Antofagasta Raises Dividend on Strong 1st Half Earnings
August 22 2017 - 2:56AM
Dow Jones News
By Tapan Panchal
LONDON--Antofagasta PLC (ANTO.LN) on Tuesday more than tripled
its interim dividend payment after reporting a sharp rise in
earnings, citing higher copper prices, increased sales volumes and
tight cost management.
The Chilean copper miner recorded pretax profit of $689.1
million for the six months ended June 30, up from $276.5 million
pretax profit in the year ago period, on a revenue of $2.05 billion
and $1.44 billion, respectively.
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization
for the interim period increased 88% to $1.08 billion mainly due to
higher revenue. First-half copper production rose 7.1% to 346,300
tons.
The FTSE100-listed company declared a dividend of 10.3 cents per
share for the period, versus 3.1 cents paid a year ago.
Antofagasta has reiterated its copper-production guidance range
of 685,000 and 720,000 tons and net cash costs guidance of $1.30 a
pound for 2017. Capital expenditure guidance for the year is also
unchanged at $900 million.
Write to Tapan Panchal at tapan.panchal@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
August 22, 2017 02:41 ET (06:41 GMT)
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