Ericsson wrote:VituVingiSana wrote:Another bailout required!
I wonder which local banks are exposed to ARM
Stanbic
Africa Finance Corporation
Victoria Commercial Bank
Any idea how large esp Stanbic.
I guess ARM going down would mean VCB's "zero NPLs" might no longer be the case!
Expanding too fast using debt is dangerous. [I am excluding banks coz their business is acquiring "debt" (deposits)]
KQ
ARM
Uchumi
Nakumatt
KPLC (Debt:Equity Conversion as a bailout by GoK)
KenGen (Debt:Equity Conversion as a bailout by GoK)
KK (under Segman acquired underperforming foreign assets - TZ, DRC and Ethiopia - using significant debt)
Airtel
EABL
HAFR
Unga (took on debt, and sold profitable Bullpak, to buy the piece of crap Ennsvalley from the Ndegwas. A disaster.)
and many more!
Low debt:equity firms:
Safaricom (has expanded using little debt vis-a-vis its cashflows)
BAT
KenRe (so far)
Jubilee
Nation (even with its recent woes affecting many media houses all over the world it is still profitable)
Good luck to ARM. I do hope it survives!
Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett