PNB hits 52-week high: Vaishali Parekh gives ‘buy’ tag to banking stock | Popgen Tech

At the time of writing, PNB shares were trading at ₹56 each with 1.63% on the BSE. The stock hit a new 52-week high of ₹57.40 a piece earlier today. The bank’s market cap is approx ₹61,662 crore. Year to date, the stock is up nearly 34%.

On Tuesday, Prabhudas Lilladher’s Vice President – Technical Research, Vaishali Parekh said, “PNB has moved almost 12% since our last analysis and is now approaching the first resistance level. Decisive breach” above 57 anticipates further head movement to 80 and 100 levels. Any pullback or retest of breakout levels will be a good buying opportunity. We suggest you buy and accumulate this stock.”

Recently, PNB issued and allocated Basel III compliant Tier-II capital bonds with a coupon rate of 7.89% per annum — aggregating to ₹4,000 crore on a private placement basis.

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Last month, PNB received approval for the divestment of the bank’s entire/part stake in UTI Asset Management Company in single or multiple segments. The sale will be made for the realization of the return on the investment. The timeline, percentage of shares for divestment, and divestment value are yet to be finalized.

In Q2FY23, PNB posted a 63% drop in net profit to ₹411.3 crore compared to a profit of ₹1,105.2 crore in the same quarter last year. Net interest income (NII), however, jumped by 30.2% to ₹8,271 crore in Q2FY23 against ₹6,352.8 crore in Q2 of FY22. The bank’s provisions for bad loans went up ₹3,555.98 crore against ₹2,692.74 crore a year ago quarter. While its gross non-performing assets (NPAs) declined to 10.48% of gross advances from 13.36% in Q2FY22.

Currently, PNB’s earnings per share is ₹1.86, while its price-to-equity ratio is 1.86 times. Its return on equity (RoE) is 2.07%.

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