Joint Stock Commercial Bank for

Foreign of (VCB)

Hose – Banking The highest chartered capitalized 201 2011/10/12 Joint Stock Bank in Vietnam

Overweight Valuation:  We initiate an Overweight rating for VCB with a target price of VND 33,000. We recommend long- term safety investment for VCB because the Price (2011/10/07): VND 26,500 offering price to sell for strategic partner Mizuho

Bank is VND 34,000. Target Price: VND 33,000  Vietcombank sells to Mizuho 15% of the total

issued shares at the value of about 567.3 million Ms.Linh Nguyen Ngoc (+ 84-4) 3933-4571 USD or 11,800 billion dong, a highest value of all [email protected] time in M&A in Vietnam.

Basic Index Overview of Banking Industry in 2011 Vietnam Lowest price in 52 weeks VND 25,900  Banking continues to play an important role in Highest price in 52 weeks VND 38,000 managing monetary policy to stabilize macro

Average trading volume in 10 days 641,493 economy, control inflation, and assure social security in 2011. Outstanding shares 2,317,417,076 Market cap (billion) VND 4,843.7  Remarkable management solution: tight monetary policy management, liquidity support for Finance Index commercial banks, and control the credit growth at EPS 1,229 lower than 20% via control money supply; adjust P/E 9.9 re-discount interest rate and overnight interest rate; P/B 1.54 and suitably adjust bank-union average exchange ROA 1.4 rate.

ROE 18.8  The State Bank sees more effort on checking and

controlling banks operation, seriously deals with CAR 9.0% regulation breaking in banking system. Book Value VND16,600

Cash Dividend VND 1,200 Dividend Yield (Dividend / market Facts: price) 4.53%  Savings interest rate in July and August is stabled Total asset - Q2/2011 (trillion dong) VND 344.207 at 14% compare to the sudden raise in the first and Total Equity – Q2/2011 (trillion second quarter of this year, loans interest rate is dong) VND 27.555 also controlled around approachable number. Owning structure Agriculture loans interest rate is 17-19%, non- State Bank 90.72% production loans’ is 22-25%. USD interest rate is Foreign investors 5.34% stabled.

Individual investors 3.85%  Credit growth as of Sep 23rd 2011 is 8.16% L *The holding cap for foreign strategic investors is 49%. compare to the end of last year; so compare to the For banking sector the cap is 30%. target (adjusted from 15-17%), credit growth room in Q4 is quite large.

 Effort in adjusting gold price: in Q3, domestic gold price saw big changes; there was time that it is

phs.vn higher than the world price by 3 million dong/tael. The State Bank has timely notified the people to be careful from speculation and price manipulation. At the same time, the State bank also carried out many solutions to stable the market.

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Company Profile:

Chart 1: Owning structure of VCB – Q2/2011  VCB was established in 1963 and operated in

foreign economy sector including im-

support loans and other foreign economic

services.

 In 1996, changed to state owned commercial

bank. Now, VCB is the first Vietnam Bank which

professionally works on foreign economy and

reputation of supplying international payment

products and has relations with many other world

leading banks.

 Being the first state owned commercial bank chosen for pilot equitizing, Vietcombank officially appeared as a Joint Stock Commercial Bank in June 2nd 2008 after successfully equitized th via IPO. On June 30 2009, Vietcombank stock (VCB) was officially listed on HOSE.  VCB is the second biggest bank on market cap

(1.97 billion USD), after Vietinbank (2.05 billion USD) over 43 state owned and private

Source : VCB commercial banks of Vietnam. VCB ranked number 4 (after Agribank, BiDV, and Vietinbank) on total asset.

Chart 2: M&A cases of others banks Strategy partner Mizuho and ranking motives:  After a long time seeking for foreign strategy partner, on September 30th 2011, VCB has signed the offering contract to raise the chartered capital from 19.698 trillion to 23.174 trillion dong with Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. the offering rate is 15% chartered capital after issuance at the price of VND 34,000.  By selling shares for foreign partner at the largest scale in banking history and in M&A , VCB is still at its top ranking for commercial bank in Vietnam. With advantages of raising capital, VCB will focus on develop credit growth, widen the network and develop services and technology.  As we evaluate, next year is still a hard year for economy and banking, so VCB’s problem is handling the management of equitized capital efficiently as stated, and solve the troubles that

the company is facing.

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Chart 3: Business Result of VCB Finance situation in Q2/2011 – reviewed financial report – combined business result report Profit index of Q2 and the first 6 months of 2011. Index % Gross Profit NIM 3.15%  Q2/2011, VCB saw 2,687 billion dong of net Non-interest income 12.6% interest income, up by 7.5% YOY. Services brought 446 billion dong of net profit, up by almost 2 times YOY. Business stock and Asset Quality Investment stock brought a loss of nearly 14 Index % billion dong in Q2; the profit wasn’t much at NPLs/debt balance 3.5% the same period last year. Bad debt/debt balance -98.1%  Q2/2011’s net profit is 986.33 billion dong, Provision/NPLs 3.4% down by 7.83% YOY. Provision/debt balance -1.2%  In the first 6 months 2011, VCB saw 2,420.88 Provision CF/debt balance 0.0% billion dong of EAT, up by 13.23% compare to 2,138.02 billion dong at the same period last Financial Health year. Index %

CAR (First grade) 9.0%

Debt balance/Savings 8.7% Equity/Asset 14.4% Equity/Liability 8.0% Equity/Debt balance 108.5%

Source: PHS

Financial Abstract:

Revenue Outstanding Change Net Profit Change Year (VND Shares EPS P/E (x) ROE (%) ROA (%) % (VND bil) % bil) (mil ) 2006 10,729.28 1,292.55 435.67 2,967 8.93 25.85 1.72

2007 13,697.20 27.66% 2,877.02 122.58% 442.93 6,495 4.08 17.69 1.21 2008 12,567.81 -8.25% 2,397.67 -16.66% 1,210.09 1,981 13.37 9.12 0.55 2009 18,941.23 50.71% 1,214.92 -49.33% 1,322.00 919 28.84 23.46 1.53 2010 24,563.94 29.69% 3,921.36 222.77% 1,322.10 2,966 8.93 20.39 1.37 2011E 28,985.45 18.00% 4,214.54 7.48% 1,759 2,396 11.06 24.3 1.69 2012E 34,782.54 20% 4593.85296 9% 2317.417 1,982 13.37 17.72% 1.36% 2013E 43,478.18 25% 5099.176786 11% 2317.417 2,200 12.04 17.56% 1.35%

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Chart 4: Combined business result report for Q2/2011

Source: VCB

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