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UBA Grows Pre-tax Profit By 371% To N404bn In H1

by Olushola Bello
2 years ago
in Cover Stories, Featured, News
Group Managing Director/CEO, United Bank for Africa (UBA), Oliver Alawuba.

Group Managing Director/CEO, United Bank for Africa (UBA), Oliver Alawuba.

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United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc delivered an outstanding performance for the half year (H1) ended June 30, 2023, as announced in its audited financial report.

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The results released to the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) yesterday showed that the Group recorded double and triple-digit growth across its major income lines, as it continued to show substantial progress in increasing the contribution and market share from its subsidiaries in Africa and globally.

The bank posted a 371 per cent increase in profit before tax of N404 billion as it declared a 50 kobo per share dividend for its shareholders.

Specifically, at the end of the first two quarters of the year, and despite the tough global macroeconomic backdrop and geo-political challenges in Africa, UBA Group reported a profit before tax of N404 billion, representing an extraordinary increase of 371 per cent, when compared to N85.75 billion recorded in the first half of 2022. This translated to an annualised Return on Average Equity of 57.7 per cent as against 17.1 per cent a year earlier.

The results also showed, as of June 30, 2023, a profit after tax (PAT) of N378.24 billion, representing a leap of 437.8 percent over H1 2022. Operating Income grew by 206.6 per cent to N783.96 billion in June 2023; higher than N255.67 billion reported a year earlier.

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The Group delivered a 164 per cent growth in its Gross Earnings which rose to N981.78 billion as at June 2023, up from N372.36 billion recorded last year in June 2022. Total Assets continued a strong upward trajectory, rising above the N15trn mark, as it hit N15.38 trillion, representing a 41.7 per cent leap, up from N10.86 trillion recorded at the end of last year.

UBA’s Customer Deposits also rose by a sharp 42.4 per cent to N11.14 trillion in the period under consideration, as against N7.8 trillion recorded at the end of 2022.

Shareholders’ Funds increased to N1.712 trillion, reflecting the Group’s strong capacity for internal capital generation.

In line with the Group’s culture of paying both interim and final cash dividends, the Board has approved an interim dividend of 50k per share, which represents over 150 per cent increase over the prior year.

Group managing director and chief executive of UBA, Mr. Oliver Alawuba commenting on the results, said the exceptional performance underscored the Group’s commitment to consistently deliver value to its shareholders, adding that the Group made progress in digital payments, retail penetration and also benefited from the effect of revaluation gains arising from the harmonisation of foreign exchange rates at the different access windows in Nigeria.

“The Group recorded strong double-digit growth in revenues and profits from its operations. The result also reflects the effect of sizeable revaluation gains, arising from the harmonisation of currency exchange rates in Nigeria. Our reporting currency found a new exchange level at about N756 to $1 as of 30 June 2023, compared to N465 at the beginning of the year.

“The results again demonstrate the benefits of our long-held diversification strategy across Africa and globally.  The growth of our international business, most recently in the UAE, only reinforces this earnings quality.

“Our business is on a steady growth trajectory, as we further strengthen our risk management traditions and practice necessary technology investments to deliver premium service to our customers. We have also continued to finance landmark projects in critical sectors of the economies across Africa, facilitating intra-Africa trade with our valuable offerings and providing a versatile last-mile distribution network for Africa-bound donor and multilateral agency funds.

“The three core geographical pillars of our business (Nigeria, Rest of Africa and Rest of the World) are making strong contributions to the Group profit, further justifying our global strategy and business positioning across Africa, UAE, France, UK and USA, and demonstrating the benefits of positioning UBA as the financial intermediary for Africa and the rest of the world.” Alawuba said.

 


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