(Toronto) BMO Financial Group suffered a significant decline in net income in the second quarter of 2023, which fell in one year from 4.756 billion, or $7.13 per accounting share, to 1.059 billion, or $1.30 per share. accounting action.

However, over the same one-year period, adjusted net profit increased from 2.187 billion to 2.216 billion. Adjusted earnings per share fell from $3.23 to $2.93.

BMO Financial Group recalls that on February 1, it completed the acquisition of Bank of the West and its subsidiaries from BNP Paribas for a cash purchase price of US$13.8 billion.

In the quarter ending last month, provision for credit losses was $1.023 billion, compared to $50 million in the second quarter of 2022.

Concurrent with the release of its results, BMO Financial Group announced a dividend of $1.47 per common share for the third quarter of 2023, up $0.04 from the prior quarter and up $0.08 , or 6%, over the prior year.

Company named in this dispatch: BMO Financial Group (TSX: BMO)