LOTCHEM's net earnings improve by a considerable margin
MG News | April 19, 2019 at 11:51 AM GMT+05:00
April 19, 2019 (MLN): Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited has announced its financial result for the first quarter ended March 31, 2019, which states that the company has earned Profit after Tax of Rs. 1.2 billion, a massive improvement of 261% from the PAT of corresponding period of last year.
Evidently, a lot of factors contributed to PAT’s growth, the first and foremost being improvement in topline earnings by 30.27%. While Cost of sales also grew by a decent margin, the company still reported a positive change in gross profit.
Moreover, a significant increase in non-core income by 84%, as well as whopping decrease in financial costs by 72%, led to an increase in PBT by 109%.
The Earnings per share of the company for the said period were recorded at Rs. 0.85, as compared to EPS of Rs. 0.23 recorded in the same period last year.
It is pertinent to mention that the company has performed above market expectations. Even though none of the projections presented by brokerage houses matched the figures for PAT, the actual sales figure was closest to the estimates provided by BMA Capital.
| Profit and loss account for the quarter ended March 31 2019 (Rupees'000) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
|
| Mar-19 | Mar-18 | % Change |
| Revenue - net | 16,123,287 | 12,376,493 | 30.27% |
| Cost of sales | -14,243,457 | -11,255,178 | 26.55% |
| Gross profit | 1,879,830 | 1,121,315 | 67.65% |
| Distribution and selling expenses | -23,694 | -20,480 | 15.69% |
| Administrative expenses | -93,287 | -88994 | 4.82% |
| Other expenses | -132,191 | -92,173 | 43.42% |
| Other income | 166,909 | 90,520 | 84.39% |
| Finance costs | -49,062 | -176,078 | -72.14% |
| Profit before taxation | 1,748,505 | 834,110 | 109.63% |
| Taxation | -462,154 | -478,662 | -3.45% |
| Profit after taxation | 1,286,351 | 355448 | 261.90% |
| Earnings per share - basic and diluted | 0.85 | 0.23 | 269.57% |
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