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Ashika Monthly Insight August 2016

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STRONG ON CONSUMPTION<br />

NNPAs of SCBs<br />

The good news is that the FSR has also highlighted of<br />

improvements in the corporate sector and that the<br />

stressed companies are deleveraging fast and the number<br />

of ‘weak’ companies in the economy is declining. Based on<br />

analysis of 1,800 to 2,600 Non Government Non Financial<br />

(NGNF) listed companies, the FSR report concluded that<br />

the proportion of “leveraged” companies declined sharply<br />

from 19% in March 2015 to 14% in March <strong>2016</strong>. The<br />

proportion of “highly leveraged” companies also declined<br />

from 14.2% to 12.9% over the same period. Moreover, the<br />

share of debt of these companies in the total debt also<br />

came down from 23.0% to 19.0%. The analysis also<br />

highlighted improvement in the debt servicing capacity<br />

and leverage of weak companies (interest coverage<br />

ratio

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