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Ovunc Gursoy
EUR 8.96 For Business Accounts Only

TURKISH BANKS – The road less travelled

We forecast net earnings to grow 6%/15% in 2019/2020 for our coverage universe. Lower CPI linker yields in 2019 will likely lead to an average 25bp y-y decline in the swap-adjusted NIM. We expect a 5.2% NPL rate for our coverage in 2019 and the CoR to slide from 2018 highs as we do not expect any material IFRS 9 parameter change due to a large currency shock.

We foresee loans growing an average of 12%/16% in 2019/2020 for our coverage. The Credit Guarantee Fund-backed loans will have a 100% risk weight should the NPL rate climb above 7%, which would have a negative 89bp impact on CAR and 68bp on CET 1 ratios on average. We foresee capital growth to fall behind the growth in RWA for the sector in 2019.

We expect banks in our coverage to deliver a long-term ROE of 15% implying 0.70x P/B assuming no growth vs the 1Y forward average of 0.47x for our coverage. We upgrade Isbank to BUY from Hold and downgrade Akbank to HOLD from Buy. Isbank, Garanti and Vakifbank are our top picks.

Underlyings
Akbank TAS

Akbank is a commercial bank. Co. operates in five segments: Retail banking offers a range of retail services, such as deposit accounts, loans, credit cards, insurance products and asset management services; Corporate and Small and Medium Size Enterprises banking provides financial solutions and banking services; Treasury Activities conducts regional and foreign currency spot and forward transactions, bonds and other domestic securities; Private banking offers banking and investment transactions for upper-income groups and the International banking provides services for foreign trade financing and Turkish Lira clearances, and money transfers through agent financial institutions.

Albaraka Turk Katilim Bankasi AS

Albaraka Turk Katilim Bankasi is a commercial bank based in Turkey. Co. supplies retail, corporate, and investment banking products and services within the framework of the principles of participation banking. Co. also operates as an insurance agency, a private pension insurance agency and as a brokerage agency. Co. through its branches, engages in purchase and sale of precious metals, provides intermediary services in quick money transfers, credit card and member business (P.O.S.) services. Co. maintains an extensive service network consisting of 166 national branches and alternative delivery channels. Co. also has a branch in the city of Erbil in Northern Iraq.

Turkiye Garanti Bankasi Anonim Sirketi

Turkiye Garanti Bankasi is a private banking group based in Turkey. Co. operates as an integrated financial services group in every segment of the sector including corporate, commercial, SME, payment systems, retail, private and investment banking together with subsidiaries in pension and life insurance, leasing, factoring, brokerage, and asset management. Co. provides a range of financial services to 13 million customers through a distribution network of 994 domestic branches; 6 foreign branches in Cyprus, Luxembourg and Malta; 3 international representative offices in London, Dusseldorf and Shanghai with more than 4,152 ATMs, a Call Center and internet.

Turkiye Halk Bankasi Anonim Sirketi

Turkiye Halk Bankasi (Halkbank) is a banking and financial services company based in Turkey. Co. offers corporate and commercial banking products and services to a range of customers, from individuals to large corporations. Co.'s operations include: consumer and retail banking, consumer loans, credit and debit cards, deposit and overdraft accounts, payroll services, corporate and commercial banking, budget loans, credit line facilities, cash management, investment banking, brokerage, factoring, leasing and insurance services, and tradesmen/SME banking. As of Dec 31 2011, Co. operates 771 branches and had total assets of TL92,160,657,000.

Turkiye Is Bankasi Anonim Sirketi Class C

Turkiye Is Bankasi is a commercial banking group based in Turkey Co. is engaged in the provision of private, retail, commercial and corporate banking, money market and securities market operations as well as international banking services. Co. provides services to corporations, SMEs and other trading companies (excluding real trading persons) within the course of its corporate and commercial operations. Co. is organized into two main business segments: Banking segment, which includes corporate, retail and private banking, as well as treasury; and non-banking operations, which are followed according to insurance, ‘investment and finance' and ‘manufacturing and trading' segments.

Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi AS

Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi is a private development and investment bank. Co. provides its clients with an array of products and services in the corporate banking, investment banking and advisory business lines. Co. serves its corporate clients in investment banking through solution oriented treasury products in addition to corporate finance activities such as mergers, public offerings and bond issuances. Co. mainly operates in investment and corporate banking segments. As of Dec 31 2014, Co. had total assets of TL6.23 billion.

Turkiye Vakiflar Bankasi Turk Anonim Ortakligi

Turkiye Vakiflar Bankasi (Vakifbank) is a banking and financial services company based in Turkey. Co. offers products and services that cover corporate, commercial, investment and small-scale enterprise banking as well as the retail and private banking sectors. Co. also provides financial leasing, portfolio management, real estate, insurance and factoring services through its financial participations. Co.'s deposit products include time and demand deposits, as well as loans comprise spot loans, foreign currency indexed loans, consumer loans, automobile and housing loans, working capital loans, gold loans, foreign currency loans, eximbank loans, and pre-export loans.

Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi A.S.

Yapi Ve Kredi Bankasi is a financial services group. Co. serves its customers through its retail banking segment comprising of individual banking, Small and Medium Size Enterprises banking and card payment systems, corporate and commercial banking as well as private banking and wealth management segments. Co.'s operations are supported by domestic subsidiaries in asset management, brokerage, leasing and factoring as well as international banking subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Russia and Azerbaijan. As of Dec 31 2014, Co. had total assets of TL194.96 billion and total deposits of TL107.63 billion.

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