why u fall in love wif affin? I hate this bank. beach street and Macalister road both branches no priority banking also. hate the services so much.stupid bank
Cheapest in terms of NTA, reasonably low P/E, reasonable dividend yield. I just want to have a bank in my portfolio. Just like I have Cepat and Bplant as my palm oil counters.
Appoloang.. you are mixing bank services with stock fundamental results.. you might hate the bank, but it's just doing fine without your money.. and that's what matters for an investor! I have my acc in standard chartered, not in affin.. i love affin stock fundametals.. do i have to move my capital there? Of course not. I will have no effect whatsoever!
Hi TheContrarian, saw you in insas forum. I say the earning is good except the recent Q. Overall it looks like a healthy company with low debt and NTA is increasing which is higher than the share price. Just like to find out you bought the mother or the warrant?
Actually latest QR is good, previous QR was exceptionally good. If Insas could sustain a minimum of 5 sen EPS per quarter that would been an annual EPS of 20 sen, only P/E of 5. I currently hols both mother and warrant but much greater proportion of warrants, I think 10:1 ratio.
Trading buy call 3.50. The quarter result profit expect to rise significantly due to the regroup of the company. And Affin might merge with AMMB which fail to merge with RHB recently.
Thanks TheContrarian (TC) for your explanation. The premium for the warrant is 40%. Maybe you bought it when it was low but at current price, I find it quite high. Unless insas will be valued to RM2 in this 3 yrs time.
If Insas keeps up with its good financial performance there's a very strong chance to hit RM2 and I have more than two years window period. Yes, I bought the warrants low from 22 to 32 sen between Feb and May and topped up a bit at 36.5 sen about a week ago.
Anyway for long term holders, Affin's plan is to expand into Thailand and Indonesia. There's the only way to grow. The market in those two countries are much bigger than M'sia.
This PE ratio should be lower tonight, right? The stock will look even more attractive to those looking for fundamentals.. Affin is screaming to all those who have brains: TAKE ME
FORECAST We make no change to our FY17 and FY18 forecast.
VALUATION AND RECOMMENDATION We continue to be encouraged by the Group’s future prospect. We believe that the transformation program continues to have an impact as evident by the NOII and mortgage loans growth. As previously stated, we like the fact that the Group is focusing on mortgage for affordable housing segment given the high demand for this property segment. Impairments and provisions increased in the quarter but pending any further information, we opine that this could be deliberate. However, we maintain our view that the Group is building its niche and we opine that this will ensure future profitability. Therefore, we maintain our BUY call for the stock, with an unchanged TP of RM3.30 based on pegging our FY18 BVPS forecast to PBV of 0.7x.
KUALA LUMPUR: The local banking sector is expected to see its earnings grow 10.6 per cent this year, according to Affin Hwang Capital.
This will ease to a more modest 38 per cent next year before slightly rising 4.1 per cent in 2019, the firm said in a report today.
Affin Hwang Capital said favourable domestic demographic trends (driving consumption and housing needs), ample infrastructure projects in the pipeline and accommodative monetary policy are supportive reasons for the growth in earnings.
“The sector’s overall valuation in 2017 still appears attractive at a 1.35 times price to book value multiple (on a forward basis) against the past 10-year average of 1.6x and the past five-year average of 1.5x,” it added.
Key risks for the sector include new bad loan formation, net interest margin compression, higher funding costs, weaker loan growth and much higher provisions on FRS 9 (financial reporting standards) adoption.
Affin Hwang Capital’s top picks are AMMB Holdings Bhd, Public bank Bhd and Malayan Banking Bhd.
The firm upgraded its rating on AMMB from “hold” to “buy” with a price target of RM5.20 (based on 0.9x P/BV on calendar year 2018). “We believe the recent selling of the stock is unjustified (currently trading at 0.77x P/BV versus the sector at 1.35x), subsequent to the aborted merger plan with RHB Bank Bhd,” it added.
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