Continued trend in Asset Quality improvement, steady 1QFY21 performance and attractive valuation reinforce our conviction that the bank is well placed to fight impending stress. However, the transition of the bank's top post is likely to be a key overhang. The pointers which acknowledge our conviction are: 1) In 1QFY21, gross slippages declined to 39.1bn v/s 82.9bn in the previous quarter, which resulted in decline in headline NPA ratios with GNPA at 5.44% (v/s 6.15% in 4QFY20) and NNPA at 1.86% (v/s 2.23% in 4QFY20). 2) A positive surprise on Loan under moratorium which reduced to 9.5% of loan amount against 23% declared earlier. 3) Business growth in line with industry aided by strong domestic NIMs (3.24% v/s 2.97% in the previous...