Half Year 2025 CTT Correios de Portugal SA Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- CTT-Correios de Portugal SA (CTTOF) reported an 18.3% increase in revenue and a 47% growth in EBIT year-on-year, driven by the integration of Cacesa.
- The company achieved a 15% growth in parcel volumes, with expectations to maintain this growth rate for the remainder of the year.
- Recurring EBIT grew by 28%, with the EBIT margin improving to 9.5%, indicating enhanced profitability.
- Financial services showed strong performance with public debt placements increasing by 259% year-on-year.
- The company successfully integrated Cacesa, enhancing its logistics capabilities and contributing to revenue and EBIT growth.
- Mail revenue was negatively impacted by a blackout in April and a decline in addressed mail volumes by 10.5% year-on-year.
- The company faces volatility in mail revenues due to client behavior and government-related mail, affecting EBIT stability.
- Operating costs increased by 9.1% on a pro forma basis, driven by investments in capacity and staff costs.
- The banking division's profitability growth is limited due to ongoing investments in digital and physical capabilities.
- There is a competitive threat from InPost's acquisition of Sending in Spain, which could impact market dynamics.
(Operator Instructions) I will now turn the call over to Mr. João Bento, CEO.
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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our first-semester results presentation.
I'd like to invite you to follow us on slide number 4, where you can see accelerating organic growth, with revenues growing 11%; recurring EBIT growing 28%, if we account for a similar perimeter. But given that we are now accounting two months of Cacesa, revenue grew 18.3% and EBIT grew an impressive almost -- sorry, 47% year on year.
Talking about the contribution of Cacesa, I would invite you to move to slide number 5, where we have an outlook of Cacesa. On the left-hand side, nothing new, just to highlight that Cacesa has been growing significantly in the last two years. It will keep growing this year, based mostly on its customs clearance activity.
But looking at the right-hand side of the slide, I'd like to refer to what I would call, I would say, extremely successful integration, going along
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