With higher targets for credit expansion, increase in customer capital management, equity and the profits per share, the four big ones run Greek banks In the second half of this year.
Having the performance of the first half of the first half, the Greek banks will proceed within the fourth quarter of the year in their shareholders’ distribution of 600m euros.
OR Piraeus Bank It will proceed with the intermediate distribution to its shareholders from the profits of 2025, € 100 million through repurchase shares, which it will then cancel. It has doubled the year’s targets for credit expansion and managed funds. The target for the loans served was upgraded to over 36.5 billion euros for the end of the year, while the target for customer funds at more than € 13.5 billion.
The Piraeus loan portfolio increased by 15% annually in the first half of 2025 to € 36 billion, exceeding the annual target for 2025, earlier than planning. Customer funds under management increased by 27% annually, to $ 13.2 billion, exceeding the annual target of over € 12 billion.
OR National Bank will distribute to the shareholders of the intermediate dividend in cash, which will correspond to 1/3 of the total amount distributed to shareholders from the profits of 2025. As expected, the premises will be greater than EUR 200 million. National upgraded the target for the performance of its own tangible funds, the target for earnings per share and the target for credit expansion. The same equity of the same equity is already 16.3% against a target for over 13% for 2025 and has now been revised for the year at over 15%.
Ethniki also upgraded the target for profits per share to about 1.4 euros from € 1.3 of the previous estimate in March, as well as the target to increase loans of more than 2.5 billion euros this year from 2 billion previous target (at +1.5 billion in semester increase).
OR Eurobank It will pay its shareholders of € 170 million in cash. Following an organic grant increase of € 2.2 billion in the first half of 2025 – higher than expected – the bank has revised the year’s target for credit expansion from 3.5 to 4 billion euros of new lending.
In addition to the upward revision of the credit expansion target, the Bank upgraded the target to reimburse the tangible equity of more than 15% this year, while expecting the target for supplies revenue.
OR Alpha Bank will distribute to the shareholders of the € 111 million of the current use. The estimated dividend distribution amounts to EUR 259 million for the first semester, of which 147 million is the dividend of the second quarter. Of these 259 million euros, 111 million will be given as a number in the coming months.
The bank upgraded the target for earnings per share (EUR 0.34 in 2025 and more than EUR 0.42 in 2027), with an projected annual increase in profits per share of 9% by 2027 (+15% in the period 2024 – 2027 if equity reproductions). The bank also raised the bar for net interest rates more than 2.2 billion euros this year and more than 2.5 billion in 2027.