HANOI, April 29 (Reuters) - Vietnam's Sacombank STB.HM, 10 percent owned by Australia's ANZ (ANZ.AX), said on Wednesday its net profit in the first quarter of 2009 dipped 17 percent from a year before to 297 billion dong ($16.7 million).
The Ho Chi Minh City-based bank also said in a quarterly report its unaudited gross profit in the January-March period dropped nearly 5 percent from the same period last year to 392 billion dong.
The bank did not provide reasons for the decline in earnings but state media said Sacombank incurred a loss of 75 billion dong from equity investments in the first quarter.
Shares in the country's sixth-largest lender by assets rose 800 dong, or 4 percent, to 21,000 dong at 0352 GMT on Wednesday.
Last month Sacombank shareholders approved the bank's target of credit growth of 50 percent this year to 50 trillion dong and the aim of keeping overdue debts at 2.5 percent of loans.
The lender projected a capital adequacy ratio this year of between 10 percent and 12 percent, above the 8 percent level considered safe for commercial banks.
Sacombank has projected its gross profit would rise 47 percent this year to 1.6 trillion dong after a fall in 2008. [ID:nHAN369575].
ANZ plus the World Bank's International Finance Corp and Dragon Capital together own 30 percent of Sacombank, the ceiling for foreign ownership of listed banks in Vietnam. ($1=17,780 dong) (Reporting by Nguyen Nhat Lam; Editing by Alan Raybould)
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The Ho Chi Minh City-based bank also said in a quarterly report its unaudited gross profit in the January-March period dropped nearly 5 percent from the same period last year to 392 billion dong.
The bank did not provide reasons for the decline in earnings but state media said Sacombank incurred a loss of 75 billion dong from equity investments in the first quarter.
Shares in the country's sixth-largest lender by assets rose 800 dong, or 4 percent, to 21,000 dong at 0352 GMT on Wednesday.
Last month Sacombank shareholders approved the bank's target of credit growth of 50 percent this year to 50 trillion dong and the aim of keeping overdue debts at 2.5 percent of loans.
The lender projected a capital adequacy ratio this year of between 10 percent and 12 percent, above the 8 percent level considered safe for commercial banks.
Sacombank has projected its gross profit would rise 47 percent this year to 1.6 trillion dong after a fall in 2008. [ID:nHAN369575].
ANZ plus the World Bank's International Finance Corp and Dragon Capital together own 30 percent of Sacombank, the ceiling for foreign ownership of listed banks in Vietnam. ($1=17,780 dong) (Reporting by Nguyen Nhat Lam; Editing by Alan Raybould)
© Thomson Reuters 2009 All rights reserved
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