{"id":5027,"date":"2018-07-19T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/?p=5027"},"modified":"2023-12-04T04:48:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T04:48:02","slug":"interim-results-for-january-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/?p=5027&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Interim Results for January \u2013 June 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kcell JSC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Interim Results for January \u2013 June 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Almaty, 20 July 2018<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Kcell Joint Stock Company (\u201cKcell\u201d or the &#8220;Company&#8221;) (LSE, KASE: KCEL), the leading provider of mobile telecommunications services in Kazakhstan, announces its interim results for January \u2013 June 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Second quarter<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Net sales increased by 0.6 percent to KZT 36,303 million (36,082). Service revenue decreased by 3.9 percent to KZT 32,065 million (33,356).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EBITDA, excluding non-recurring items, declined by 11.9 percent to KZT 11,926 million (13,541). EBITDA margin decreased to 32.9 percent (37.5).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Operating income, excluding non-recurring items, decreased by 32.9 percent to KZT 5,234 million (7,804).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Net finance cost decreased to KZT 1,850 million (1,961).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Net income of KZT 2,621 million (666).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CAPEX-to-sales ratio of 13.5 percent (11.0).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Free cash was negative KZT 1,162 million (2,456).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>During the quarter, the total number of subscriptions increased by 104 thousand to 10,062 thousand (9,958).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First half<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Net sales up 1.4 percent to KZT 72,689 million (71,713). Service revenue decreased by 2.8 percent to KZT 64,332 million (66,153).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EBITDA, excluding non-recurring items, decreased by 5.3 percent to KZT 25,381 million (26,802). EBITDA margin was 34.9 percent (37.4).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Operating income, excluding non-recurring items, down 19.1 percent to KZT 12,479 million (15,434).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Net finance cost decreased by 10.3 percent to KZT 4,165 million (4,644).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Net income up 38.1 percent to KZT 6,373 million (4,617).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CAPEX-to-sales ratio of 10.6 percent (13.8).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Free cash flow decreased to KZT 341 million (4,204).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The number of subscriptions remained largely stable year-on-year at 10,062 thousand (9,992).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/static.kcell.kz\/investors\/Results-Report-Jan-Jun-Q1_2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Results for January \u2013 June<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kcell JSC Interim Results for January \u2013 June 2018 Almaty, 20 July 2018&nbsp;\u2013 Kcell Joint Stock Company (\u201cKcell\u201d or the &#8220;Company&#8221;) (LSE, KASE: KCEL), the leading provider of mobile telecommunications services in Kazakhstan, announces its interim results for January \u2013 June 2018. Second quarter First half Results for January \u2013 June<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f-\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438-\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f-\u0421\u0414.png",1920,881,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f-\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438-\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f-\u0421\u0414-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f-\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438-\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f-\u0421\u0414-300x138.png",300,138,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f-\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438-\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f-\u0421\u0414-768x352.png",768,352,true],"large":["https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f-\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438-\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f-\u0421\u0414-1024x470.png",1024,470,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f-\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438-\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f-\u0421\u0414-1536x705.png",1536,705,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f-\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438-\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f-\u0421\u0414.png",1920,881,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Kcell JSC Interim Results for January \u2013 June 2018 Almaty, 20 July 2018&nbsp;\u2013 Kcell Joint Stock Company (\u201cKcell\u201d or the &#8220;Company&#8221;) (LSE, KASE: KCEL), the leading provider of mobile telecommunications services in Kazakhstan, announces its interim results for January \u2013 June 2018. Second quarter Net sales increased by 0.6 percent to KZT 36,303 million (36,082). Service revenue decreased by 3.9 percent to KZT 32,065 million (33,356). EBITDA, excluding non-recurring items, declined by 11.9 percent to KZT 11,926 million (13,541). EBITDA margin decreased to 32.9 percent (37.5). Operating income, excluding non-recurring items, decreased by 32.9 percent to KZT 5,234 million (7,804).&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/?cat=13&#038;lang=en\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"investors_admin","url":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/?author=17"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5028,"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions\/5028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}