CORRECTED - CORRECTED-TABLE-China's Industrial Bank Q1 net surges 119 pct
(Corrects headline to show the company's first-quarter net profit, not first-half profit rises)
April 25 (Reuters) - Quarter ended March 31, 2008.
(in millions of yuan unless stated, against 2007 figures):
Q1 2008 Q1 2007
Turnover 7,338.78 vs 4,646.63
Net profit 3,087.79 vs 1,408.32
Earnings per share (yuan) 0.62 vs 0.30
Net assets per share (yuan) 8.40 vs N/A
Company: China's Industrial Bank (601166.SS: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), 12.78 percent owned by Hong Kong-based Hang Seng Bank (0011.HK: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), is based in the southeastern province of Fujian.
Note: The unaudited results were compiled under domestic accounting standards.
The bank said its earnings rose in the first quarter as its commission and fee income soared to 618 million yuan ($88.47 million) from 211 million yuan in the year-earlier period, and net interest income rose to 6.4 billion yuan from 4.32 billion yuan.
The bank's annual net profits more than doubled last year, and it forecast last month its earnings would rise at least another 20 percent in 2008.
The bank aims to expand its outstanding loans by 19 percent to 476 billion yuan by the end of 2008 and its deposits by 20 percent to 607 billion yuan, it said.
The bank's capital adequacy ratio stood at 11.73 percent at the end of 2007, up sharply from 8.71 percent a year earlier and above the minimum regulatory requirement of 8 percent.
Its nonperforming loan ratio declined to 1.15 percent at the end of last year from 1.53 percent a year earlier, compared with the limit of 5 percent by regulatory requirements. ($1=6.985 Yuan) (Reporting by Charlie Zhu; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Edmund Klamann)
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