₹193 crore, beating Street estimates as its total revenues grew 36%. Revenue from brokerage surged 62% year-on-year, driven by retail that grew 70%.
The brokerage not only saw an increase in customers but also gained market share. In short, more and more Indians were entering the equity markets and many were preferring to do so via ICICI Securities.
To be sure, new customer accretion is lower than pre-pandemic averages. During April-June, the brokerage firm added 80,000 customers than 1,10,000 quarterly additions seen in earlier period.
The initial crash in equities during March had attracted high networth individuals and other retail investors to put money in stocks.