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Lan og Spar Bank (LASP.CO)
Financials · Danish retail/affinity bank · LTM Q1 2026
Analysis date: 2026-06-15
Price at analysis: DKK 1,255.00
Method: mttssn_streamlined_v1
Conviction: LOW
HOLD
Conviction: LOW
A small, fortress-capitalised Danish retail bank (affinity/union-based lending) — total capital 22.7%, ROE ~12.0%, benign losses. At 1.20x book / 10.6x earnings it sits ~7% below a normalized-ROE Gordon fair value (~DKK 1,343), but the spread is thin and assumption-sensitive, the share is very illiquid, and ROE is fading (Q1 2026 ~9.4%). HOLD; base DKK 1,340.
Return on Equity
11.4%
Cost of equity ~10.0%
Price / Book
1.21×
1.20x book; normalized-ROE Gordon ~1.29x
Fair P/B (Gordon)
1.20×
(ROE−g)/(COE−g); g 3%
Price / Target
DKK 1,255 → DKK 1,340
+7% base; HOLD
Price / Earnings
10.6×
~10.6x earnings
P / TBV
1.24×
Price / tangible book
Economic Profit
+DKK 68M
Residual income +DKK 68M; ROE ~12% vs 10% COE (thin spread)
Equity (book)
DKK 3.6B
Fortress: total capital 22.7% / CET1 22.1%
Thesis

Lan og Spar Bank is a small Danish retail bank built on an affinity/membership model (deposits + personal/consumer lending, distributed via affiliated unions/pension funds). It is fortress-capitalised — total capital ratio 22.7% / CET1 22.1%, ~8pp above the requirement — with benign loan losses (~0.1%). ROE is ~12.0% (FY2025), residual income +DKK 68m over a 10% cost of equity — value-creative, but only a thin ~2pp spread.

It trades at 1.20x book, 1.24x tangible and 10.6x earnings, with a low ~1.6% dividend yield (~17% payout) after a +91% 2025 re-rating. On a normalized 12% ROE the Gordon fair value is ~DKK 1,343 (+7%), but the anchor is highly sensitive (a 10% normalized ROE implies ~17% downside), net interest income is fading (Q1 2026 ROE ~9.4% as rate tailwinds reverse), the cost/income ratio is rising (to ~67%), and the share is very illiquid (only 3.47m shares, >52% held by five affiliated unions/pension funds). A fortress-balance-sheet micro-cap, roughly fairly valued, with execution/liquidity the dominant practical caveat.

Valuation · residual income (equity frame) & scenarios

Gordon fair P/B = (ROE-g)/(COE-g) with COE 10%, g 3% and a normalized 12% ROE -> ~1.29x -> ~DKK 1,343 (+7%); but a 10% ROE assumption implies ~17% downside — highly sensitive. Current 1.20x book, 10.6x earnings.

Base DKK 1,340 (normalized-ROE fair value); bull DKK 1,500 if ROE holds ~12% as cost/income stabilizes; bear DKK 1,050 on NII fade + a de-rate.

Market-implied ROE
11.5%
sustainable ROE the price already demands — vs 11.4% observed
Current → Fair P/B
1.21× → 1.20×
at a sustained 11.4% ROE, Ke 10.0%, g 3%
Excess-return premium
DKK 207 / sh
value above DKK 1,039.78 book from the +1.4pp ROE−Ke spread

The operating reverse-DCF (NOPAT / invested capital / WACC) does not apply to a balance-sheet business — leverage is the raw material and "net debt" is not meaningful. The equity is valued on residual income: book equity plus the present value of returns above the cost of equity, discounted at Ke; the single-stage lens is the Gordon fair price-to-book, (ROE−g)/(Ke−g). The market prices in a sustainable ROE of 11.5% vs 11.4% currently earned; at a sustained 11.4% ROE the warranted P/B is 1.20× (DKK 1,247/sh, -1%).

Scenario24m targetImpl. ROEUpsideProb.Driver
BullDKK 1,50013%+20%25%ROE holds ~12%; cost/income stabilizes
BaseDKK 1,34012%+7%50%Normalized-ROE fair value
BearDKK 1,05010%-16%25%NII fade + a de-rate
Prob-weightedDKK 1,308+4%100%Scenario-weighted expected value

Sensitivity — fair value / share at Ke × ROE

Ke \ ROE10%14%18%22%26%30%34%
8.50%1323208028363592434851045861
9.25%1165183024953161382644925157
10.00% (base)1040163422282822341640114605
10.75%939147620122549308636224159
11.50%856134618352324281433033792

Green = fair value above the current price of DKK 1,255.00. For a financial the surface is dominated by cost of equity and sustainable ROE — not unit growth.

Method & data. ROE 11.4% and book equity are observed (net income / total equity). Cost of equity 10.0% and terminal g 3% are assumptions, shown explicitly and overridable.

⤓ Download the full model (.xlsx) — formula-driven sheets; flex the blue input cells and the model cascades in Excel.

Key drivers

1. Fortress capital

Total capital 22.7% / CET1 22.1% — ~8pp surplus, very safe.

2. Affinity channel

Union/membership-based lending is a low-cost, sticky niche.

3. Benign credit

~0.1% loan losses — low-risk book.

4. Capital return optionality

Large surplus capital could fund higher distributions.

Key risks
Conclusion

Lan og Spar is a fortress-capitalised small Danish retail bank (CET1 22.1%, ROE ~12%) trading ~7% below a highly assumption-sensitive Gordon fair value, with very thin liquidity. HOLD; base DKK 1,340.

Quality + capital are not in doubt; the practical caveats are illiquidity, fading NII and valuation sensitivity.

Footnote evidence & sources

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Adjustment / figureValueSourceWhy mttssn treats it this way
Net profit for the year (arets resultat) FY2025411Hoved- og noegletal (5-year key figures) p.12Bank bottom line attributable to shareholders. FY2025 411.3 vs 462.6 in 2024 (-11%), pressured by lower net interest income as Danish rates fell.
Net interest income (netto renteindtaegter) FY2025881Regnskabsberetning p.27Core bank revenue. Interest income 1,200.3 - interest expense 319.0 = 881.3m, down 103.4m YoY on the falling rate level outpacing loan/deposit growth.
Net fee and commission income FY2025613Regnskabsberetning p.27Gross fees and commissions 688.8 (up 84.3m on customer growth, investment products, payments, mortgage broking) minus fees paid 75.5 = net 613.3m. Combined with NII gives the headline net-interest-and-fee income of 1,495.1m.
Net interest and fee income (netto rente- og gebyrindtaegter) FY20251,495Hoved- og noegletal p.12The bank's headline top-line metric. 1,495.1m, down 1.9% YoY (-29.4m): fee growth nearly offset the NII decline.
Profit before tax (resultat for skat) FY2025537Hoved- og noegletal p.12Pre-tax profitability proxy for a bank (after costs, impairments and including the 58.8m portfolio/holdings result). Forrenter egenkapitalen 15.7% pre-tax.
Total equity (egenkapital) 31 Dec 20253,610Hoved- og noegletal / Balance p.12Bank invested-capital base. Up from 3,250.9m at end-2024 (retained earnings net of the 20.00/share dividend). Q1 2026: 3,621.8m.
Capital ratio (kapitalprocent) FY20250.227Hoved- og noegletal p.12Regulatory capital strength. Total capital ratio 22.7% vs a total capital requirement of 14.7% — a very strong ~8pp surplus. CET1 (kernekapitalprocent) 22.1%.
CET1 / core capital ratio (kernekapitalprocent) FY20250.221Hoved- og noegletal p.12Common equity tier 1 strength; 22.1% (Q1 2026 21.7%). Confirms a fortress, equity-heavy capital stack with minimal AT1/Tier 2.
Cost/income ratio (O/I-noegle) FY20250.671Hoved- og noegletal p.1267.1% (67 ore of cost per krone earned), up from 58.8% in 2024 — elevated by a 9.6% rise in personnel/admin costs (more staff, IT, AML) against a falling top line. High vs efficient Nordic peers and a key earnings-quality watch item.
Loan impairments (nedskrivninger pa udlan) FY202535.2Regnskabsberetning p.27Cost of risk just 35.2m = 0.1% of loans and guarantees (down from 74.4m). Low-risk personal-lending book; Q1 2026 was a net reversal (+10.1m income, -0.04%).
Shares outstanding3,472,187Note 36 Aktiekapital p.137Share capital is 3,472,187 shares of nominal DKK 100 (nominal DKK 347,218,700), unchanged YoY. Very small absolute share count -> high nominal price and thin trading. Used for BVPS, P/B and market cap.
Book value per share (indre vaerdi pr. aktie) FY20251,044Hoved- og noegletal p.12Reported BVPS DKK 1,044.3 (up from 938.2). Drives P/B 1.20x at the DKK 1,255 price. Q1 2026 BVPS 1,047.8.
Dividend per share FY202520Hoved- og noegletal p.12Proposed DKK 20.00/share, unchanged from 2024; ~17% payout of EPS 118.8. Yield only 1.59% on DKK 1,255 after the +91% 2025 re-rating; surplus capital largely retained.
EPS (arets resultat pr. aktie) FY2025119Hoved- og noegletal p.12Reported EPS DKK 118.8 on average 3,461k shares; gives P/E 10.6x at DKK 1,255. P/E (Borskurs/resultat) history 11.3 / 5.2 / 4.9 / 11.0 / 10.7 (2025-2021).
Total assets / loans / deposits FY202540,977Balance p.12Total assets 40,977.3m; loans (amortised cost) 19,534.6m; deposits 35,125.4m. Loan/deposit ratio 56.4% -> heavily deposit-funded, surplus liquidity (LCR 621.7%). Deposits +13%, loans +6.6% in 2025.
Five-year after-tax ROE history0.12Hoved- og noegletal p.12Egenkapitalforrentning efter skat: 12.0 / 15.1 / 17.9 / 8.7 / 9.4% (2025-2021). Volatile and rate-sensitive; supports a normalized ~12% (not the 2022-23 rate-driven highs) for the Gordon fair-P/B.
Q1 2026 net profit and capital85Kvartalsrapport 1. kvartal 2026 p.2-3Q1 2026 net profit DKK 85.0m (24.6/share), PBT 111.4m, after-tax RoE 9.4% p.a. — below the FY2025 12.0%, confirming ongoing margin compression. Capital ratio 22.3%, CET1 21.7%, requirement 14.6%. FY2026 guidance: net profit DKK 300-400m.
Analysis history

How the mttssn view has evolved — each prior dated note is preserved.

Quality · Buffett tenets10 / 15
Understandable business
Lan og Spar Bank — Danish retail savings/consumer bank (deposits + personal lending; affinity/membership-based model); legible.
Durable moat
Low: a small Danish retail bank; the affinity-union channel is a niche edge, not a wide moat.
Able & honest management
Conservative, fortress-capitalised; very low payout after a strong re-rating.
Financial strength
Fortress: total capital 22.7% / CET1 22.1% (~8pp surplus); benign losses.
Margin of safety
Thin: ~+7% to a normalized-ROE Gordon fair value, highly assumption-sensitive, and the stock is very illiquid.