DAB bank AG / Quarter Results 28.04.2009 Release of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net interest income hits record level / Administrative expenses nearly 10% lower than the year-ago quarter / 12,500 net new securities accounts in the B2C segment Munich, April 28, 2009. The DAB bank Group (Munich) generated a solid pretax profit of EUR6.43 million in the first quarter of 2009. In the first quarter of the previous year, when the market environment was much healthier, the direct bank had posted a record pretax profit of EUR13.49 million. DAB bank increased its net interest income substantially, by 27.3%, over the year-ago period to reach a new all-time-high of EUR17.09 million (Q1 2008: EUR13.42 million). At EUR18.63 million, the net commission income generated in the first quarter of 2009 was 35.8% less than the corresponding year-ago figure (Q1 2008: EUR29.00 million). This increase was caused mainly by the lower number of trades executed for customers of DAB bank, in a development that mirrored the trend of the overall market. In the B2C segment, DAB bank's customers who are individual investors executed 30.6% fewer trades in the first quarter of 2009, as compared with the first quarter of 2008. On a Groupwide basis, including FondsServiceBank, DAB bank executed 1,536,509 trades for its customers in the first quarter, indicative of a 35.5% decrease from the first quarter of 2008. On the other hand, DAB bank managed to lower its administrative expenses substantially, by 9.5%, from EUR33.68 million in the first quarter of 2008 to EUR30.50 million in the first quarter of 2009. 'We can be proud of our results in the first quarter. The fact that we earned a pretax profit of more than EUR6 million in spite of the considerable restraint practiced by investors in the first quarter shows that the business model of DAB bank is robust and that we can operate on a profitable basis even under extremely weak market conditions,' said Alexander von Uslar of the DAB bank Management Board. DAB bank registered a net increase in the number of securities accounts carried for individual investors in its B2C segment. At March 31, DAB bank administered a total of 515,907 B2C securities accounts, that being almost 12,500 more than at the end of 2008. As a result of further planned closures of securities accounts at FondsServiceBank, the Groupwide total number of securities accounts was nearly unchanged at 1,088,481 (Q4 2008: 1,091,013). The volume of customer assets held up well compared to the level at the end of 2008. Although the leading stock market indexes fell further in the first quarter, with the DAX losing about 16%, the volume of customer assets held in the securities accounts and cash deposits of DAB bank at March 31, 2009 fell only 2.6% from their level at year-end 2008, to EUR22.55 billion. Key indicators and operating results of DAB bank AG in the first quarter of 2009, according to IFRS: <pre> Key indicators Q1/2009 Q4/2008 Q1/2008 Securities accounts No. 1,088,481 1,091,013 1,107,685 Trades executed No. 1,536,509 2,821,754 2,381,226 Trades per securities account No. 5.66 10.36 8.63 (annualized) Customer assets under adm. EUR bn 22.55 23.16 29.48 thereof in investment funds EUR bn 12.18 12.34 15.92 Operating results Q1/2009 Q4/2008 Q1/2008 Net financial income* kEUR 17,536 15,768 15,453 Net commission income kEUR 18,631 29,210 28,997 Administrative expenses kEUR 30,493 34,097 33,679 Pretax profit kEUR 6,426 10,006 13,487 Net profit for the quarter kEUR 4,488 7,477 9,285 Cost-income ratio in % 82.6 77.3 71.4 Earnings per share EUR 0.06 0.10 0.12</pre> Net financial income = Net interest income before credit risk provisions + Trading profit/loss + Profit/loss from investments. Contact: If you have queries, please contact Dr. Juergen Eikenbusch, DAB bank, +49 89 500 68 595 oder communications@dab.com. Contact: Bei Rückfragen wenden Sie sich bitte an Dr. Jürgen Eikenbusch, DAB bank, +49 89 500 68 595 oder communications@dab.com. DGAP 28.04.2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Issuer: DAB bank AG Landsberger Straße 300 80687 München Deutschland Phone: +49 (0)89 500 68 595 Fax: +49 (0)89 500 68 669 E-mail: communications@dab.com Internet: www.dab.com ISIN: DE0005072300 WKN: 507230 Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin, Hannover, Stuttgart, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf; Foreign Exchange(s) Paris End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DGAP-News: DAB bank reports solid quarterly profit of EUR6.43 million
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