Mumbai: Consumer durables lender Bajaj Finance Ltd on Tuesday reported a 19.4% year-on-year (y-o-y) decline in consolidated net profit to ₹948.1 crore owing to covid-19 provisions of ₹900 crore.
Bajaj Finance’s net interest income (NII) surged 38% y-o-y to ₹4,684 crore in the March quarter. The other large component of its revenues was in the form of fees and other income of ₹929 crore, up 45% from the same period last year.
The consolidated results of Bajaj Finance include the earnings of its wholly-owned subsidiaries -- Bajaj Housing Finance Ltd (BHFL) and Bajaj Financial Securities Ltd (BFinsec).
The non-banking financial company (NBFC) said due to the covid-19 pandemic and the consequent lockdown, the company lost 10 productive days in