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Business Description: Bank of Queensland Limited (BOQ) is a financial institution offering core banking (commercial/retail) services, equipment finance, wealth management and insurance. BOQ uses its unique concept of the Owner-Managed Branch (OMB), which is a partnership between the Bank of Queensland (franchisor) and experienced bank managers (franchisees) to provide banking services. The bank operates a network of over 280 branches Australia-wide.
Strategy Analysis: Growth has been driven by acquisition and the interstate Owner Management Branches (OMB) rollout program. Total OMBs of 198 include 115 in Queensland. In addition BOQ operates 71 corporate branches and 8 transaction centres. The expansion strategy clearly has not worked despite successfully delivering a two-and-a-half times increase in assets over the past five years. During the same period ROE has more than halved from over 12% in FY06 to 1% in FY12. The cost to income ratio declined following considerable work on driving down the cost base. BOQ is targeting a medium term cost to income ratio in the low 40% range. The key challenges facing BOQ in the short term is maintaining the recovery in asset quality and improving return on equity. Competition for deposits is tough, particularly retail deposits which fund a large majority of loan growth.
Bank of Queensland reported a net loss of $17.1m for the year ended 31 August 2012. The reduction in profit after tax was largely attributable to significant loan related impairment charges. Revenues from ordinary activities were $804.3m, up 1% from last year. The major driver of the subdued income growth was the reduction in other operating income. This was offset by growth in net interest income of $28.1m (5%). Diluted EPS was (10.2) cents compared to 60.3 cents last year. Net operating cash flow was $156.0m compared to $261.5m last year. The final dividend declared was 26 cents, taking the full year dividend to 52 cents compared with 54 cents last year.
The Age 24/05/2013 |
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The Age 24/05/2013 |
James Hardie expects no big improvement in the housing market this year but says the sector has stabilised after interest rate cuts.
The Age 24/05/2013 |
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The Age 24/05/2013 |
The ASX took more than three hours to tell stockbrokers and investors a computer failure had knocked out its critical market announcements feed in October last year, according to a new investigation into the incident.
The Age 24/05/2013 |
The Australian dollar plunged to its lowest level in a year, shedding over US2¢ in a session, as traders reacted to contradictory comments from the head of the US Federal Reserve on Thursday.
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