ArmInfo. Starting from June 15, 2016, additional issue of common nominal stocks by "UNIBANK" OJSC will be listed on NASDAQ OMX Armenia and included in the stocks' B list, the press-service of NASDAQ OMX Armenia informs. Listed securities comprise 22,704,347 stocks (ISIN - AMUNIBS10ER5) with nominal value of AMD 100, which will be traded under UNIB ticker symbol and will be allowed to manual and REPO trading as well.
To recall, on April 20-21, 2016 placement of the Bank's above-mentioned additional shares took place at NASDAQ OMX Armenia. 22,704,347 common nominal stocks were fully placed with total value traded of AMD 5,221,999,810. The price of a stock stood at AMD 230 amid nominal value of 100 AMD.
Back in February the AmRating Agency analysts forecasted that Unibank would probably have to make additional issues in 2016, as its total capital amounted to 22.8 bln drams in Jan 2016. After IPO, the Bank will need about 7 bln drams to meet the Central Bank's minimum capital requirement for 2017 (30bln drams). In Q4 2015 the bank replenished registered capital by 18.7% or 2.5 bln AMD that led to increase of total capital to 22.8 bln AMD as of Jan 1 2016 from 20.4 bln a year before. Analysts say the Bank may replenish the capital with its not big profits and through investments of the key stakeholders.
According to ArmInfo's Financial Rating of Armenian Banks, total capital of Unibank amounted to 23.2bn drams as of Apr 1 2016 (with a 9.8% year-on-year growth), assets totaled 169.7 bln drams (a y-o-y 2.1% growth), provision of crediting and other loans - 122.5 bln drams (3.2% y-o-y growth), investments in securities - 8.6 bln drams (75.5% y-o-y growth), liabilities - 146.5 bln drams (1% y-o-y growth), including time deposits-112.3 bln AMD. Unibank received 493.2 mln net profits in 2015 (a 7.4% y-o-y decline, and more than 6-fold decline for Q4 alone). However in Q1 2016 the bank managed to raise profits 2.6-fold.