Thursday 29 January 2015

Oriental Bank of Commerce Q3 net down 91.27% at Rs 19.56 crore

The bank had posted net profit of Rs 19.56 crore against Rs 224.3 crore in the same period last year



Public sector lender Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) today reported a 91.27 per cent decline in net profit at Rs 19.56 crore for the third quarter ended December 31, 2014, dragged by higher provisions.

The bank had posted net profit of Rs 224.3 crore for the October-December quarter of 2013-14, OBC said in a BSE filing.

OBC's total income rose by 7.79 per cent to Rs 5,458.79 crore during the October-December period from Rs 5,063.98 crore in the same period last year.

During the quarter under review, the bank's provisioning other than tax and contingencies jumped by 57.75 per cent to Rs 885.14 crore from Rs 561.1 crore in the same quarter of the previous fiscal.

The bank's gross NPAs increased to 5.43 per cent at the end of third quarter from 3.87 per cent in the corresponding period in the previous year.

Shares of Oriental Bank of Commerce were trading at Rs 292.70 apiece, down 6.49 per cent from its previous close on the BSE.

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