Nestle Nigeria Q1 Profit Limps To N8.6bn
Directors of Nestle Nigeria Plc, on Monday presented its unaudited financials for the first quarter ended March 31, 2018, indicating that revenue from sales could only limp by 10%, which was way better than profit for the period, which crawled 3% up.
Turnover of Nestle Nigeria for the period rose to N67.463bn up by 10% from N61.151bn, while cost of sales increased by N4.037bn or 10.72% to N41.705bn, up from N37.668bn; leaving gross profit at N25.757bn, up from N23.483bn.
Marketing and distribution expenses increased from N8.047bn to N9.029bn; administrative expenses stood at N2.208bn from N2.225bn; while results from operating activities was a profit of N14.519bn, as against the N13.209bn in the first quarter of 2017.
Finance income dropped significantly by N2.319bn or 89.18% from N2.601bn to N281.299m; while finance costs dropped to N1.159bn from N1.528bn; as net finance cost for the period stood at N878.591m from an income of N1.072bn in 2017.
Profit before tax dropped to N13.64bn from N14.282bn; while net profit inched to N8.605bn from N8.358bn in 2017Q1; translating to Earnings Per Share of N10.86, up from N10.55 in the 2017Q1.
A segment analysis of the financials of Nestle Nigeria showed that the bulk of revenue was the N43.014bn, up from N40.253bn; while beverages segment fetched N24.449bn, as against the N20.897bn garnered in 2017Q1; while profit from food business stood at N10.346bn from N10.21bn; just as beverages revenue increased from N3.019bn to N4.177bn.
Further analysis showed that N66.348bn of the turnover by Nestle Nigeria for the period came from Nigeria, up from N60.759bn; while export revenue climbed to N1.115bn from N391.523m.
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