Standard Bank interim results are out and in a day where the company’s major banking peers are up 1% to 2%, Standard Bank shows a relative underperformance trading flat on the day, suggestive of a marginal dissatisfaction with the earnings outcome.
Some of the salient features of the results release are as follows:
While the Personal Business & Business Banking (PBB) and Corporate & Investment Banking businesses managed to achieve high single digit growth (+8%) in headline earnings, the Liberty Holdings contribution to headline earnings contracted by 3% and the ICBC London contribution contracted by 38%.
NII growth was flat negatively impacted by the endowment effect of lower margins in lieu of the Reserve Banks 0.25% rate cut earlier this year. NIR growth of 8% was supported by net fees and commission revenue increasing by 6%.
Standard Bank is the third most traded stock with IG clients on the day its results release.
Most of the trading activity (63%) from IG clients on the day (16 August 2018) has been on the buy side with selling start to emerge into the afternoon (as at 3pm).
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