I am a strong believer that certain banking stocks are more risky with their lending while some like Maybank and Public Bank are more prudent.
So, I took time to compile a few near to bankrupt companies and take a look at their principal bankers.
I selected companies based on TradingView screener to screen high risk of default companies, extracted information from latest quarterly reports (TradingView is not entirely accurate).

Analysis:
1. Non of them have MBSB & Public Bank as their principal bankers.
2. CIMB is at most risk. I expect more impairments and lower profitability.
3. AirAsia's high debt is mostly because of leases not bank borrowings.
4. Surprisingly Maybank also has quite high exposure to these companies.
I do not have time to extract all companies. There are technically 50+ companies at risk so I needed to narrow down my search.
Now we take a look at some companies that (which I feel) have low/manageable gearing:

Seems that Maybank has customers with almost all companies.
Well managed companies seem to have Public Bank as their principal bankers.
However, it is possible that these companies are run my mostly Chinese. Hence, they prefer to go to a Chinese bank like Public Bank.
Mar 24 2020, 08:36 PM, updated 6y ago
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