Bank of Baroda turned around in the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2017, logging a net profit of Rs 155 crore compared with a net loss of Rs3,230 crore in the year-ago period.
The relatively lower burden of loan-loss provisioning coupled with lower total expenses in the reporting quarter vis-a-vis the year-ago period supported the bottom line.
For the full year ended March 31, 2017, too, the public sector bank was back in the black, reporting a net profit of Rs 1,383 crore against a net loss of Rs 5,396 crore.