VituVingiSana wrote:mlennyma wrote:The 1st listed bank to pull the trigger has not disappointed.kenya is a great economy despite the politics,inflation and drought.
Or they are exploiting us... Funny, that when OMCs make a low ROA but prices of fuel go up... all are up in arms yet Kenya's largest OMC makes far less in 1 year than Barclays or Equity does in 1 quarter....
KK 1.77bn during entire 2010
Co-op 1.64bn in 1Q 2011
I expect Equity & KCB PAT to be even higher!
I think COOP is reaping from its prudent expansion strategy.If you analyse its expansion unlike Equity,Barclays and KCB their branch network is well thought out such that they only open a branch where it can sustain itself.
Take Isiolo for instance they operate a mobile bank as they survey sustainability of a branch.If you take KCB and Equity most of their profitability is eaten up by branches which are not sustainable.Equity for instance recorded loses in their Ugandan operation.
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