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Metro Holdings’ 1HFY2025 earnings down 56.4% y-o-y at $3.6 mil

By Ashley Lo

/ The Edge Singapore |

November 14, 2024 1:53 PM SGT

Similarly, the group’s revenue saw a 3.6% y-o-y decline to $48.4 million. (Photo: Metro Holdings)

Metro Holdings has reported earnings of $3.6 million for the 1HFY2025 ended Sept 30, 56.4% lower y-o-y from the same period last year.

Similarly, the group’s profit before taxation dropped by 36% y-o-y to $7 million in the same period. This came on the back of China’s protracted property market downturn, which negatively impacted the group’s property division, with higher fair value losses from China investment properties by $11.1 million.

Additionally, the group saw lower profit from its retail division due to lower gross margins and increased cost. However, these were partially offset by higher other net incomes and higher share of fair value gain from the group’s 30%-owned portfolio of purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) properties in the UK.

Read also: Metro increases stake in UK-based Fairbriar Real Estate from 25% to 50% for $31 mil

As at Sept 30, the group’s net assets and total assets stood at $1.4 billion and $2.3 billion, respectively.

Yip Hoong Mun, group CEO, says: “We continue to make progress in our measured, ongoing efforts to enhance shareholder value under an operating environment marked by heightened uncertainties. In Singapore, strata sales of retail and office units at our VisionCrest Orchard freehold office property have commenced. In the UK, we recently increased our stake in the award-winning Middlewood Locks mixed-use development from 25% to 50%, and Phase 3 of this development is expected to be completed by end-2024. In Australia, we acquired our 18th property which is a freehold prime office building located in the financial core of Sydney’s CBD. However, we expect that the multiple headwinds persisting in China’s property market and our retail business will continue to weigh on our performance in the near-term.”

Shares in Metro Holdings closed flat at 47.5 cents on Nov 13.

This article first appeared on The Edge Singapore.

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