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SM Prime reports P6.4 B profit for first 9 months

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MANILA, Philippines—The country’s largest shopping mall developer, SM Prime Holdings, grew its net profit in the first nine months by 14 percent to P6.41 billion from a year ago as tycoon Henry Sy further expanded his retail space and unlocked more rental revenues from older malls.

For the third quarter alone, SM Prime posted a 15 percent rise in net income to P2.14 billion from a year ago, the company disclosed to the Philippine Stock Exchange on Thursday.

“The notable results delivered by SM Prime so far this year give us greater confidence in attaining our full-year target for both the Philippines and China, especially since we are moving towards the holiday season. We will continue to offer good value products and services to our customers, and improve on areas that will give an even more enhanced shopping and entertainment experience to them,” SM Prime president Hans Sy said.

Consolidated nine-month revenues grew by 13 percent to P19.27 billion from a year ago while cash flow as measured by earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) for the same period rose by 13 percent to P13.02 billion, for an EBITDA margin of 68 percent.

Revenues from July to September this year reached P6.56 billion, up by 15 percent from a year ago while EBITDA for the quarter likewise rose by 14 percent to P4.34 billion.

The company said these results may be attributed to last year’s expansion, which added 289,000 square meters  in net leasable space. The four new SM malls that opened last year were SM City Calamba, SM City Novaliches, SM City Tarlac, and SM City San Pablo.

Even excluding rentals from new malls, same-store rental grew by 7 percent during the period.

For the first nine months, SM Prime’s consolidated rental revenues contributed 85 percent to total turnout and grew by 15 percent year-on-year to P16.45 billion. The increase came from both new space and existing store rental growth.

Cinema ticket sales amounted to P2.07 billion compared to P2.04 billion during the same period last year due to major blockbusters shown during the period such as “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon”, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow 2”, “Kung Fu Panda 2”, “Thor”, and “Pirates of the Caribbean 4.”

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IJYMFWI5A74TKZEOGM5OZ66YZU persistence

    economy. how is our economy.. should i say monetary economy.. let us be objective and see the foundation of this issue so that we can clearly grasp the solution.

    the ultimate solution is to paralyse and dissolve this system of monetary economy. but the solution should begin from all of us.. for we all allow ourselves to be MATERIALISTICALLY CONDITIONED by this system and blindly continues to patronize this corrupt system. first and foremost, the system where workers compete to get the best possible pay he can get while employer constantly reduce costs to maximize profit. WE ARE ALL PATRONIZING THIS NEVER-ENDING COMPETITION FOR MONEY, where social concern is always second to monetary concern. Equality has no place in a system based on competition.

    one of our primary goal should be TO EXPOSE AND STOP SUPPORTING THOSE CORRUPT ARM OF THIS SYSTEM. then our mature and intelligent citizens of the nations should join their hands in forming the alternative system which will serve our best interest on global level.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IJYMFWI5A74TKZEOGM5OZ66YZU persistence

    to illustrate how corrupt our global monetary system:

    if you have 1 million dollars and put it into a CD, say sample at 2% interest, you are going to generate $20,000 a year simply for that deposit. You are making money off of money itself… paper being made from other paper … nothing more – no invention – no contribution to society – no nothing.

    that being denoted, if you are a lower to middle class person, who is limited in funds, and must get interest based loans to buy your home or use credit cards, then you are paying interest to the bank, which the bank is then using, in theory, to pay the person’s return with the 2% CD! Not only is this equation outrageously offensive due to the use of usury (interest) to ‘steal from the poor and give to the rich’, but it also PERPETUATES CLASS STRATIFICATION by its very design, keeping the lower classes poor, under the constant burden of debt, while keeping the upper classes rich, with the means to turn excess money into more money, with no labor.

    we need to shift from money-based economy to a resource-based economy. one of our primary goal should be TO EXPOSE AND STOP SUPPORTING THOSE CORRUPT ARM OF THIS SYSTEM. then our mature and intelligent citizens of the nations should join their hands in forming the alternative system which will serve our best interest on global level.

  • Anonymous

    While SM enjoys its increases in profits, noting that “profits” is already an indication that it has recovered its costs, its entry-level employees SUFFER from being underpaid.

    Ang SM… magaling sa pagpapayaman, pero walang concern sa mga employees nila (special mention na ang security guard na namatay dahil sa pamamaril sa loob ng isang mall nila).



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