United Overseas Bank - OCBC Investment 2024-11-08: Strong 3Q24, Exploring Share Buyback

United Overseas Bank - Strong 3Q24, Exploring Share Buyback

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UOB (SGX:U11) | SGinvestors.io
  • United Overseas Bank (UOB) posted better-than-expected 3Q24 earnings. Core net profit before Citi integration costs grew 10% q-o-q and +11% y-o-y to S$1.6b. This was well-supported by an increase in fee income to a new high of S$630m, +2% q-o-q or +7% y-o-y. Net Interest Margin (NIM) held steady q-o-q at 2.05%. Loans also grew 2% q-o-q to S$5b.
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  • For the 9-month period, UOB's core net profit improved 3% y-o-y to S$4.69b, with double-digit improvements from fee income and other income.

Wealth & credit card showed good improvements

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Dividend yield at 5.3% will provide support for share price.

  • Based on UOB's interim dividend of S$0.88 per share and annualising this, dividend yield is 5.3% (using yesterday’s closing UOB's share price of S$33.30). This is better than the Singapore 6-month T-bill cut-off yield of 3.04% (based on the 7 Nov 2024 auction) and ahead of most Singapore blue chips average dividend yield of 4.8%.

All-time high share price supported by attractive dividend yield

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Above is the excerpt from report by OCBC Investment Research.
Clients of OCBC Securities may be the first to access the full report in PDF @ https://www.iocbc.com/.




Carmen Lee OCBC Investment Research | https://www.iocbc.com/ 2024-11-08



Previous report by OCBC:
2024-09-24 UOB - Share Price Hit New High.

Price targets by 4 other brokers at UOB Target Prices.

Listing of research reports at UOB Analyst Reports.

Relevant links:
UOB Share Price History,
UOB Announcements,
UOB Dividends & Corporate Actions,
UOB News Articles





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