Carlos García-MorenoChief Financial Officercarlos.garciamoreno@amovil.com
Daniela Lecuona Torras
Investor Relations Officedaniela.lecuona@americamovil.com
América Móvil's third quarter of 2018 financial and operating report
Mexico City, October 16th, 2018 - América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. ("América Móvil") [BMV: AMX] [NYSE: AMX, AMOV], announced today its financial and operating results for the third quarter of 2018.
3Q18
• We gained 1.1 million postpaid subscribers in the third quarter, including 472 thousand in Brazil, 184 thousand in Mexico and 100 thousand in Colombia. Our postpaid base increased 7.6% from the year-earlier quarter.
1.1M postpaid net adds
• Fixed-broadband continued to be the fastest growing segment on the fixed-line platform, 4.7% year-on-year, after adding 284 thousand new accesses in the quarter.
Broadband accesses up 4.7% YoY
• Revenues were up 2.1% year-on-year in Mexican peso terms and were just shy of 250 billion pesos. At constant exchange rates service revenues were up 3.4% year-on-year, their best performance in five quarters. Service revenue growth increased practically across the board, with Mexico posting a 4.7% increase.
Service revenues +3.4% YoY at constant Fx
• Postpaid mobile revenues led the way with an 8.6% increase, followed by fixed-broadband revenues at 6.2%.
• In the mobile space service revenue shot up in Brazil and Mexico 10.5% and 9.5% respectively, with mobile ARPUs rising 13% in Brazil, 11% in the U.S. and 8% in Mexico.
Postpaid revenues +8.6% YoY
Service revenues up in most operations
• EBITDA of 71.8 billion pesos was 7.7% higher than a year before; at constant exchange rates EBITDA was up 13.0%, it would have increased 8.6% in ab-sense of the release of some provisions in Brazil. Our EBITDA margin, 28.8%, increased 2 percentage points from a year before. Approximately 1 percent-age point of the margin is related to the aforementioned provisions.
EBITDA up 13% YoY at constant Fx
• Our operating profit increased 23.4% to 35.3 billion pesos. Together with a comprehensive financing income of 3.3 billion pesos- mostly driven by for-eign exchange gains but also the release of provisions in Brazil -resulted in a net profit of 18.6 billion pesos for the period.
EBIT up 23% YoY
• Through September we funded our capital expenditures of 91.7 billion pesos, paid out net dividends in the amount of 10.1 billion pesos, contributed 15.6 billion pesos to our pension funds and reduced by 14.0 billion pesos our net borrowings.
CapEx of MxP 92Bn
• Our net debt stood at 584 billion pesos at the end of September, down 45 billion pesos from December. Relative to LTM EBITDA, it stood at 2.0 times.
We will host our conference call to discuss 3Q18 financial and operating results on October 17that 9:00am Mexico City time. To access the call please log on towww.americamovil.com/investors
Net debt down MxP 45Bn
América Móvil's Subsidiaries as of September 2018
Country
Brand
Mexico
Telcel
Telmex
Sección Amarilla(1)TelvistaArgentina
ClaroTelmexBrazil
Claro
Chile
ClaroTelmex(1)Colombia
ClaroTelmexCosta Rica
Claro
Dominicana
ClaroEcuador
Claro
El Salvador
Claro
Guatemala
Claro
Honduras
Claro
Nicaragua
ClaroPanama
Claro
Paraguay
Claro
Peru
Claro
Puerto Rico
Claro
Uruguay
ClaroUSA
Tracfone
Netherlands
KPN
Austria
Telekom Austriawireless 100.0%
wireline 98.8%
other 98.4%
other 90.0%
wireless 100.0%
wireline 99.7%
wireless/wireline 97.7%
wireless 100.0%
wireline 100.0%
wireless 99.4%
wireline 99.3%
wireless 100.0%
wireless/wireline 100.0%
wireless/wireline 100.0%
wireless/wireline 95.8%
wireless/wireline 99.3%
wireless/wireline 100.0%
wireless/wireline 99.6%
wireless/wireline 100.0%
wireless/wireline 100.0%
wireless/wireline 100.0%
wireless/wireline 100.0%
wireless/wireline 100.0%
wireless 100.0%
wireless/wireline 16.1%
wireless/wireline 51.0%
(1) Equity Participation of Telmex Internacional of which América Móvil owns 97.92%.
Business
Equity Participation
Relevant Events
On September 17th, América Móvil delivered 224,695,844 KPN shares, equivalent to 5% of the total shares outstanding, following the maturity of a mandatory ex-changeable Bond with a nominal amount outstanding of 750 million euros. This represented the sale of those shares at an effective price per share of 3.3374 euros.
Maturity of a mandatory exchangeable bond of EUR 750M
On September 6th, we called a hybrid bond due 2073 with an aggregate principal amount of 900 million euros at a redemption price equal to 100% of its face value. Notwithstanding this redemption America Movil believes that hybrid bonds con-stitute an integral part of its capital base.
América Móvil Fundamentals (in accordance with IFRS)
3Q18 | 3Q17 | |
Earnings per Share (Mex$)(1) | 0.28 | -0.14 |
Earning per ADR (US$)(2) | 0.30 | -0.16 |
EBITDA per Share (Mex$)(3) | 1.09 | 0.72 |
EBITDA per ADR (US$) | 1.14 | 0.81 |
Net Income (millions of Mex$) | 18,631 | -9,547 |
Average Shares Outstanding (billion) | 66.05 | 66.02 |
(1) Net Income / Average Shares Outstanding | ||
(2) 20 shares per ADR | ||
(3) EBITDA / Average Shares Outstanding | ||
Access Lines |
AMX called a hybrid bond with an amount of EUR 900M
We ended the third quarter with 362.7 million access lines. Fixed RGUs increased | 363M accesses |
0.7% from a year before-with broadband accesses rising 4.7%-while our wire- | |
less base declined 0.4%. | |
We gained 1.1 million mobile postpaid subscribers in the quarter, so our contract | 472k postpaid net |
base reached 74.2 million in September, a 7.6% increase from the prior year. Bra- | adds in Brazil |
zil led the way with 472 thousand subs followed by Mexico with 184 thousand | |
and Colombia with 100 thousand adds. Their postpaid base increased 15.2%, 6.0% | |
and 4.3%, respectively. In the prepaid segment we disconnected 767 thousand | |
subscribers, including 522 thousand in Brazil and 333 thousand in the US. | |
Fixed RGUs reached 83.3 million. Broadband continues to be the fastest growing | 284k new |
segment with 284 thousand new accesses in the quarter, including 105 thousand | broadband |
in Brazil, 93 thousand in Central America and 42 thousand in Colombia. | accesses in 3Q |
Wireless Subscribers as of September 2018
Country
Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay Austria & CEE
Brazil
Central America CaribbeanChile ColombiaEcuador MexicoPeruUSA
Total Wireless Lines
Total(1)(Thousands)
Sep '18
Jun '18
Var.%Sep '17
Var.%
24,130
24,059
0.3%
24,000
0.5%
21,099
20,735
1.8%
20,828
1.3%
58,954
59,004
-0.1%
60,398
-2.4%
15,954
16,074
-0.7%
15,653
1.9%
5,809
5,737
1.3%
5,583
4.1%
6,823 29,233
6,991 29,168
-2.4% 0.2%
6,880 29,112
-0.8% 0.4%
8,160 74,704
8,068 74,412
1.1% 0.4%
8,612 73,315
-5.2% 1.9%
12,710
12,656
0.4%
12,238
3.9%
21,793279,369
22,126279,029
-1.5%0.1%
23,743280,363
-8.2%-0.4%
(1) Includes total subscribers of all companies in which América Móvil holds an economic interest; does not consider the date in which the companies started being consolidated.
Fixed-Line and Other Accesses (RGUs) as of September 2018
Total(1)(Thousands) | |||||
Country | Sep '18 | Jun '18 | Var.% | Sep '17 | Var.% |
Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay | 743 | 706 | 5.2% | 663 | 12.1% |
Austria & CEE | 6,182 | 6,183 | 0.0% | 6,015 | 2.8% |
Brazil | 35,602 | 35,791 | -0.5% | 35,962 | -1.0% |
Central America | 6,121 | 6,030 | 1.5% | 5,698 | 7.4% |
Caribbean | 2,571 | 2,603 | -1.2% | 2,721 | -5.5% |
Chile | 1,399 | 1,372 | 2.0% | 1,353 | 3.4% |
Colombia | 7,074 | 6,960 | 1.6% | 6,679 | 5.9% |
Ecuador | 378 | 375 | 0.7% | 362 | 4.3% |
Mexico | 21,801 | 21,892 | -0.4% | 21,857 | -0.3% |
Peru | 1,460 | 1,436 | 1.7% | 1,408 | 3.7% |
Total RGUs | 83,333 | 83,350 | 0.0% | 82,719 | 0.7% |
(1) Fixed Line, Broadband and Television (Cable & DTH). |
América Móvil Consolidated Results
The continued expansion of the U.S. economy through the summer, with strong job creation even in the face of historically high levels of employment, ended up pushing 10 year U.S. Treasury yields decisively above 3%, bringing about a new bout of dollar strength that affected emerging markets in general, including several of the currencies in the region where we operate, more importantly in Argentina and Brazil. This effect was partially offset by the reduced political un-certainty in some countries with their currencies appreciating vs. the U.S. dollar as their presidential elections were left behind (Mexico and Colombia).
Our revenues were just shy of 250 billion Mexican pesos in the third quarter, rep-resenting a 2.1% increase from the year-earlier quarter. At constant exchange rates service revenues were up 3.4% year-on-year, their best performance in five quarters, with mobile postpaid revenues leading the way at 8.6%, followed by fixed-broadband revenues at 6.2%.
Best performance in sevice revenues in five quarters
Service revenues increased practically across the board, with Mexico posting a 4.7% increase and Paraguay and Costa Rica growing 13.0% and 7.9%, respectively. Given the country's high inflation rate, our Argentina revenues are expanding at a pace in the mid-20s per-cent.
Mobile service revenue growth was strong in Mex-ico and Brazil at 9.5% and 10.5%, respectively. Mo-bile ARPUs rose 13% in Brazil, 11% in the U.S. and 8% in Mexico. Overall our data traffic per user rose 78.2% year-on-year doubling in Brazil, Peru and the U.S. and expanding more than 60% in Mexico, Chile, Ecuador and Guatemala. Voice traffic per user in-creased 8.8%, rising 35% in Ecuador, nearly 20% in Brazil and somewhere in the mid-teens in both Chile and Peru.
3Q18 Service Revenues(1)
(%)
+++2
2.0
30.1
34.9
33.0
Mobile PostpaidMobile PrepaidFixed Bundles(2)Fixed Voice
(1)Does not include revenues from other telcos, including interconnection and roaming.
(2)Includes Fixed-Broadband, Pay-TV and Fixed Voice in double or triple play bundles.
Mexico's service revenues up 4.7% YoY
Significant growth in mobile service revenues in Mexico and Brazil
On the fixed platform service revenues rose 9.0% in Colombia and 4.8% in both Chile and Ecuador, while they declined in Mexico, Brazil and Guatemala by 4.0%, 3.2% and 5.4%, respectively.
Fixed service revenues up in Colombia
EBITDA came in at 71.8 billion pesos in the quarter and was 7.7% higher than a year before. It represented 28.8% of revenues. The release of certain provisions in Brazil pertaining to Claro having won a legal case disputing the legality of a regime that set taxes on taxes (in this case ICMS on top of PIS-COFINS) explains approximately 1 percentage point of the margin. At constant exchange rates EBITDA was up 13.0% in the quarter; it would have increased 8.6% in the absence of the reserve release mentioned above.
EBITDA of MxP 72Bn, +13% YoY at constant Fx
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