My 2 cents wrote:Ericsson wrote:My 2 cents wrote:My 2 cents wrote:As at yesterday (22.06.10); the total market value of Equity Bank was Kshs 87 Billion and that of Barclays Bank Kenya was Kshs 82 Billion.
Now suppose you had Kshs 90 Billion and had the option of purchasing one of these banks to have 100% shareholding, which purchase would you make?
11 years later
Barclays - 56 Billion
Equity - 201 Billion
The market has made me humble over the years. At the time of posting, I totally believed that even comparing the two was a joke.
If you look at the returns per share over the period, the Barclays shareholder is happier compared to the equity one because of the relatively high dividend per share of Barclays.
By now the Barclays shareholder should have returned all his principal through dividend.
Nopes. I have done calculation of IRR for both including Dividends. Equity comes far ahead.
Let's see how each perform going forward. I see Equity as pursuing growth while paying 30% of earnings as dividends. Equity DRC is on track to become #1 in DRC and in 5 years as important to Equity Group as Kenya in terms of PAT.
Equity can support regional importers and exporters to/from DRC who use KE, TZ, UG, RW as transit countries.
Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett