UBA reports 2 percent growth in half-year profit

26 Aug 2016
Financial Nigeria

Summary

Although basic earnings per share remained unchanged at 94 kobo per share from last year, UBA has declared an interim dividend of 20 kobo per share.

Kennedy Uzoka, Group CEO, UBA plc

United Bank for Africa (UBA) has reported that its 2016 half-year after-tax profit rose by 2 percent to N32.62 billion from N31.99 billion recorded a year earlier.

The bank said gross earnings, however, fell marginally by 0.1 percent to N165.58 billion compared with N165.74 billion a year earlier, according a statement released on Thursday.

UBA’s profit and gross earnings fell below analysts’ expectations of N184.4 billion and N37.7 billion, according to CardinalStone Partners, a Lagos-based investment advisory firm.

During the period under review, the bank said impairment charges rose 208 percent year-on-year to N6.82 billion, but the impact was neutralized by a 12 percent growth in non-interest income to N52.1 billion.

Total assets rose by 20 percent to N3.29 trillion in H1 2016 compared with N2.75 billion in December 2015. Just like other banks, the rise in UBA’s assets was driven by the impact of the devaluation of the naira on foreign currency loans and advances.

Although basic earnings per share remained unchanged at 94 kobo per share from last year, UBA has declared an interim dividend of 20 kobo per share. As at 1.31pm today, UBA’s stock traded at N4.45 per share, down 0.22 percent from the previous day’s close.


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