Hana Financial Group Q3 net profit up 20.6 pct to 1.13 tln won

Hana Financial Group-Q3 earnings

Hana Financial Group Q3 net profit up 20.6 pct to 1.13 tln won

SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- Hana Financial Group Inc. on Tuesday reported its third-quarter net profit of 1.13 trillion won (US$790.1 million), up 20.6 percent from a year earlier.

Operating income for the July-September period was 1.47 trillion won, up 28.2 percent from a year ago, the company said in a regulatory filing. Sales rose 133.8 percent to 31.1 trillion won.

The earnings exceeded market expectations. The average estimate of net profit by analysts stood at 941.5 billion won, according to a survey by Yonhap Infomax, the financial data firm of Yonhap News Agency.

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