decline in bad loans. Its net profit stood at Rs 310 crore in the same quarter of the preceding financial year. Total income increased to Rs 5,451 crore in the quarter from Rs 4,638 crore in the year-ago period, the bank said in a regulatory filing. At the same time, interest income rose to Rs 4,627 crore as compared to Rs 3,919 crore in the same quarter a year ago. On the asset quality front, the bank recorded an improvement with gross NPAs (Non-Performing Assets) declining to 5.63 per cent of gross advances as compared to 8 per cent at the end of the third quarter of 2021-22. Net NPAs too eased to 1.66 per cent from 2.81 per cent in the same quarter a year ago. As a result, provision for bad loans declined significantly to Rs 220 crore from Rs 565 crore in the same period a year ago. However, the capital adequacy ratio de

State-owned UCO Bank on Friday posted an over three-fold jump in net profit at Rs 312.18 crore for the quarter ended March 2022 as a fall in bad loans lowered the provisioning requirement. The lender had posted a net profit of Rs 80 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago. Total income during the fourth quarter of 2021-22 was, however, down at Rs 4,362 crore, as against Rs 4,637 crore in the year-ago period, UCO Bank said in a regulatory filing. For the full fiscal FY22, the bank's net profit grew more than five times to Rs 930 crore from Rs 167 crore in FY21. Total income during the year was at Rs 18,082 crore, up from Rs 17,870 crore in the preceding fiscal. The lender brought down its bad assets portion significantly as the gross non-performing assets (NPAs) came in at 7.89 per cent by end of March 2022, as against 9.59 per cent by end of March 2021. Value-wise, the gross NPAs fell to Rs 10,237 crore from Rs 11,352 crore. Similarly, the net NPAs were down at 2.70 per ce

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UCO reported a narrowing of its quarterly loss and bad-loan ratio