Nigeria Banking Sector Coverage - December 2011 'Bad ... - Imara
Nigeria Banking Sector Coverage - December 2011 'Bad ... - Imara
Nigeria Banking Sector Coverage - December 2011 'Bad ... - Imara
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EQUITY RESEARCH<br />
PAN-AFRICAN<br />
DECEMBER <strong>2011</strong><br />
BANKING<br />
Headquartered in Togo, Ecobank Transnational<br />
Incorporated (ETI), a public limited liability company,<br />
was established as a bank holding company in 1985<br />
under a private sector initiative spearheaded by the<br />
Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce and<br />
Industry with the support of ECOWAS, in a bid to try<br />
and break the dominance of foreign and state owned<br />
banks in West Africa. ETI commenced operations with<br />
its first subsidiary in Togo in March 1988. Today, ETI is<br />
a full-service regional banking institution employing<br />
over 11,000 staff in 755 branches and offices in thirty<br />
SSA countries, namely Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi,<br />
Cape Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad,<br />
Congo Brazzaville, DRC, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, The<br />
Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Liberia,<br />
Malawi, Mali, Niger, <strong>Nigeria</strong>, Rwanda, Sao Tome &<br />
Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo,<br />
Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.<br />
• A difficult year for Ecobank <strong>Nigeria</strong> in 2009, in line<br />
with the broader industry, which saw it record a loss<br />
before tax of USD 16.6m, as well as losses by the<br />
southern Africa cluster, led to attributable earnings<br />
declining by 45.78% to USD 51.1m for the group.<br />
• In its 9M 11 results to September, net interest income<br />
put on 16.16% as NIMs improved to USD 399.0m. Net<br />
fee and commission went up by 45.16%, while net<br />
trading income also recorded strong growth of<br />
64.79%. The CIR improved to 67.91% from 70.70%, and<br />
despite an increase in provision charges of 26.73% y-oy<br />
to USD 80.4m, attributable earnings closed the<br />
period at USD 106.6m, up 51.86%.<br />
• <strong>Nigeria</strong> has been an Achilles heel for ETI, where it has<br />
not really gained enough scale. To address this, ETI<br />
has taken over one of the rescued banks, Oceanic,<br />
which will substantially boost its market position.<br />
• Pre-Oceanic, we value ETI, based on a DCF valuation,<br />
at US 10.8c per share, representing upside of 68.2%<br />
against the US 6.42c it currently trades at on its most<br />
liquid listing in <strong>Nigeria</strong>. A coverage based PBV average<br />
based on the last published post merger pro-forma<br />
accounts suggests a valuation of US 10.3c per share.<br />
BUY.<br />
Recommendation<br />
BUY<br />
Bloomberg Code<br />
ETI:NL<br />
Current Price (USc) - BRVM 8.0<br />
Current Price (USc) - GSE 6.8<br />
Current Price (USc) - NSE 6.6<br />
Target Price (USc) 10.8<br />
Upside (%) - On most liquid listing (NSE) 64.6<br />
Liquidity (NSE)<br />
Market Cap (USD 000s) 636 596<br />
Shares (000) 9 913 368<br />
Free Float (est. %) 60.0<br />
Ave. daily vol ('000) - 1 yr. 2 155<br />
Price Performance (NSE)<br />
Price, 12 months ago (USD) 9.5<br />
Change (%) (30.8)<br />
Price, 6 months ago (USD) 9.4<br />
Change (%) (30.0)<br />
Financials (USD 000s) 31 Dec F2010 <strong>2011</strong>F 2012F<br />
Loans & Advances 5 264 184 5 987 738 6 761 634<br />
Net Interest Income (excl. Provisions) 474 771 548 990 728 058<br />
Non-Interest Income 424 872 539 036 670 772<br />
Attributable Earnings 112 716 154 313 209 343<br />
EPS (USD) 1.1 1.6 2.5<br />
DPS (USD) 0.4 0.5 0.9<br />
NAV/Share (USD) 13.0 13.9 15.2<br />
Valuation Ratios Current <strong>2011</strong>F 2012F<br />
Earnings Yield* (%) 23.4 19.4 30.7<br />
Dividend Yield (%) 6.8 10.8 12.8<br />
PE* (x) 4.3 4.1 3.0<br />
PBV (x) 0.47 0.46 0.42<br />
RoaA (%) 1.2 1.4 1.6<br />
RoaE (%) 8.9 11.6 14.5<br />
Net Interest Margin (%) 6.8 7.2 8.0<br />
Cost to Income Ratio (%) 69.9 68.6 67.2<br />
* - trailing<br />
1.5<br />
1.4<br />
1.3<br />
ETI vs NSE ASI (Rebased)<br />
Strengths<br />
Largest pan-African geographical reach<br />
Robust cross border IT system/network<br />
Weaknesses<br />
Rollout costs have kept CIR higher than targets<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> has historically been a challenge in terms of<br />
1.2<br />
1.1<br />
1<br />
Strategic alliances with Bank of China, Nedbank<br />
and Old M utual<br />
consolidating market position, that situation prevails in eg Kenya<br />
High NPL ratios in East Africa<br />
0.9<br />
0.8<br />
0.7<br />
0.6<br />
Oppo rtunities<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> and Ghana acquisitions should see an<br />
improved performance in those markets<br />
T hreats<br />
Any challenges around integrating Ecobank <strong>Nigeria</strong> and Oceanic<br />
could negatively impact the time to realise synergies<br />
0.5<br />
17-Nov-10<br />
17-Dec-10<br />
17-Jan-11<br />
17-Feb-11<br />
17-Mar-11<br />
17-Apr-11<br />
ETI<br />
17-May-11<br />
17-Jun-11<br />
NSE ASI<br />
17-Jul-11<br />
17-Aug-11<br />
17-Sep-11<br />
17-Oct-11<br />
17-Nov-11<br />
Consolidation of other African operations as<br />
Increased regulatory risk due to cross border expansion<br />
expansion slows down<br />
Skills acquisition and retention across such a wide<br />
Will benefit from drive for increased intra regional trade geographical spread<br />
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