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OCBC - Decent core gets insurance boost

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Publish date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014, 02:21 PM
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2Q profit (S$921m) beat our (S$805m) and consensus expectations (S$804m) due to strong non-interest income. 1H14 profit was above expectations at 55% of our full-year and 58% of consensus. Insurance did well while trading was better than peers.

Smaller positives include:
1) fee incomes that managed to stay flat qoq,

2) flat margins, and

3) low provisions that still benefited from recoveries.

OCBC is our non-consensus top pick of the sector.

We maintain our Add rating and S$11.01 GGM-based target price (1.4x CY14 P/BV). A review of estimates is likely. Potential catalysts stem from strong fee income.
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2014-08-05 16:07

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