May 2, 2019 OUTPERFORM Bangkok Bank (BBL TB) Share Price: Bt203.0 Target Price: Bt245.0 (+20.7%) Solid operations and asset quality Company Update Company Loan and fee income to improve from 2Q19; mutual fund and bancassurance fees to support non-NII growth. Asset quality remains strong with slower NPL formation and high NPL coverage. OUTPERFORM, Bt245 TP implies 11.5x FY19F PE and 1x P/BV; rising ROE and improving NIM Loan and fee income to pick up from 2Q19 We maintain a positive view towards BBL after the analyst briefing on Tuesday. BBL guided its loan portfolio shrank 2.6% qoq in 1Q19 due to seasonally higher repayment of corporate loans. However, they expect Jesada TECHAHUSDIN, CFA loan demand to improve and loan growth to meet full-year target of 4- 662 - 659 7000 ext 5004 6% this year. They also expect NIM to inch up yoy led by better asset
[email protected] yield. 1Q19 NIM was 2.35% vs 2.33% in 2018. For fee income, BBL can Remark: KSS is a subsidiary of Bank of Ayudhya Plc. COMPANY RESEARCH | RESEARCH COMPANY still grow mutual fund and bancassurance fees and expect these to and is therefore unable to issue a report on Bank of support fee income growth this year. On a negative note, brokerage Ayudhya Plc. income and investment gains should drop yoy in FY19 due to weak Key Data capital market for the former and high base effect for the latter. 12-mth high/low (Bt) 218 / 184.5 Market capital (Btm/US$m) 387,495 / 12,137 Asset quality remains healthy with large LLR buffer 3m avg.