Kedia told CNBC-TV18, "The banking sector is mostly been horizontal. A couple of stocks that I like on the banking sector would probably be ICICI Bank . We are seeing non-performing loans (NPL) provisioning of the bank stabilised in the last six-eight months, their margins, operating efficiency has been encouraging. On the private sector front you could see ICICI Bank outperforming the sector."
He further added, "I see a bit negative on State Bank of India; there are concerns on asset quality of the bank, the new provisioning laws of the capital adequacy ratio at 70% could impact profitability in the long-term. So, on the banking side you could probably look at long ICICI Bank and short SBI."