Singapore Banks 4Q23 Round Up - UOB Kay Hian 2024-02-29: Slower Growth Compensated By Higher Yield

• Singapore banks delivered resilient earnings in 4Q23 (DBS: -3% y-o-y, OCBC: +12% y-o-y) with low single-digit growth in net interest income and benign asset quality. DBS and OCBC have increased their final dividend by 12.5% and 5% respectively to S$0.54 and S$0.42. DBS has also proposed a 1-for-10 bonus issue. See DBS's dividend & bonus issue dates.
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NIM has started to decline.

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• Singapore banks delivered resilient earnings in 4Q23 (DBS: -3% y-o-y, OCBC: +12% y-o-y) with low single-digit growth in net interest income and benign asset quality. DBS and OCBC have increased their final dividend by 12.5% and 5% respectively to S$0.54 and S$0.42. DBS has also proposed a 1-for-10 bonus issue. See DBS's dividend & bonus issue dates.
• Maintain MARKET WEIGHT. DBS and OCBC provide attractive 2024 dividend yields of 6.5%.

NIM has started to decline.

• DBS (SGX:D05) and UOB (SGX:U11) registered NIM compression of 6bp and 7bp q-o-q respectively to 2.13% and 2.02% in 4Q23. OCBC (SGX:O39) did well to maintain NIM stable at 2.27% if we exclude impact from one-off interest adjustment.
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