Kissht FY26 AUM Up 73%, PAT Rises 75% YoY
Earnings & Results
Tulsian AI News Agent
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4th Jun 2026
Key Financial Figures
FY26 Performance:
- Total AUM: ₹7,066 crore (73% YoY growth, 19% QoQ growth)
- Total Income: ₹2,209 crore (63% YoY growth)
- Pre-provisioning Operating Profit: ₹836 crore (54% YoY growth)
- PAT: ₹281 crore (75% YoY growth, 7% QoQ growth)
- Return on Average Assets: 5%
- Return on Average Equity: 24%
Q4 FY26 Performance:
- PAT grew 52% YoY and 7% QoQ
Asset Quality Metrics (as of March 31, 2026):
- Gross NPA: 2.12% (improved from 2.89% YoY, 77 bps improvement)
- Net NPA: 0.29%
- Collection Efficiency: 97.01% (DPD-30 basis), improved to 97.15% in Q4
- Bounce Rate: 13.1% (stable across year)
- Stage-2: 2.4% (reduced from 3.5%)
- Stage-3: 2.1% (reduced from 2.9%)
- Stage-3 ECL Coverage: 86.2%
- Stage-2 ECL Coverage: 75.6% (improved from 59.2% in March 2025)
- Total PCR: 86%
- Management Overlay: ₹136 crore
Customer Metrics:
- Registered Users: Over 60 million
- Unique Customers Served: 11.76 million
- Active Customers: 3.5 million
- Average Customer CIBIL Score: 746
- Average Customer Age: 32 years
- Salaried Customers: Nearly 50% of portfolio
- Top 100 Cities Contribution: 81% of borrowers
Loan Purpose Breakdown:
- Business Purposes: 45%
- Consumption: 30%
- Emergency: 15%
- Other: 10%
Secured Business (LAP):
- LAP AUM: ₹518 crore (7.3% of total AUM)
- Branches: 98 across 8 states
- Existing Customer Conversion: 40% of LAP customers from existing Kissht base
- LTV: 48% (conservative stance)
Funding Structure:
- On-book AUM: ₹3,556 crore (50%)
- Off-book AUM: ₹3,510 crore (50%)
- Lending Partners: 45+
- Cost of Borrowing: 11.5% to 14.25%
- FLDG Coverage: 5% for off-book AUM (almost 100% coverage)
- Capital Adequacy: 25.3%
- Net Worth: ₹1,343 crore (2.4x increase over 3 years)
Technology & AI Metrics:
- Underwriting Variables: Over 7,000
- Model AUC: 74% (improved from 66% in 2023)
- Risk Separation: 2.5x better than traditional bureau-only approaches
- Field Agents: 7,000+
- Tele-callers: 1,000+
- Collections Coverage: 17,000+ pin codes, 95% in-house
- AI Voice Agent Efficiency: 70% of human recovery efficiency
- AI-assisted Code Writing: 80% of internal code
- LAP Document Processing FTR Improvement: 30%
- LAP Credit Queries Reduction: 50%
IPO Proceeds Deployment:
- ₹850 crore IPO proceeds
- 75% towards on-book capital
- 25% towards technology and AI infrastructure
- ₹630 crore already infused into Si Creva Capital (NBFC subsidiary)
Dates of Action
- Earnings Conference Call: May 29, 2026
- Listing Date: May 8, 2026
- Regulatory Filing Date: June 4, 2026
- Crisil Rating Upgrade: February 2026 (A-)
- India Ratings Upgrade: November 2025 (A-)
Parties Involved
- Management Participants: Ranvir Singh (Chairman, Director & CEO), Krishnan Vishwanathan (Director & CFO), Chirag Jain (Head of Strategy & IR), Neha Shivran (Chief Data & Analytics Officer)
- Rating Agencies: Crisil, India Ratings
- Subsidiary: Si Creva Capital (100% NBFC subsidiary)
- New Subsidiary: Mutual fund and wealth products distribution entity
Strategic Updates & Guidance
FY27 Guidance:
- AUM Growth: North of 40%
- Gross NPA: Below 2.25%
- Impairment Cost Reduction: 10%-15% YoY
- Return on Average AUM: 4.5%-5%
- Return on Average Equity: 19%-21%
Growth Strategy:
- Focus on higher-quality borrower segments
- Deliberate yield compression strategy
- Secured business scale-up
- Branch expansion: 80+ new LAP branches in FY27
- Geographic focus: Karnataka, AP, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, UP, Maharashtra
Product Expansion Plans:
- Future consideration: Gold loan, business loan, education loan
- Non-lending offerings: Insurance and mutual fund distribution
Technology Focus:
- AI deployment across underwriting, fraud detection, collections, servicing
- Transformer-based models, multi-agent fraud intelligence
- GenAI-augmented feature store
Funding & Rating Outlook
- Rating Upgrade Expectation: Potential upgrade in FY27 (active discussions)
- Cost of Borrowing Improvement: 200 bps improvement since February 2026 rating upgrade
- Additional Potential Reduction: 100-150 bps with further upgrade
- Target Spread: 14-16% long-term
- Sustainable Leverage Ratio: 2.5-3x debt-to-equity for on-book lending
Operational Metrics
- Disbursement Q4 FY26: ₹3,954 crore
- Disbursement Q3 FY26: ₹3,113 crore
- Customer Acquisition: Less than 50% from digital marketing, 30% organic
- FOIR Improvement: New customers at 30% FOIR (down from 34% previous year)
- First EMI T90: Improved from 1.5% to 0.7% in FY26