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Saudi Telecom Q2 profit nearly doubles

Riyadh, July 21, 2014

Saudi Telecom Company (STC), the Gulf's biggest telecommunications operator by market value, reported a 96 percent surge in second-quarter profit on Monday, beating analysts' estimates because of a change in the valuation of an Asian divestment.

The firm, which competes domestically with Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) and Zain Saudi, made a net profit of 2.80 billion riyals ($747 million) in the three months to June 30, up from 1.43 billion riyals in the prior-year period.

Analysts polled by Reuters had on average forecast STC, which own stakes in operators in the Gulf, Turkey, South Africa and Asia, would make a quarterly profit of 2.65 billion riyals.

The group changed the valuation of last year's sale of a majority stake in Indonesia's Axis from a 598 million riyal loss to a 41 million riyal gain, resulting in the second-quarter net profit rise, it said. 

STC will distribute a second-quarter dividend of 0.75 riyals per share, it said in a bourse filing on Monday. This is higher than the 0.50 riyals per share paid for the second quarter of 2013.
-Reuters




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