For MUTH, 3QFY22 was characterized by: a) interest cost savings, which led to an in line PPOP/PAT performance; b) elevated Gold loan auctions of INR28b, which resulted in gold AUM remaining largely flat QoQ, c) stable spreads of 13%, despite an aggressive competitive landscape; d) GS3 increasing by ~200bp QoQ to 3.8%, suggesting that auctions will remain elevated in 4QFY22 as well to pare down GS3 to the management's guided level of 2-3%. We estimate MUTH to deliver a gold loan growth of ~10% in FY22E. However, this incremental growth in 4Q will come at the cost of a minor compression in spreads/margin,...