Hyundai Heavy Will Miss Profit Target
Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's largest shipbuilder, will not meet its full-year profit target after reporting a half-year net loss of 53.1 billion won ($41.68 million), mainly due to a write-off. "Our net profit will be around 100 billion won or slightly less because we have to clean up losses coming from the cancellation of shares at Hyundai Petrochemical," a spokesman said. The original earnings target was 300 billion won. However, analysts said the longer term outlook was bright. Hyundai Heavy wrote off 105 billion won, representing its entire 49.87 percent stake in unlisted Hyundai Petrochemical. Hanvit Bank, main creditor of the petrochemical company, had asked Hyundai Heavy to cancel its shares in Hyundai Petrochemical to help revive the troubled petrochemicals firm.
Hyundai Heavy Reports 1Q Loss
South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries, the largest shipbuilder in the world, reported a first-quarter loss on Friday after it was hit by losses at sister firm Hyundai Petrochemical. But Hyundai Heavy said it would chalk up large profits by the end of the year, as a flood of backlogged orders would keep the yard busy for the next two and a half years. Hyundai Heavy said it incurred a 81.9 billion won ($62.92 million) net loss during the January-March period, compared to a net profit of 42.7 billion won a year earlier. The company said its EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes), or operating profit, during the first quarter of this year rose to 187.6 billion won, up 9.5 percent from the same period last year.
Hyundai Heavy Foresees Strong Earnings Recovery
Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's largest shipbuilder, sees a strong earnings recovery after cleaning up the last of its soured investments in sister firms, a company executive said on Thursday. The South Korean company expects to have to write off most of its equity investment in ailing Hynix Semiconductor, formerly Hyundai Electronics, in either 2002 or 2003. "It seems our stake in Hynix has soured," Suh Tae-hwan, a senior vice president in charge of finance affairs, said in an interview with Reuters. Hyundai Heavy built up a 7.01 percent stake in Hynix for 592 billion won. But after the global chip depression that stake is now worth only about 57 billion won ($44.7 million).
