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lochaz-index
#331 Posted : Wednesday, February 26, 2020 9:23:08 AM
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VituVingiSana wrote:
mwekez@ji wrote:
VituVingiSana wrote:
Nothing on the website https://www.kplc.co.ke/category/view/71/trading-results


here






Thanks. The FY is substantially lower than HY.

What explains the jumbo spike in non-fuel costs?
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VituVingiSana
#332 Posted : Wednesday, February 26, 2020 9:37:50 AM
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lochaz-index wrote:
VituVingiSana wrote:
mwekez@ji wrote:
VituVingiSana wrote:
Nothing on the website https://www.kplc.co.ke/category/view/71/trading-results


here






Thanks. The FY is substantially lower than HY.

What explains the jumbo spike in non-fuel costs?
Little detail provided in the commentary except for the commissioning of 360MW plants. Is this a one-off cost?
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watesh
#333 Posted : Wednesday, February 26, 2020 11:01:08 AM
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Those finance costs are chewing up this company. They are even growing faster than revenue
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Ericsson
#334 Posted : Wednesday, February 26, 2020 11:02:41 AM
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watesh wrote:
Those finance costs are chewing up this company. They are even growing faster than revenue

Overdrafts and short term loans to sustain operations
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lochaz-index
#335 Posted : Wednesday, February 26, 2020 11:47:37 AM
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watesh wrote:
Those finance costs are chewing up this company. They are even growing faster than revenue

More worrying is the increasing negative working capital YoY. This one will need a bailout in the not so distant future.
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mlennyma
#336 Posted : Wednesday, February 26, 2020 11:53:13 AM
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A monopoly under siege
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mlennyma
#337 Posted : Wednesday, February 26, 2020 11:54:27 AM
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A monopoly under siege,one of my worst investment decisions to be owning it
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Ericsson
#338 Posted : Wednesday, February 26, 2020 11:55:56 AM
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lochaz-index wrote:
watesh wrote:
Those finance costs are chewing up this company. They are even growing faster than revenue

More worrying is the increasing negative working capital YoY. This one will need a bailout in the not so distant future.

Bailout by GoK in the current economic environment is tough.
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Angelica _ann
#339 Posted : Wednesday, February 26, 2020 11:59:51 AM
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Ericsson wrote:
lochaz-index wrote:
watesh wrote:
Those finance costs are chewing up this company. They are even growing faster than revenue

More worrying is the increasing negative working capital YoY. This one will need a bailout in the not so distant future.

Bailout by GoK in the current economic environment is tough.


The finance costs had manifested themselves over the last 2 financial statements. Knowing how this company is run with its capital intensive and high cost infrastructure requirements and maintenance/replacement costs,things will be tough going forward. keep away, lessons learnt from ARM smile
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Extraterrestrial
#340 Posted : Wednesday, February 26, 2020 12:02:06 PM
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They have capacity for internal bailout by cutting CapEx (Sh20 billion last - down by half a dozen billion).
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