SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign Private Issuer Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of the
Securities Excha nge Act of 1934
For the month of October, 2018
Commission File Number: 1-16269
AMÉRICA MÓVIL, S.A.B. DE C.V.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
America Mobile
(Translation of Registrant´s name into English)
Lago Zurich 245
Plaza Carso / Edificio Telcel Colonia Ampliación Granada
Delegación Miguel Hidalgo, 11529, Mexico City, Mexico (Address of principal executive office)
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América Móvil's third quarter of 2018 financial and operating report
Mexico City, October 16 th , 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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 absence of the release of some provisions in Brazil. Our EBITDA margin, 28.8%, increased 2 percentage points from a year before. Approximately 1 percentage point of the margin is related to the aforementioned provisions.
· 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 foreign exchange gains but also the release of provisions in Brazil -resulted in a net profit of 18.6 billion pesos for the period.
· 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.
· 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.
América Móvil's Subsidiaries as of September 2018
Country | Brand | Business | Equity |
Participation | |||
Mexico | Telcel | wireless | 100.0% |
Telmex | wireline | 98.8% | |
Sección Amarilla (1) | other | 98.4% | |
Telvista | other | 90.0% | |
Argentina | Claro | wireless | 100.0% |
Telmex | wireline | 99.7% | |
Brazil | Claro | wireless/wireline | 97.7% |
Chile | Claro | wireless | 100.0% |
Telmex (1) | wireline | 100.0% | |
Colombia | Claro | wireless | 99.4% |
Telmex | wireline | 99.3% | |
Costa Rica | Claro | wireless | 100.0% |
Dominicana | Claro | wireless/wireline | 100.0% |
Ecuador | Claro | wireless/wireline | 100.0% |
El Salvador | Claro | wireless/wireline | 95.8% |
Guatemala | Claro | wireless/wireline | 99.3% |
Honduras | Claro | wireless/wireline | 100.0% |
Nicaragua | Claro | wireless/wireline | 99.6% |
Panama | Claro | wireless/wireline | 100.0% |
Paraguay | Claro | wireless/wireline | 100.0% |
Peru | Claro | wireless/wireline | 100.0% |
Puerto Rico | Claro | wireless/wireline | 100.0% |
Uruguay | Claro | wireless/wireline | 100.0% |
USA | Tracfone | wireless | 100.0% |
Netherlands | KPN | wireless/wireline | 16.1% |
Austria | Telekom Austria | wireless/wireline | 51.0% |
(1) Equity Participation of Telmex Internacional of which América Móvil owns 97.92%.
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 exchangeable 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.
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 constitute 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
We ended the third quarter with 362.7 million access lines. Fixed RGUs increased 0.7% from a year before-with broadband accesses rising 4.7%-while our wireless base declined 0.4%.
We gained 1.1 million mobile postpaid subscribers in the quarter, so our contract base reached 74.2 million in September, a 7.6% increase from the prior year. Brazil 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 segment with 284 thousand new accesses in the quarter, including 105 thousand in Brazil, 93 thousand in Central America and 42 thousand in Colombia.
Wireless Subscribers as of September 2018
Total (1) (Thousands)
Country | Sep '18 | Jun '18 | Var.% | Sep '17 | Var.% |
Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay | 24,130 | 24,059 | 0.3% | 24,000 | 0.5% |
Austria & CEE | 21,099 | 20,735 | 1.8% | 20,828 | 1.3% |
Brazil | 58,954 | 59,004 | -0.1% | 60,398 | -2.4% |
Central America | 15,954 | 16,074 | -0.7% | 15,653 | 1.9% |
Caribbean | 5,809 | 5,737 | 1.3% | 5,583 | 4.1% |
Chile | 6,823 | 6,991 | -2.4% | 6,880 | -0.8% |
Colombia | 29,233 | 29,168 | 0.2% | 29,112 | 0.4% |
Ecuador | 8,160 | 8,068 | 1.1% | 8,612 | -5.2% |
Mexico | 74,704 | 74,412 | 0.4% | 73,315 | 1.9% |
Peru | 12,710 | 12,656 | 0.4% | 12,238 | 3.9% |
USA | 21,793 | 22,126 | -1.5% | 23,743 | -8.2% |
Total Wireless Lines | 279,369 | 279,029 | 0.1% | 280,363 | -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 uncertainty 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, representing 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%.
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.
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