Axis Bank Q1 preview, July 18 -- Private sector lender Axis Bank is set to announce its financial results for the April-June quarter of the financial year 2026-27 (FY27) on Saturday, 18 July.

Most experts expect the bank's Q1 numbers to be healthy, due to strong loan and deposit growth. Net interest margin (NIM), however, may decline, mostly because of seasonally higher slippages during the first quarter of the financial year, deposit repricing, and competitive funding costs.

The Q1FY27 business updates of Axis Bank, released in the first week of July, showed that Axis Bank's gross advances rose by 18.8% year-on-year (YoY) to Rs.12.73 lakh crore. On a sequential or quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) basis, gross advances grew 2.3%.

Total deposit...