Credit quality of India Inc improves in H1FY23: Crisil Ratings

04 Oct 2022 Evaluate

With leaner balance sheets led by healthy cash flows and muted investments, Crisil Ratings, which rates 6,800 companies, in its latest report stated that credit quality of India Inc improved to 5.52 times in April-September period of current fiscal year (H1FY23) as compared to 5.04 times in the second half of last fiscal (H2FY22) with the ratio of upgrades to downgrades inching higher. However, the agency clarified that the data may not be fully representative as many small businesses with outstanding ratings have turned non-cooperative in sharing data on a continued basis which can be driven by adverse financial health.

Its managing director Gurpreet Chhatwal said India Inc has emerged stronger post-pandemic exuding confidence that the corporate India can weather the current storm caused by global events like higher inflation and monetary tightening which will hurt India's exports. Crisil's senior director Somasekhar Vemuri said there can, however, be a moderation in the credit ratio going ahead due to some of the challenges faced by companies.

The agency said during the first half of the fiscal year, the credit ratio moved ahead majorly driven by the infrastructure sector, which contributed a third of the upgrades, attributing the same to higher project work being undertaken and improvement in project clearances and payments. It added that the six months saw 569 upgrades and 103 downgrades, while ratings on 80 per cent of the companies being reaffirmed. For the financial sector, it gave a 'stable' outlook and added that while the gross non-performing assets ratio may moderate on an overall basis, exposures to small businesses face a risk of higher NPAs.

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