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Bajaj Finance slips 5% after Co briefs on business impact due to Covid-19

CIO Insider Team | Friday, 10 April, 2020
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The dividend of Bajaj Finance dropped 5.7 percent to a new 52-week flat of Rs 2,081.50 on the NSE in a differently active market after the organisation’s administration unit explains that more than past 10 days, the firm had drift almost 350,000 consumers, clashing its assets under administration by Rs 4,750 crore.

Altogether, the organisation proclaimed a 27 percent AUM increase in March 2020 which is compared to its 7 quarter moderate increase of 37 percent.


Bajaj Finance declared some primary activity benchmark for Q4 on Monday. “The new customer addition and the new loans disbursed were the weakest since FY15 even worse than the demonetisation-hit quarters of FY17.

New customers acquired was down 22.8 per cent at 1.9 million, as compared to the December 2019 quarter's 2.46 million figure. It was also less than 1.92 million in the year-ago quarter. Likewise, new loans booked fell 22.7 percent sequentially to 6 million; this metric was up just 3.5 percent YoY.”

Coronavirus associated capital quality force may lead to one-time quick apparatus. With reference to the Business Standard assessment, the shareholders should arm for an improvement of 40-50 percent in the credit price computed on FY20’s numerical, though in the distress case credit cost is expected to be increased by 80-90 percent.

“The unsecured consumer finance business models would become challenging in the current pandemic environment. At the current early stage of Covid-19 outbreak in India, it is uncertain to project how long the physical restrictions from the government would last beyond the 21-days imposed lockdown. At this stage, it would be conservative to assume that the first quarter of FY2021 would be a near complete economic freeze and a crawling recovery post,” Bajaj Finance wrote in their rating rationale.

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