Bankinter lifts 2024 lending income outlook after Q2 beat
Lifts NII outlook to close to mid-single digit growth for 2024
Q2 net interest income up 7% y/y, rises 1% q/q
Q2 net profit up 17% y/y to 273 mln euros vs forecasts 269 mln
Shares in Bankinter rise over 4%
Shares in domestic lenders Caixabank, Unicaja up 2% to 1%
Recasts with NII outlook
By Jesús Aguado
MADRID, July 18 (Reuters) -Bankinter BKT.MC raised its forecast for 2024 lending income on Thursday thanks to interest rates remaining higher than initially expected, which helped the Spanish bank beat estimates with a 17% year-on-year increase in second-quarter net profit.
Spanish banks are mainly retail lenders and have benefited from higher interest rates that are passed on to customers through floating rates while they have kept a lid on the rates they pay on deposits.
Bankinter's quarterly net interest income (NII), earnings on loans minus deposit costs, rose 7% year-on-year to 583 million euros ($638 million), beating the 577 million seen by analysts.
NII was up 1% versus the previous quarter.
JP Morgan said in a note that the fact NII was still rising quarter on quarter was a "positive read across for the other domestic Spanish banks, although this could be the last quarter of NII growth in a while as a lower year-on-year euribor could start to weigh on NII in the third quarter."
Euribor is a benchmark European lending rate.
At 0822 GMT, Bankinter shares were up 4.2%, while stocks of other domestic lenders such as Caixabank CABK.MC and Unicaja UNI.MC were up 1-2%.
With interest rates remaining higher for longer than expected, Chief Financial Officer Jacabo Diaz upgraded Bankinter's NII guidance for this year from stable to close to mid-single digit growth. He expects the European Central Bank to cut rates just two more times in the short to medium-term, once in September and again in late 2024 or early 2025.
Bankinter's customer spreads rose to 3.01% from 2.98% in the previous quarter as yields on loans rose 3 basis points while deposit costs remained unchanged.
Second-quarter earnings were also boosted by a 17% increase in net fees, an encouraging sign as the prospect of lower interest rates shifts investor focus onto other profit drivers.
Spain's fifth-biggest bank by market value reported a net profit of 273 million euros for April-June, just above the 269 million expected by analysts polled by Reuters.
($1 = 0.9146 euros)
Reporting by Jesús Aguado; Editing by Jason Neely and Mark Potter
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