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Bank Mandiri (BMRI IJ) Indonesia

Financials

Galliano's Financials Research

Victor Galliano reviews 6 large and mid-cap Indonesian commercial banks on the back of recently announced 4Q23 results to identify those that are attractive value, have good earnings growth prospects and have the potential to deliver higher returns. BMRI is his top pick for its quality attributes, its premium and growing pre- and post-provision returns; it also provides a better valuations to returns mix than Bank Central Asia. Bank Negara is his value pick with its low PE multiples, its attractive PEG ratio, whilst also improving pre- and post-provision returns with cost of risk well controlled.

Edition: 180

- 23 February, 2024


Bank Negara Indonesia (BBNI IJ) Indonesia

Financials

Tabbush Report

Indonesia is seeing a strong recovery in lending growth, which adds to the positive trifecta for BNI - improving margins (NIM up from 4.5% to 4.9% in 2Q22 Q/Q. There are few banks in Asia-Pacific that show this type of NIM expansion), with improving loan volume, and better credit metrics (BNI is one of those banks that appears to have taken far too much credit costs during FY20 and FY21). It just so happens, that BNI’s market capitalisation of IDR154tr is a fraction of the IDR970tr for comparable peer bank Bank Central Asia.

Edition: 142

- 19 August, 2022