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Pha Lai Thermal Power: Q1 profit slightly increased to VND138 billion despite a 51% decline in revenue.

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Pha Lai Thermal Power Joint Stock Company (HoSE: PPC) has just announced its first quarter financial report / 2021. In which, the major contribution to the company’s after-tax profit is the profit from financial activities.

Pha Lai Thermal Power: Q1 profit slightly increased to VND138 billion despite a 51% decline in revenue.

Revenue in the first quarter of Pha Lai Thermal Power reached more than VND 1,078 billion, down 51% compared to the same period in 2020. Subtracting more than VND 1,048 billion of COGS, Pha Lai Thermal Power earned only nearly 30 billion VND of gross profit, while the first quarter of 2020 recorded more than 168 billion dong.

Pha Lai Thermal Power’s gross profit margin fell sharply to 2.77%, 4.77 percentage points difference over the same period in 2020.

The Pha Lai Thermal Power side said that the power output produced in the first quarter of the year reached 849.66 million kWh, 891 million kWh lower than in the first quarter of 2020, making low revenue from electricity sales and profit from power generation. also affected decrease.

Notably, the company’s financial activities recorded a sudden increase in revenue to more than 119 billion dong, nearly 5.8 times higher than the first quarter financial revenue of 2020. Thanks to that, the profit earned from this activity is also 5 times higher than the same period to over 97 billion dong.

According to Pha Lai Thermal Power, in the first 3 months of 2021, this company has received 97 billion dong of dividend from Hai Phong Thermal Power Joint Stock Company. It is known that Hai Phong Thermal Power in the first quarter has paid 2 dividends in 2020 to shareholders with a total rate of 10%.

This company also plans to submit to the annual shareholders’ meeting in 2021 to pay additional dividends in 2020 at the rate of 14.25%, increasing the total profit distribution rate in 2020 to 24.25%. If the shareholder meeting of Hai Phong Thermal Power approves this content, in the coming time, Pha Lai Thermal Power will continue to record positive signals from financial activities.

Closing the first quarter, Pha Lai Thermal Power reached VND 138 billion in profit after tax, a slight increase of 2% over the same period in 2020.

In 2021, Pha Lai Thermal Power Board plans to submit to the AGM a business plan going backwards with revenue down 32%, pre-tax profit down 66%, standing at VND 5,658 billion and VND 415 billion respectively.

Dividend rate in 2020 submitted to the meeting is 59%, of which the company has paid in advance 481 billion dong, equivalent to 15%.

With the results achieved in the first quarter, Pha Lai Thermal Power has completed 19% of the revenue plan and more than 35% of the profit plan.

As of March 31, 2021, the company’s total assets reached more than VND 6,715 billion, down 7% compared to the end of 2020. In which, cash and cash equivalents decreased sharply by more than 66% to 92 billion VND. . Short-term receivables from customers also decreased by 35% to more than 975 billion.

Total liabilities at the end of the first quarter of 2021 reached VND 478 billion, a decrease of over 36% compared to the end of 2020, of which the decrease was mainly in short-term payables to sellers.

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