Deutsche Bank AG, Germanyâs biggest bank, posted its fourth straight quarterly profit on a rebound in trading, cementing a turnaround after reporting a record loss a year earlier.
The Frankfurt-based bank had net income of 1.3 billion euros ($1.8 billion) in the fourth quarter after a loss of 4.8 billion euros in the year-earlier period, it said in a DGAP statement today. Earnings surpassed the 650 million-euro median estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Deutsche Bank, like New York-based Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., recorded a rebound in profit last year after emerging from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Revenue from trading declined in the fourth quarter as business slowed before year-end and competition increased, shrinking margins.
âDeutsche Bank is a relative winner of the crisis within the investment-banking world,â said Andrew Lynch, who helps manage about $2 billion at Schroder Investment Management in London, including Deutsche Bank shares. He spoke before the earnings were published.
Deutsche Bank has gained 122 percent to 45.82 euros in Frankfurt trading over the last 12 months, compared with a 57 percent gain in the 52-company Bloomberg Europe Banks and Financial Services Index.
I hear from some friends at Deutsche, every division is making double digit revenue and profit progress in Q1... 