'ICICI Bank is a private sector bank in India offering a diversified portfolio of financial products and services to retail, SME and corporate customers. The second largest private sector bank in India in terms of business volume had an extensive network of 7,385 branches and 11,983 ATMs end December 2025.
The business increased by 10% to Rs 3125765 crore end December 2025 over a year-ago period, as advances growth improved to 12% to Rs 1466154 crore. As a result, the credit-to-deposit ratio rose to 88.3%, from 86.5% end December 2024.
The retail loan portfolio grew 7.2%YoY and rural was up 4.9%YoY. The domestic corporate portfolio rose 5.6%YoY. The overall loan portfolio, including the international branch portfolio, up 11.5%YoY and 4.1%QoQ.
Among the retail products, the mortgage portfolio increased 11.1% year on year and 3.2% quarter on quarter. Auto loans grew 0.7% and 0.9%. The CV and equipment portfolio was up 7.9% and 3.2%. Personal loans rose 2.4% and 1.7%. The credit card portfolio declined 3.5% over the year and 6.7% over the quarter.
Amid tight competition deposits grew 9% at Rs 1659611 crore at end December 2025, from 8% growth at end September 2025.
The investment book increased 5% to Rs 494642 crore at end December 2025 over end December 2024. The SLR book moved up 5% to Rs 404337 crore, while the non-SLR book rose 4% to Rs 90305 crore. The average LCR was about 126% in Q3FY2026.
NII was up 8% to Rs 21932.24 crore.NIM improved 5 bps to 4.30% in Q3FY2026, from 4.25% in Q3FY2025, while remained steady from 4.30% in the sequential quarter. There was 39-bp decline in yield on funds to 8.23%, while the cost of funds dipped 42 bps to 4.67% over the year, supporting improvement in the margins. The cost of deposits, at 4.55%, was the lowest in the banking sector in Q3FY2026. Cost of deposits declined to 4.55%, from 4.64% in Q2FY2026 and 4.91% in Q3FY2025.
Of the total domestic loans, interest rates on about 56% of the loans are linked to the repo rate and other external benchmarks, 13% to MCLR and other older benchmarks and the remaining 31% of loans have fixed interest rates.
The GNPA ratio reduced to 1.53% end December 2025, from 1.96% end December 2023. The NNPA ratio dipped to 0.37%, from 0.42%.
The PCR on NPAs was 75.4% at end December 2025. In addition, contingency provisions stood at Rs 13100 crore, or about 0.9% of total advances end December 2025. The total provisions, other than specific provisions on fund-based outstanding to borrowers classified as non-performing, were Rs 22657 crore, or 1.5% of loans.
Fresh slippage of loans stood at Rs 5356 crore as compared with Rs 5034 crore in Q2FY2026 and Rs 6085 crore in Q3FY2025. The recoveries and upgradations of NPAs stood at Rs 3282 crore, while the write-off of loans was at Rs 2046 crore.
Following its annual supervisory review, the RBI directed keeping a standard asset provision of Rs 1283 crore for agricultural priority sector credit facilities where the terms were not fully compliant with the regulatory requirements.
The capital adequacy ratio stood at 15.6%, with Tier I ratio at 14.7% at end December 2025. Including profit in 9MFY2026, the total capital adequacy ratio was 17.3% and CET-1 ratio at 15.93% as compared with the minimum regulatory requirements of 11.70% and 8.20%, respectively. The risk weighted assets increased 13% to Rs 1742593 crore.
Net profit declined 4% to Rs 11317.86 crore, hit by higher operating expenses and higher provisions &contingencies. Adjusting for additional standard asset provisioning, PBT, excluding treasury, would have increased by 6.2% to Rs 16240 crore from Q3FY2025. NII was up 9% to Rs 65096.16 crore and net profit up 5% to Rs 36444.96 crore in 9MFY2026 over a year ago.
We expect ICICI Bank to register EPS of Rs 69.9 in FY2026 and Rs 76.5 in FY2027. The adjusted BV is expected to rise to Rs 443.8 in FY2026 and Rs 509.8 in FY2027. The stock closed at Rs 1397 on the BSE on 09 February 2025.
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