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First Capital posts 6-month pre-tax profit of Rs 157 million

First Capital Holdings PLC has reported a profit before tax of Rs 157 million on income of Rs 657 million for the six months ending 30th September 2011, a period of relatively subdued trading for its primary dealership First Capital Treasuries, the company said.

First Capital Group’s net profit for the period was Rs 118 million, and profit attributable to equity holders of the parent company was Rs 114.3 million. These income and profit figures, although lower than those of the corresponding six months of 2010-11, were well above budgeted targets for the first half of the current financial year, a group spokesman was quoted as saying.

He explained that income and profit figures in the corresponding six months of the preceding financial year had been boosted by extraordinary factors. In 1H 2010-11 First Capital Holdings achieved exceptional gains of Rs 192 million from bonds as a result of falling interest rates. Profits were further enhanced by a tax reversal of Rs 443 million following a Board of Review decision in a subsidiary’s favour.

Some areas of income, such as fee income from the structuring and placement business of First Capital Limited have shown noteworthy growth in the six months reviewed, during which fee income nearly quadrupled to Rs 44.4 million, he said. Similarly margin trading income from First Capital Markets almost doubled to Rs 61 million in the first half of 2011-12, the spokesman said. (Business Editor’s note: this story is being repeated from last week as there were some errors in the previous story).

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