United Bank for Africa (UBA) has released its financial results for the first half ended 30 June 2025, posting a pre-tax profit of N388.4 billion.
This marks a slight decline from N401.5 billion reported in the same period in 2024, but it remains a strong performance.
The bank’s solid pre-tax profit was supported by strong top-line growth, with interest income rising 32.89% to N1.3 trillion, up from N1 trillion in H1 2024.
However, interest expenses climbed sharply to N560.6 billion, up from N328.9 billion in the same period last year. Even so, the group’s net interest income still grew 14.59%, reaching N773 billion from N674.6 billion.
The group earned N147 billion from net fees and commission income, a modest 1.34% increase from N145 billion.
Yet, operating expenses put pressure on overall profitability.
Consequently, pre-tax profit fell 3.28% to N388.4 billion. Post-tax profit, however, improved 6.06% to N335.5 billion, helped by a sharp drop in income taxes from N85.2 billion to N52.8 billion.
The directors are proposing an interim dividend of 25 kobo per share for the period ended 30 June 2025, compared with N2.00 per share in the same period last year.
This represents a payout ratio of 7.83%, up slightly from 7.3% in 2024, and a dividend yield of 1.4%, down from 8.9% a year earlier.
As of the trading day ended 18th September 2025, the company’s shares are priced at N47.00, up 38.33% year-to-date on the Nigerian Stock Market.