Margin Growth at Australian Private Insurers Could Plateau -- Market Talk
Margin Growth at Australian Private Insurers Could Plateau -- Market Talk
DJ Margin Growth at Australian Private Insurers Could Plateau -- Market Talk
澳大利亞私人保險公司DJ利潤率增長可能停滯--市場談話
2348 GMT - Australian private health insurers may not be able to sustain the industry's recent strong margins, says Citi. The latest regulator statistics showed that private health insurance grew in the March quarter, with the number of persons insured at a record high, and the proportion of the population with coverage also rising. At the same time, Citi says industry net margins were also "robust" in the quarter. Despite this, the investment bank says sustainability of these outcomes could be stymied by utilization bounce back. "So we still see this as consistent with our current forecasts for net margins for Medibank and Nib to gradually reduce, thereby limiting their earnings per share growth outlooks," Citi says. (alice.uribe@wsj.com)
2348GMT-花旗表示，澳大利亞私營健康保險公司可能無法維持該行業最近強勁的利潤率。監管機構的最新統計數據顯示，私人醫療保險在3月份的季度有所增長，參保人數創下歷史新高，覆蓋人口的比例也在上升。與此同時，花旗表示，該季度行業淨利潤率也很“強勁”。儘管如此，這家投行表示，這些結果的可持續性可能會受到利用率反彈的阻礙。花旗表示：“因此，我們仍認為這與我們目前對Medibank和NIB淨利潤率將逐漸下降的預測一致，從而限制了它們的每股收益增長前景。”(alice.uribe@wsj.com)
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