These jamaas have an excellent regional footprint. Na wanaendelea na expansion. The interest income will rise. I don't see flat first quarter results. Look for a previous thread on DTB. I think it was about half year results. Or maybe third quarter. mwanahisa had crunched DTB's numbers excellently, especially on the interest income and other income conundrum

KQ is for the true investor .....its really funny how stocks are bringing out the true investors in us to the light...
when even @2012 @ ProvverB starts questioning themselves y they bought KQ it shows how weak the so called gurus are in investing...
@ Aguytrying . u are definately one of those who bought KQ w/ the wazua herd mentality. which is quite dangerous...
A patience investors will always be rewarded...and as warren buffet wld say...price always catches up w/ good fundermentals.....I am in KQ and if i heard mo' money other than investing in fx i wld buy kq at the current or lower prices....

QW:You need to show us the stuff you are made off.At what did you buy KQ? My friend bought 170,000 shares for KQ in 1996 at sh 6.00 and sold at shs 120.00.Now,that's the kind of stuff we need to see in you before you give a lecture on investing.

Are things hotting up here?kq is among the darlings of the nse and am ready to swing up and down with it on the floor till death do us part.

NBK is behaving -

"Its price-to-earnings ratio, the measure that tracks the share price relative to the last earnings reported, is currently 8.1, while its peers like Housing Finance, Equity and Co-operative Bank stand at 27.5, 26.1 and 23.8 respectively.

'We can expect that the stock will catch up with the others, but the pace will depend on the investors’ perception about the bank’s business model,' said Mr Samuel Gichohi, the head of research at Standard Investment Bank.

Strong growth

Both market players have confirmed that the share will experience strong growth, in line with recovery of the local stock market to at least match the sector average price to earnings ratio of 17.8.

This puts the market value of the stock at less than half the sector average."

Ref - http://www.businessdaily...4/-/3n34q3z/-/index.html

@VVS calm yourself. good point there though.

NBK research indicates the following:
- The NBK preference share is entitled to a negotiable dividend not exceeding 6%.
- There are Kes 5.675bn worth of preference shares.

Assuming no growth of profits and assuming full dilution, the EPS will likely be north of 6.00. Assuming a conservative dividend payout ratio of 20%, the dividend is likely to be, at least, KES 1.20/= This puts the value of the share at between Kes 40-55/= depending on your assumptions i.e. between 3% and 4% dividend yield, 20%-50% pay out ratio and the factor of probability of dilution on the price of the stock.

Makes for a speculative play...

Coop continues to excite...

I don't have KQ. I had it and sold it a long time ago when it was still the pride of stocks. Please quote where I've said I have this stock. I think it's a risky stock for people with low risk tolerance like myself. But you know what they say about risk and returns.

So @qw my recommendation for you is BUY BUY BUY!

@guru267, the thread is about buses. NSE buses are not driven by the safety of dividend yields, the homestay for StanChart or Total etc. I believe you buy into the latent potential going forward such as via acquisitions or growth stocks...

Who buys Car & General?

Might be odd me saying this, due to my reservations on kq. But at 42, it will easily reach 50. From there if results are good, the sky is the limit(literally) Does that qualify to make it a bus.