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[Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.]Revision of Consolidated Earnings Forecasts for the Fiscal Year ended March 31, 2006(1/1)

 

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.

 

 

Revision of Consolidated Earnings Forecasts for the Fiscal Year ended March 31, 2006

 

 

TOKYO , April 28, 2006 --- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) today announced a revision of its consolidated earnings forecasts for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006.

 

 

SMFG hereby revises the earnings forecasts for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006 as follows mainly due to an increase in banking profit (before provision for general reserve for possible loan losses) and a decrease in total credit cost of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), a consolidated subsidiary of SMFG.

SMFGfs non-consolidated earnings and dividends forecasts remain unchanged.

 

 

Revision of consolidated earnings forecasts for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006

(Billions of yen)

 

Ordinary income

Ordinary profit

Net income

 Previous forecast (*)

(A)

3,500

850

550

 Revised forecast

(B)

3,680

970

690

 Change

(B A)

+ 180

+ 120

+ 140

 Percentage change

(%)

+ 5.1

+ 14.1

+ 25.5

(*) Announced in November 2005

 

 


 

Appendix

 
 

I. SMBCfs earnings forecasts for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006 (Non-consolidated)

  (Billions of yen)

 

Revised

forecast (a)

Previous

forecast (b)

Change

(a) (b)

Banking profit

(before provision for general reserve for possible loan losses)

970

950

+ 20

Ordinary profit

720

660

+ 60

Net income

520

430

+ 90

 

 

 

 

Total credit cost

(230)

(300)

+ 70

 

Gains on collection of written-off claims

(Extraordinary gains)

30

+ 30

 

(Points)

1. Banking profit (before provision for general reserve for possible loan losses)

SMBC expects banking profit (before provision for general reserve for possible loan losses) to be 970 billion yen, an increase of 20 billion yen compared with the previous forecast. This is mainly due to an increase in fees and commissions from sales of investment trusts.

 

2. Total credit cost

Total credit cost is expected to be 230 billion yen, a decrease of 70 billion yen compared with the previous forecast.  This is mainly due to gains on reversal of off-balancing related costs in the process of work-out of non-performing loans.  Approximately 30 billion yen of gains on collection of the claims written-off in past fiscal years are expected to be recorded as extraordinary gains.

 

  

II. Estimate of problem assets based on the Financial Reconstruction Law (SMBC, Non-consolidated)

(Billions of yen)

 

March 31, 2006 (Estimate) (a)

March 31, 2005 (Result) (b)

Change

(a) (b)

Problem assets based on

the Financial Reconstruction Law

960.0

1,824.6

(864.6)

 

Problem asset ratio

1.7 %

3.3%

(1.6) %

 

III. Estimate of net unrealized gains (losses) on other securities (SMBC, Non-consolidated)

(Billions of yen)

 

March 31, 2006 (Estimate) (a)

March 31, 2005 (Result) (b)

Change

(a) (b)

Net unrealized gains (losses) on

other securities

1,310.0

651.6

+ 658.4

 

Stocks

1,630.0

667.3

+ 962.7

 

Bonds

(280.0)

7.7

(287.7)

 

Others

(40.0)

(23.4)

(16.6)

 


 

VI. Estimate of capital ratio (SMFG, Consolidated)

 

 

March 31, 2006 (Estimate)

March 31, 2005

(Result)

Consolidated capital ratio

More than 12 %

9.94 %

 

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The following items are among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this material: business conditions in the banking industry, the regulatory environment, new legislation, competition with other financial services companies, changing technology and evolving banking industry standards and similar matters.




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