As Trinidad and Tobago struggled with recession in 2015 profit for the year ended September 2015 resulted in a marginal increase from TT$627 million in 2014 to TT$630 million for First Citizens Bank, a Trinidadian based and Trinidad Stock Exchange listed bank.
The performance emanated from revenues of $1.76 billion net of $282 million in interest cost, compared to $1.68 billion net of interest cost of $315 million in 2014. For the September quarter profit fell to $148 million from $157 million reported for the June quarter.
While interest income was marginally down to $1.45 billion from $1.47 billion for the 12 months, fees and commissions rose sharply by 28 percent to $415 million from $360 million, gains on sale of financial assets, netted only $27 million versus $66 million in 2014 while foreign exchange gains, rose to $12 million from $76 million.
Driven mainly by a 19.5 percent increase in the wage bill that hit $425 million administrative expenses rose 13.8 percent to $594 million from $522 million and other operating expenses were flat at $390 million as technical and professional fell to $21 million from $38. Loan losses fell to $6 million from $13 million in 2014 but taxation climbed to $160 million from $146 million thus reducing a 4.7 percent increase in pretax profit to a virtually flat net results for the year, with earnings per share of $2.51.
Investment assets amounted to $12.3 billion up from $10.4 billion in 2014 while loans grew to by $1.6 billion in the final quarter to $17.3 billion and is up from $14.9 billion at September 2014.
With Trinidad now in recession and the price of oil under US$40 per barrel, institutions such as banks could see their income and profit under pressure in 2016 as demand for loans remain weak. The stock last traded at $35 on the Trinidad Stock Exchange with a PE of 14 and don’t seem to have much room for growth in the months ahead.
First Citizens flat 2015 numbers
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