DBS, UOB and OCBC: Which of These 3 Banks Should You Pick?

The Smart Investor2023-11-22

The final earnings season of the year is wrapping up.All three local banks have reported solid sets of earnings as their business is buoyed by the current high interest rate environment.DBS Group ...

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cheebeng
2023-11-23
cheebeng
I pick uob
Andrew cub
2023-11-22
Andrew cub
Hope everyone huat big big
GCL08
2023-11-22
GCL08
Great analysis 🙏

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increased by 5% year on year instead of dipping.Winner: OCBCLoans and NIMsMoving on to each bank’s loan book and net interest margin (NIM), we see that all three banks saw their loan numbers dip year on year.The surge in interest rates could be responsible for the weak showing in loan growth.However, all three banks made up for this with higher year-on-year NIMs.OCBC’s NIM was the highest for 3Q 2023 at 2.27% but DBS saw the sharpest year-on-year NIM increase at 0.29 percentage points.Both DBS and OCBC also enjoyed quarter-on-quarter growth in NIMs but UOB’s NIM fell by 0.03 percentage points from 2Q 2023.OCBC is the winner in this category as its loan growth decline was less than DBS’s while its NIM was the highest among the three banks.Winner: OCBCCost-to-Income ratio (CIR)Cost-to-income ratio, or CIR, is the next category we looked at.The lower a bank’s CIR, the more efficient its operations.OCBC has the lowest CIR for 3Q 2023, edging out DBS which won with the lowest CIR in the previous quarter (2Q 2023).OCBC also saw the best improvement in its CIR with a 3.1 percentage point year-on-year reduction compared with DBS’s 1.3 percentage point year-on-year decline.Winner: OCBCReturn on equity (ROE)Moving on to ROE, DBS is the hands-down winner with the highest ROE among the three for 3Q 2023.It has also maintained this record in the previous quarter as well as in 3Q 2022.Winner: DBSNon-performing loans ratio (NPL ratio)For the NPL ratio, OCBC boasts the lowest of the trio at 1% for 3Q 2023.The lender saw a slight improvement over the 1.1% in 2Q 2023 and it was also a decline from the 1.2% reported a year ago.DBS, however, saw its NPL ratio rise slightly as it had around S$100 million of exposure to Singapore’s landmark S$2.8 billion money laundering case and made provisions for this exposure accordingly.Winner: OCBCValuationFinally, we arrive at the valuation section where we determine which of the banks are the cheapest.UOB wins in this case with a price-to-book 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