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Nomura Cuts Four Greek Banks’ TP
Greek bank valuations continue to be driven by the risks facing Greek public finances and uncertainties over Greece’s ability to finance its deficit in the private Markets, Nomura says in a report dated February 25th.
It lowers its earnings estimates to account for the impacts of the current situation and greater fiscal consolidation, leading to a deeper recession in 2010.
“However, despite the recession in Greece, we believe NBG can still generate above-average profit, given exposure to Turkey, and we maintain our Buy rating.”
More specifically, the firm maintains its ‘Buy’ rating for NBG and Eurobank and cuts its target prices to 21 euro from 30 euro and 8.5 euro from 14 euro. For Alpha Bank, target price is set at 8.3 euro (from a previous 10.2 euro) with a ‘neutral’ rating and for Piraeus it lowers the TP to 6 euro from a previous 10 euro on a ‘reduce’ rating.
“In our view, the Greek banking system itself is not facing any underlying weaknesses. The banks are relatively well capitalized with low loan-to-deposit ratios. From an asset-quality perspective, although the banks will be exposed to greater losses as GDP contracts again in 2010, there has not been an asset bubble in domestic asset prices in the same way that there has been in Spain, Ireland, the UK or the US,” Nomura analysts argue.
http://english.capital.gr/news.asp?id=915510
Greek bank valuations continue to be driven by the risks facing Greek public finances and uncertainties over Greece’s ability to finance its deficit in the private Markets, Nomura says in a report dated February 25th.
It lowers its earnings estimates to account for the impacts of the current situation and greater fiscal consolidation, leading to a deeper recession in 2010.
“However, despite the recession in Greece, we believe NBG can still generate above-average profit, given exposure to Turkey, and we maintain our Buy rating.”
More specifically, the firm maintains its ‘Buy’ rating for NBG and Eurobank and cuts its target prices to 21 euro from 30 euro and 8.5 euro from 14 euro. For Alpha Bank, target price is set at 8.3 euro (from a previous 10.2 euro) with a ‘neutral’ rating and for Piraeus it lowers the TP to 6 euro from a previous 10 euro on a ‘reduce’ rating.
“In our view, the Greek banking system itself is not facing any underlying weaknesses. The banks are relatively well capitalized with low loan-to-deposit ratios. From an asset-quality perspective, although the banks will be exposed to greater losses as GDP contracts again in 2010, there has not been an asset bubble in domestic asset prices in the same way that there has been in Spain, Ireland, the UK or the US,” Nomura analysts argue.
http://english.capital.gr/news.asp?id=915510