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Arrivati anche i risultati di Portugal Telecom, sono anche qui discreti, con un volume delle vendite in salita del 5,1%, un EBITDA in calo del 4,3%, mentre sale decisamente l'utile netto in considerazione del buon andamento di Vivo, la jv brasiliana con Telefonica, dopo la ristrutturazione avviata nel 2007.
Il 2008 si è chiuso con un debito netto cresciuto del 27% a quota 5,57 mld euro e con l'EBITDA in salita del 3,7% a quota 2,44 mld euro. L'effetto di crescita del debito è tutta via da imputare alle misure finalizzate a distribuire valore agli azionisti varate nel 2007 per fronteggiare il bid ostile di Sonaecom.
PT confida di poter conservare il capex nel 2009 agli stessi livelli già raggiunti nel 2008 (900 mln euro) ed annuncia per il 2008 la conferma del dividendo nella stessa misura dell'anno precedente.
Peraltro il calo dell'EBITDA nel trimestre ultimo è da imputare allo sforzo di attirare clientela sui servizi triple play a condizioni vantaggiose, così da fermare l'emorragia di perdita di utenze sulla linea fissa, una mossa che PT annuncia avere avuto successo, mentre comunica la salita del numero delle utenze per la prima volta sopra i 70 mln.
UPDATE 3-Portugal Telecom Q4 net profit doubles
Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:28pm GMT
* Q4 net up to 143.8 million euros
* Boosted by Brazil's Vivo
* Sharply beats forecasts (Updates with CEO, comment, byline)
By Elisabete Tavares
LISBON, Feb. 18 (Reuters) - Portugal Telecom reported a 100.3 percent jump in fourth-quarter net profit on Wednesday, boosted by a strong performance at Brazil's Vivo, and sharply beating expectations.
Net profit rose to 143.8 million euros ($181.8 million) in the three-month period while earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization fell 4.3 percent to 603.5 million euros. Revenue rose 5.1 percent to 1.7 billion euros.
"The numbers were far above expectations," said Ricardo Seara, an analyst at BPI. "They were better than we expected above all because of Vivo."
Revenues at Vivo, Brazil's largest mobile phone operator which is a joint venture between PT and Spain's Telefonica, rose 11 percent to 768.5 million euros. EBITDA from Vivo jumped 40 percent to 230 million euros.
PT's share price rose on the results. At 1230 GMT they traded 0.62 percent higher at 6.3590 euros. The shares are up 4 percent this year after slumping 32 percent in 2008.
"These were solid results," Chief Executive Zeinal Bava told reporters. "We reversed the long-term trend of bleeding clients in the fixed business."
Revenues from PT's fixed-line business in Portugal rose 2 percent in the fourth quarter to 495 million euros, boosted by "triple-play" services.
PT surpassed the 70-million-mark for total clients in the fourth quarter for the first time.
TOTAL CLIENTS ABOVE 70 MILLION
"The main difference from analysts' consensus (in the results) was in Vivo because the domestic side, both in terms of revenues and EBITDA, was in line," said Alexandra Delgado, an analyst at Millennium bcp.
PT, which fended off a hostile takeover bid in 2007, said it would propose a dividend of 0.575 euros per share for 2008, the same as a year earlier.
Net profit in all of 2008 reached 581.5 million euros, down 21.6 percent, as PT suffered from higher financial costs through the year. PT's net debt rose 27 percent in 2008 to 5.57 billion euros.
EBITDA for the full year rose 3.7 percent to 2.44 billion euros.
Bava said the company had strong cash flow while PT's debt profile is well balanced. "It will allow us to face the future with confidence in an increasingly difficult economic situation," he said.
He said PT was comfortable with capital expenditure this year around the same level as in 2008, when it reached just under 900 million euros.
Bava added that PT had every intention of maintaining strong relations with Telefonica in the Vivo partnership, despite repeated speculation in recent years that the two are both vying to buy each other out in the profitable venture.
Analysts surveyed by Reuters had on average forecast net profit of 93.3 million euros in the fourth quarter and EBITDA of 574.4 million.
For all of 2008 they had predicted a net profit of 530.4 million euros and EBITDA of 2.412 billion.
PT's shares trade around 10.6 times estimated 2009 earnings, compared with 8.45 times for Telefonica and 9.03 times for France Telecom. ($1=.7908 Euro) (Reporting by Axel Bugge and Elisabete Tavares; Editing by David Holmes and Rupert Winchester
Il 2008 si è chiuso con un debito netto cresciuto del 27% a quota 5,57 mld euro e con l'EBITDA in salita del 3,7% a quota 2,44 mld euro. L'effetto di crescita del debito è tutta via da imputare alle misure finalizzate a distribuire valore agli azionisti varate nel 2007 per fronteggiare il bid ostile di Sonaecom.
PT confida di poter conservare il capex nel 2009 agli stessi livelli già raggiunti nel 2008 (900 mln euro) ed annuncia per il 2008 la conferma del dividendo nella stessa misura dell'anno precedente.
Peraltro il calo dell'EBITDA nel trimestre ultimo è da imputare allo sforzo di attirare clientela sui servizi triple play a condizioni vantaggiose, così da fermare l'emorragia di perdita di utenze sulla linea fissa, una mossa che PT annuncia avere avuto successo, mentre comunica la salita del numero delle utenze per la prima volta sopra i 70 mln.
UPDATE 3-Portugal Telecom Q4 net profit doubles
Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:28pm GMT
* Q4 net up to 143.8 million euros
* Boosted by Brazil's Vivo
* Sharply beats forecasts (Updates with CEO, comment, byline)
By Elisabete Tavares
LISBON, Feb. 18 (Reuters) - Portugal Telecom reported a 100.3 percent jump in fourth-quarter net profit on Wednesday, boosted by a strong performance at Brazil's Vivo, and sharply beating expectations.
Net profit rose to 143.8 million euros ($181.8 million) in the three-month period while earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization fell 4.3 percent to 603.5 million euros. Revenue rose 5.1 percent to 1.7 billion euros.
"The numbers were far above expectations," said Ricardo Seara, an analyst at BPI. "They were better than we expected above all because of Vivo."
Revenues at Vivo, Brazil's largest mobile phone operator which is a joint venture between PT and Spain's Telefonica, rose 11 percent to 768.5 million euros. EBITDA from Vivo jumped 40 percent to 230 million euros.
PT's share price rose on the results. At 1230 GMT they traded 0.62 percent higher at 6.3590 euros. The shares are up 4 percent this year after slumping 32 percent in 2008.
"These were solid results," Chief Executive Zeinal Bava told reporters. "We reversed the long-term trend of bleeding clients in the fixed business."
Revenues from PT's fixed-line business in Portugal rose 2 percent in the fourth quarter to 495 million euros, boosted by "triple-play" services.
PT surpassed the 70-million-mark for total clients in the fourth quarter for the first time.
TOTAL CLIENTS ABOVE 70 MILLION
"The main difference from analysts' consensus (in the results) was in Vivo because the domestic side, both in terms of revenues and EBITDA, was in line," said Alexandra Delgado, an analyst at Millennium bcp.
PT, which fended off a hostile takeover bid in 2007, said it would propose a dividend of 0.575 euros per share for 2008, the same as a year earlier.
Net profit in all of 2008 reached 581.5 million euros, down 21.6 percent, as PT suffered from higher financial costs through the year. PT's net debt rose 27 percent in 2008 to 5.57 billion euros.
EBITDA for the full year rose 3.7 percent to 2.44 billion euros.
Bava said the company had strong cash flow while PT's debt profile is well balanced. "It will allow us to face the future with confidence in an increasingly difficult economic situation," he said.
He said PT was comfortable with capital expenditure this year around the same level as in 2008, when it reached just under 900 million euros.
Bava added that PT had every intention of maintaining strong relations with Telefonica in the Vivo partnership, despite repeated speculation in recent years that the two are both vying to buy each other out in the profitable venture.
Analysts surveyed by Reuters had on average forecast net profit of 93.3 million euros in the fourth quarter and EBITDA of 574.4 million.
For all of 2008 they had predicted a net profit of 530.4 million euros and EBITDA of 2.412 billion.
PT's shares trade around 10.6 times estimated 2009 earnings, compared with 8.45 times for Telefonica and 9.03 times for France Telecom. ($1=.7908 Euro) (Reporting by Axel Bugge and Elisabete Tavares; Editing by David Holmes and Rupert Winchester