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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Rising Interest Expense Slows Down BFIs Net Profit Growth? See Which Commercial Bank Was Least Affected !

COMMERCIAL BANKS

Analyzing the third quarter (Q3) report, we came to know the industrial growth of listed commercial banks have slowed down to 12% this year. The same was above 20% in the previous years. The logic for this is simple, the growth rate of expenses has exceeded the growth rate of income and as a result the net profit growth has decreased its pace.

Reviewing the expense side of profit and loss in commercial bank’s balance sheet, one can easily notice the tremendous growth of interest expense. The unhealthy competition between banks and financial institutions (BFIs) to attract the deposits has resulted in an enormous increase of interest expense. The average interest expense growth of commercial bank stood astounding 95% in last one year.

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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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