Vijaya Bank rises after announcing reduction in MCLRs

Vijaya Bank rose 0.61% to Rs 49.20 at 11:18 IST on BSE after the bank said that it has reduced its Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate by upto 85 basis points across all tenors effective from 10 January 2017.

The announcement was made on Saturday, 7 January 2017.

Meanwhile, the BSE Sensex was down 22.55 points, or 0.08%, to 26,736.68

On the BSE, 17,000 shares were traded on the counter so far as against the average daily volumes of 1.44 lakh shares in the past one quarter. The stock had hit a high of Rs 49.70 and a low of Rs 49.05 so far during the day. The stock hit a 52-week high of Rs 54.45 on 11 November 2016. The stock hit a 52-week low of Rs 28.70 on 18 January 2016.

The mid-cap state-run bank has an equity capital of Rs 998.85 crore. Face value per share is Rs 10.

Vijaya Bank said that it has reduced marginal cost of funds based lending rate (MCLR) for overnight loans to 9.2% from 8.45%. The rate for one month is reduced to 9.2% from 8.5% and for three months it is reduced to 9.25% from 8.55%.

The MCLR on 6-month loans will be 9.25% from earlier 8.6% and for one-year loans the rate will be 9.45% from 8.65%, the bank said. MCLR on two-year loans was reduced to 9.5% from 8.65% and for three-year loans the rate will be 9.55% from 8.75% earlier.

Net profit of Vijaya Bank rose 34.05% to Rs 154.55 crore on 9.79% rise in total income to Rs 3516.57 crore in Q2 September 2016 over Q2 September 2015.

As per the shareholding pattern, the Government of India held 70.33% stake in the bank as at 30 September 2016.

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