The maintenance of the rating of the Portuguese Commercial Bank in ' A/A-2 ', in the long and short periods, announced by the Standard & Poor's, is negative since the investors were to bet in a revision in the sequence of the recent increase of capital of the bank, he/she refers ESR.
The (...) value of BCP, tends in bill the medium quotation of February (1,58 euros/stock) it was of 4128 million euros, that is 48% of the total collected in capital increases.
Most of the fittings for capital increase, about 6950 million euros, he/she had room since 2000. Of then for here, the great operations of acquisition of financial institutions were summed up, as the banks Mello and Pinto & Sotto Mayor, or the Companhia Seguros Império.
Besides, BCP still fit, along the years, more 2033 million euros of retained results, the difference among the liquid results and the dividends distributed to the stock holders.
The sum of the two portions reveals an entrance of capitals of the order of the 10. 588 million euros, that, in beginning, they should be espelhados in the own capitals of the financial institution.
The problem is that such it doesn't happen, not even when the goodwill of the operations is discounted by consolidation and for incorporation in a total of 6904 million euros. Done the bills, 3684 million euros remain, but the total of the liquid situation of the bank in the end of last year was of 2188 million euros. That is to say, they lack 1496 million euros .If to this value in lack if they add the 674 million relative euros to the value of the impairment of the goodwill in Pinto & Sotto Mayor, in the insurance company Eureko and in Millennium Bank, of Polónia, recognized by a recent release of BCP, then the budget in lack increases for 2170 million euros .Contacted, BCP didn't comment the situation to the I close of the edition.
BCP also suffered losses, although smaller, in the market shares. In agreement with the data of the Portuguese Association of Banks, in 1994 the group of BCP, Atlantico, Mello and Sotto Mayor had 28,6% of market share in the credit and 30,1% in the swinging resources. In June of 2002, those shares had gone down for 26,1% and 23,7%, respectively. While in the credit the deviation is of 2,5%, in the resources it reaches 6,6%. To have an idea of the involved values, BNC, with 1,3% of market share, it was bought by the Popular Bank by 500 million euros. "
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