Bank of Baroda edges higher after reducing base rate and BPLR

Bank of Baroda rose 0.55% to Rs 184.30 at 10:30 IST on BSE after the bank announced that it has decided to reduce base rate and benchmark prime lending rate by 25 basis points each from 5 October 2015.

The bank made announcement after market hours yesterday, 30 September 2015.

Meanwhile, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 228.16 points or 0.87% at 26,382.16.

On BSE, so far 62,202 shares were traded in the counter as against average daily volume of 8.21 lakh shares in the past two weeks.

Shares of PSU bank hit a high of Rs 185.60 and a low of Rs 183.95 so far during the day. The stock had hit a record high of Rs 228.90 on 23 January 2015. The stock had hit a 52-week low of Rs 137.50 on 29 June 2015.

Bank of Baroda (BoB) announced that it has decided to reduce base rate by 25 basis points from 9.9% per annum (p.a.) to 9.65% p.a. and also to reduce benchmark prime lending rate (BPLR) by 25 basis points from 14.15% p.a. to 13.9% p.a. The reduction in both rates will be effective from 5 October 2015.

After a policy meet on 29 September 2015, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had cut repo rate by more than expected 50 basis points. One percent is equal to 100 basis points.

Bank of Baroda had announced before market hours yesterday, 30 September 2015 that it has allotted 9.26 crore equity shares at an issue price of Rs 192.74 per share, aggregating to Rs 1786 crore to the Government of India on preferential allotment basis.

Bank of Baroda's net profit fell 22.7% to Rs 1052.15 crore on 4.8% increase in total income to Rs 12243.72 crore in Q1 June 2015 over Q1 June 2014.

The Government of India holds 57.53% stake in Bank of Baroda (as per the shareholding pattern as on 30 June 2015).

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