Axis Bank on July 24 reported a net profit of Rs 6,035 crore for Q1 FY25, up from Rs 3,452 crore in the corresponding quarter previous year. This beat street expectations. An average estimate of 8 brokerages had expected a net profit of Rs 5,797 crore. On a sequential basis, the profit of the bank dropped by 15 percent from Rs 7,130 crore.

The bank's asset quality worsened sequentially with gross non-performing assets up 11 basis points (bps) at 1.54 percent and net non-performing assets 3 bps up at 0.34 percent. On a year on year (YoY) basis, the bank's GNPA and NNPA improved by 42 bps and 7 bps respectively. Here, Puneet Sharma, Chief Financial Officer, in a post results press call, said that there was some pressure on asset quality due to seasonality on the retail agri business in the first quarter.

Axis Bank's net interest income (NII) for the April-June quarter rose to Rs 13,448 crore from Rs 11,959 crore in the same quarter a year ago. The brokerage estimates had expected a NII of Rs 13,361 crore.  Net interest margin (NIM) for Q1FY25 stood at 4.05 percent versus 4.10 percent last year.

The bank completed its integration with Citi in July 2024. Here, Amitabh Chaudhry, MD&CEO, Axis Bank said: ‘The last quarter was crucial in terms of getting all the teams to work together for the last leg of Citi integration. I am delighted that the integration is done and it was largely seamless given the size and scale of the transition."

The total deposits grew 13 percent YoY, of which current account deposits grew 12 percent, total term deposits grew 20 percent. The share of current account and savings account (CASA) deposits in total deposits stood at 42 percent.

Advances of the bank grew 14 percent YoY and 2 percent QoQ to Rs 9.80 lakh crore. Retail loans grew 18 percent YoY to Rs 5.85 lakh crore and accounted for 60 percent of the net advances of the bank.

The bank recorded a 61 percent growth in unified payments interface (UPI) transactions.

Shares of the lender closed for trading at Rs 1239.75 a piece, 1.83 percent down on BSE.