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TeliaSonera: 1.69 billion euros in profit out of a 2.99 billion euro revenue (2013) I'm having trouble believing those numbers. I found a source that agrees w
by danielweber 13y ago
TeliaSonera: 1.69 billion euros in profit out of a 2.99 billion euro revenue (2013)
I'm having trouble believing those numbers. I found a source that agrees with you [1] but Bloomberg charts show only a ~10% profit margin. [2] I wonder if the reporter in [1] confused annual revenue with quarterly revenue from this Bloomberg article. [3]
EDIT: The reporter in [1] isn't wrong, but people misreading the first paragraph is probably the source of the confusion spreading across the Internet. Read down a few paragraphs and they compare 4th quarter net profit to 4th quarter revenue, which is roughly 10%.
Also, here is the profit & loss statement from 2013. [4] Annual revenue is about 104 billion kronor, net income is about 15 billion kronor.
[1] http://www.thelocal.se/20140130/beleaguered-teliasonera-took-profit-tumble-in-2013 http://www.thelocal.se/20140130/beleaguered-teliasonera-took...
[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/TLSN:SS http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/TLSN:SS
[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-30/teliasonera-profit-misses-estimates-on-falling-broadband-mobile.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-30/teliasonera-profit-...
[4] http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Financials?s=TLSN:STO&subview=IncomeStatement http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Financials...
- johansch 13y agoYou're right, I was fooled by that first article's sneaky mixing of quarterly and annual numbers in the same sentence. "The group's annual net profit fell by 25 percent to 14.97 billion kronor (1.69 billion euros, $2.3 billion), while revenue dropped by three percent to 26.5 billion kronor." Still, these look like healthy numbers, and not like they are bleeding.
- emhart 13y agoThank you very much for that breakdown!