November 16 (SeeNews) - Macedonian commercial bank Ohridska Banka on Friday said its preliminary net profit fell by 23.9% on the year to 125.02 million denars ($3 million/2.1 million euro) for the first nine months of 2007.
Ohridska officials were not immediately available to comment on the results.
Following are figures from Ohridska Banka's income statement sent to the Macedonian Stock Exchange (MSE) where the bank is listed (in millions of denars):
|
|
Jan-Sept'07 |
Jan-Sept'06 |
| NET PROFIT |
125.02 |
164.3 |
| NET INTEREST INCOME |
216.01 |
209.1 |
| TOTAL INCOME |
534.6 |
406.9 |
| TOTAL COSTS |
702.9 |
521.5 |
The bank's share closed at 8,150 denars on Thursday, down 0.09% from Wednesday, under the latest data available from the MSE.
The bank's shareholders accepted a 100% takeover bid from French banking group Societe Generale for around 43 million euro in March 2007.
Ohridska Banka AD Ohrid (www.ob.com.mk) is the fifth-largest bank in terms of assets among the 18 banks operating in the southeast European country of two million people.
(1 euro = 61.1161 Macedonian denars)