Tesco Fiscal Year 2023 Pretax Profit Halved, Plans GBP750 Million Buyback
13 Abril 2023 - 3:57AM
Dow Jones News
By Elena Vardon
Tesco PLC on Thursday said its pretax profit halved in fiscal
2023 and that it would buy back 750 million pounds ($936.4 million)
of shares over the next 12 months
The British grocer posted a pretax profit of GBP1.00 billion for
the year ended Feb. 25 compared with GBP2.03 billion a year
earlier.
Revenue including fuel rose to GBP65.76 billion from GBP61.34
billion. A company-compiled consensus had expected GBP65.72
billion.
Group sales, which excludes fuel, came in at GBP57.66 billion,
up from GBP54.77 billion. For retail, sales on a like-for-like
basis rose 5.1% as volumes held up despite cost-of-living
pressures, the FTSE 100 group said.
Group adjusted operating profit--Tesco's preferred metric, which
strips out exceptional and other one-off items--was GBP2.63
billion, ahead of the GBP2.61 billion expected by consensus and
below the previous year's GBP2.83 billion.
The board declared a final dividend of 7.05 pence a share,
bringing the total payout for the year to 10.90 pence, in line with
the previous year.
"We expect to be able to deliver a broadly flat level of retail
adjusted operating profit in 2023-24 and retail free cash flow
within our target range of GBP1.4 billion to GBP1.8 billion. We
expect Bank adjusted operating profit of between GBP130 million and
GBP160 million," said Chief Executive Ken Murphy.
Write to Elena Vardon at elena.vardon@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 13, 2023 02:42 ET (06:42 GMT)
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