Tata Capital Q2 FY27 PAT Up 51% YoY to ₹1,660 Cr
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2nd Nov 2026
Key Financial Performance Metrics (Consolidated)
AUM Growth
- Consolidated AUM crossed ₹3 lakh crore milestone, standing at ₹3,08,030 crores as of September 30, 2026
- 26% year-on-year growth and 6% sequential growth
- Excluding Motor Finance business: 32% YoY growth and 7% QoQ growth
Profitability
- Profit After Tax (PAT): ₹1,660 crores for Q2 FY27
- 51% year-on-year growth and 7% sequential growth
- Return on Assets (ROA): 2.3% (2.5% excluding Motor Finance)
- Return on Equity (ROE): Crossed 14%
Asset Quality
- Gross Stage 3 assets: Stable at 1.9%
- Provision coverage ratio: Improved to 59%
- Annualized credit cost: Declined to 0.9% in Q2 from 1.0% in Q1
- Slippages remained benign across portfolio
Housing Finance Business Performance (Tata Capital Housing Finance)
- AUM: ₹95,098 crores, growing 26% YoY and 6% sequentially
- PAT: ₹552 crores for Q2
- ROA: 2.5%
- ROE: 18.0%
- Affordable and micro housing portfolio grew 22% YoY and 5% sequentially
Operational Highlights
Distribution Network
- Total branches: Approximately 1,515 branches across 1,094 locations in 26 states and union territories
- Added 23 new locations in affordable and micro-housing during Q2
- Customer base: Over 9.2 million customers
Disbursements
- Consolidated disbursements: ₹51,665 crores, up 29% YoY
- High-margin businesses disbursement growth: 40% YoY
- High-margin businesses AUM growth: 14% (up from 10% in Q1)
Business Mix
- Retail and SME businesses account for 85.4% of consolidated AUM
- Portfolio remains diversified across secured/unsecured retail, housing, SME, corporate and Motor Finance segments
Funding and Liquidity Position
Borrowings Profile
- Total borrowings: Approximately ₹2.61 lakh crores
- Borrowing mix: Bank loans (39%), NCDs (35%), ECBs and MTNs (12%), Commercial paper and WCDL (9%), NHB borrowings (3%)
- Cost of funds: Increased marginally to 7.33% from 7.28% in previous quarter
Liquidity
- Available liquidity: Approximately ₹36,400 crores
- AAA credit rating maintained
Capital Position
- Consolidated equity: ₹47,778 crores
- Debt-to-equity: 5.5x
- Tata Capital standalone capital adequacy: 17.3% with CET1 at 14.7%
- Capital raise planned for second half of FY28
Interest Rate Environment and ALCO Actions
RBI Policy Impact
- RBI raised repo rate by 25 bps to 5.50% in October 2026
- Expectation of 2 further rate hikes in FY27
- Liquidity surplus moderated to below ₹1 lakh crore from nearly ₹5 lakh crores
ALCO Decisions
- Approved 20-25 bps increase in prime lending rates on floating rate portfolio
- Tata Capital: 25 bps increase effective November 1, 2026
- Tata Capital Housing Finance: 20 bps increase effective November 1, 2026
- Expected to support improving NIM plus fee trajectory from Q4 onwards
Asset-Liability Structure
- Floating rate liabilities: 48% of total liabilities
- Floating rate assets: 66% of loan portfolio
- Structural positioning favorable for rising rate environment
Digital Transformation and AI Initiatives
Digital Adoption Metrics
- 99% of customers digitally onboarded
- 98% of retail disbursements supported by scorecard and business rule engine decisioning
- 99% of collections through digital channels
- 98% of customer queries digitally addressable
- 180+ digital partnerships
AI Implementation
- AI-generated content powers majority of marketing creatives
- AI-led onboarding enabled over 30 lakh customer interactions
- AI-powered credit intelligence processed over 7.8 crore documents
- 95% adoption across personal loans and business loans underwriting
- AI-led workflows process approximately 70% of retail applications
- AI-powered voice and email platforms enable automated customer interactions
Regulatory Updates and Impact Assessment
Revolving Credit (Flexi Loans)
- SRO (FIDC) has submitted recommendations to RBI
- Company evaluating alternative product structures
- Impact assessment: 3-4% of AUM potentially affected
- Retail Flexi loans form about 2-2.5% of book
- Testing alternative products with similar pricing
Insurance Distribution Norms
- Draft proposals under discussion with regulator
- Industry consultations ongoing
- Impact not quantifiable until final regulations issued
- Evaluating retail insurance products and mitigation through NIMs/fee income
- Insurance remains important risk cover for customers
Business Segment Updates
Motor Finance Business
- Portfolio rundown continuing but slowing
- Q2 degrowth lower than Q1
- Expect stabilization in Q3 and growth from Q4
- NPA increase seasonal (Q2 typically highest)
- Absolute slippages significantly lower YoY
- Portfolio proportion: Down to 7.7% from 14.5% in March 2025
- Created macro provision of ₹30 crores in CV business
Microfinance Business
- Forms less than 1% of book
- Showing improving asset quality trend and growth
- Limited presence in drought-affected states
- No exposure to tractor or farm loans
SME Business
- Strong growth in Q2, contributing 45% of incremental growth
- Growth from both term loans and supply chain financing
- Supply chain well diversified (auto now 35% vs 2/3rd 4 years ago)
- Tightened screens in certain SME segments due to macro concerns
Guidance and Outlook
Growth Guidance
- Maintain FY27 growth guidance of 23-25%
- Medium-term (FY25-FY28) growth guidance of 23-25% maintained
- Expect retail momentum to pick up in Q3 and Q4
Margin Outlook
- Q2 NIM declined ~10 bps (5 bps from cost of funds, 5 bps from competitive intensity)
- Expect NIM plus fee to be stable in Q3 with marginal improvement
- Distinct improvement expected in Q4
- High-margin business AUM growth expected to mirror overall portfolio growth by Q4
Operational Efficiency
- Cost-to-income ratio: 35.3% (improved 438 bps YoY)
- Cost to average assets: 2.3%
- Headcount growth: 6% vs AUM growth of 26%
- Expect cost growth of 15% vs income growth of 25%
Other Material Information
Associate De-recognition
- Gain of ₹186 crores from private equity exit
- Only ₹27 crores flows to Tata Capital PAT after LP allocations
Branch Expansion
- Net addition of 24 branches in Q2
- Focus on scaling growth businesses especially affordable and micro housing
Geographic Presence
- Limited rural exposure (only microfinance <1%)
- Minimal presence in drought-affected states like Maharashtra