
IPO market on pause as valuations face investor scrutiny: Deven Choksey
"SBI is certainly within the public sector framework, it is the best within the lot. But if my choice has to be there, today I would prefer to go with Kotak and ICICI," says Deven Choksey, MD, DRChoksey FinServ Pvt. Ltd.
What are your thoughts on IndusInd Bank? What is it that you have made of these discrepancies in their accounting balances, estimating an adverse impact of nearly about 2.35% on their net worth as of December 2024. We have of course seen the stock take quite a bit of hit yesterday itself when Sumant Kathpalia’s extension got shortened to one year and not three years. But other than that, now that it seems that in the interim IndusInd Bank is not going to be really the preferred one, which of the private banking names do you prefer right now if you were looking to add positions in this current market?
Deven Choksey: It is a challenging activity business-wise for most of the banks. On one side, they have to cope up with the technology front for reaching out to their customers and efficiently processing the loans and collecting the deposits.
On the other side, make sure that they do not end up getting into the NPA trap which otherwise most of these companies are quite vulnerable to. In my viewpoint, currently as it stands today, the likes of Kotak, likes of ICICI, and Axis in that order probably they remain relatively better on the front-end technology.
They are relatively better in processing the loans. They are relatively better in protecting their margins and NIMs in my viewpoint and that is where