Daily Brief Financials: Hopson Development, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial (MUFG) ADR, Bank Negara Indonesia Persero, UBS Group and more

Lucror Analytics Weekly Wraps provide an overview of all Morning Views comments and reports published by our analyst team in the past week, and also showcase a list of the most-read reports.

In this Insight:

1. Softbank Group
2. China SCE
3. Sino-Ocean Group
4. China Jinmao Holdings
5. Geely Auto

and more…

• Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. delivered a solid result and managed an all-around beat last quarter.
• Despite increased G&A expenses, the company managed to rebound in terms of NOP, reaching a level before the introduction of negative interest rates.
• We give Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. a ‘Hold’ rating with a revised target price.

• We retain Bank Negara as our top pick for its deep value attributes of low PE multiples and its attractive PEG ratio relative to sound returns and strong liquidity metrics
• We also stick with our positive call on Bank Mandiri, for its premium returns and undemanding PE multiples; Bank Central Asia, albeit fully valued, has impressive liquidity and return metrics
• Bank Rakyat again registered worsening pre-provision returns in 2Q23, even if there was QoQ cost of risk relief; its loan mix implies a high structural cost of risk going forward

• UBS Group AG managed to exceed the revenue and earnings expectations of Wall Street.
• The total pretax profit after these adjustments was $1.1 billion, of which $2 billion came from the UBS subgroup and a loss of $0.8 billion from the Credit Suisse subgroup.
• Furthermore, UBS Group’s financing division kept up its great performance, reporting its best second quarter and best first half ever.