HASU.N0000 (HNB ASSURANCE PLC)

Share is trading at an attractive levels.

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2018

HNB Assurance is smoothly improving in its Revenue.

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PAT has grown by 126% in the year to record 2,705 Millions.

This includes
1.One Off surplus of 381 Million
2. 1,200 Million Defferred Asset Tax recognized in respect of brought forward tax losses.

Thus PAT as well as other indicators like ROE shows a bloated picture.

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When market price of a share going up substantially and without fitting to a predictable pattern, (other than TA patterns) one should dig into facts.

Is this sudden appreciation take place due to one off event or a sustainable event? If its due to one off event like Kegalle declaring a massive dividend out of its Reserves then buyer have to beware.

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EPS of the company is improving. Life Insurance sector grows at 12% per annum and we can expect such a reasonable growth to continue.

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HASU is a company where dividend keeps growing.

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HNB Assurance celebrates S&P SL 20 entry

21 July, 2019

HNB Assurance PLC rang the opening bell at the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) on Friday to celebrate the inclusion of HNB Assurance PLC in the S&P SL20 Index following the 2019 mid-year index review.

Chairperson Rose Cooray, Managing Director/CEO Deepthi Lokuarachchi, Director Dr. Sivakumar Selliah, Chief Operating Officer Prasantha Fernando and Board Secretary Sitari Jayasundara of HNB Assurance were present while the CSE was represented by Chairman Ray Abeywardena, Director Shanil Fernando, CEO Rajeeva Bandaranaike and the senior management of the Exchange.

CEO of CSE, Rajeeva Bandaranaike said, “A public listing alone is often considered as a milestone in a company’s lifecycle. Inclusion in an index that features the leading stocks listed on any exchange around the world is an achievement. HNB Assurance PLC joins an exclusive group of companies that are among the top 20 companies in terms of market liquidity and frequency of trading at the exchange.”

Managing Director/CEO of HNB Assurance PLC and HNB General Limited Deepthi Lokuarachchi said, “As a company we are a strong outfit organizing and mobilizing all our resources and giving the maximum shareholder value and value creation to them. We are committed to growing our business, and continue to be a very strong stock for our shareholders.”

The S&P SL 20 index has been designed in accordance with international practices and standards. All stocks are classified according to the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), which was co-developed by S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI and is widely used by market participants throughout the world.

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Sri Lanka's HNB Assurance eyes 15-pct premium growth in 2019

Jul 21, 2019 11:23 AM GMT+0530 | 0 Comment(s)


ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's HNB Assurance is expecting planning write business of 15 percent in the year to March 2019 around 9.5 billion rupees, with restrictions on vehicle imports relaxed, though economic conditions were weak, officials said.

Chief Executive Deepthi Lokuarachchi said the firm expected 15-16 percent premium growth in 2019 with first quarter revenue increase outstripping industry growth.

"Market conditions are hard at the moment with disposable incomes coming down," Lokuarachchi said.

"Both our general and life businesses have grown faster than the market rate of growth in the first quarter."

"Our life Insurance company has recorded 17 percent revenue growth. General business had recorded 11 percent whereas the market rate is much lower than that."

According to Insurance Commission of Sri Lanka data gross premium growth in life was 9.64-pct in March quarter and general insurance was 2.79-pct.

Gross written premium grew 14 percent to 2.49 billion rupees in the March quarter but profits fell to 132 million rupees from 681 million rupees (earnings of 2.38 rupees per share) a year earlier, as benefits and claims spiked 45 percent to 937 million rupees.

Lokuarachchi said a higher volume of life maturities contributed to the spike in claims and benefits.

Lokuarachchi said the HNB Assurance stayed out of a general price war in the insurance.

Some companies were writing business simply to fund expenses, without taking into account the actual risks, but HNB Assurance had avoided, he said.

Though HNB was not making large under-writing profits but was just about breaking even with a combined ratio of around 100.

Insurance involved selling a promise and people expected stability, he said. He said a survey showed that HNB Assurance pricing was behind only one insurer.

Chairperson Rose Cooray said the HNB brand helped the firm. The firm also had a presence at some HNB branches.

Cooray said the relaxation of import credit restrictions by the government on motor vehicles would help general insurance sector in 2019.

Motor is 63 percent of the general insurance in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka was hit by monetary instability in 2018 as the central bank printed money to bring down rates, accommodate, maturing swaps and repay bonds, de-stabilizing a soft-peg with the US dollar analysts have said.

Car imports were restricted by the central bank, and banks bought bonds from fleeing foreign bond investors instead. Analysts have called for reform or abolition of the soft-peg which had generated instability in the country from shortly after independence from British rule.

But monetary instability has ended in 2019 and interest rates are coming down.

Lokuarachchi said insurers were also hit by higher tax rates under a new inland revenue law. (Colombo/July20/2019)