MBSB held an analyst briefing yesterday chaired by its CEO Dato
Ahmad Zaini Othman. We are convinced that the group has successfully expanded
its balance sheet despite a lower non-interest income on promotion in the
quarter. Post briefing, we are reiterating our OUTPERFORM rating on MBSB with an unchanged target price
RM2.70.
1Q12 review. Recall that MBSB reported 1QFY12 net profit
of RM79.4m (18% of our estimate and 20% that of the consensus). The lower than expected
number was due to a lower fee-based income on promotion of the transfer
package. During the briefing, we understand that the group had adopted a
tactical strategy in the 1Q with a zero-transfer promotion campaign in its
efforts to grow its loans. Accordingly,
RM1.0b/month of PFI loans were disbursed in 1Q and adding in a total of 40k new
clients. The group fee-based income fell due to the promotion transfer
packages, which helped in subsidising insurance fee, stamp duty and migration
cost from customers.
2012 outlook. The
PF-I promotion transfer package has ended in April 2012. We expect the group’s
loan disbursement to thereafter normalise in the range of RM500m-RM600m a month
with a rate of 4.3% (vs. 3.99% during the campaign). We also expect the group’s fee-based income
to normalise for the remaining year as it would be longer subsidised on the transaction
fees.
The group’s main strategy for the remainder of the year is
to build its assets by continuing profitable programmes like hire-purchase
loans, where the group has targeted potential clients from Klang Valley area.
Thus far, hirepurchase loans accounted for less than 1% of its total RM20.2b
gross loans vis-à-vis the industry average of 14.1%. While we believe
hire-purchase loans could be a new growth driver, the main driver to achieve
the group’s targeted loan growth will be personal loans financing. Besides, a
total of
RM1.7b of loans approval and those undisbursed from the
corporate segment will further support the group to achieve its full-year loans
disbursement target of RM8.0b in FY12. This could largely indicate a possible
higher loan growth in the upcoming quarter.
Its net NPL ratio meanwhile has improved from 8.5% in 4Q11 to 7.3% in 1Q12. The group is looking to
further shave its net NPL ratio to 5% this year by refinancing two legacy loans
that are expected to be written back. The first project to be written back will
be the Taman Kenanga project, which is expected to be re-launched in September
2012 while the other project is a debt settlement agreement of RM120m to revive
and complete the Pantai Plaza project in Bangsar.
OUTPERFORM
maintained. We are maintaining our
target price of RM2.70 based on a targeted P/BV of 1.6x over FY13 BV of RM1.70.
Our target price of RM2.70 also implies 7.1x and 6.0x to its FY12 EPS and FY13 EPS,
respectively. At the current level, the stock
offers potential capital upside of 21%. Coupled with an additional
dividend yield of 2.5%, which brings the
potential total return to 23% over the next 12 months. Its ROE of 28.1% remains one of the highest
among the financial stocks.
Risk. The group believes that the upcoming months
will be more challenging due to the concerns in the Eurozone. The main
challenge from the Eurozone will be the liquidity issue of the group. However,
the group is well consolidated and we expect the civil service business to
maintain its stable employment status.
Source: AmeSecurities
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