# Sparebanken Vest (SBNOR.OL)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/SBNOR.OL

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:38:30.426Z. Financial observations: FY2015–FY2025.

Listing currency: NOK. Reporting currency: NOK.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: pass; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: NOK 200.10 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low NOK 136.39 per share, central NOK 152.51 per share, high NOK 172.96 per share. Buy at or below the central value NOK 152.51 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:38:30.426Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 8.0% at the stated quote. About 8.0% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%). required return 10.0% a year (10% floor; NO 10-year bond 4.5% + 4 points).

## Checklist

### understandable: pass

- Financial history: 10 years

- Profitable years in the last ten: 10

- Required profitable years: 9

- Return on common equity variation (informational): 0.53×

Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: NOK 1.5B

- FY2017: NOK 320M

- FY2018: NOK 361M

- FY2019: NOK 504M

- FY2020: NOK 789M

- FY2021: NOK 980M

- FY2022: NOK 1.1B

- FY2023: NOK 1.4B

- FY2024: NOK 1.9B

- FY2025: NOK 2.6B

### moat: fail

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- median return on common equity below threshold

- return on tangible common equity below 5% in more than one year

- Bank / P&C ROTE, median of available years: 5.1%

- Required median return: 12.0%

- Return uses tangible common equity: Yes

- Bank ROTE, second-lowest year: 2.6%

- Years with reported combined ratio: 0

Chart: Return on tangible common equity; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 12.9%

- FY2017: 2.5%

- FY2018: 2.6%

- FY2019: 3.0%

- FY2020: 4.4%

- FY2021: 5.0%

- FY2022: 5.1%

- FY2023: 6.2%

- FY2024: 8.1%

- FY2025: 6.1%

### economics: pass

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- Book value per share + reinvested dividends, annualized return: 9.3%

- Book return interval: 10 years

- Starting book value per share: NOK 162.53

- Ending book value per share: NOK 248.62

Chart: Annual book + dividend return; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 25.7%

- FY2017: 13.5%

- FY2018: 4.1%

- FY2019: -16.4%

- FY2020: -4.4%

- FY2021: 12.9%

- FY2022: 13.3%

- FY2023: 16.0%

- FY2024: 12.9%

- FY2025: 22.4%

### management: fail

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- ordinary share count growth exceeds 2% annually in both the full and five-year windows

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 9.8%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 10.1%

- Share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 9.8%

- Five-year share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 10.1%

- Flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0

- Book created / earnings retained after dividends and buybacks: 26.21×

- Book value created per share: NOK 86.09

- Earnings retained per share after dividends and buybacks: NOK 3.28

Chart: Shares (first year = 100); fiscal year observations.

- FY2015: 100

- FY2016: 86

- FY2017: 84

- FY2018: 92

- FY2019: 132

- FY2020: 158

- FY2021: 157

- FY2022: 161

- FY2023: 162

- FY2024: 162

- FY2025: 255

### accounting: pass

- Financial accounting warning count: 0

- Known restatement years: 0

## Holders

## Price story

The price assumes profits grow 3.6% a year forever · net income +38.8%

Story as of 2026-10-16T10:00:09.999Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

The price assumes profits grow 3.6% a year forever

### Net income · FY2025

net income +38.8%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16.

- FY2016: NOK 1.5B 

- FY2017: NOK 320M 

- FY2018: NOK 361M 

- FY2019: NOK 504M 

- FY2020: NOK 789M 

- FY2021: NOK 980M 

- FY2022: NOK 1.1B 

- FY2023: NOK 1.4B 

- FY2024: NOK 1.9B 

- FY2025: NOK 2.6B 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z.

### How it makes money

Operates in regional banking; annual sales are NOK 30.4 billion.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/api/fundamentals/0G67.LSE.json#2025-12-31 (filed 2026-10-16T07:38:30.426Z); FY2025: revenue 30445000000.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); SBNOR.OL: Sparebanken Norge, a financial services company, provides banking and financing services. The company is involved in investment banking; trading in securities for professional investors; leasing and selling mortgage loans; and real estate agency business. It serves retail and commercial markets, as well as the public sector in Southern, Western, and Eastern Norway. Sparebanken Norge was founded in 1823 and is headquartered in Bergen, Norway.

### Why customers stay

It earns 5.1% on shareholders’ money, excluding intangible assets.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:38:30.426Z); 10-year return on tangible equity observations [[2016,0.1288655426586461],[2017,0.02498048399687744],[2018,0.025564761702429006],[2019,0.03039623665641397],[2020,0.0435743082785663],[2021,0.050256410256410255],[2022,0.051070916408382294],[2023,0.062268136895257],[2024,0.08066135560005112],[2025,0.0610382177436207]]; median 0.050663663332396275. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid dividends in 10 of 10 years.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:38:30.426Z); Dividend observations: [[2016,119000000],[2017,360000000],[2018,374000000],[2019,352000000],[2020,890000000],[2021,908000000],[2022,1028000000],[2023,1932000000],[2024,2673000000],[2025,2322000000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 30.6% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); SBNOR.OL SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 30.572 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16.

### What the price says

The price assumes profits grow 3.6% a year forever.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:38:30.426Z); Price 200.1; FX 1; original perpetual distributable cash 12.900157144555802; discount 0.1; growth 0.03553144855294452. Same book-value model and 4× ceiling; no ten-year operating fade applies. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

## Monthly share-price history (NOK per share)

- 2016-10: NOK 45.70 per share

- 2016-11: NOK 47.60 per share

- 2016-12: NOK 48.40 per share

- 2017-01: NOK 49.50 per share

- 2017-02: NOK 56.50 per share

- 2017-03: NOK 52.00 per share

- 2017-04: NOK 53.25 per share

- 2017-05: NOK 51.50 per share

- 2017-06: NOK 51.75 per share

- 2017-07: NOK 55.00 per share

- 2017-08: NOK 55.25 per share

- 2017-09: NOK 56.00 per share

- 2017-10: NOK 56.75 per share

- 2017-11: NOK 52.75 per share

- 2017-12: NOK 54.50 per share

- 2018-01: NOK 55.60 per share

- 2018-02: NOK 54.40 per share

- 2018-03: NOK 51.40 per share

- 2018-04: NOK 49.40 per share

- 2018-05: NOK 48.20 per share

- 2018-06: NOK 46.50 per share

- 2018-07: NOK 47.30 per share

- 2018-08: NOK 52.40 per share

- 2018-09: NOK 54.00 per share

- 2018-10: NOK 54.00 per share

- 2018-11: NOK 52.40 per share

- 2018-12: NOK 53.00 per share

- 2019-01: NOK 53.00 per share

- 2019-02: NOK 53.60 per share

- 2019-03: NOK 51.20 per share

- 2019-04: NOK 53.40 per share

- 2019-05: NOK 52.60 per share

- 2019-06: NOK 53.20 per share

- 2019-07: NOK 54.00 per share

- 2019-08: NOK 52.00 per share

- 2019-09: NOK 55.40 per share

- 2019-10: NOK 57.20 per share

- 2019-11: NOK 60.60 per share

- 2019-12: NOK 63.40 per share

- 2020-01: NOK 69.40 per share

- 2020-02: NOK 68.00 per share

- 2020-03: NOK 49.20 per share

- 2020-04: NOK 60.30 per share

- 2020-05: NOK 59.90 per share

- 2020-06: NOK 62.40 per share

- 2020-07: NOK 62.60 per share

- 2020-08: NOK 65.00 per share

- 2020-09: NOK 63.00 per share

- 2020-10: NOK 60.90 per share

- 2020-11: NOK 68.20 per share

- 2020-12: NOK 72.40 per share

- 2021-01: NOK 69.20 per share

- 2021-02: NOK 76.00 per share

- 2021-03: NOK 78.30 per share

- 2021-04: NOK 85.10 per share

- 2021-05: NOK 88.50 per share

- 2021-06: NOK 89.50 per share

- 2021-07: NOK 87.30 per share

- 2021-08: NOK 89.50 per share

- 2021-09: NOK 95.00 per share

- 2021-10: NOK 98.60 per share

- 2021-11: NOK 96.20 per share

- 2021-12: NOK 100.20 per share

- 2022-01: NOK 106.00 per share

- 2022-02: NOK 105.00 per share

- 2022-03: NOK 103.00 per share

- 2022-04: NOK 98.60 per share

- 2022-05: NOK 99.50 per share

- 2022-06: NOK 87.20 per share

- 2022-07: NOK 92.60 per share

- 2022-08: NOK 88.50 per share

- 2022-09: NOK 81.80 per share

- 2022-10: NOK 92.30 per share

- 2022-11: NOK 87.80 per share

- 2022-12: NOK 92.40 per share

- 2023-01: NOK 94.10 per share

- 2023-02: NOK 100.80 per share

- 2023-03: NOK 92.00 per share

- 2023-04: NOK 99.90 per share

- 2023-05: NOK 95.00 per share

- 2023-06: NOK 103.00 per share

- 2023-07: NOK 106.80 per share

- 2023-08: NOK 108.20 per share

- 2023-09: NOK 105.40 per share

- 2023-10: NOK 102.40 per share

- 2023-11: NOK 101.00 per share

- 2023-12: NOK 109.40 per share

- 2024-01: NOK 111.00 per share

- 2024-02: NOK 117.60 per share

- 2024-03: NOK 116.40 per share

- 2024-04: NOK 127.78 per share

- 2024-05: NOK 130.94 per share

- 2024-06: NOK 125.50 per share

- 2024-07: NOK 140.00 per share

- 2024-08: NOK 132.38 per share

- 2024-09: NOK 125.58 per share

- 2024-10: NOK 135.14 per share

- 2024-11: NOK 131.90 per share

- 2024-12: NOK 141.70 per share

- 2025-01: NOK 145.78 per share

- 2025-02: NOK 142.24 per share

- 2025-03: NOK 137.60 per share

- 2025-04: NOK 139.76 per share

- 2025-05: NOK 155.60 per share

- 2025-06: NOK 160.10 per share

- 2025-07: NOK 162.06 per share

- 2025-08: NOK 169.76 per share

- 2025-09: NOK 175.42 per share

- 2025-10: NOK 176.50 per share

- 2025-11: NOK 179.34 per share

- 2025-12: NOK 198.06 per share

- 2026-01: NOK 192.00 per share

- 2026-02: NOK 205.65 per share

- 2026-03: NOK 199.52 per share

- 2026-04: NOK 201.20 per share

- 2026-05: NOK 190.30 per share

- 2026-06: NOK 185.84 per share

- 2026-07: NOK 196.58 per share

- 2026-08: NOK 204.15 per share

- 2026-09: NOK 212.10 per share

- 2026-10: NOK 202.45 per share

## Annual estimated value (NOK per share)

- FY2016: low NOK 152.10 per share, central NOK 190.13 per share, high NOK 253.51 per share

- FY2017: low NOK 218.93 per share, central NOK 273.66 per share, high NOK 364.88 per share

- FY2018: low NOK 170.31 per share, central NOK 212.89 per share, high NOK 283.85 per share

- FY2019: low NOK 139.39 per share, central NOK 174.24 per share, high NOK 232.32 per share

- FY2020: low NOK 61.98 per share, central NOK 72.10 per share, high NOK 86.16 per share

- FY2021: low NOK 77.76 per share, central NOK 85.53 per share, high NOK 95.04 per share

- FY2022: low NOK 67.97 per share, central NOK 75.84 per share, high NOK 85.79 per share

- FY2023: low NOK 72.80 per share, central NOK 81.24 per share, high NOK 91.89 per share

- FY2024: low NOK 90.60 per share, central NOK 100.86 per share, high NOK 113.75 per share

- FY2025: low NOK 136.04 per share, central NOK 152.12 per share, high NOK 172.52 per share

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

Prior published observations retained from 2026-10-15T06:44:13.872Z where newer inputs omit a numeric field or fiscal period.

## Sources

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.
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SBNOR · OL

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Not a wonderful business

2 quality tests fail. A lower price would not fix the business.

Share price
NOK 200.10
Buy up to
NOK 152.51
Expected / yr
8.0% at today's price (10.0% at central value)

The business

How it makes money
Why customers stay
Where the cash goes
Are managers owners
What the price says

1. Is this a good business?

Evidence only; not required for Buy

Profits were positive in 10 years (at least 9 needed).

10y median
NOK 1.0B
Worst year
NOK 320M
Latest · 2025
NOK 2.6B

Earned a median 5.1% on tangible equity (minimum 12%), and the second-worst year 2.6% (minimum 5%).

10y median
5.1%
Worst year
2.5%
Latest · 2025
6.1%

Book value plus dividends grew 9.3% a year (minimum 7%).

10y median
13.1%
Worst year
-16.4%
Latest · 2025
22.4%

Ordinary share growth was 9.8% over the full period and 10.1% over five years (either must be at most 2% a year).

11y median
157
Worst year
255
Latest · 2025
255

0 accounting warnings were found (none allowed).

accounting warnings
0
Passing bar
≤ 0

Profit record · pass 0 loss years in 10 (at most 2), three-year average earnings per share 15.2 NOK.

2. Is the price low enough?

Price & return math
Value rangeNOK 136.39 – NOK 172.96
Buy at or belowCentral value NOK 152.51
Discount to value1 − 200.10 / 152.51 = -31.2%
Return / yearAbout 8.0% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%)
Cash-flow inputsBook NOK 249.26/share; ROE 6.7%; first payout NOK 12.90/share, growing 1.5% perpetually (4× book payout cap applied).
Required return10.0% / year, earned by construction at the central value
Net incomeNOK 2.6B
2.6B020162025
FY2016 · Net income: NOK 1.5B; FY2017 · Net income: NOK 320M; FY2018 · Net income: NOK 361M; FY2019 · Net income: NOK 504M; FY2020 · Net income: NOK 789M; FY2021 · Net income: NOK 980M; FY2022 · Net income: NOK 1.1B; FY2023 · Net income: NOK 1.4B; FY2024 · Net income: NOK 1.9B; FY2025 · Net income: NOK 2.6B
Net income
Book / shareNOK 248.62
248.62020162025
FY2016 · Book / share: NOK 202.34; FY2017 · Book / share: NOK 223.35; FY2018 · Book / share: NOK 226.56; FY2019 · Book / share: NOK 185.43; FY2020 · Book / share: NOK 169.02; FY2021 · Book / share: NOK 182.38; FY2022 · Book / share: NOK 197.21; FY2023 · Book / share: NOK 211.25; FY2024 · Book / share: NOK 214.04; FY2025 · Book / share: NOK 248.62
Book / share
Dividend / shareNOK 13.40
24.37020162025
FY2016 · Dividend / share: NOK 2.04; FY2017 · Dividend / share: NOK 6.28; FY2018 · Dividend / share: NOK 6.00; FY2019 · Dividend / share: NOK 3.94; FY2020 · Dividend / share: NOK 8.31; FY2021 · Dividend / share: NOK 8.49; FY2022 · Dividend / share: NOK 9.38; FY2023 · Dividend / share: NOK 17.61; FY2024 · Dividend / share: NOK 24.37; FY2025 · Dividend / share: NOK 13.40
Dividend / share
Return on tangible equity6.1%
12.9%0.0%20162025
FY2016 · Return on tangible equity: 12.9%; FY2017 · Return on tangible equity: 2.5%; FY2018 · Return on tangible equity: 2.6%; FY2019 · Return on tangible equity: 3.0%; FY2020 · Return on tangible equity: 4.4%; FY2021 · Return on tangible equity: 5.0%; FY2022 · Return on tangible equity: 5.1%; FY2023 · Return on tangible equity: 6.2%; FY2024 · Return on tangible equity: 8.1%; FY2025 · Return on tangible equity: 6.1%
Return on tangible equity
Diluted shares173M
173M020162025
FY2016 · Diluted shares: 58M; FY2017 · Diluted shares: 57M; FY2018 · Diluted shares: 62M; FY2019 · Diluted shares: 89M; FY2020 · Diluted shares: 107M; FY2021 · Diluted shares: 107M; FY2022 · Diluted shares: 110M; FY2023 · Diluted shares: 110M; FY2024 · Diluted shares: 110M; FY2025 · Diluted shares: 173M
Diluted shares
Prices 15 Oct 2026 · FY2025