The Agroliga Group (Kharkiv region) in January-September 2018 saw a EUR 2.35 million in net profit, which is 2.9% less than a year ago.
According to a company report for January-September 2018, revenue grew by 4.9%, to EUR 15.26 million, gross profit – by 4.7%, to EUR 3.43 million, and operating profit fell by 5.6%, to EUR 2.81 million.
Total assets as of September 30, 2018 came to EUR 33.02 million compared with EUR 25.33 million as of December 31, 2017.
Agroliga has been operating on the Ukrainian agricultural market since 1992. Its enterprises are engaged in growing grain crops, processing sunflower seeds, and dairy farming.
The group cultivates about 10,000 hectares of land.
The majority shareholders of the group are Oleksandr Berdnyk with a share of 41.66%, and Iryna Poplavska with 41.66%.
The largest 25 Ukrainian banks (in terms of net assets) in January-September 2018 received a net profit of UAH 10.9 billion, which is 4.8 times more than in the same period of 2017. The best result was shown by PrivatBank, which received a net profit of UAH 5.093 billion against a net loss of UAH 1.604 billion a year earlier, Raiffeisen Bank Aval, which increased profit by 0.96%, to UAH 4.071 billion, and UkrSibbank, which saw profit rise by 2.2 times, to UAH 1.898 billion.
The loss in the reporting period was received by Sberbank with UAH 6.995 billion, VTB Bank with UAH 1.788 billion, Ukrsotsbank with UAH 839.465 million, and Prominvestbank (PIB) with UAH 108.26 million.
PrivatBank received the highest net interest income before allocations to reserves – UAH 10.717 billion (an increase of 2.63 times), Oschadbank got UAH 3.664 billion (a decrease of 10.34%), and UkrSibbank some UAH 2.771 billion (an increase of 46.77%).
In relative terms, the interest income of Ukrsotsbank rose most of all, by 2.68 times, to UAH 759.934 million.
However, if to consider the assets of the banks, OTP Bank turned out to be the most successful in the reporting period as its net interest margin for the reporting period was 6.62%, followed by Kredobank with 6.24% and FUIB with 6.01%.
National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom in January-September 2018 saw UAH 2.067 billion of net profit compared with UAH 473.602 million of net loss a year ago.
According to a company report in the information disclosure system of the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market, in January-September 2018, its net revenue totaled UAH 31.484 billion, which is 9% more than a year ago (UAH 28.891 billion), and gross profit of Energoatom grew by 59.4% or UAH 2.719 billion, to UAH 7.295 billion.
Energoatom is the operator of all four Ukrainian-based operating nuclear power plants, which have 15 VVER reactors with an overall generating capacity of 13.835 gigawatts.
PJSC Ukrhydroenergo in January-September 2018 saw net profit rise by 22% compared to the same period of the previous year, to UAH 2.298 billion.
According to the financial statements posted on the company’s website, net income for the three quarters grew by 21% (UAH 991 million) and amounted to UAH 5.524 billion, gross profit by 29%, to UAH 3.272 billion.
As reported, in 2017 Ukrhydroenergo saw net profit fall by 33.7% (UAH 744.185 million) compared to 2016, to UAH 1.466 billion, net income by 4.7% (UAH 281.413 million), to UAH 5.716 billion, gross profit by 12.6% (UAH 423.322 million), to UAH 2.949 billion.
Ukrhydroenergo operates all the major hydroelectric power stations located in the Ukrainian parts of the Dnipro and Dniester rivers. The total installed electric capacity of the hydropower plants of the company (103 hydroelectric units) is 5,758 MW. The state represented by the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry owns 100% of the company’s shares.
The top 100 largest state-owned companies in Ukraine in 2017 saw net profit rise by 38.5% compared to 2016, to UAH 44.4 billion, while 88.5% of this amount was the profit of Naftogaz, according to data released by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. “The main factor of the growth of Naftogaz Ukrainy’s profit in 2017 was the victory in arbitration proceedings against Gazprom, due to which Naftogaz received the largest net profit for 20 years,” the ministry said, noting that in 2017 the net profit of Naftogaz increased to UAH 39.3 billion against UAH 17.8 billion in 2016.
The enterprises of state-regulated industries have become the most profitable in the list of the top 100 companies, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Maksym Nefyodov said.
“At the same time, most companies remain extremely inefficient, as before. We have only one way out – to continue the corporate governance reform of those strategic state-owned companies that must remain in state ownership and hold a transparent privatization of other companies under the law adopted this year,” he said.
According to the ministry’s report, the total value of the assets of state-owned companies in 2017 compared to 2016 increased by 5% and amounted to more than UAH 1.509 trillion.
Arricano Real Estate Plc (Cyprus), a managing company and developer of some shopping and leisure centers in Ukraine, in January-June 2018 saw $13.9 million in net profit, which is 12.6% less than in H1 2017.
According to a company report on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) on Thursday, revenue grew by 14.5%, to $14.8 million.
According to the document, the decline in profit was linked with less gain on revaluation of investment property: $9.77 million in H1 2018 compared with $15.63 million in H1 2017.
Total profit over the period grew by 4.6%, to $22.13 million.
Pre-tax profit as of June 30, 2018 fell by 12.2%, reaching $16.2 million compared with $18.4 million a year ago.
Total fair valuation of the company’s portfolio increased by $19.1 million to $240.4 million and occupancy increased to 99.7% as at June 30, 2018 (June 30, 2017: 98.8%). The company signed 68 new lease agreements during H1 2018 compared to 52 in H1 2017.
According to the company’s report, this was a good performance increasing occupancy and achieving an average rental rate (excluding hypermarkets) of $18.5 per sq.m.
Net asset value totaled $74.3 million (December 31, 2017: $52.2 million).
Bank debt at the half-year end was $39.5 million, with the majority of borrowings at the project level at an average rate of 11.5% (in H1 2017 11.1%).
In addition, the company had $4 million of cash and cash equivalents, and non-bank loans of $57.8 million as at June 30, 2018.
The three development sites covering 14 ha in Lukianivka (Kyiv), Petrivka (Kyiv), and Rozumovska (Odesa) continue to be progressed, the company said.
