17 May 2010 17:47

Vozrozhdenie Bank could have halved Q1 IFRS earnings

MOSCOW. May 17 (Interfax) - Russia's Vozrozhdenie Bank could have halved net profit to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to 185.2 million rubles in Q1 2010 from 386 million rubles in Q1 2009, analysts told Interfax in a consensus forecast.

Consensus forecast (mln rubles):

Analysts Net profit Net interest income Operating income Assets Loan portfolio Loan provisions*
JP Morgan 107 1454 2346 150847 94664 633
Citi 160 1471 2456 148515 95283 639
UBS 222 1490 2358 148064 95446 554
KIT Finance 254 1727 2711 148515 95590 694
Metropol 182 1610 - 147933 98254 846
Renaissance Capital 126 - 2560 - - 700
Troika Dialog 116 1417 - 147599 95285 641
VTB Capital 419 1834 2777 - 95290 568
UniCredit Securities 92 1419 2257 148339 95443 594
Alfa Bank 144 1444 2359 148319 95141 549
Uralsib 150 1631 2607 - - 896
Sovlink 250 1631 2560 148848 95151 590
Consensus 185 1557 2499 148553 95555 659
Q1 2009 results 386 2335 3617 137906 99421 587
% change -52% -33.3% -30.9% +7.72% -3.9% +12.26%

* Provisions for loan impairment in Q1 2010 are compared with provisions for Q4 2009

Vozrozhdenie reduced net profit to IFRS 61.2% in 2009 to 1.217 billion rubles.

It is due to unveil the Q1 2010 results on May 18.

The bank was Russia's 21st largest by assets, according to the Interfax-100 ranking at the end of Q1 2010.