DBS Group appoints Gautam Banerjee while DBS Group stock trades below EUR 53.77

Published on 10/01/2026 at 11:17 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

DBS Group stock costs EUR 53.55 on October 1, 2026 after EUR 53.77. Phillip Securities raised its target to SGD 85.00 from SGD 79.00.

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DBS Group stock (ISIN SG1L01001701) was trading at EUR 53.55 at Lang & Schwarz on October 1, 2026 at 11:09 a.m. CEST, below the EUR 53.77 prior close of September 30, 2026. On October 1, 2026, SGX reported that DBS Group Holdings appointed Gautam Banerjee as a non-executive independent director with immediate effect.

Banerjee joins the board

Banerjee is chairman and senior managing director of Blackstone Singapore, and the filing also names him as a member of DBS Group's Audit Committee and Board Risk Management Committee. The appointment gives DBS a director with more than 30 years of accounting and corporate governance experience, including nine years as executive chairman of PwC Singapore.

Business Times reported on October 1, 2026, that Banerjee also serves on the boards of Singtel and GIC. His appointment therefore adds both financial-sector oversight and links to major Singapore institutions, while the board filing states that he has no shareholding interest in DBS.

Profit rises as margins narrow

DBS delivered record net profit of SGD 3.1 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 9.00 percent from the same quarter a year earlier, according to FSM Global on September 16, 2026. Quarterly total income rose 6.00 percent year over year to SGD 6.1 billion, while net fee income increased 25.00 percent to SGD 1.5 billion.

The earnings mix also shows the central operating tension. Net interest margin fell 18 basis points year over year to 1.87 percent in the second quarter, but wealth-management fees rose 42.00 percent to SGD 919.0 million, helping offset pressure from lower interest rates.

Target rises above the SGX quote

POEMS reported on September 25, 2026, that Phillip Securities raised its DBS target to SGD 85.00 from SGD 79.00 while maintaining an ACCUMULATE recommendation. The target is 9.88 percent above the SGD 77.36 SGX quote, using the same Singapore dollar basis.

The market capitalization was SGD 219.5 billion on October 1, 2026. The SGX price sat inside a 52-week range of SGD 51.18 to SGD 79.05, leaving the earnings record and the narrower net interest margin as the key counterweights to the elevated valuation.

DBS stock stays below its prior close

At Lang & Schwarz, DBS Group stock was trading at EUR 53.55 on October 1, 2026 at 11:09 a.m. CEST, down 0.41 percent versus the EUR 53.77 prior close at Lang & Schwarz on September 30, 2026. The further course of trading is shown by the continuously updated real-time quote of DBS Group stock.