Readymix West Indies (RML) achieved a net profit after tax of TT$6.3 million for the third quarter of 2015, compared with $2.6 million for the same period last year. Year to date profit after tax for 2015 rose to $13.8 million and is 34 percent above the year to date for 2014, of $10.3 million.
Earnings per share for the quarter amounts to 53 cents versus 33 cents in 2014 for the quarter and $1.16 versus $1 in 2014. The company discontinued operations in Barbados in 2014, excluding losses incurred in the discontinued business, results in earnings of 50 cents per share for the quarter in 2014 and $1.21 for the nine months.
Revenue for the quarter fell 7 percent to $57 million from $61 in 2014. It increased 7 percent for the nine months to $174 million from $162 million in 2014. The decline in sales in the September quarter was “impacted by a slowdown in the construction sector”, chairman of the company Nigel Edwards and the Group CEO, Jose Luis Seijo Gonzalez stated in a joint release with the financials.
The company generated cash flow from operations of $53 million up from $12 million in 2014 and ended with cash and equivalent of $58 million from $12 million in September last year.
RML has equity capital of $105 million, current assets of $111 million, current liabilities of $41 million and non-current liabilities of $10 million.
The company is a subsidiary of Trinidad Cement, its shares are listed on the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange (TTSE), it provides premix concrete mixtures to customers in the construction sector. The stock last traded at $18.79 on the TTSE on January 6 this year but ends trading with a bid of TT17.72 on Friday October 30, putting the value at a PE of 10.
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For the nine months to September 2015, the company ended with a profit after tax of $1.486 billion. In 2014 a profit of only $25 million was realised for the nine months last year. The 2015 results translate to earnings per share of $1.75 at September. For the quarter to September, profit after tax amounted to 72 cents per share or $617 million compared with just $78 million in the 2014 quarter. If the sales trend continues, earnings per share should hit $2.50 for 2015 which includes an exceptional income of $168 million or about 15 cents per share. The company’s stock traded at $15 on Friday and now carries a PE of 6.5 times this year earnings, and seems set to move up in price with these results with the valuation of the most valued stocks on the market being at 10.
Gross cash generated by operating activities amounted to $2 billion and after repaying loans ended at $997 million in cash funds.
Revenue for the third quarter grew by $741 million or 21 percent over the same period in 2014 mainly driven by improved domestic sales volumes and increased clinker exports which compensated for the decline in cement export sales volumes. The company benefited from lower costs of fuels and energy and Interest expense that decreased by 73 percent for the quarter to only $16 million, from $59 million in 2014. For the nine months interest expenses ended at $120 million from $196 million as a result of the company’s financial restructuring initiative resulting in some prepayments of long-term debt in excess of $800 million. Depreciation and amortisation cost, however, rose from $83 million in the September 2014 quarter to $102 million in 2015 and to $296 million for the nine months from $251 million in 2014.
The vastly improved results have changed the financial structure with net working capital jumping from just $360 million surplus to $2 million at September and equity rising to $6.4 billion from $4.8 at the end of September 2014.