HDB Financial Services Limited

Quarter ended Jun 2025

2025-07-15 Transcript PDF
Moderator

Thank you very much. We will now begin the Q&A session. Our first question comes from the line of Abhijit Tibrewal from Motilal Oswal. Please go ahead.

Motilal Oswal

Yes. So, I don't know if you heard me. I was trying to say, first of all, congratulations on your first earnings call. I just had two questions. First is, you put out your disbursement mix in the quarter. So, I was seeing that Asset Finance disbursements were down almost 15% Y-o-Y. So, I was just trying to understand, if I look at the industry numbers, industry volumes, the volumes are not down to that extent. So, what is it that is leading to some weakness in terms of disbursement and growth in our Asset Finance vertical? And second, in terms of asset quality, our 30 + DPD is up almost 90 basis points Q-o-Q. So, some weakness that we are seeing in asset quality. So, if you could just help us understand, this is more in the nature of the seasonality that we see in the first quarter, o r is this more looking like some weakness in macro, which is contributing to it? And also, if you could help us understand, this weakness is more pronounced in vehicle financing or some other customer cohorts in Consumer Finance. So, just these two questions. Thank you so much.

G Ramesh

So, thank you for that question, Abhijit. And so, specifically, if you look at, you know, relative to the book growth of about 15%, our net interest income grew by about 18.3% Y-o-Y. And our Net Interest Margin also expanded to 7.7% from 7.6% primarily on the back of higher yield, right, the impact of some of the rate reductions that are there in the syste m really did not show up in Q1. We expect them to start showing up in the subsequent quarters as we replace our debt and as we replace our, you know, as our book grows, and as we take on newer debt to replace the older debt, which might be at a higher rate. So specifically in Commercial Vehicles, what we've seen is anyway it's a seasonally weak quarter. One of the things that we have done is really re-orient our strategy around the product mix, which started reflecting in some of our NI M numbers in terms of the mix between the various asset classes within the Commercial Vehicle business, right? So, this r ecalibration is something that we started about a year ago, something that has started showing results in terms of net interest margins that we are starting to see inching up in our book. And so that's something that will play out over the next few months. So, that's largely where the Asset Finance space is there. And again, because it's a seasonally weak quarter, primarily some of our increase in the early stage delinquencies are in our secure loans, which is primarily in Commercial Vehicles. We expect that to calibrate over the next, you know, few months in terms of just the seasonality and the way the business works.

Motilal Oswal

Got it. Just one last thing as a follow up. In terms of provisioning cover, if I am seeing this correctly, our provisionin g covers on Stage 1 and Stage 2 have declined sequentially. So, just trying to understand, is this more a function of the EC L model? Because, I mean, all I'm trying to understand is if the macros are still weak, what is kind of going into the EC L model for it to churn out lower provision covers on your Stage 1 and Stage 2 loans?

Jaykumar Shah

So, Abhijit, in terms of how we do our modeling overall ECL, we have very granular book in terms of overall loans. So, we work on a base model. Our overall provision, as you would see, is 3.3%, which is the same as last quarter. Our PCR is a constant. Some of the interplays that work is purely on account of book mix at every stage, you know, that works its way through. And some of the weakness that we've seen as Ramesh highlighted has been on the CV side, which is a secured product.

Moderator

Our next question comes from the line of Rajiv Mehta from Yes Securities. Please go ahead.

YES Securities

Again, just coming back to the disbursement de-growth in the CV financing portfolio, it seems -- and I think from the ticket size, average ticket size, it seems that we predominantly do used - vehicle financing in that product. So now this de -growth and disbursement in business on a Y-o-Y basis would have been driven by, you know, seeing genuine slowdown in demand of used vehicles on the ground or was it because of factors like unsustainable competition or maybe pricing not being in line with your expectations?

Jaykumar Shah

So, two things, Rajiv. One is, you're right, there has been some weakness in the CV segment as a whole and that's coming through. Secondly, we don't really finance large vehicles. So, on the HCV space, etc., we're small. So, I mean, that's largely in terms of how the economy has fared and how the business is. There hasn't been any other specifics that we would highlight.

YES Securities

Okay. And in the Enterprise Lending segment, also the disbursements are down on Y-o-Y basis. So, is it driven by LAP or the unsecured business loans or in both se gments have we seen the business being lower versus last year?

Jaykumar Shah

So, two things there. On the overall Enterprise Lending side, on the unsecured business loan is where we had consciously slowed down a couple of quarters ago. We're making sure, as the economy turns around, we watch it closely. And as things turn around, we will move forward on that. So that space – we're very well entrenched into. So, we're keeping a close eye on that one. On the LAP front, I think there has been reasonable growt h in line with how the overall markets moved is the way I would put it.

YES Securities

Okay. And can you share the 1 to 30 DPD bucket, at the company level in absolute terms or percentage terms, how that has moved between June and March? Has it also signific antly gone up sequentially, which is generally the case from a seasonality point of view, but is that bucket also still heavy as we get into the second quarter?

Jaykumar Shah

So, what I'll do is, I mean, there is a slide which very clearly states the stag e one. Let me just look through that, and I'll come back to you. Probably we'll try and see if we can come back by the end of the call or we'll then address it. Yes.

YES Securities

Sure, sir. Thank you. Thanks so much.

Moderator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Renish from ICICI. Please go ahead.

Renish

Yes. Hi Sir. Congrats on a good set of members. There's two questions. One on the asset yield side, which expanded 30 basis points sequentially. So just wanted to understand following this cycle, what is driving this effective expansion of sequential business? Is it driven by the asset mix change or we have increased the lending business…

Jaykumar Shah

Renish, my apologies. Can you go a little slow? We are struggling to hear you.

Renish

Yes, yes. Is it better now, sir?

Management

Yes, it's better now.

Renish

Yes. So, first question on the asset yield side, which expanded almost 30 basis point sequentially. So, just wanted to understand in the falling rate cycle, what is driving the asset yield expansion? I mean, is it driven by the asset mix change or we have increased lending rates in some of the segments?

G Ramesh

So, Renish, there are two factors which are driving the yield expansion. One is that within each product that we do, there's a pretty large range of pricing that we have depending on the borrower profile and the asset profile, right? For example, a simplistic example, commercial vehicles, a heavy commercial vehicle to a fleet versus a used commercial vehicle which is 5 years old to a first-time borrower. There's a fairly large range of pricing that you have. So, some of the products that we have, we have tweaked the product mix in terms of yield expansion at the product level. And that's what's really driving the yield expansion. Pricing is really a function of what we finally deliver as the product mix in each product. And that's what's really driving the yield expansion.

Renish

Okay. So, is it fair to assume that maybe 10-20 basis point here and there, but broadly, I think it will remain at around 15%, I mean, in near term?

Renish

Okay. And secondly, on the credit cost front, so this quarter, our credit cost remains strictly at 2.5%, which is understandable given typical Q1 seasonality. But when we look at even on annual basis, the same is higher by 70 on basis point. We just wanted to understand which product is sort of giving the stress and where do we stand in terms of asset quality cycle in the products which are under stress currently? And when can we expect the normalization of credit cost in some of the segments?

Jaykumar Shah

So, in terms of credit cost, I would say it's largely in line with our expectations in terms of where we ended the quarter. So, I think that is the first important statement there. In terms of products, we had, even during previous interactions with the broader community, stated that there has been past stress in unsecured business loans and a little bit on the CV, which we expect to stabilize , as Ramesh said, over the coming months. So, we'll watch that space closely and move from there.

Renish

Okay. So, apart from unsecured business loan and CV, there is no other segment which is sort of showing any sign of stress. I mean, is that fair to assume?

Jaykumar Shah

So, we haven't seen any, unwarranted spikes anywhere, is the way I would put it.

Renish

And just to follow up on that, so in CV...

Jaykumar Shah

Renish, we'll take one question and the rest later...

Renish

Sure. I'll come back in the queue.

Moderator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Viral Shah from IIFL Capital. Please go ahead.

IIFL Capital

Yes. Hi. First of all, thank you and congratulations on the first quarter. I had two questions. One is, you mentioned that you expect that in the, especially the consumer piece of the business and some bit in the CV, the current stress, which is there, it should kind of say or is close to peaking out and it should start improving in the next few months. When I look at the Consumer Finance disbursements, which is almost now flattish on a Y -o-Y basis and a sequential basis, we have seen a growth. Are we already starting to say, push the pedal of, say, growth or slightly loosening the filters over there?

G Ramesh

So, just to cla rify, Viral, the Consumer Finance business is doing quite well. I think where we had a lower ticket size compared to what we would have anticipated is primarily because certain products that sell quite in a large volume during the quarter, we had lower tra ction on those products, primarily the compressor products, which account for larger ticket size. But otherwise, if you see, I think customer engagement has been quite strong during the quarter. As we mentioned, we are now 20. 1 million customers, up 0.9 mi llion customers in the quarter. So, in terms of customer traction, it's been quite healthy. I think where we have, I think there are two product categories where we said our credit cost has had an elevation in the last couple of quarters is one, Commercial Vehicles, and second is unsecured business loans. The Consumer Finance categories, you know, otherwise, both from a growth and quality perspective is doing quite well.

IIFL Capital

Okay, got it. And you mentioned about the unsecured business loans. Over there also, you expect, say, a similar kind of recovery in the second half? Or is that something that may take some more time?

Jaykumar Shah

So, Viral, we’ll watch it closely. As I mentioned, I think it has obviously the macros also playing out in it. So, it's a space we'll watch closely. It is currently stabilizing in a decent form. And let's look through the coming months.

IIFL Capital

Got it. And my second question, with regards to basically our opex, and this is more, I would say, when I look at us and compare it with some of our peers, somehow the productivity levels seem to be a bit weaker on a relative basis when I look at, say, either per branch or per employee. And I'm looking at just the lending business, not the overall business. So, over here, do we see a pathway of structurally, say, the operating leverage now from here on playing out as we kind of keep growing? And what is that extent of operating leverage that we can see over the next 2, 3 years?

Jaykumar Shah

So, Viral, I'll give you our side of it. The most important thing you need to look at us as HDB is we're a very focused retail-only entity, right, with an average loan size of around 160,000 - 165,000, right? And individual 20 large customers, if you take, it's only 0.32%. Now, that level of granularity, when you operate through the network, it is going to be at a slightly different cost base in terms of how others might operate. And I'm no expert to comment on anybody else, but we believe at this level of how we're operating, obviously, every management would look to improvising on things and getting better efficiency. But at this stage, if you look specifically in the current qua rter, our Cost-to-income ratio has improved by almost 20 bps compared to the prior quarter. So, we're very seized of the fact that costs play an important role in the overall ROA metric. And at this point in time, I think we're working through the branch network, the retail network that we have, and our focus, always remains on delivering the overall ROA.

IIFL Capital

Okay, just a bit, like, the guidance in terms of the opex specifically over the medium term?

Jaykumar Shah

So, I think we'll take it at a fut ure point in time. I think there is lots of interplay in the overall macro-economy. I don't think it's fair to provide a guidance in specific.

IIFL Capital

Got it. Thank you, and all the very best. Thank you so much.

Moderator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Suresh Ganapathy from Macquarie. Please go ahead.

So just a little bit on what you think will be the eventual sustainable credit cost, because we are already at 2.5% for this quarter. And the fourth quarter was, I mean, sorry, last year, full year was 2.1% because we're already operating at a high level. A nd your numbers are much higher than peers. And also, the ROA level at 1.9%, again, it is much, much lower than peers. So, is the business model inherently having higher credit costs and therefore lower RO A? Because we have touched 3% RO A also in the past. So, we want to know where the reality is and where things would eventually settle, because you are currently operating at 1.9% RO A. That's one point. And yes, so that's the first question. Maybe then I'll go for the second one. Yes.

Jaykumar Shah

Suresh, I'll try and answer your questions. So, on the credit cost level, as I said, Q1 has been weaker and almost in line with expectations. We expect things to move in the right direction from here on and stabilize through Q2 and then improve going forward. That's our current working assumption and the piece that we're working on. That's one. On the ROA front, as I mentioned, the way to look at 1.9% is really 2.02% because of the ₹9,000 crores sitting there. And as credit costs start to improve, you'll automatically see an improvement in ROA. Another important thing, Suresh, is that, on the rate reduction, as Ramesh mentioned, the benefits of that haven't really come through at this point in time for us. And something that you will see in terms of NIM expansion over the coming quarters.

Okay. And this is my last question. It's just a qualitative understanding since you guys, of course, run the business. What is explaining this CV slowdown? Is the government not spending? Is the rural incomes weaker? Because we see rural incomes being very buoyant. Last year, monsoon was fantastic. Still, we have had this kind of an outcome in the CV space. Is it over-leveraging? Any kind of qualitative assessment that you can give on what has gone wrong here?

G Ramesh

So, it's very difficult for us to give a color on how and what drives certain volumes. Like, for example, one of the things that we think happened, for example, in the compressor space was that there were unseasonal rains. It wasn't too hot and, that led to certain lower traction that we saw on compressor product financing. So, that's relatively easier to sort of guess. Very difficult to guess what's driving vehicle sales at any point of time. I guess, there are many factors, including availability and revenues that are coming. I think one of the things that's happened in the last few years is that vehicle prices have gone up quite sharply, also led by many technological changes. For example, one of the things is that I think newer vehicles require an air-conditioned cabin. It's a production requirement, and that will automatically increase prices, which means that vehicles are being deployed for longer than they used to be in the past. Also, maybe because vehicles are much more sturdy in terms of quality and capability as compared to maybe a couple of decades back. So, something that we are watching and monitoring. One of the things that we have done internally is actually really focused on aligning our segment- wise strategy in Asset Finance, and which I explained also has contributed to our NIM expansion on the yield side. As I said, our NIM has expanded because our yields have improved, not because of benefit of cost of funds, which will start coming from Q2 onwards.

G Ramesh

We really look at it from a risk-adjusted return. I think we are okay with increasing credit costs as long as the risk-adjusted return is favorable.

Moderator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Shubhranshu Mishra from Phillip Capital. Please go ahead.

Phillip Capital

Hi. Good evening. I have two or three questions. The first one is, we are still in a startup phase, right? If I look at the product portfolio, only LAP and Enterprise Business Loans are the ones that are really stable, rest of them are anywhere between two to four years. So, are we going to see closure of any businesses or addition of any new business lines going forward? That's the first question. The second is around the customer segment. Out of the 20 million customers that we have, how many do we bank on a monthly basis, which is NACH hitting their bank accounts? And what is the percentage of repeat customers in those 20 million? The third question is around the PCR, which is about 56%. Despite a large proportion of our business being secured, 56% in EC L methodology would basically allude to the LGD. So, are we carrying excess provision or are LGDs at around 50%?

Jaykumar Shah

Sorry, Shubhranshu. I think we caught some of your questions. Some of them was not very clear. I'll just repeat the question so that we're on the same page. Any closure or new businesses that you're planning to start? That was your first question. Second question we caught out was current customers, and then I think we lost some of it.

Phillip Capital

Right, right. From the current customer set, of a customer of 20 million, how many are we banking on a monthly basis? And what is the percentage of repeat customers here? The third question was around the PCR. We are at 56% PCR, despite a higher proportion of secured business. So, PCR would mean basically LGD. So are LGD at 50%+ or are we carrying excess provision?

Jaykumar Shah

So, on PCR today, Shubhranshu, what we've done is we've calibrated it based on what we believe are the right levels to carry. Of course, there's a model that shows up a number, and then we look at it in terms of the overall market and individual product -wise, and we carry provisions accordingly. So, that's on the PCR.

Jaykumar Shah

As I mentioned, I think there will be some amount of product -wise, specific book-wise that we look at on a quarterly basis, and we maintain provisions to make sure the risks are well covered.

G Ramesh

So, in terms of product mix, Shubhranshu, we do evaluate new credit products all the time. You know, as and when we have a new product out, we'll put it out to the market. At this point of time, there's no product that we're considering for closure. That's not in the plan right now. We're broadly comfortable with the product mix that we have and working towards making sure that we are not dependent on any one product or any one category to an extent that it impacts our balance sheet. In terms of repeat customers, that really depends on some of the p roducts. For example, within our Consumer Finance segment, and if you've seen our business presentation, we have a deck on all the products, right? And so, in consumer finance, there's a product…

Jaykumar Shah

Slide 17.

G Ramesh

Slide 17, which talks about our products. So, Relationship PL, which is a product which accounts about 7% of our AUM, is only for existing customers of the company. So, that business is 100% existing customer-only product. But otherwise, from a - just a market opportunity persp ective, about more than 60% of our customers will be new to HDB customers at any point of time, all right? And we don't lend money to customers who don't have a bank account. So, the first option for collections is through a bank account, and only if the customer is unable to pay or has missed the payment to the bank account, do we pursue other collection modes.

G Ramesh

That would be in excess of 10 million.

G Ramesh

….we bank all our customers if that's the question.

Phillip Capital

So, we are banking 20 million customers on a monthly basis, 20 million EMI?

Jaykumar Shah

Sorry, sorry.

Moderator

Shubhranshu sir, your line was not quite audible. Could you please repeat the question once again?

G Ramesh

We bank all of them. All of our customers. All of them. We collect NACH mandate from every customer that we work with.

Phillip Capital

So, 20 million NACH mandates every month is what I'm asking.

Jaykumar Shah

So, 20 million is the life-to-date customers that we have, right? That is the overall customers.

Phillip Capital

How many do we bank on a monthly basis? How many NACH presentations on a monthly basis out of the 20 million?

Moderator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Pranuj from JP Morgan. Please go ahead.

Pranuj

Hello. Thank you for taking my question. So, coming back to the CV bit of it, I think you commented on what is driving the volume slowdown. But if I come back to the asset quality in terms of operator profitability, can you give us some sense of how do you expect it to move? Because you did allude to the point that the cost of ownersh ip has materially gone up over the last few years, while freight rates may not have kept up pace with that. They move more in line with the diesel moment. So, like any outlook on operator profitability and vehicle utilization levels, and what gives you the confidence that this could improve in the coming quarters? Thank you.

G Ramesh

So, the bulk of our customers are relatively small transporters, right? I mean, typically a vehicle or two. I think their business model is fairly independent of how fleets and large operators work. So, these are essentially jobbers or people picking up loads locally. They have tie -ups locally with people and they're working through moving the goods from one place to another, either within a district or within a state. Our expo sure to large fleets is quite small. So, in these businesses, it's not really a cost per kilometer, but it's more availability. It's typically a per trip or per project kind of pricing that these businesses work on, and not really a cost per kilometer kind of model. So, to that extent, it's a fairly different model that -- of customer that we work with. I mean, our exposure to fleets and those kind of customers who work on large contracts is quite small. I mean, that's really how we think about it.

Pranuj

But are you observing any impact on -- are you observing that operator profitability is getting adversely impacted in for these small road transport operators because the cost of vehicles have moved up? And also on the -- you also said it depends on the a vailability of trips. So, on the vehicle utilization front, on a Y-o-Y basis, are you noticing any improvements happening?

Jaykumar Shah

So, Pranuj, as Ramesh mentioned, our book is very granular. It's slightly different to the segment I believe you may b e looking at in terms of, large operators. I think what we can do is we can connect offline to maybe understand better, and you can connect with our IR team, and then we can take it forward. Okay?

Pranuj

Sure. Thank you.

Jaykumar Shah

Thank you so much.

Moderator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Avinash Singh from Emkay Global. Please go ahead.

Emkay Global

Yes. Hi. Good evening. Thanks for the opportunity. A couple of questions. The first one is again coming to that, your asset quality or credit cost. I mean, of course, you alluded partly to the seasonality of Q1, but I mean, if we were to look numbers since March 2024, quarter-by-quarter, I mean, the gross NPAs have gone up, and credit cost also inched up. So, overall, I mean, where do you see, I mean, given that your customer mix, your business segments, at what time, I mean, or like at what levels do you think it's going to peak out? Because the question is that, okay, now, I mean, of course, March ’24, a pretty low level of credit cost. Now, we are nearing 2.5%. So at what point, I mean, given the macro scenario or particular to your business strategy, where do you see th ese peaking out? Because this is not typical seasonality, because even if you look at quarter -on-quarter, it has been just inching up over the last five-odd quarters. So, at what level, I mean, do you start to see sort of that, okay, that has peaked out and it should improve? That's one. Second, if I, of course, you partly, I guess, touched upon this question, if you look at your profitability matrix at the end of the day, I mean, right now, it's a bit subpar. Now, what would be the kind of your realistic goal in terms of ROAs and improvement from here? I mean, if you can just break it down into what kind of improvement you expect from NIM and what kind of expectation, I mean, improvement expectation is from credit cost, because, I mean, given your kind of a business model, Opex will not likely see much improvement. So, how -- what kind of improvement do you see in terms of NIM and credit cost? And what is sort of your target ROA, if one can say? Thanks.

Jaykumar Shah

Thanks a lot, Avinash. So, Avinash, a couple of things. NPAs, in terms of where we are, if you see our last couple of quarters, it's been -- in terms of credit cost, it's stabilized. Overall, the question around peaking, etc ., it's a lot more of how the overall economy functions and how economic activity moves , right? And I wouldn't want to double guess something, but most people that I talk to seem to be more optimistic in terms of how the next couple of quarters will play out and move forward. So, let's hope and let's work from there in terms of the overall economic activity in the country and things moving from there. So, that's one. In terms of profitability and moving forward, a couple of things we mentioned to a question which came earlier from one of your colleagues was that on the NIM side, the benefits of our rate reduction, which has happened on the repo side, hasn't really come through. So, that we see coming through from Q2 onwards. And the other important thing. So, a couple of things you look at in that mix, 77%, almost 75%- 76% of our book is largely secured and is also fixed rate, right? Very important. Whereas today we've taken some benefit and if you look at last quarter versus this quarter, our bank borrowings, which are completely EBL R linked, have increased. So, we've taken some benefits there and that should help us in terms of the overall profitability. Second component, as I mentioned, on the asset quality side, as things start to improve, the credit cost moderates. Both those are key parameters in terms of the NIM and credit cost and that should play itself out in terms of ROA improvement.

Jaykumar Shah

Thank you so much.

Shweta

Thank you, sir, for the opportunity and congratulations on the first quarterly earnings. Three questions from my side. Sir, while you alluded to the fact that not all woes are behind an unsecured loan, what is your assessment of the new book behavior formation? And I'm also coming from the fact that considering stage two, stage three, year-on-year basis have seen stark spike. Of course, you have attributed this to persistent CV weakness, but then any particular portfolio dominating the stage two spike? Second, just a related question, any legacy/pandemic-led challenges, assets lingering in Stage 2 or Stage 3? And third question, what is your AUM growth guidance and what are the levers considering there has been, again stark change in disbursement mix for this par ticular quarter sequential basis? Thank you.

Jaykumar Shah

So Shweta, a couple of things. In terms of the new book behavior on unsecured, as I mentioned, things have stabilized over the last few months and we're watching it closely to make sure it's sustainable and take it forward from there. In terms of the spike in the delinquencies of Stage two as such, has come through on the CV side, as Ramesh alluded to earlier as well, and we're very hopeful that things move through in the right direction, which is what is expected. In terms of legacy, we don't have any legacy issues as such. In terms of guidance, we have basically a policy of not providing guidance as such, so I'll keep it at that. And we look at the overall economic growth as the primary indicator in terms of how things move forward.

Shweta

Thank you. That's very helpful.

Moderator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Piran from CLSA. Please go ahead.

Piran

Just a couple of questions on your liability side…

Moderator

Sorry to interrupt sir. Your line is not clear.

Piran

Yes. Hi. So just congratulations, firstly. Secondly, some questions on your liability side. So when it comes to bank borrowings, what's the mix between MCLR and repo -linked or T -bill- linked borrowings?

Jaykumar Shah

So, 90%+ or 95% of our entire borrowings is EBLR-linked.

Piran

Okay. And, when your bank lines are coming up for renewal, are banks now, taking an additional spread? Let's say repo's down 100 bps, they can't afford it. Are they increasing the spread by, say, 25 bps or whatever? Or is it the same spread over repo?

Piran

Okay. Let me ask you another way. Is it fair to say that the EBLR book sustainably re -prices downwards by 100 bps? Are you confident of that?

Jaykumar Shah

The EBLR book surely re-prices in line with the markets. Okay.

Piran

Okay. Fair enough. Yes. Thank you so much.

Moderator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Rajiv Mehta from Yes Securit ies. Please go ahead.

YES Securities

No, I think my question is partially answered. But just one thing in terms of, in the current environment when the asset quality trends are not very supportive , in CV – what will be our growth approach? Are we cutting back or I mean, are we not taking our earlier share of volumes at the dealerships? Or is there any change in our approach of business in CV or any other product? Or have we changed, maybe our filters or policies, which will kind of slightly moderate our growth further in the coming few quarters? And as a response to the asset quality, what is happening here?

Jaykumar Shah

So, Rajiv, again, it's something that we look through very holistically, obviously, at the ground, there'll be granular strategies on various products, sub-segments, etc. The main focus on the CV business as a whole, one thing that Ramesh, did mention that we're also looking at, doing more of used as, you know, a strategic piece. And we'll work from there.

Jaykumar Shah

Thank you.

Moderator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Bhuvnesh Garg from Magma Ventures. Please go ahead.

Magma Ventures

Just a couple of questions. Firstly, on your provisioning coverage. So if I look at on Y-o-Y basis, Stage 1 coverage has gone down from say 2% to 1.5%. And similarly, Stage 2 coverage has gone down, Stage 3 has gone down. So just want to understand, is there any policy change or is it or what is what is driving this changing provisioning level?

Jaykumar Shah

Thanks a lot, Bhuvnesh. So if you look at our overall provisions, the way I'd like you to look at it is on the book, we had a 3.3% provision. Today, also, we had a 3.3% from March to June. PCRs have remained a constant or actually, slightly inched up . Our book is very granular, Bhuvnesh, and a lot depends on the book mix in terms of which product moves in which fashion. We follow a consistent model. And, things could move a little bit in terms of different stages as well. So we don't have any larg e assets, as I mentioned, our top 20 borrowers is 0.32%. That's how I would want to look at it.

Jaykumar Shah

So I think, as I mentioned, overall, the way I would want you to look at it is more Q-o-Q because, we have moved in the overall economy over the last 12 months. And what would be best in terms of, a credit comparison, our overall PD, LGD that etc., would be a March to June would be a better comparison.

Magma Ventures

Okay, understood. And just a second question on your asset quality. So if I look at your segmental asset quality from your annual report disclosure, it seems that we have seen sharper deterioration in GNPA, Vehicle Finance NPA compared to peers. And even for last 3, 4 years, our asset quality performance in Vehicle Finance seems to be lagging the peers. So what is the reason for this? And is it a product specific? Is it geography specific? Or what and what changes are you making to improve this performance?

Jaykumar Shah

So I think we alluded to earlier in the call that there has been weakness in the CV segment. Right? And, I mean, in terms of the higher, stress in the book, we're very seized of that opportunity in terms of work in progress that we're working on.

Magma Ventures

Oh, fine. That's it from my side. Thank you.

Jaykumar Shah

Thank you so much.

Moderator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we are at the end of the allotted time. I now hand the conference over to Mr. Jaykumar Shah for closing comments.

Jaykumar Shah

Thank you very much. Really appreciate all of you taking the time today to hear us out. And thank you. Thank you so much.

Moderator

Thank you. On behalf of HDB Financial Services, that concludes this conference. Thank you for joining us, you may now disconnect your lines.

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