KBC Group (KBC.BR)
Financials · Euronext · Europe
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
KBC Group trades at €122.00, which is 37% above the €76.56 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 50 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. 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 13.8 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 KBC Group
KBC Group NV, together with its subsidiaries, provides banking, insurance, and asset management services in Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. The company offers demand deposits, time deposits, and savings and current accounts; home and mortgage loans; home insurance; consumer finance and SME funding services, investment fund, and life and non-life insurance; cash management, payments, trade finance, leasing, corporate finance, money and capital market products; and other financial services, such as factoring and stockbroking services. It also provides digital and mobile banking services. In addition, the company engages in the credit institution, software, driving school/roadside assistance business. It primarily serves retail, private banking, small and medium sized enterprises, and mid-cap clients. The company was formerly known as KBC Bank and Insurance Holding Company NV and changed its name to KBC Group NV in March 2005. KBC Group NV was incorporated in 1935 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
KBC.BR passes 6 of our 30 screens today
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Common questions
Is KBC Group (KBC.BR) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of €76.56, KBC.BR at €122.00 is 37% above 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 KBC.BR's P/E ratio?
KBC.BR trades at 13.8 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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