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Singtel net profit down 10%!
By Investment Moats  •  February 13, 2012
Singtel today released its 3rd quarter results and it looks weak due to a few factors.
  1. Overall profit is down 10%. I can’t recall the last time I see such an impact to Singtel. I must have not been tracking it for sometime.
  2. EBITDA for Singapore down 7%
  3. EBITDA for Opus up 2%
  4. Regional Telcos earnings down 8%
  5. Singapore post paid mobile customers have been increasing but ARPU have fallen
  6. Retention costs and acquisition costs have risen 22%
  7. Optus post paid mobile customers have increase but ARPU have fallen as well
  8. Retention costs and acquisition costs have fallen 13% quarter on quarter
  9. AIS have been the gem in which profit rose 23%
  10. Bharti have been the problem. Profit down 30%
  11. Net debt have risen drastically 4546 mil to 7416 mil
  12. Free cash flow is at 844 mil
Overall, this is rather disappointing result which puts it in the number 3 ......
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Investment Moats is set up by Kyith Ng and have been around since 2005. He aims to share his experiences making sense of money, how money works and ways to grow his money. It hopes that by sharing his experiences, both good and bad, season investors can advice and critique his decisions and new investors can learn from them and find their own style ...
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