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Chapter 20
Bank Performance
Financial Markets and Institutions, 7e, Jeff Madura
Copyright ©2006 by South-Western, a division of Thomson Learning. All rights reserved.
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Chapter Outline
Valuation of a commercial bank
Performance evaluation of banks
Risk evaluation of banks
How to evaluate a bank’s performance
Bank failures
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Valuation of a Commercial Bank
The value of a commercial bank is the present
value of its future cash flows:
The value should change in response to
changes in its expected cash flows and to
changes in the required rate of return:
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Valuation of a Commercial Bank
(cont’d)
Factors that affect cash flows
Change in economic growth
During periods of strong economic growth:
Loan demand is higher
Commercial banks provide more loans
Demand for other bank products tends to be higher
Fewer loan defaults occur
Expected cash flows should be higher
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Valuation of a Commercial Bank
(cont’d)
Factors that affect cash flows (cont’d)
Change in the risk-free interest rate
If the risk-free rate decreases and other market rates decline, there
may be stronger demand for the bank’s loans
Banks’ cost of funds decreases when the risk-free rate decreases
Change in industry conditions
If regulators reduce the constraints imposed on commercial banks,
expected cash flows should increase
Technical innovation can improve efficiencies and enhance cash
flows
A high level of competition may reduce the bank’s volume of
business or reduce the prices it can charge for its services
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Valuation of a Commercial Bank
(cont’d)
Factors that affect cash flows (cont’d)
Change in management abilities
Managers can attempt to make internal decisions
that will capitalize on the external forces that the
bank cannot control
Skillful managers will recognize how to revise the
composition of the bank’s assets and liabilities to
capitalize on existing economic or regulatory
conditions
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Valuation of a Commercial Bank
(cont’d)
Factors that affect the required rate of
return by investors
Change in the risk-free rate
When the risk-free rate increases, so does the return required
by investors:
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Valuation of a Commercial Bank
(cont’d)
Factors that affect the required rate of return by
investors (cont’d)
Change in the risk premium
When the risk premium increases, so does the return required by
investors:
Impact of the September 11 Crisis on commercial bank
values
Commercial bank valuations declined as a result because
economic conditions were weakened and the volume of bank
loans declined
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