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Nicolas McBeath
EUR 86.07 For Business Accounts Only

Swedbank (Buy, TP: SEK275.00) - High profitability, limited risk

Swedbank’s Q1 results further underscored its resilience amid an uncertain macro environment and profitability tailwinds from rising interest rates. We have raised our 2023–2025e adj. EPS by 4–7% and our target price to SEK275 (267). We expect Swedbank to maintain an ROE comfortably above its 15% target throughout our forecast period, which is why we find the P/BV of c1.1x too low. We reiterate our BUY.
Underlying
Swedbank AB Class A

Swedbank provides financial services and products in its home markets of Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Co. has four segments: Swedish Banking, which is responsible for all its Swedish customers except corporates and financial institutions; Large Corporates and Institutions, which is responsible for large corporates, financial institutions and banks as well as for trading and capital market products; Baltic Banking, which operates in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; and Group Functions and Other. At Dec 31 2013, Co. had 731 branches and 1,396 automated teller machines. Also as of such date, Co. had total assets of SEK1.82 trillion and deposits of SEK620.85 billion.

Provider
DnB Markets
DnB Markets

DNB Markets is the investment banking arm of DNB Bank ASA and is focused primarily on the Nordic region, as well as internationally on niches such as global shipping, energy and related services, and seafood. DNB Markets offers services in FICC, Equities and Investment Banking advisory from offices in Oslo, Stockholm, London, Singapore and New York. Equity research coverage is offered on c250 Nordic companies. DNB was ranked no.2 in Extel Nordic Research 2017. The DNB Markets’ Credit and FICC Macro & FX Research teams are repeatedly highly rated by Prospera Nordic Institutional Investor Surveys.

 

Analysts
Nicolas McBeath

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