VituVingiSana wrote:guru267 wrote:mwekez@ji wrote:This year, interest rates have screwed banks so let us project a modest 40% growth.
HFCK EPS grew only 11% in q1 2012 so how is a 40% growth projection for the full year modest in anyway??
KCB EPS grew 35% in q1 2012 therefore i expect 30% growth for the full year.. Thats what i call modest..
Banks usually have similar growth throughout the year so if i were you I would be projecting 8-12% growth for HFCKs full year..
Excluding a takeover by Equity... I see 30 as a stretch.
HFCK has expensive deposits [small retail base] unlike Equity or BBK. The high borrowing rates will decrease the Net Interest Margin for HFCK.
Projecting can be quite subjective. For instance, I do not expect HF to replicate the Q1 growth all year round. Q1 could be similar with Q2 because not much has changed in economics of banking but i expect H2 to be different.
That said, Even if we we to project HF will grow by the VERY modest 10% this whole year, we get:
Forward EPS; 2.97
Forward P/E at the price of KES 16.5; 5.5
At the price of KES 30, we would still get a fair P/E of 10.1