Hellenic Telecoms Profit Surges, Warns Of Tough Trading Climate
May 10 2012 - 4:41AM
Dow Jones News
Greece's former monopoly phone company, Hellenic
Telecommunications Organization SA (HTO.AT), known as OTE, Thursday
reported a large rise in first-quarter net profit due to redundancy
payments made a year ago and the sale of its Serbian unit but
warned of a challenging trading environment.
Net profit for the first three months of the year was EUR306.6
million, compared with EUR30.2 million a year earlier.
Adjusted for a EUR39.7 million voluntary redundancy costs booked
last year and a EUR211.3 million gain from the sale of its stake in
Telekom Serbia, the Greek company's adjusted net income for the
period rose to EUR95.3 million, compared with EUR62.8 million in
2011.
"For the balance of the year, OTE will face a number of
challenging external factors. The macroeconomic environment in our
markets will remain difficult, and mobile termination rate cuts
should affect our performance in the coming quarters," Chairman and
Chief Executive Michael Tsamaz said.
"Facing these developments, we will continue to do everything in
our power to preserve our top line, adjust our cost base, and
improve our financial structure."
First-quarter revenue was almost stable at EUR1.18 billion,
compared with EUR1.22 billion in 2011's first quarter, while
earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or
Ebitda, rose to EUR417.5 million from EUR393.3 million.
The company said revenues continued to stabilize in Romanian
fixed business and that the group's mobile operations posted an
annualized quarterly revenue increase for the first time since the
fourth quarter of 2008.
Capital expenditures fell 28.8% on the year in the first quarter
to EUR118.5 million, while the company's underlying net debt
declined by over 22% on the year to less than EUR3.4 billion.
-By Stelios Bouras, Dow Jones Newswires; +30-210-3731772;
stelios.bouras@dowjones.com
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