Record Profits, Borrowed From A Credit Cost Trough

Indian markets consolidated as oil stabilised following an Iran-US agreement and global flows stayed anchored in US chip and hardware names. The argument advanced was to read a record as a cycle statement: Nifty 500 corporate profit-to-GDP reached an all-time 5.2%, about INR 18.1 trillion, double the level of four years ago, a peak touched only once before in FY08, after which it halved over twelve years. Profits rose 16% on under 2% revenue growth, so the gain was entirely margin, largely a trough in bank credit costs, with financials 37% of the ratio.

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