Thal Industries incurs losses of Rs250 mln after failing to control growing operating expenses

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MG News | January 24, 2019 at 12:35 PM GMT+05:00

January 24, 2019 (MLN): Thal Industries Corporation Limited has incurred losses of Rs. 250 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2018, as it failed to match its topline earnings with an absurdly growing operating expenses.

The sales revenue figure of the company nose-dived by 38%, while the major expense heads i.e. Distribution and Administrative expenses went up by 149% and 15% respectively, creating a two-fold impact on the company’s profitability.

Moreover, an increase in Finance costs by 73% also contributed in landing the company in losses.

The company reported its Loss per share at Rs. 16.7 for the said period.   

Profit and loss account for the quarter ended December 31th 2018

 

Dec-18

Dec-17

% Change

Sales - Net

1,433,814,451

2,340,264,291

-38.73%

Cost of sales

-1,418,088,044

-1,890,437,509

-24.99%

Gross profit

15,726,407

449,826,782

-96.50%

Distribution and selling expenses

-70,461,340

-28,203,195

149.83%

Administrative expenses

-106,009,608

-91,947,414

15.29%

Operating (loss) / profit

-160,744,541

329,676,173

 

Other income

38,809,265

6,003,458

546.45%

Finance cost

-110,511,306

-63,522,217

73.97%

Other expenses

 

-18,778,862

 

(Loss) / Profit before taxation

-232,446,582

253,378,552

 

Taxation

-18,407,796

-76,013,566

-75.78%

(Loss) / Profit after taxation

-250,854,378

177,364,986

 

Earnings Per Share-Basic & Diluted

-16.70

11.81

 

 

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