Dubai Islamic Bank Q2 net up 10pc, tops forecasts
DUBAI: Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) reported on Saturday a 10 percent increase in second-quarter net profit, as a total revenue rise outweighed higher provisions.
The lender made a net profit of 331 million dirhams ($90.1) in the three months to end-June, up from 301 million dirhams a year earlier, it said in a statement. The earnings jumped nearly 50 percent from the previous quarter.
Half-year earnings grew 10 percent to 552 million dirhams, the statement said.
Total half-year revenue rose 20 percent to 1.8 billion dirhams, while it grew 13 percent in the second quarter.
Provisions for impairment increased 43.8 percent to 210 million dirhams in the second quarter.
Total assets rose 14 percent to 102.9 billion dirhams at end-June, and customer deposits grew 22 percent to 77.6 billion dirhams.
In June, Goldman Sachs downgraded DIB to "sell" from "neutral" as the lender continued to shore up liquidity amid limited access to attractively priced wholesale funds and uncertainty over credit quality linked to Dubai's troubled real estate sector.
Copyright Reuters, 2011
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