NBL FPO at Rs 280 Best Opportunity for Portfolio Add !

FPO:

After much wait, Nepal Bank Limited (NBL) is issuing its Further Public Offering (FPO) to the general public. The bank is issuing a total of 1,76,84,858 unit shares as FPO at a face price of Rs 280 per unit share. The bank created many controversies when it had announced to issue FPO as the bank was unable to comply with the guidelines of Securities Registration and Issue Regulation, 2073. People were unsure whether the bank would be able to issue FPO or not. However, the commercial bank is now issuing FPO after gaining approval from all the regulatory bodies.

Issue Synopsis:
Company Name                       : Nepal Bank Ltd (NBL)

No of Shares Issued               : 1,76,84,858 units

Amount to be Collected        : Rs 4,95,17,60,240

Issue Manager                          : Siddhartha Capital Ltd

The interested applicants can make their applications through any of the financial institutions providing C-ASBA facility. The application can made for minimum of 50 unit shares and a maximum of all up to 1,76,84,858 unit shares.

After the new decision being made by the Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON), the institutional applicants can thus apply for the FPO share from the first day as well. The issue is now open, starting from Friday yesterday June 29th 2018 (Ashadh 15, 2075) initially for about a week lasting till this Thursday July 5th 2018 (Ashadh 19, 2075).

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How Lucrative is FPO of NMB Bank? How much to Apply?

FPO:

The FPO issuance of NMB Bank has started from today. The bank is issuing 1,14,15,163 unit shares at a price of Rs 333. The bank has endorsed the public offering to meet its capital requirement of Rs 8 arba. After issuing the Further Public Offering, the share capital of the bank will stand at Rs 7.60 arba. To fulfill the minimum capital requirements of Rs 8 arba, NMB will need to issue only about 6% bonus shares. Along with the fulfillment of capital requirement, the company’s share structure will be converted to 51:49. The current capital structure of the bank is around 60:40.

Just like in previous FPOs, this issue has also gathered much interest from the investors. But in the recent period, the investors have started to become wary as the issue price is very close to the current market price. The recent FPO issuance of Butwal Power Company and Pokhara Finance can be considered as examples.

The main issue creating dilemma among the investors on whether to apply for the FPO is its price of Rs 333, as the current trading price of the stock is Rs 368. There is not much room for capital gain should the market continue its recent downward trend. The calculation of the FPO price based on the SEBON’s guidelines was determined to be Rs 535. The bank had also proposed the FPO at Rs 422 earlier, but after certain market survey, it lowered the price to Rs 333.

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Top Blue Chip Commercial Banks - Best Buy by Rating Wise Analysis !

BLUE CHIP BANKS

Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) has been continuously tanking points for quite some time. In such bearish trend, there are some analyst asserting it to be the prime time to invest in the secondary market, while some feel their cash safe at bank. Whatever the speculation, there are still some scrips who are in better position than the other.

Out of 28 listed commercial banks, scripts of 26 banks are tradable. The shares of Rastriya Banijya Bank (RBB) isn’t traded and the shares of Mega Bank is on hold since last one year because of the ongoing merger. Similarly even among the 26, only 6 banks’ prices are above Rs. 500. To list them down in descending order of market price per share (LTP on Chaitra 8, 2074) are Nabil Bank Limited (NABIL), Standard Chartered Bank Limited (SCB), Everest Bank Limited (EBL), Nepal Investment Bank Limited (NIB), Himalayan Bank Limited (HBL) and Nepal SBI Bank Limited (SBI).

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Commercial Banks Prospective Earning per Share (EPS) After Paid Up Capitalization !

COMMERCIAL BANKS

The current banking industry’s scenario is no different from a battlefield. While one side of the warriors is focused to retain their weapons (customers), the other side is trying to build a competitive advantage utilizing the opponent’s weakness (lower deposit rate). The general public has seen the current context of banking industry as a fight for survival. However, seeing things from different perspective, it actually resembles that all commercial banks will finally come to the same level given the similar range of paid up capital. The dominant market players in banking industry will be identified in the near future on the basis of net profit, deposit collection and loan portfolio.

The investors in secondary market are inquisitive on “which commercial banks will lead in the secondary market?” The precise answer to the stated question might not be pictured by all the investors instantly because nine of the commercial banks are yet to meet the paid up capital requirement. However, these nine commercial banks have already provided clues regarding their capital plan. Those banks that were sort of paid up capital have either used merger and acquisition approach or have utilized reserve fund to meet the paid up capital requirement. With the approaching deadline, banks are left with the alternatives of bonus share and right share to set the mark of Rs 8 arba in the first row of their balance sheets.

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How Much Units Ideal for Investing in BPCL’s upcoming FPO Opening from Monday!

BPCL FPO

Butwal Power Company Ltd., (BPCL)’s upcoming Further Public Offering (FPO) on Monday January 29th 2018 (Magh 15, 2074) has become the talk among the investing pioneers in Nepalese stock market. The company is issuing 40, 81,000 units share worth Rs 2.04 arba as FPO which will close on Friday February 19th 2018 (Magh 19, 2074). The 501 (per unit) rupees priced FPO (Rs 401 premium added to the par value of Rs 100) whose issue manager is NMB Capital Ltd. has been a major interest to most of the market players in the stock market. However, the question arises what is the optimum unit of shares to be applied by investors? Although BPCL has stated 10 units of shares as the minimum share units and 20,400 units as the maximum share units to be applied but is 10 units the optimum quantity for the upcoming FPO?

Given that the hydropower company has been floating 40,81,000 units share which is comparatively large in volume, therefore, it is likely that the number of applicants will also be high for the FPO. If we analyze the trend of past months of IPO/FPO issuance, we can draw that the applicants will be in the range of 1.5 lakhs to 2 lakhs for the upcoming FPO. For instance, several IPO/FPO issuances of companies such as Unnati Microfinance Bittiya Sanstha Limited (UNNATI), Radhi Bidhut Company Limited (RADHIB), Support Microfinance (SUPPORT), Nepal Hydro Developer Limited (NHDL), Himalayan Power Partner Limited (HPPL), Premier Insurance Company Limited (PIC) and Nepal Grameen Bikas Bank Limited (NGBBL) had total number of applicants above 1 lakh 50 thousand and below 3 lakhs. The details of which are attached below:

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First Microfinance Again First to Publish First Quarterly Report of FY 2074/075; Earnings Surge by 60.44% to Rs. 24.13 Million !

First Microfinance Development Bank Ltd. (FMDBL) is again the first among the publishing companies to publish its provisional financial statement from the (Q1) of the fiscal year (FY) 2074/075, with an impressive profit growth of 60.44%.

According to the unaudited financial report for Q1 published yesterday, the microfinance has stated that its net profit surged to Rs. 24.13 million in Q1 as compared to Rs. 15 million in the corresponding Q1 of the last FY 2073/074.

The borrowing of the microfinance has increased from Rs 32.2 billion in the corresponding Q1 of the previous year to Rs. 35.2 billion in the Q1 of the current FY 2074/075.

Its net interest income has also increased to Rs. 40.8 million in the Q1 up from Rs. 26.5 million compared to the corresponding Q1 of the last fiscal year. The microfinance company has an operating profit of Rs. 37.9 million in Q1 of the ongoing FY.

The paid up capital of the company stands at Rs. 456.2 million in Q1 of FY 2074/075. Its reserve and surplus surges to Rs. 96 million in Q1 from Rs. 56.9 million in the corresponding Q1 of last FY.

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