RBL Bank remains focused on building its high yielding secured retail/SME book for better RaRoC. Buy for target price of ₹325 (58% upside): Emkay

RBL posted a miss in earnings (~33%) with PAT at Rs2.2bn/0.6% RoA, mainly due to dip in NIM to ~5%, higher staff cost (owing to pay hikes and ~800-900 in-house collection fleet added in Q2), and LLP (led by higher slippages in CC + MFI book). Credit growth also moderated to 15% YoY due to the bank’s strategy to prune its low-yielding corporate book and slowdown in unsecured loan growth (including Cards and MFI); however, the bank remains focused on building its high yielding secured retail/SME book for better RaRo