Non-Performing Loans (NPLs)

UOB will be the first to report its quarterly results on Nov 4, while DBS and OCBC will release theirs on Nov 5.

SINGAPORE (Jan 17): UOB Kay Hian is maintaining its “buy” call on OCBC with a target price of $14.88 given the bank is expected to report a “solid set of results” for 4Q17.

SINGAPORE (Oct 10): UOB Kay Hian is keeping its “buy” call on Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) with a target price of $13.38 given expectations the bank could report steady earnings growth for the third quarter of 2017.

SINGAPORE (June 8): UOB Kay Hian is remaining “overweight” on Singapore’s banking sector after reviewing the city state’s three banks based on asset quality as well as ability to generate pre-provision operating profit (PPoP).

SINGAPORE (May 29): Rising non-performing loans (NPLs) must be viewed in the right perspective, says Ravi Menon, Managing Director of Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

SINGAPORE (March 21): Maybank Kim Eng Research believes profits for all three of Singapore’s main banks may fall by 3-8% this FY17E, given the estimated $217-748 million of total claims and borrowings to the beleaguered oilfield services firm, Ezra Hold

SINGAPORE (March 20): UOB KayHian says it is keeping to its conservative 2017 earnings forecast for Singapore’s banking sector, which is 6% below consensus estimates for DBS and 7% below consensus estimate for OCBC. 

SINGAPORE (Feb 17): DBS Group chief executive officer Piyush Gupta believes the bank has seen the worst of its woes from loans to troubled companies in the oil and gas support services sector.

SINGAPORE (Feb 3): CIMB Research remains “underweight” on Singapore banks given that asset quality concerns still loom, especially since Ezra Holdings today announced the possibility of a US$170 million ($240 million) writedown.

SINGAPORE (Nov 30): UOB Kay Hian is keeping its “overweight” call on the Singapore banking sector while maintaining its “buy” recommendations on DBS Group and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) at target prices of $20.15 and $10.45 respectively.