In the first nine months of the year, core revenues were up 34.3% year-on-year to €11.13 billion, driven by net interest income, which stood at €7.36 billion, up 60.7% on the same period of 2022. The growth in NII, compounded by the improvement in insurance service result (+21.2%) and equity accounted income from bancassurance stakes (+47.6%), offset the 5.3% decline in net fees. Specifically, recurring banking fees dropped by 9.1%…

The positive market dynamics, together with the strategies derived from the integration with Bankia and the reduction of doubtful balances, have boosted CaixaBank’s profit to €2,137 million, up 35.8% compared to the €1,573 million recorded in the same period of the previous year. In the entity’s accounts, the improvement in the indicators of profitability and efficiency stand out, while ROE reached 10.2% and the recurrent efficiency ratio fell to 45.7%,…

Morgan Stanley analysts reiterate their OW (Overweight) on Caixabank and maintain the stock as a sector Top Pick, as they believe that the market is undervaluing the bank’s capital generation capacity by analysing DTAs (deferred tax assets). Additionally, they now assume in their base scenario a €1.5bn buyback that they expect to be announced in Q3, which together with a mark-to-market of the yield curve, justifies an upward revision of…

Alphavalue / Divacons| The chairman of the Catalan bank, José Ignacio Goirigolzarri, believes that the balances of credit portfolios in Spain will remain stable or register slight increases over the next three years, as he said during his speech at the conference that Cinco Días is holding to celebrate its 45th anniversary. Meanwhile, the credit rating agency Fitch Ratings decided to maintain unchanged the BBB+ rating assigned to CaixaBank as…

Link Securities | Caixabank (CABK) has obtained a banking licence in Italy and has opened a branch in the country, located in Milan, with which the entity strengthens its international banking business, according to the Efe agency. The bank now has seven branches operating worldwide, located in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Poland and Morocco.The banking licence in Italy will allow the bank to offer multiple financial and…

CABK increased its net interest income by 15.7% year-on-year, to EUR 6,916 million, while its net commissions reached EUR 4,009 million (+8.2% year-on-year). In this way, the gross margin increased by 12.8% year-on-year, standing at €11,594 million, also exceeding (+2%) the figure expected by the FactSet- consensus. On the other hand, recurring administration and amortization expenses increased by 1.5% year-on-year, to €6,020 million, which raised the net or operating margin…