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GTB to pay shareholders record dividend as 2020 profit rises to N201bn

The bank will pay its biggest dividend payout for the lender in its 30-year history.

byRonald Adamolekun
March 19, 2021
2 min read

Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) Plc will pay shareholders a final dividend per share of N2.70 for 2020, having paid an interim dividend of N0.30 during the year in a move that will culminate in the biggest dividend payout for the lender in its 30-year history.

That implies Nigeria’s biggest bank by market value will commit N88.294 billion to rewarding shareholders for the last financial year, should its board get stockholders’ nod to pay the proposed N2.70 final dividend at its forthcoming annual general meeting to hold April 9, according to the audited earnings report of Lagos-based GTB issued Thursday and obtained by PREMIUM TIMES.

The dividend proposal is 7.1 per cent higher than the N2.80 paid for the preceding year.

Gross earnings climbed to N455.230 billion up from N435.307 billion, equivalent to a 4.6 per cent growth.

Earnings took a hit from an almost three times jump in provision for bad debt from N4.912 billion a year earlier. GTB set aside N19.573 billion to cater for a potential surge in loan delinquency in the aftermath of the pandemic outbreak.

Nigerian banks will likely see their impaired loans deteriorate considerably and soar by between 10 and 12 per cent of total credit asset come the end of December, New York-headquartered credit rating agency Fitch said in an estimate last December.

Also hurting earnings, net fee and commission income narrowed by more than one-fifth from N59.444 billion in 2019 to N46.935 billion, while depreciation and amortisation scaled up from N22.693 billion to N29.047 billion, translating to an increase of 30 per cent.

GTB Group Chief Executive Officer Segun Agbaje and Chairperson Osaretin Demuren
GTB Group Chief Executive Officer Segun Agbaje and Chairperson Osaretin Demuren

On the cost side, operating expenses rose from N130.971 billion to N147.438 billion.

That suggests a 12.6 per cent jump in one year but the rate remains lower than the average inflation rate of 13.22 per cent for last year, depicting cost effectiveness in the bank’s operations.

Pre-tax profit saw an uptick of 2.8 per cent from N231.708 billion to N238.095 billion, while profit for the year grew 2.33 per cent from N196.849 billion to N201.440 billion.

ALSO READ: Nigerian stocks rally as GTB earnings report wows investors

GTB announced in November it had received an approval-in-principle from industry watchdog Central Bank of Nigeria to transition to a holding company by way of a scheme of merger between the lender and its shareholders, a move that will see it tow the path of rival FBN Holdings and Stanbic IBTC Holdings.

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The holdco structure will enable a new corporate group known as a parent company to hold the outstanding stock of the companies making up the group, while maintaining only oversight capacities over them without participating in the day-to-day running of the companies.

Growing by 18.5 per cent, shareholders fund advanced from N687.337 billion to N814.396 billion.

Shares in GTB closed in Lagos on Thursday at N29.8 per unit, trading up by 6.43 per cent.

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