Federal Bank Ltd posted a 26 percent rise in first-quarter net profit, but lagged estimates as provisions for bad loans rose.

Net profit rose to Rs 210 crore ($32.61 million) for the quarter ended June 30, from Rs 167 crore a year earlier, the mid-sized private sector lender said on Wednesday.

Analysts on average had expected a net profit of Rs 251 crore, Thomson Reuters data showed.

Gross bad loans as a percentage of total loans rose to 2.42 percent at end-June, compared with 2.33 percent at March-end.

Shares in Federal Bank were trading 3.2 percent lower after the results in the BSE Sensex that gained 0.36 percent.

($1 = 64.4025 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Samantha Kareen Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Sunil Nair)