- We maintain our BUY
rating on RHB Capital Bhd (RHB Cap), with an unchanged fair value of
RM8.50/share. This is pegged to a fair P/BV of 1.45x based on an ROE of 12.9%
FY12F.
- We believe RHB
Cap’s loans approval rates has picked up significantly since May 2012, with
April 2012 likely to have been the trough. The company is maintaining its overall
loans growth target of 12% for FY12F. We understand that there have also been
no major concerns in terms of impaired loans in recent months, which is reassuring.
This is despite the ongoing external uncertainty. The company is now guiding
for overall credit costs of 30bps in FY12F, vs. the previous guidance of 30bps
to 50bps (our forecast FY12F: 49bps).
- We believe there
may be some misperception in relation to MBSB’s operations, should it be acquired
by RHB Cap. One concern may be whether there is any impact from the Responsible Lending Guidelines on
MBSB.
- We also do not
believe that there will be any specific measures that will be targeted at
MBSB’s personal loan segment, if MBSB is to be acquired by RHB Cap. Firstly, there
is no specific cap outlined in terms of debt-toservice ratio under the
Responsible Lending Guidelines.
- Secondly, even if
there is to be a cap, we believe the loan repayment portion as percentage of
salaries (or debt service ratio), will be maintained at 60% for government
civil servants’ loans. This is because, although the household segment as a
whole (which includes the private sector)’s debt service ratio had been reported
as 48.1% at 2011, we believe this is based on gross pay basis. Thus, on net pay
basis (net of EPF and tax) we estimate that the debt service ratio at 60.9%. Which
means that, the debt service ratio for the public sector cap of 60% now, is on
par with the private sector’s and should therefore not be a basis to argue that
the public sector’s cap should be lowered.
- Thirdly, as an
indication, the operation of Bank Rakyat is governed under the DAFIA (and
therefore falls under Bank Negara). As far as we understand, Bank Rakyat’s ceiling
on debt-service ratio had been maintained at 60%, for repayment of loans by
government civil servants without any changes. Thus, personal financing loans
for Bank Rakyat had grown from RM20bil in FY06 to RM64bil in FY11. For
comparison, MBSB’s personal loan financing is smaller at RM11bil.
- We foresee the
following rerating catalysts for RHB Cap:- (a) better-than-expected loan loss
provision; (b) higher non-interest income from its investment bank; (d) possible
merger with MBSB.
Source: AmeSecurities
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