Postal Savings Bank of China (1658.HK)
Financials · HKEX · Hong Kong
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Postal Savings Bank of China trades at HK$4.85, which is 105% below the HK$9.92 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a DCF is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 44 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 5.6 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
About Postal Savings Bank of China
Postal Savings Bank of China Co., Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides various banking products and services for retail and corporate customers in the People's Republic of China. It offers demand, time, personal call, time/demand optional, call, negotiated, foreign currency exchange deposit; passbooks and certificate of deposits; credit, mortgage, government, farmer, and merchant express loan; business easy mix, agriculture aid plus, domestic remittance and exchange, and payment and collection agency; cross-border remittance, personal exchange settlement and sale, and foreign currency exchange services; personal housing, auto, consumer, and personal education loans; and bank cards, as well as online banking services. The company also provides pledge, syndicated, land reserve, town rebuild, commercial property mortgage, real estate development, fixed asset, project, and consignment loans. In addition, it offers check, promissory notes, bank and commercial draft, remittance, consignment collection, and collection with acceptance settlement services; accounts management, payments and collection, liquidity, investment and financing, information management, fund monitoring, and bank-enterprise direct link services; draft acceptance and discounting, draft manager, and electronic commercial draft services; foreign exchange deposit, foreign exchange settlement, sale, and conversion, settlement, and trade finance; custody services; and bill rediscount, interbank financing, investment, and market trading services. It operates through directly operated outlets and agency outlets. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Beijing, China. Postal Savings Bank of China Co., Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of China Post Group Corporation Limited.
1658.HK passes 6 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Common questions
Is Postal Savings Bank of China (1658.HK) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of HK$9.92, 1658.HK at HK$4.85 is 105% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
What is 1658.HK's P/E ratio?
1658.HK trades at 5.6 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.