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Shell incurs losses of Rs1.1 billion on account of excessive surge in non-core expenses

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March 7, 2019 (MLN): Shell Pakistan Limited announced its financial earnings report on Wednesday, as per which the company has incurred net losses of Rs. 1.1 billion for the year ended December 31, 2018, as compared to profits of Rs. 3.1 billion earned last year.

Consequently, the company booked a Loss per share of Rs. 10.3 for the aforementioned period, as compared to Earning per share of Rs. 29.74 booked last year.  

The reason for company’s disappointing performance was the excessive surge in other expenses by 260%, i.e. Rs. 3.6 billion.

Moreover, increase in Administrative expenses by 21% also gave a blow to the financial position of the company.

Profit and loss account for the year ended December 31 2018 (Rupees'000)

 

Dec-18

Dec-17

% Change

Sales

214,211,920

205,791,893

4.09%

other revenue

941,081

985,737

-4.53%

Sales tax

-28,949,466

-37,909,193

-23.63%

Net revenue

186,203,555

188,848,437

-1.40%

Cost of products sold

-170,779,180

-153,972,023

10.92%

Gross profit

16,424,375

14,876,414

10.41%

Distribution and Marketing expenses

-6,482,137

-6,018,105

7.71%

Administrative expenses

-5,028,800

-4,148,186

21.23%

Other expenses

-5,084,078

-1,411,489

260.19%

Other income

607,050

419,569

44.68%

Operating (loss)/ Profit

-663,590

3,720,233

 

Finance costs

-370,169

-235,049

57.49%

Share of profit of associate – net of tax

974,075

837,776

16.27%

(Loss)/profit before taxation

-59,674

4,322,980

 

Taxation

-1,042,311

-1,140,258

8.59%

Net (loss)/Profit for the year

-1,101,985

3,192,702

(Loss) / Earnings per share- basic and diluted

-10.30

29.74

 

 

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Posted on: 2019-03-07T11:02:00+05:00

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