{"id":10356,"date":"2026-11-05T20:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T20:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/gtco-buy-sell-or-hold\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T20:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T20:01:24","slug":"gtco-buy-sell-or-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/gtco-buy-sell-or-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"GTCO: Buy, Sell or Hold?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Investors pay a premium for a fortress, and Guaranty Trust Holding Company has earned one. Customer loans are just 22% of deposits. The capital ratio was 34.9% in June, more than twice the regulatory minimum. Its return on equity, about 24%, would flatter any bank in London. The group also kept clear of the CBN forbearance that tied up its peers\u2019 dividends. Paying 1.3 times book value for a bank this sound is easy to justify.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\"><b>Unlock the rest of this article with FTM.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to <b>FTM<\/b>, our exclusive stock recommendation service, and get weekly <b>Buy, Sell, or Hold recommendations<\/b> to help you make informed investment decisions.<\/p>\n<p>FTM is edited by <b>Ugodre Obi-Chukwu<\/b>, Founder of Nairametrics.<\/p>\n<p><b>Subscribe now at <\/b> to access the full article and our weekly stock recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Nairametrics<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investors pay a premium for a fortress, and Guaranty Trust Holding Company has earned one. Customer loans are just 22% of deposits. The capital ratio was 34.9% in June, more&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}