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Portugal Telecom |
Results Presentation |
Full Year 2006 (Unaudited) |
8 February 2007 |
Important notice |
This release contains forward -looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward -looking statements are not statements of historical fact, and reflect goals of the company's management. The words "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "expects," "forecasts," "intends," "plans," "predicts, "projects" and "targets" and similar words are intended to identify these forward -looking statements, which necessarily involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, the results of operations of the company to be achieved may be different from the company's current goals and the reader should not place undue reliance on these forward -looking statements. Forward -looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and the company does not undertake any obligation to update them in light of new information or future developments.
The attached communication has been made public by Portugal Telecom, SGPS, S.A. (the Company) . Investors are urged to read the Companys Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9, which was filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), as it contains important information, and the amendments thereto. The Solicitation/Recommendation Statement and other public filings made from time to time by the Company with the SEC are available without charge from the SECs website at www.sec.gov and at the Companys principal executive offices in Lisbon, Portugal.
Portugal Telecom is listed on the Euronext and New York Stock Exchanges. Information may be accessed on Reuters under the symbols PTC.LS and PT and on Bloomberg under the symbol PTC PL.
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Highlights |
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2006 |
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> Operating revenues | 6,343 | -0.7% | ||
> EBITDA | 2,423 | -2.9% | ||
> Net Income | 867 | +32.5% | ||
> Operating free cash flow | 1,599 | +22.5% | ||
> Net debt | 3,757 | +2.3% | ||
> After-tax net unfunded | 1,216 | -36.4% |
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Announced guidance achieved |
2006 EBITDA | 2006 | |||
guidance |
reported | |||
Wireline | Flat vs. normalised 2005 | Flat | ||
TMN | (2%) (3%) | (2.2%) | ||
PTM | 5%-10% | 8.1% |
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Operational momentum - Wireline |
> ULL net adds declining | ||
> Recouping pre-selection and WLR lines | ||
> Loss of traffic-generating accesses(2) has been decreasing | ||
> Improvement in market share of ADSL net adds(4) | ||
> Stable wireline ARPU | ||
> Improvement in efficiency level | ||
(1) Carrier pre-selection + wholesale line rental net adds (2) PSTN/ISDN less pre-selection (3) Traffic generating access net adds | ||
(4) PT estimate (retail ADSL/(retail ADSL+ULL+wholesale ADSL) (5) Market share (6) Main accesses/wireline employees |
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Operational momentum - TMN |
> Continuing acceleration of net adds, with 45% market share of net adds in 2H06 (vs. 13% in 1H06) | ||
> Resulting in improvement of billing revenues, despite stronger seasonality in Christmas in 2006 | ||
> Data underpinning service revenues , with non-SMS data revenues increasing by 21% yoy | ||
> Market momentum built against stable SAC | ||
> Improvement in EBITDA performance in 2H06, despite 67% y.o.y growth in net adds (342k in 2H06 vs. 205k in 2H05) | ||
> Cost discipline underpinned improvement in pre-SARC margin | ||
(1) Change yoy (2) Data/Service Revenues (3) Subscriber Acquisition Costs (4) EBITDA yoy (5) EBITDA pre-SARC/Service Revenues
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Operational momentum - PTM |
> Continued growth in homes passed supports future growth | ||
> Acceleration of Pay-TV net adds | ||
> Over 45% of 1.5 million customers are digitally enabled | ||
> Strong growth in premium sport channel subscribers | ||
> Recovery on cable broadband net adds | ||
> Improvement in blended ARPU (up 7% y.o.y) | ||
(1) Digital set top boxes (thousand)
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Operational momentum - Vivo |
> Net adds showing recovery
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with billing ARPU growing q.o.q
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driven out of campaigns to stimulate traffic | ||
> Focus on reducing bad debt levels, with substantial reduction of cloning cases (down 95% y.o.y) | ||
> Combined with tight control of commercial costs (SAC) | ||
> Resulting in improvement in EBITDA performance
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and also in free cash flow | ||
(1) Excluding database cleanup (2) R$ (3)Minutes of Use (4) Provision/Revenues and excluding one-off (5) Subscriber Acquisition Costs in R$ (6) R$million
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Other main international assets performed strongly |
[2006] [Euro million, EBITDA in local currency] |
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Africa | Stake | EBITDA | D EBITDA | Asia | Stake | EBITDA | D EBITDA | Brazil | Stake | EBITDA | D EBITDA | |||||||||||
Unitel | 25% | 346 | 41% | CTM | 28% | 81 | 1.3% | UOL | 29% | n.a. | n.a. | |||||||||||
Meditel | 32% | 188 | 20% |
Timor Telecom |
41% | 7.5 | 70% | |||||||||||||||
MTC | 34% | 68 | 14% | |||||||||||||||||||
CVT | 40% | 40 | 26% | |||||||||||||||||||
CST | 51% | 3.1 | 24% |
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Revenue and EBITDA performance by division |
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> Vivo (Real appreciation), PTM and consolidation of MTC had positive contribution to consolidated revenues.
> Line loss and lower traffic impacted negatively Wireline revenues.
> MTR cuts had negative impact of 49mn in TMN revenues. | |
> Cost cutting allowed wireline to offset partially top line pressure at EBITDA level.
> Excluding MTR cuts (26mn), TMN EBITDA would have increased by 1.6% yoy.
> PTM EBITDA rose by 8.1% yoy, underpinned by Pay TV ARPU. |
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Strong cash flow performance |
> OpFCF up by 22% yoy to 1.6bn, underpinned by working capital improvement
> FCF before net financial investments increased by 35% yoy
> Net divestments of 365mn in 2005 (Lusomundo, Primesys, UOL IPO) vs. net investments of 143mn in 2006 (MTC, BES)
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Net income reached historical high |
> Net income increased by 33% yoy to 867mn. > Increase in net income resulted from primarily: | |||
Lower income taxes: capital gain in 1Q06 (53mn), adoption voluntary taxation on capital gains (142mn), and recognition of tax credit at Vivo (134mn). Lower curtailment cost: redundancy programme encompassed less employees and impact of termination SNS protocol. |
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Solid debt profile |
> Net debt down 352mn in 4Q06 as a result of FCF generated.
> Cash plus undrawn facilities totalled 2.5bn at the end of Dec 2006.
> Average cost of debt (excl. Vivo and PTM swaps) stood at 3.8% in 2006.
> Debt maturity excluding Brazil is 7.9 yrs.
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Significant reduction in unfunded post retirement obligations |
> Combination of several factors resulted in strong reduction of unfunded post retirement obligations. | ||
> Adjustment to PTs healthcare plan and decision not to sign new protocol with SNS lowered PBO by 367mn. | ||
> After tax net unfunded amounted to 1.2bn at the end of 2006. | ||
> Pension funds outperformed expected rate of return in all of the past 4 years. | ||
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Strong increase in distributable reserves |
> Distributable reserves totalled 2.8bn at the end of Dec 06, following:
Share capital reduction (1.1bn),
Internal corporate restructuring (0.8bn) .
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Financial highlights |
Euro million | 4Q06 | 4Q05 | y.o.y | 2006 | 2005 | y.o.y | ||||||
Operating revenues | 1.635 | 1.715 | (5%) | 6.343 | 6.385 | (1%) | ||||||
Wireline | 505 | 540 | (6%) | 2.072 | 2.214 | (6%) | ||||||
TMN | 387 | 397 | (3%) | 1.502 | 1.557 | (4%) | ||||||
Vivo | 535 | 620 | (14%) | 2.105 | 2.037 | 3% | ||||||
PTM | 177 | 158 | 12% | 666 | 628 | 6% | ||||||
EBITDA | 738 | 710 | 4% | 2.423 | 2.496 | (3%) | ||||||
Wireline | 352 | 360 | (2%) | 1.073 | 1.129 | (5%) | ||||||
TMN | 166 | 167 | (0%) | 659 | 674 | (2%) | ||||||
Vivo | 160 | 124 | 29% | 496 | 507 | (2%) | ||||||
PTM | 53 | 51 | 2% | 211 | 195 | 8% | ||||||
Income from operations | 428 | 395 | 8% | 1.214 | 1.375 | (12%) | ||||||
Net income | 340 | 293 | 16% | 867 | 654 | 33% | ||||||
Capex | 423 | 361 | 17% | 1.001 | 943 | 6% | ||||||
EBITDA - Capex | 315 | 349 | (10%) | 1.423 | 1.552 | (8%) | ||||||
Net debt | 3.757 | 3.672 | 2% | 3.757 | 3.672 | 2% | ||||||
EBITDA margin (%) | 45,2 | 41,4 | 3,8 pp | 38,2 | 39,1 | (0,9 pp) | ||||||
Capex as % revenues | 25,9 | 21,1 | 4,8 pp | 15,8 | 14,8 | 1,0 pp | ||||||
EBITDA - Capex margin (%) | 19,3 | 20,4 | (1,1 pp) | 22,4 | 24,3 | (1,9 pp) | ||||||
EBITDA = income from operations + depreciation and amortisation. | ||||||||||||
Income from operations = income before financials and taxes + goodwill impairment + curtailment costs + losses (gains) on disposal of fixed assets + net other costs. |
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Operating highlights |
4Q06 | 4Q05 | y.o.y | 2006 | 2005 | y.o.y | |||||||||
Wireline | Main accesses (k) | 4,404 | 4,478 | (2%) | 4,404 | 4,478 | (2%) | |||||||
Main accesses net adds (k) | (14) | 7 | n.m. | (74) | 101 | n.m. | ||||||||
ADSL retail (k) | 685 | 585 | 17% | 685 | 585 | 17% | ||||||||
ADSL Retail net adds (k) | 27 | 38 | (29%) | 100 | 204 | (51%) | ||||||||
Pricing Plans (k) | 2,827 | 1,795 | 58% | 2,827 | 1,795 | 58% | ||||||||
Total Traffic (mn minutes) | 3,314 | 3,641 | (9%) | 13,442 | 14,818 | (9%) | ||||||||
ARPU (Euro) | 30 | 30 | 1% | 30 | 30 | (1%) | ||||||||
TMN | Customers (k) | 5,704 | 5,312 | 7% | 5,704 | 5,312 | 7% | |||||||
Net Adds (k) | 211 | 97 | 117% | 391 | 259 | 51% | ||||||||
MOU | 120 | 123 | (2%) | 120 | 122 | (1%) | ||||||||
ARPU (Euro) | 21 | 22 | (7%) | 21 | 23 | (8%) | ||||||||
Customer bill |
17 | 18 | (5%) | 17 | 18 | (5%) | ||||||||
Interconnection | 4 | 4 | (16%) | 4 | 5 | (19%) | ||||||||
Vivo | Customers (k) | 29,053 | 29,805 | (3%) | 29,053 | 29,805 | (3%) | |||||||
Net Adds (k) | 327 | 964 | (66%) | (752) | 3,262 | n.m. | ||||||||
MOU | 82 | 74 | 11% | 74 | 78 | (5%) | ||||||||
ARPU (R$) | 31 | 29 | 6% | 27 | 29 | (5%) | ||||||||
PTM | Pay TV Customers (k) | 1,480 | 1,479 | 0% | 1,480 | 1,479 | 0% | |||||||
Pay TV Net Adds (k) | 29 | (6) | n.m. | 1 | 30 | (96%) | ||||||||
Cable Broadband Accesses (k) | 362 | 348 | 4% | 362 | 348 | 4% | ||||||||
Cable Broadband Net Adds (k) | 13 | 7 | 95% | 14 | 43 | (68%) | ||||||||
Pay-Tv Blended ARPU (Euro) | 30 | 27 | 7% | 29 | 28 | 6% | ||||||||
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Portugal Telecom |
Nuno Prego |
Investor Relations Director |
+351 21 500 1701 |
nuno.prego@telecom.pt |
www.telecom.pt |
PORTUGAL TELECOM, SGPS, S.A.
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Nuno Prego
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Nuno Prego
Investor Relations Director
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