DTEK Energy in January-September 2019 increased its net profit by 85.4% (UAH 2.899 billion) compared to the same period last year, to UAH 6.294 billion, the report on the company’s website said.
DTEK Energy’s revenue for the nine months decreased by 39.7% (by UAH 47.523 billion), to UAH 72.289 billion, gross profit by 17.7% (by UAH 2.551 billion), to UAH 11.873 billion.
For the nine months, the company invested UAH 4.2 billion in production, and paid UAH 11.6 billion in taxes to the budgets of all levels.
The company told Interfax-Ukraine that profit growth against the background of a decrease in income is associated with the strengthening of the hryvnia exchange rate, due to which net profit was received.
“In total, net profit amounted to UAH 6.3 billion, which corresponds to the indicator of exchange rate differences, which are not a monetary operation. Thus, the company’s production activity did not show a positive financial result. This is due to the development of the regulatory system for a new model of the electricity market, which today offers great preferences to foreign manufacturers,” DTEK said.
The Danish pig breeding company Goodvalley (previously Danosha) with assets in Ukraine, Poland and Russia, saw DKK 120 million in net profit in January-September 2019, which is 1.8 times more than a year ago. According to a company report, revenue over the period grew by 1.7%, to DKK 1.12 billion, adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) fell by 2.6%, to DKK 185 million.
In Q3 2019, the net profit of the company was DKK 26 million compared with DKK 21 million of net loss a year ago. Revenue grew by 9.8%, to DKK 414 million thanks to the increase in sales of live pigs at higher average price.
Adjusted EBITDA in Q3 2019 doubled, to DKK 71 million.
Ukrainian segment revenue rose to DKK 138 million (DKK 108 million in Q3 2019) thanks to growth in pig prices, while adjusted EBITDA fell to DKK 15 million (DKK 17 million in Q3 2018) due record-low crop yield.
“Our pig production generated strong results in the quarter as we lev¬eraged our recent investments in production capacity, enabling us to sell more live pigs at a higher average price while simultaneously improving operational efficiency slightly. Even though we realised a record-low crop yield from our land in Ukraine in particular and saw the pig price effect partly offset by relatively fixed pork product sales prices, we now expect to reach the high end of our revenue and earnings outlook for the full-year,” CEO Hans Henrik Pedersen said.
Kernel, a large Ukrainian agricultural holding, saw $59.61 million in net profit in the first quarter of FY2020 (July 2019 – June 2020), which is 24% less than in the first quarter of FY2019 over the IFRS 16 impact.
According to a report of Kernel Holding S.A. (Luxembourg) on Wednesday, revenue reduced 26% year-over-year to $845.84 million, stemming from lower trading volumes.
However, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) added 6% year-over-year to $106.5 million driven by Oilseed Processing segment EBITDA small growth.
In particular, Oilseed Processing segment EBITDA reached $22 million (up 38% year-over-year). Infrastructure and Trading segment generated $35 million EBITDA, 8% decline year-over-year. Unallocated corporate expenses in the reporting period amounted to $9 million, up 40% year-over-year.
The company said that the general outlook for the segment’s performance in FY2020 remains positive. Kernel expects Infrastructure and Trading business to be the largest contributor to group’s EBITDA in FY2020 owing to: commissioning of new grain export terminal scheduled for January 2020; growing grain export volumes; and strong contribution of grain railcars business.
Kernel said that at the date of this report, we completed this year harvesting campaign on 513,000 hectares, reaching record ever net yields for wheat (5.9 tonnes per hectare, up 16% year-over-year) and sunflower (3.5 tonnes per hectare, up 11% year-over-year), while facing normalization of corn yields to 8.6 tonnes per hectare (down 13% year-over-year).
“For the whole FY2020, we expect over $100 million farming EBITDA (net of IAS 41 and IFRS 16 effects), weakened by corn yield decline, lower year-over-year grain prices and growing production costs enhanced by local currency appreciation,” the group said.
Kernel’s gross profit in Q1 FY2020 fell by 9.9%, to $85.85 million, and operating profit – by 0.5%, to $82.09 million.
Net debt as of September 30, 2019 reached $1.144 billion, up 65% from June 30, 2019 level, reflecting short-term borrowings increase to finance working capital needs at the beginning of the season as well as $307 million new lease liabilities added to the balance sheet after implementation of IFRS 16.
Readily marketable inventories (RMI) increased by $275 million over Q1 FY2020, to $568 million, driven by procurement of grain and sunflower seeds.
Consequently, net debt adjusted for RMI increased to $576 million on September 30, 2019 from $400 million on June 30, 2019, with growth solely arising from IFRS 16 introduction. As a result, Kernel leverage as of September 30, 2019 increased to 3.3x Net-debt-to-EBITDA and 3.7x EBITDA-to-interest (post IFRS 16).
The enterprises and organizations of Ukraine in January-September 2019 increased pretax profit from ordinary activities by 74.43%, to UAH 342.8 billion (UAH 196.5 billion in January-September 2018), the State Statistics Service has said. According to the service, in January-September 2019 Ukrainian enterprises that worked profitably received UAH 454.978 billion in profit, which is 28.9% more than in the same period in 2018.
At the same time, 22.7% of enterprises worked with a negative financial result. Their losses in January-September of this year decreased by 28.3% compared with January-September of last year, to UAH 112.169 billion.
The net profit of state-run Ukrgasbank (Kyiv) in 2019 may amount to UAH 1 billion, which is 30% more than in 2018 (UAH 768.698 million).
“At the end of the year, a profit of UAH 1 billion is expected, which corresponds to the financial result outlined in the bank’s development strategy for 2019-2021. Such plans were approved by the supervisory board of Ukrgasbank,” the bank said on its website on Tuesday.
According to First Deputy Board Chairman Oleksandr Dubrovin, it is planned that by the end of 2019, the bank’s return on capital will be 15.8%.
“The bank is improving its efficiency, and according to the results of 2019, we expect that the return on capital will be 15.8% compared to 13.8% in 2018,” he said.
In addition, Dubrovin said that the cost-income ratio (CIR) is expected to improve from 57% in 2018 to 55% in 2019.
As reported, Ukrgasbank’s net profit in January-October 2019 amounted to UAH 576.3 million, which is 7.1% more compared to the respective period of 2018 (UAH 538 million).
JSB Ukrgasbank was established in 1993. The state represented by the Ministry of Finance owns 94.94% of the shares of the financial institution.
According to the National Bank of Ukraine, as of October 1, 2019, Ukrgasbank ranked fourth in terms of total assets (UAH 114.133 billion) among 76 banks operating in the country.
Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) in July-September 2019 received a net profit of $104.1 million, while in the same period in 2018 it saw a net loss of $48.8 million.
According to the holding’s quarterly financial statements posted on the London Stock Exchange, its revenue in the third quarter increased by 26.8%, to $559.8 million, and EBITDA by 10.1%, to $109 million.
MHP’s gross profit increased by 2.2%, to $93.9 million, while operating profit fell by 43.8%, to $39.8 million.
The agricultural holding explains the net profit figures with positive exchange rate differences in the reporting period in the amount of $109 million compared to a foreign exchange loss of $88 million in the third quarter of 2018.
MHP notes that over the indicated period, export revenue reached $317 million, which is 57% of total revenue (in the third quarter of 2018 some $223 million, 57% of total revenue).
