Friday, February 26, 2016

ST Engineering posts FY15 earnings dip to $529 mil

Defence contractor ST Engineering posted a 1% fall in full-year earnings to $529 million, or 17.05 cents, from $532 million a year ago.

Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) fell 8% to $510.3 million while revenue fell 3% to $6.3 billion from the previous year.

In FY2015, revenue and profit before tax (PBT) for Aerospace sector were comparable at $2.09 billion and $290.6 million respectively.

Revenue for Electronics sector was up 8% at $1.71 billion compared to $1.58 billion while PBT of $191.0 million was comparable.

The Land Systems sector posted comparable revenue of $1.40 billion with higher PBT of $65.million, up 16% from $56.2 million mainly due to lower allowance for inventory obsolescence and lower goodwill impairment.

The Marine sector posted revenue of $0.96 billion, down 29% from $1.34 billion and PBT of $88.3 million, down 28% from $122.8 million due to weaker shipbuilding performance from both Singapore and US operations.

In the 4Q ended Dec, the group posted revenue of $1.78 billion compared to $1.85 billion in the same period last year.

Comparing against a year ago, group PBT and net profit were comparable at $166.6 million and $140.8 million respectively.

ST Engineering says it has an order book of $11.7 billion at end December 2015, of which about $3.8 billion is expected to be delivered in 2016.

The directors have recommended a dividend per share of 15.0 cents, unchanged from a year ago.

The counter closed 1.44% higher at $2.81 on Thursday.

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