Key highlights of the six months period ended 30 September 2009
The following are the key highlights of the results compared to prior period i.e. 30 September 2008:
• The active subscribers increased to14.51m,up 21.4% from 11.96m in the prior period.
• Strong M-PESA service with 7.99m registered users,up 93% from 4.14m users in the prior
period.
• Subscriber market share estimated at 77.5% (Source: World Cellular Information Service).
• Revenue market share estimated at 83%.
• Turnover Kshs 40.66bn,an increase of 17.8% from Kshs 34.51bn in the prior year.
• Data revenue (including SMS and M-PESA) increased by 93.6% to Kshs 7.20bn.
• Blended Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) Kshs 466.5,7.3% lower compared to Kshs 503.0 in
the prior period.
• EBITDA at Kshs16.52bn up 10.1% from Kshs 15.01bn.
• Operating profit at Kshs 9.90bn up 3.5% compared to Kshs 9.57bn in the prior year.
• Taxes down 9.3% from Kshs 2.76bn to Kshs 2.50bn. Effective tax rate has reduced to 26.9%
from 30.7% in the prior period.
• Profit after tax Kshs 6.63bn grew by 6.7% from Kshs6.22bn.
• Earnings per share (EPS) growth of 8.1%.
• Capital expenditure down 15.1% at Kshs 8.53bn compared to prior period at Kshs 10.04bn. This
brings capital investment since inception to Kshs 128.3bn
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