The net profit rose by 129% to Rs 156 crore in Q1FY21 as against Rs 68 crore in Q1FY20
MAS Financial, Ujjivan Financial, HUDCO, Cholamandalam Investment, Aditya Birla Money, Geojit Financial, AU SFB, and CreditAccess Grameen were up in the range of 5 per cent to 9 per cent on the BSE.
Nifty Bank, Nifty Private Bank and Nifty PSU Bank indices were down 5 per cent each as compared to 2.4 per cent decline in the Nifty 50 index.
"We have made Covid-19-related provisioning in the March quarter. We believe that even by May-end things will open up slowly and normalisation could take another 60 - 90 days," Iyer said
Sitharaman announced a special liquidity scheme of Rs 30,000 crore for NBFCs, housing finance companies (HFCs) and MFIs, which are finding it difficult to raise money from the debt markets.
At least $100 million will be earmarked for women-owned micro, small and medium enterprises
Government policy, including buying farm products at higher-than-market prices along with a bigger budget aimed at boosting the rural economy, is already benefiting Mahindra Financial
The stock hit high of Rs 401 is trading close to its record high of Rs 405 touched on October 2016.
WIth more than 16,000 employees in over 1,000 branches across India it is one of the leading NBFCs
The company recommended a dividend of Rs 4 per equity share to the shareholders for the FY16.
The stock rallied 7% to Rs 295 on the NSE in early morning trade.