Agroholding KSG Agro posted $1.04 million in net profit in the first half of 2023, up 21.2% from the same period last year.
According to the company’s report on the Warsaw Stock Exchange on Tuesday, its EBITDA fell 27% to $1.61 million.
It is stated that KSG Agro’s revenue in January-June this year increased 23% year-on-year to $7.41 million, while gross profit decreased 13% to $1.79 million and operating profit decreased 37% to $0.94 million.
“The group continues to execute its simple strategy of focusing on three winter crops, two spring crops and single breed hogs,” the document notes.
It is specified that in the first half of 2023 KSG Agro exported 4.2 thousand tons of grain crops (wheat, corn, barley) mainly to Asia and Africa within the existing grain corridor through the ports of Odessa and Odessa region.
KSG Agro conducted sunflower sowing on the area of 7.3 thousand hectares at the end of May – beginning of June and during the growing season is engaged in chemical and mechanical tillage with mechanical cultivators and rotary harrows.
“The harvest is in good condition. The sowing campaign went on as planned, without major interruptions due to fighting,” the company said in a statement. According to it, harvesting of winter crops has been completed: barley yield was 3 tons/ha, rape – 2.5 tons/ha, wheat – 5 tons/ha.
The agricultural holding recalled that in June, the Kakhov dam on the Dnieper River was destroyed, which led to flooding of a number of regions downstream and drying up of several irrigation canals upstream. Although the group was partially dependent on water supplies from the canals, these supplies were not essential to the group’s operations. KSG Agro has switched to alternative water sources and does not foresee water shortages in the near future. None of the agro holding companies are located downstream of the dam and have not been affected by flooding.
KSG Agro, a vertically integrated holding company, is involved in pig farming, as well as the production, storage, processing and marketing of grains and oilseeds. Its land bank is about 21 thousand hectares in Dnepropetrovsk and Kherson regions.
According to the agroholding, it is among the top 5 pork producers in Ukraine.
Last year KSG Agro, due to the full-scale war started by Russia, ended 2022 with a net loss of $1.68 mln compared to $17.71 mln net profit in 2021, its EBITDA decreased 5.5 times to $1.79 mln, and its revenue decreased by 47.3% to $16.2 mln.
In the first quarter of this year, the agribusiness holding company earned $1.53 million in net income, down 17% from the same period last year. Its EBITDA increased by 23% to $1.87 mln, while revenue grew by 45% to $5.12 mln.
KSG Agro Holding has completed the harvesting campaign of winter crops – barley, rape and wheat on a total area of about 6.34 thousand hectares, including barley from 1.1 thousand hectares, rape from 2.138 thousand hectares, wheat from 3.1 thousand hectares, according to the group’s press release on Wednesday.
It is specified that barley yield amounted to 3 tons/ha, rapeseed – 2.5 tons/ha, which corresponds to last year’s indicators. The yield of winter wheat is twice as high as last year and showed 5 tons per hectare.
Efficient work of the holding farms’ collectives and weather conditions with sufficient rainfall allowed to obtain a good harvest result. Despite the pessimistic moods about winter crops in autumn and winter, associated with the rise in prices of fertilizers and NWR, we reached the break-even point and even remained in the pluses”, – the press service of the agricultural holding quoted the head of the plant division Dmitry Emelchenko.
In the harvesting campaign 13 combines were used – 2 of them John Deere, and the others – Claas Lexion. In addition, 4 hopper-loaders and about 50 trucks were used to transport the harvest.
KSG Agro, a vertically integrated holding company, is involved in pig farming as well as the production, storage, processing and marketing of cereals and oilseeds. Its land bank is about 21 thousand hectares in Dnepropetrovsk and Kherson regions.
According to the agroholding, it is among the top 5 pork producers in Ukraine.
Last year KSG Agro, due to the full-scale war started by Russia, ended 2022 with a net loss of $1.68 mln compared to $17.71 mln net profit in 2021, its EBITDA decreased 5.5 times to $1.79 mln, and its revenue decreased by 47.3% to $16.2 mln.
Agriholdnig earned $1.53 million in net income in January-March 2023, down 17% from the same period last year. Its EBITDA rose 23% to $1.87 million, with revenue up 45% year-on-year to $5.12 million, gross profit up 46% to $2.06 million and operating profit up 37% to $1.54 million.
KSG Agro has been renewed its national scale rating of uaA+ (the Agency’s international scale rating of BOV) by Expert Rating Agency, the press service of the agroholding said.
“Rating Committee of RA Expert-Rating, despite the large-scale aggression of Russia and the difficult situation in the Ukrainian agro sector, has renewed long-term credit rating of KSG Agro on the national scale at the level uaA+. This means that the borrower or a separate debt instrument with a uaA rating is characterized by high creditworthiness compared to other Ukrainian borrowers or debt instruments”, – reported in the agricultural holding and added that the credit rating was assigned based on the analysis of data from the consolidated statements of KSG Agro for the first quarter of 2023.
Experts of the rating agency indicated that the predominant share in the structure of long-term liabilities of KSG Agro as of March 31, 2023 was occupied by long-term loans, the volume of which in the analyzed period decreased by 7.59% to $24 million. At the same time, the volume of short-term loans received by KSG Agro from March 31, 2022 to March 31, 2023 decreased by 21.97% and amounted to $2.67 million.
Sales volumes of the holding company’s products in the analyzed period increased significantly: income from sales for the first quarter of 2023 compared to the first quarter of 2022 increased by 44.52% and amounted to $5.12 million, which is explained by the increase in exports of grain crops in the current year.
Analysis of KSG Agro’s consolidated financial statements by the agency’s experts showed that EBITDA for the first quarter of 2023 compared to the first quarter of 2022 increased by 22.90% to $1.87 mln, and the ratio between EBITDA for the first quarter of 2023 and loans as of March 31, 2023 increased by 1.72 p.p. to 7.08% compared to last year’s figure.
There has been no fighting in the immediate vicinity of Agroholding’s assets since the start of the Russian invasion. Also, they have not suffered from flooding as a result of Russia’s undermining of the Kakhovskaya HPP dam and have alternative sources of water supply. As in the previous year, in the first quarter of 2023 KSG Agro used more of its own grain to produce feed instead of buying it, reducing the holding’s dependence on external suppliers of feed ingredients during the war, analysts said.
“The company has successfully completed the spring sowing campaign and KSG Agro’s management does not expect significant disruptions in its production cycle or a meaningful negative impact of the Russian invasion on business operations in the near future. The Agency notes the increase in sales volumes and efficiency indicators of the holding, as well as the growth of EBITDA/loans ratio”, – summarized RA Expert Rating.
Vertically integrated holding KSG Agro is engaged in pig breeding, as well as in the production, storage, processing and sale of grain and oilseeds. Its land bank is about 21,000 hectares in Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson regions.
According to the agroholding, it is among the top 5 pork producers in Ukraine.
Last year KSG Agro ended 2022 with a net loss of $1.68m compared to $17.71m net profit in 2021 due to the full-scale war launched by Russia, its EBITDA decreased 5.5 times to $1.79m and revenue decreased 47.3% to $16.2m.
Agroholding KSG Agro because of the full-scale war launched by Russia ended 2022 with a net loss of $1.68 million compared to $17.71 million net profit in 2021, its EBITDA decreased 5.5 times to $1.79 million, the company said in its annual report on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
“Disruption of traditional logistics, limitation of exports by the grain corridor, growth of personnel costs, security and energy autonomy – to list the negative factors of the new realities can be long. So, of course, the results of 2022 can not be compared with the previous year, which was a record result in terms of harvest, “- commented Sergey Kasyanov, the head of the Board of Directors and the majority shareholder of the agricultural holding.
According to the report, its revenue last year decreased 47.3% – to $16.2 million, gross profit – 3.3 times, to $3.18 million and operating profit – 18.8 times, to $0.44 million.
It is also specified that exchange losses increased 4.6 times to $2.63 million, net debt increased only 1.9% to $47.46 million and free cash at the end of the year was $0.27 million.
Last December, the inactive subsidiary Hlebna League LLC was also disposed of, and the loss on its disposal was $10.27 million.
“Despite the formal losses, our 2022 agroholding provided stable operations. Due to the vertical integration of building the business we did not increase the credit load, expanded the share of pork sales, providing 80% in the native Dnepropetrovsk region and entering the markets of Zaporozhye and Kharkov, where pork producers as a result of Russian aggression curtailed their activities,” – said Kasyanov.
“The Board of Directors is currently working on a new development strategy to expand the group’s operations in the European Union with the clear goal of having most of the group’s assets and revenues in the EU within the next 3-5 years,” the report said again.
It is pointed out that this can be achieved through a series of mergers and acquisitions, as well as equity and debt financing, including additional share issues.
“The board of directors has no plans to sell the group’s existing assets in Ukraine. On the contrary, the focus of the new strategy is on expansion and investment, thereby reducing the potential risks of investing in Ukraine alone and mitigating the negative impact on the group’s business of the current macroeconomic situation in Ukraine,” the document states.
According to it, the total number of pigs and piglets of agrarian group reduced only by 3.3% last year – to 42.26 thousand, while during the year it came to 106.04 thousand against 108.16 thousand a year earlier.
The report indicates that crop revenue fell more than fourfold to $4.5 million from $8.3 million.
According to the document, in December 2022, KSG Agro agreed with its main bank lender TAScombank on new loan terms from the first quarter of 2023, which better reflect the group’s wartime financing needs. According to them, the established total credit limit on TAScombank loans remains at 450 million UAH, the interest rates on tranches in UAH are 25% per annum and provide for partial compensation of the rate on state programs, and the interest rates on tranches in USD and euro are set at 9% per annum.
Under the new terms, the main part of the principal must be paid in December 2025, while under the previous conditions by the end of 2023 should already have been paid $ 9.57 million.
It is specified that in the first quarter of 2023, the company repaid a total of $7.08 million of the existing TAScombank loans and received new tranches under the new terms totaling $6.03 million.
In addition, the $15.5 million loan to Kasyanov’s OLBIS Investments S.A., which owns 57.96 percent of KSG Agro, has been extended through 2036, the report said.
“Based on management’s five-year financial projections, the group is expected to generate sufficient profits in the future to ensure that total capital will increase to a positive value in the long term. In addition, when Russia’s war in Ukraine eventually ends and the economy begins to recover, the fair value of the group’s assets is also expected to increase naturally. Until then, the group is dependent on continued external financing,” the paper said.
KSG Agro, a vertically integrated holding company, is engaged in pig breeding as well as the production, storage, processing and sale of grain and oilseeds. Its land bank is about 21 thousand hectares in Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson regions.
According to Agroholding, it is one of the top-5 pork producers in Ukraine.
Agroholding KSG Agro in 2023, the sunflower area will be reduced by 15% compared to last year – down to 7.3 thousand hectares, the press service of the agricultural holding.
“We are fully satisfied with the weather conditions in which the sowing campaign takes place. Stock of moisture in the soil is quite sufficient. Warm weather since the beginning of May contributes to efficient seeding to get quality sunflower crops”, – noted in KSG Agroo.
During the sowing campaign there are three John Deere DB 55 sowing complexes involved, 700 hectares have already been sown with seeds from Syngenta, Limagrain and Euralis.
A year earlier, the agricultural holding sowed sunflowers on 8.4 thousand hectares. The average yield was 18 cwt/ha.
Vertically integrated holding KSG Agro is engaged in pig breeding, as well as the production, storage, processing and sale of grain and oilseeds. Its land bank is about 21 thousand hectares, which are located in Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Khmelnitsky and Kherson regions.
According to Agroholding, it is one of the top 5 pork producers in Ukraine.
In 2021, the holding increased its net profit by 16 times compared with 2020 – up to $20.27 million, its earnings – by 44%, to $30.75 million, and it increased EBITDA by half – to $12.28 million. The data for 2022 has not yet been published.
The owner and chairman of the board of directors of KSG Agro is Sergey Kasyanov.
KSG Agro holding by the beginning of March 2023 intends to export to Asia and Africa 7 thousand tons of cereals, which will be shipped through the ports of Odessa and Odessa region in the “grain corridor”.
As reported in a press release from the group of companies in January-February 2023 at the ports of Odessa and Odessa region has already delivered more than half of the planned exports of agricultural products.
It is specified that the batch of crops consists of 4 thousand tons of wheat, 2 thousand tons of barley and 1 thousand tons of corn.
“Export of grain crops for us is not only a diversification of sales, but also a contribution to global food security. With the effective and safe operation of the “grain corridor” we are planning to continue exporting our products”, – the words of the head of the board of directors of the holding Sergey Kasyanov are given in the report.
Vertically integrated holding KSG Agro is engaged in pig breeding, as well as the production, storage, processing and sale of grain and oilseeds. Its land bank is about 21,000 hectares.
According to the agricultural holding, it is one of the top five pork producers in Ukraine.
KSG Agro in 2021 increased its net profit by 16 times compared to 2020 – up to $20.27 million, revenue – by 44% to $30.75 million, while increasing EBITDA by half – to $12.28 million.
