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Result Update
EmkayResearch
30 January 2008 2
Fee income growth – upward trend continues
The other income jumped 124% yoy to Rs968mn driven by smart performance of all theincome streams like financial advisory, wealth management business and transactionbanking. The wealth management and transaction banking businesses have continuedtheir momentum and now contribute about 12% and 15% respectively to total otherincome. We expect the contribution from these businesses to grow further going forward,given the increased management thrust on these business activities.
Other income
Rs mn
Q2FY08 Q2FY07 Q1FY08 % yoy chg % qoq chg
Financial markets 523 186 364 180.9 43.5Financial advisory 136 113 190 20.4 -28.6Wealth Management 116 61 68 91.7 70.0Transaction Banking 145 48 84 205.0 73.9Others 48 26 53 86.4 -8.9
Total
968 433 759 123.7 27.5
Source: Company, Emkay Research
Higher Opex led by branch expansion and increased hiring
The Opex for the quarter has grown by 90.6% yoy driven by branch expansion andexpansion in retail wealth management business. The branch network has expanded to60 operational branches now from 40 branches in FY07.The bank has additional licenses to open 57 new branches, out of which the managementexpects to open 20-30 new branches by the end of financial year. Moreover, the bankrecruited 1381 new employees in 9MFY08, taking the total employee strength to 3542employees.
Asset quality remains robust
There were no provisions for NPA during the quarter as the NPAs continued to be at zerolevel both, in gross as well as net terms.Capital Adequacy comfortableThe bank is comfortably capitalised with tier I CAR at 8.9% as the bank’s raised Rs3.4bn(USD84mn) through Preferential Equity Placement of 14.7 million to Orient Global. Inaddition, the bank is likely to raise more funds by way of issuance of up to 20 millionequity shares in one or more tranches.
Entry into new businesses – ARC, AMC and broking
The bank also plans to enter into three new businesses over next 18 months. The bankhas already tied up with three state owned banks and a foreign bank for setting up anAsset Reconstruction Company. Yes Bank is likely to hold 29% stake in the venture.The bank is also looking at private banking as an extension to its knowledge bankingproposition. The bank has launched two funds, one each in food and agri business andlife science. The bank is also panning to set up and AMC in FY10.Yes Bank is also planning to start retail broking business in FY09. We believe that theretail broking business will not only help the bank to ramp up income from wealthmanagement business but will also help it investment banking division in the IPObusiness as it will give it wider distribution arm for the IPO mandate that the investmentbanking division undertakes.
Valuations and view
We remain upbeat on Yes Bank’s business model of knowledge expertise and robustbalance between fund and non-fund based services. The entry into new businesseswhich are relatively less capital intensive will add further value to the bank.At the current valuations, the stock is quoting at 14.5x FY10E EPS and 2.9x FY10E ABV.We maintain our ACCUMULATE Rating on the stock with price target of Rs260.
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