Financial Performance Highlights
Consolidated Performance:
- Assets Under Management (AUM): INR15,935 crores, growing 27% YoY and 5% sequentially
- Disbursements: INR3,495 crores, up 56% YoY (highest first quarter disbursement in company history)
- Total Income: INR827 crores, up 22% YoY
- Profit After Tax: INR123 crores, up 172% YoY
- Pre-Provision Operating Profit (PPOP): INR267 crores, up 33% YoY
Stand-alone Performance:
- AUM: INR13,312 crores, up 22% YoY
- Disbursements: INR3,008 crores, up 46% YoY
- Total Income: INR734 crores, up 21% YoY
- PAT: INR120 crores, up 182% YoY
- PPOP: INR258 crores, up 36% YoY
Margins and Efficiency Metrics
- Stand-alone NIM: 14.36% (improved from 13.16% in Q4 FY26)
- Gross Yield: 22.44%
- Cost of Funds: 8.08%
- Operating Expense Ratio: 6.33% (improved from 6.98% in Q4)
- Cost to Income: 44.49% (improved from 48.91% YoY)
- AUM per Loan Officer: increased 29% YoY
- Return on Assets: 3.55%
- Return on Equity: 15.10%
Asset Quality
- Gross NPA: 2.2% (improved from 3.7% YoY and 3.1% in March 2026)
- Net NPA: 0.3% (down from 0.9% YoY)
- GNPA in absolute terms: INR219 crores
- X-bucket collection efficiency: 99.9%
- Stage 3 coverage: 85% (improved from 73% in March)
- Overall provision coverage ratio: 115%
- Slippages for quarter: INR49 crores
- Write-offs for quarter: INR127 crores
Credit Costs and Provisions
- Reported credit cost: 3.06% (improvement of over 175 bps YoY)
- Management overlay buffer: INR36 crores
- Credit cost excluding overlay: 1.97%
- On-book provisions: INR250 crores against RBI requirement of INR152 crores
- Adjusted ROA (excluding buffer): 4.34%
- Adjusted ROE (excluding buffer): 18.46%
Diversification Business Update
Non-MFI Portfolio: 19% of consolidated AUM (target: 30% by 2030)
Satin Finserv:
- AUM: INR1,360 crores, up 134% YoY and 29% sequentially
- 121 branches across 14 states
- CRAR: 27.1%
Green Finance Book:
- Total: INR624 crores
- Q1 Disbursements: INR294 crores across 50 loans
- 45% aligned to clean mobility and renewable energy
Satin Housing Finance:
- AUM: INR1,263 crores, up 31% YoY
- 57 branches across 22 states
- CRAR: 59.8%
Technology Businesses:
- Satin Technologies: First quarter with paying HRMS customers
- QTrino Labs: Achieved first customer revenue milestone
- Core banking platform completed development, targeted Q2 FY27 go-live
Satin Growth Alternatives: Progressing towards first close of Category 2 AIF with first deployment expected next quarter
Capital and Funding
- Raised approximately INR3,000 crores during quarter through diversified instruments
- INR285 crores subordinated debt, taking subordinated liabilities to INR497 crores
- Capital Adequacy Ratio: 26.74% (up from 25.39% in March)
- Undrawn sanctions: INR2,600 crores
- Secured INR2,000 crores direct assignment sanction limit from public sector bank
- Marginal cost of borrowing: reduced 37 bps YoY to 10.52%
- 77 active lenders with top 10 accounting for 52% of borrowing
- Net worth: INR3,243 crores
- Shareholders approved promoter infusion of INR100 crores at approximately 17% premium to minimum issue price
Operational Metrics
- Clients served: 34 lakh across 2,041 branches and 3.9 lakh centers
- Employees: 18,518
- Geographic presence: 112,000+ villages across nearly 590 districts
- Commenced operations in Kerala in June 2026
- Added 41 branches at stand-alone level during quarter
- Field leadership team (200 regional/zonal managers): zero attrition
Risk Factors and Buffers
Assam Flood Impact:
- 3 affected districts: Jorhat, Sivasagar, and Charaideo
- 44,000 borrowers affected representing INR149.83 crores portfolio outstanding
- INR96.95 crores covered under natural catastrophe insurance
- Represents approximately 5% of Assam portfolio
- Financial impact significantly mitigated through insurance coverage
Management Overlay Rationale: Buffer created during up cycle to provide cushion against potential shocks including monsoon outlook and West Asia situation
Guidance for FY27
- Consolidated AUM growth: 20-25% (implying INR18,200-18,900 crores by March 2027)
- Stand-alone credit cost: 3-3.5% on reported basis (inclusive of buffers)
- Stand-alone return on assets: 3.5-4% on reported basis
- Guidance to be reviewed at half year after monsoon assessment
- Long-term target: INR32,000 crores consolidated AUM by 2030 with 30% from non-microfinance business
Q&A Highlights
- Management overlay buffer amount will depend on macroeconomic and field-level developments, no fixed target
- Surplus liquidity drag on NIM: approximately 0.15-0.20% at quarter-end, 0.05% during entire quarter
- Direct assignment income: target 20-22% of stand-alone AUM on yearly basis
- New branches typically become profitable after reaching 1,000 customers (approximately 9 months)
- Company has not opted for CGMFU scheme as GNPA below threshold requirement
- All ECB transactions (INR1,573 crores) fully hedged with minimal net impact