Annual / Quarterly Financial Statement • Mar 19, 2014
Annual / Quarterly Financial Statement
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Sonae reached outstanding results through the maintenance of a very good performance in food retail, a solid recovery in non-food retail, while enhancing its core partnerships and reinforcing its financial strength
Sonae MC continued proving its strength by
Sonae SR posted results of a very successful recovery by:
Sonae Sierra continues to have success with its strategy of recycling capital
Sonaecom achieved its strategic objective with the completion of the merger between Optimus and Zon
Sonae generated enough cash flow to further reduce its financial debt, thus further strengthening its capital structure
"Overall in 2013, the macroeconomic situation in the Iberian Peninsula, was extremely challenging. Private consumption did, however, improve significantly, during the year, achieving positive figures in the last quarter both in Portugal and Spain. These improving figures are consistent with confidence ratings, improvement in employment and improvement in family net debt.
In this environment, Sonae MC proved the strength and sustainability of its business by achieving a 4% turnover growth and the consequent strengthening of its leadership position, which demonstrates the confidence of our customers in the quality and variety of products and services that we offer at the best price. Even in a highly competitive environment, with sharply increasing promotional activity during the year, we managed to maintain the level of EBITDA, thanks to the continuous improvement of our processes, which enhanced productivity and efficiency gains. In the case of Sonae SR, the results of the turnaround measures implemented were clearly evident, both before the improvement in consumer spending and thereafter. Changes in store concepts implemented at Worten, Sport Zone and MO have shown results that proved to be successful. Moreover, Zippy continues to show signs of success in its internationalization through franchising agreements. We would like to highlight the investments that we have been making in E-commerce both in food and non food area. We launched new sites in Sports and in Electronics in Spain and reinforced our leadership in food and electronics in Portugal.
For Sonaecom, this year we accomplished the merger between Optimus and Zon, an operation that has been pursued for a long time. This merger has created a player with increased competitive strengths and ambition that, despite being in the first phases of integration, is already successfully introducing convergent products. We are confident that ZON OPTIMUS is on track to meet all challenges proposed, and the telecommunications sector will continue to be a key market segment for us. Following this merger, the Board of Directors of Sonaecom decided to launch a voluntary tender offer for the acquisition of Sonaecom shares, by exchanging the shares directly hold at ZON OPTIMUS, which not being necessary to the pursuit of Sonaecom's business purposes, thus allowing minority shareholders to have a direct exposure to ZON OPTIMUS. Following this tender offer Sonae holds, since February 20th, a direct participation of 89% in Sonaecom and Sonaecom holds a direct participation of 2% in ZON OPTIMUS' capital.
Sonae Sierra followed its strategy of recycling capital by selling mature assets and investing in attractive markets. During 2013, we inaugurated the shopping malls Boulevard Londrina and Passeio das Águas in Brazil and Solingen in Germany and we sold Parque Principado in Spain, as well as Valecenter and Airone in Italy. Already in November, we started the development of the ParkLake in Romania. In parallel, we signed 59 service contracts in 13 countries, which demonstrates the efforts that have been oriented to this area, where we want to grow. The indirect contribution of Sonae Sierra to the consolidated results of Sonae has been affected by the yields increase, which seems now to be reaching a point of stability or even reversal. In the operational part of the business, the resilience of the results proves the quality of the assets.
This year, we further strengthened our capital structure, sustained by a strong EBITDA generation, but also through the merger of Optimus and Zon, reaching a considerable net debt reduction amounting to 597 million euros. Direct net income increased compared to 2012 as a result of a higher EBIT and financial results generation. Given these results, we will propose to shareholders the increase of the dividend payment to 3.48 cents per share."
Paulo Azevedo, CEO Sonae
Following the merger between Zon and Optimus and its report using the equity method, we decided to change the way we report our results to the market by separating each business, in order to obtain more transparency between the segments: 1) Sonae Retail (Sonae MC, SR and RP); 2) Investment Management, including Software and Systems Information and Online & Media businesses from Sonaecom; 3) Sonae Sierra and 4) ZON OPTIMUS. 2012 P&L figures were restated and are designated as "2012PF" and "4Q12PF", respectively.
In 2013 Sonae MC turnover totalled 3,415 M€, 4.1% above 2012. This increase reflects, not only the selective expansion of its sales area (including 17 new Continente stores), but also the 1.4% growth in sales on a "like-forlike"1 basis. This growth is even more remarkable if we take into account the macroeconomic environment and the adjustment process which Portugal is still exposed to, with GDP falling by 1.4%2 . In 4Q13, Sonae MC sales on a "likefor-like" basis increased by 1.1%, which combined with the opening of 7 Continente stores, led to a turnover increase of 5.5% compared to 4Q12.
Thus, during this period, Sonae MC is estimated to have continued strengthening its leading market share in the Portuguese food retail sector 3 on the back of:
1 Like for like sales = Sales made by stores that operated in both periods under the same conditions. Excludes stores opened, closed or which suffered major upgrade works in one of the periods considered 2 National Institute of Statistics - Estimativa Rápida, February 2014
3 For example, A.C.Nielsen's Homescan survey YTD up until 29th December: +0.4pp market share for Sonae MC 4
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Sonae SR reached 1,210M€ turnover. Despite the reduction of 13 thousand m 2 and the impact of the negative macroeconomic evolution on the levels of consumption, particularly for the more discretionary products, sales performance ended up slightly above last year. Private consumption levels in Portugal and Spain continued to be negatively impacted by economic adjustment processes. Nevertheless, in the case of Portugal, it is estimated that the decline of consumption pace was slower, when compared to 20125 . In 4Q13, Sonae SR turnover in Portugal grew by 9% yoy (and 5% LfL), which was the result of some combined factors: 1) better signs from the GDP evolution in the 2nd half of the year; 2) the refund of holiday allowance to civil workers; 3) measures taken to reposition Sonae SR 4 main brands and 4) the strengthening of Worten6 and Sport Zone leadership position together with a double digit growth from MO turnover.
Internationally, turnover increased 5% on a LfL basis. The positive performance of the international market was driven by 1) wholesale and franchising businesses evolution and, 2) the fine tuning in businesses models and value proposals of all brands, with a special focus in the Spanish market (4Q13 was the 3 rd quarter in a row of positive LfL growth for Sport Zone in Spain). These results can be perceived as the reversal of the negative market trend for the most discretionary categories.
| Sonae SR per country | 4012 | 4013 | U.0.4 | $2012^{(1)}$ | 2013 | 4.0.4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover (million $\epsilon$ ) | 343 | 383 | 11.9% | 1,209 | 1,210 | 0.1% |
| Portugal | 256 | 279 | 8.9% | 874 | 877 | 0.3% |
| International (2) | 86 | 104 | 20.8% | 335 | 333 | $-0.5%$ |
| EBITDA (million $\epsilon$ ) | $-1$ | 16 | ÷ | $-25$ | $-1$ | 94% |
| Portugal | 14 | 26 | 90.1% | 27 | 39 40.6% | |
| International (2) | $-14$ | $-10$ | 28.5% | $-52$ | $-40$ 23.7% | |
| EBITDA margin | 0 % | 4% | 4.3 p.p | $-2%$ | 0% 1.9 p.p | |
| Portugal | 5% | 9% | 3.9 p.p | 3% | 4% 1.3 p.p | |
| International (2) | $-17%$ | $-10%$ | 6.7 p.p | $-16%$ | $-12\%$ 3.6 p.p |
Sonae SR reached a positive underlying EBITDA in 2013 which is remarkable particularly if we consider the prevailing crisis in the Iberian Peninsula. In the 4Q13, compared to the 4Q12 EBITDA recovered by 17M€, and reached 16M€. This was the result of the stronger sales evolution combined with the turnaround measures implemented, particularly the new Worten and Sport Zone concepts in Spain, the rebranding of MO with a completely new collection, as well as the product improvement of Zippy. It is also worth highlighting the successful implementation of the Omni-channel strategy at Worten, where we are integrating online and store businesses. This include the possibility of having a kiosk in the store to access the online range or to use the (reserve and) pick up service in the store.
5 Source Bank of Portugal: Boletim Económico - winter 2013
6 Source: GfK, YTD evolution until the end of November 2013 - estimated market share gain of 1pp
| apex! | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Million euros | 2012 | 2013 | % of . urnover |
| Sonae Retail | 127 | 164 | 4% |
| Sonae MC | 78 | 103 | 3% |
| Sonae SR | 34 | 32 | 3% |
| Sonae RP | 16 | 29 | 23% |
| Underlying EBITDA - capex | 206 | 209 | |
The investment for Retail business carried out in 2013 was essentially distributed among the following projects:
1) Opening of Sonae MC stores, including 1 Continente store in Portimão, which replaces the one that suffered from a fire in the Algarve; 11 Continente Modelo stores including 8 on Madeira Island; and 5 Continente Bom Dia stores.
At the end of 2013, Sonae MC operated 465 stores (583,000 m 2 ) plus 83 stores (30,000 m 2 ) under franchising agreements, including 70 "Meu Super" stores. This type of franchising store has been growing very rapidly since 2011, when we started with 9 stores. By the end of 2013 we had 70 stores and for 2014 we are expecting to have 100 stores.
3) Further consolidation of Sonae SR's store network in the international markets
| SR STORES | Stores | m 2 /Store | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2013 | 2012 | 2013 | ||
| Electronics | 182 | 179 | 698 | 706 | |
| Portugal | Sports | 82 | 76 | 799 | 838 |
| мп | 107 | 108 | 520 | 509 | |
| Zippy | 40 | 38 | 343 | 328 | |
| Flectronics | 42 | 44 | 2204 | 1912 | |
| Spain | Sports | 37 | 34 | 1225 | 1174 |
| Zippy | 45 | 40 | 324 | 308 | |
| Turkey | Zippy | 2 | 2 | 340 | 340 |
| Portugal | 411 | 401 | 637 | 642 | |
| International | 126 | 120 | 1216 | 1142 | |
| Company Operated | 537 | 521 | 773 | 757 | |
| Franchising | 31 | 58 | 311 | 294 | |
| Total SR Stores | 568 | 579 | 748 | 711 |
At the end of 2013, Sonae SR operated 521 (395,000 m 2 ) stores, including 120 outside Portugal. It should be noted that the average number of m2 in Worten in Spain has been reduced as a result of the implementation of the new concept, with smaller stores supported by the Omnichannel strategy.
| SR | Stores | M 2 /Store | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRANCHISING STORES | 2012 | 2013 | 2012 | 2013 | |
| Electronics | 4 | 4 | 433 | 433 | |
| Portugal | Sports | 2 | 2 | 623 | 623 |
| МO | 5 | 5 | 299 | 299 | |
| мo | 9 | 402 | |||
| Spain | Zippy | 1 | 157 | ||
| Malta | мo | 3 | 254 | ||
| Zippy | 3 | 3 | 203 | 203 | |
| Saudi Arabia | 7 | 10 | 355 | 312 | |
| Turkey | 4 | 4 | 133 | 96 | |
| Egypt | 1 | 1 | 370 | 370 | |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1 | 308 | 308 | |
| Azerbaijan | $\mathbf{1}$ | 1 | 331 | 331 | |
| Dominican | $\mathbf{1}$ | 2 | 173 | 218 | |
| Venezuela | Zippy | $\overline{1}$ | 3 | 213 | 172 |
| USA | 4 | 231 | |||
| Lebanon | 2 | 151 | |||
| Morocco | $\mathbf{1}$ | 205 | |||
| Qatar | $\mathbf{1}$ | 232 | |||
| St. Maarten | $\mathbf{1}$ | 92 | |||
| Jordan | $\mathbf{1}$ | 363 | |||
| Portugal | 11 | $\overline{11}$ | 407 | 407 | |
| International | 20 | 47 | 259 | 268 | |
| Total Franchising | 31 | 58 | 311 | 294 |
At the end of 2013, Sonae SR operated 58 stores under franchising agreements, including 47 outside of Portugal. It is worth highlighting the new countries reached this year with Zippy in USA, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, St. Maarten and Jordan, as well as the opening of MO in Spain and Malta, further strengthening the international expansion.
| Sonae RP | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Million euros | 2012 | 2013 | U.0.U. | 4012 | 4013 | U.0.U. |
| Turnover | 12N | 124 | 3% | 30 | 3% | |
| Underlying EBITDA | 107 | 115 | 7% | 26 | 31 | 22% |
| Underlying EBITDA margin | 89.4% | 92.4% | 3.1 p.p | 83.9% | 99.0% | 15.1 p.p |
During 2013 there were no sale and leaseback transactions.
| Investment Management | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Million euros | 2012PF | 2013 | U.0.U. | 4012PF | 4013 | U.0.U. |
| Turnover | 209 | 223 | 6% | 53 | 59 | 11% |
| Underlying EBITDA | 15. | - | ||||
| Underlying EBITDA margin | 0.2% | 6.6% | 6.4 D.D | 1.1% | 12.0% 10.9 p.p |
Investment Management underlying EBITDA totalled 15 M€ in 2013 (+15 M€), corresponding to an underlying EBITDA margin of 6.6% (6.4pp above 2012). This improvement is mainly driven by the increased weight of service revenues in total turnover of the Software and Systems Information business.
7 Geostar its reported using the equity method
MDS is the leader in the Portuguese insurance brokerage market and a top-3 player in Brazilian market. The company offers a fully integrated service and provides customized and state of the art solutions to its customers. As a member of Brokerslink, MDS integrates one of the largest groups of independent insurance brokerage firms in the world. In 2013, both the Portuguese and the Brazilian operations reinforced its operational performance and despite the unfavourable BRL-EUR exchange rate, MDS accomplished to improve its turnover and EBITDA.
| Sonae Sierra - Operational data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2013 | y.o.y. | |
| Footfall (million visitors) | 426 | 406 | |
| Europe | 318 | 303 | |
| Brazil | 107 | 10 2 | |
| Ocuppancy rate (%) | 96.0% | 94.4% | $-1.5$ p.p |
| Europe | 95.8% | 95.2% | $-0.6 p.p$ |
| Brazil | 97.0% | 92.1% | -4.9 p.p |
| Tenant sales (million euros) | 5.114 | 4,623 | $-9.6%$ |
| Europe (million euros) | 3,365 | 3.217 | $-4.4%$ |
| Brazil (million euros) | 1.749 | 1,406 | $-19.6%$ |
| Brazil (million reais) | 4.367 | 4,009 | $-8.2%$ |
| $No$ of shopping centres owned/co-owned (EOP) | 47 | 47 | 0 |
| Europe | 39 | 37 | -2 |
| Brazil | 8 | 10 | $\overline{z}$ |
| GLA owned in operating centres ('000 m2) | 1,893 | 1,896 | 0% |
| Europe | 1,553 | 1,430 | -8% |
| Brazil | 341 | 467 | 37% |
| Sonae Sierra - Financial | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2013 | y.o.y. | 4012 | 4013 | y.o.y. | |
| Turnover | 227 | 228 | 0% | 59 | 62 | 5% |
| EBITDA | 116 | 113 | $-2%$ | 30 | 30 | 0% |
| EBITDA margin | 51.2% | 49.7% | $-1.4 p.p$ | 50.4% | 47.7% | $-2.7 p.p$ |
| Direct result | 63 | 58 | -8% | 16 | 15 | -9% |
| Indirect result | $-108$ | -54 | 50% | $-79$ | -16 | 79% |
| Net results | -46 | 4 | ٠ | -63 | $-1$ | 98% |
| atributable to Sonae | $-23$ | 2 | - | $-31$ | -1 | 98% |
| OMV | 2.152 | 2.083 | -3% | |||
| NAV | 1.050 | 1,000 | $-5%$ |
Despite the increase on average yields, the "Loan-tovalue" ratio remains at a conservative level of 44% at the end of December 2013.
At ZON OPTIMUS we have a co-controlling influence through ZOPT.
| Zon optimus Indicators - Pro-forma Results Million euros |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012PF | 2013PF | u.o.u. | 4012PF | 4013PF | y.o.y. | |
| Operating revenues | 1.474 | 1,427 | $-3%$ | 370 | 356 | $-4%$ |
| FBITDA | 541 | 537 | $-1%$ | 128 | 118 | $-8%$ |
| EBITDA margin | 36.7% | 37.6% | 0.9 p.p | 34.6% | 33.2% | $-14$ p.p |
| Net results | 114 | 63 | $-45%$ | 22 | $-13$ | ٠ |
| Recurrent CAPEX | 297 | 261 | $-12%$ | 81 | 77 | $-4%$ |
| EBITDA-Recurrent CAPEX | 244 | 275 | 13% | 47 | 41 | $-13%$ |
The 4Q13 was the first full quarter of operations after the ZON OPTIMUS merger was completed at the end of August and led by the new management team as from October 1st.
| Consolidated results Million euros |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012PF | 2013 | Var | 4Q12PF | 4013 | y.o.y. | |
| Sonae MC | 3,281 | 3.415 | 4% | 876 | 924 | 5% |
| Sonae SR | 1,209 | 1,210 | 0% | 343 | 383 | 12% |
| Sonae RP | 120 | 124 | 3% | 30 | 31 | 3% |
| Investment manag. | 209 | 223 | 6% | 53 | 59 | 11% |
| E&A 1 | $-150$ | $-151$ | $-1%$ | $-37$ | $-43$ | $-16%$ |
| Turnover | 4,670 | 4,821 | 3% | 1,265 | 1,354 | 7% |
| Sonae MC | 250 | 258 | 3% | 81 | 75 | $-7%$ |
| Sonae SR | $-25$ | 0 | $-1$ | 17 | ||
| Sonae RP | 107 | 115 | 7% | 26 | 31 | 22% |
| Investment manag. | 0 | 15 | 1 | 7 | ||
| E&A 1 | $-2$ | $-10$ | -9 | $-11$ | $-25%$ | |
| Underlying EBITDA | 330 | 378 | 14% | 98 | 120 | 22% |
| Underlying EBITDA margin | 7.1% | 7.8% | 0.8 p.p | 7.8% | 8.8% | 1.1 p.p |
| Equity method results 2 | 31 | 28 | $-9%$ | 6 | 4 | $-35%$ |
| Disc.operations' results 5 | 101 | 71 | $-29%$ | 20 | 0 | |
| Non-recurrent items | 7 | $-2$ | 12 | $-2$ | ||
| EBITDA | 469 | 475 | 1% | 137 | 122 | $-11%$ |
| EBITDA margin | 10.0% | 9.8% | $-0.2 p.p$ | 10.8% | 9.0% | $-1.8$ p.p |
| D&A 4 | $-209$ | $-188$ | 10% | -56 | $-42$ | 25% |
| EBIT | 260 | 286 | 10% | 81 | 80 | $-1%$ |
| Net financial activity | -94 | $-82$ | 13% | $-24$ | $-17$ | 28% |
| EBT | 166 | 205 | 23% | 57 | 63 | 11% |
| Taxes | $-22$ | -30 | $-32%$ | -20 | $-18$ | 9% |
| Direct Results 5 | 144 | 175 | 22% | 37 | 45 | 21% |
| Indirect results 6 | $-72$ | 289 | -58 | 0 | ||
| Net income | 72 | 464 | - | $-21$ | 45 | |
| Non-controll. interests | -39 | $-145$ | $-12$ | -8 | 29% | |
| Net income group share | 33 | 319 | $-32$ | 36 |
(1) Eliminations & adjustments
(2) Equity method results: includes direct income related to investments consolidated by the equity method (mainly Sonae Sierra and Zon Optimus)
(3) impact of discontinued operations of Optimus (4) Depreciations & amortizations including provisions & impairments
(5) Direct results before non-controlling interests
(6) Includes: (i) Sonae's Sierra indirect income contribution; (ii) the non-cash capital gain with zon-optimus merger; (iii) other asset provisions for possible future liabilities in non-core operations and (iv) non-cash impairments for operational assets.
Net income attributable to the Group reached 319 M€, significantly above 2012, mostly as a consequence of the Indirect Results registered, which were strongly impacted by the non-cash gain of the merger between Zon and Optimus.
| Net invested capital Million euros |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2013 | 4.0.4. | |
| Net invested capital | 3.485 | 3.127 | -358 |
| Investment properties | Ω | ||
| Technical investment (1) | 3.166 | 2.030 | $-1.136$ |
| Financial investment | 483 | 1.364 | 881 |
| Goodwill | 658 | 610 | -48 |
| Working capital | $-822$ | $-878$ | $-55$ |
| Total shareholders funds | 1,669 | 1.908 | 240 |
| Total net debt (2) | 1,816 | 1,219 | $-597$ |
| Net debt / Invested capital | 52% | 39% | $-13.1 p.p$ |
In 2013, total shareholders' funds were 240 M€ above the same period of last year.
| Net debt Million euros |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2013 | y.o.y. | |
| Net financial debt | 1,802 | 1,214 | $-587$ |
| Retail units | 796 | 763 | $-34$ |
| Sonaecom Group (1) | 361 | $-361$ | |
| Investment management (1) | 27 | 30 | 3 |
| Holding & other | 618 | 421 | $-196$ |
| Total net debt | 1.816 | 1219 | -597 |
On October 7 th, Sierra Fund (a pan-European retail fund in which Sonae Sierra has a stake of 50.1%) and CBRE Iberian Value Added Fund sold Parque Principado Shopping Centre (Paredes Lugones, Asturias) to a company owned by INTU Properties PLC and Canada Pension Plan (CPP), for 141.5 M€.
On October 23rd, Sonae Sierra and MAB Development inaugurated Hofgarten Solingen Shopping Centre, located in the German city of Solingen. On the following day, October 24th, the centre opened its doors to 270,000 potential customers from Solingen and its surroundings. The new shopping centre will offer a wide selection of retail, service and gastronomy venues from 86 popular brands. The shops are spread over 29,000 m 2 of GLA on three levels.
On October 29th , Sonaecom announced the decision taken by its Board of Directors to make a partial and voluntary tender offer for the acquisition of a maximum of 88,479,803 shares, representing 24.16% of its own share capital. Sonaecom's shareholders were given the option to sell, in equal standing conditions, their Sonaecom shares for consideration of the directly held 37,489,324 ZON OPTIMUS shares, which are not necessary to the pursuit of Sonaecom's business purposes, thereby giving Sonaecom shareholders direct exposure to ZON OPTIMUS. Sonaecom offered an overall price equivalent to 2.45 euros per Sonaecom share, to be composed of ZON OPTIMUS shares and, where applicable, a remaining cash amount. To determine the Sonaecom/ZON OPTIMUS share trade ratio, a ZON OPTIMUS price of 5.08 euros was considered.
On October 30th , Sonae Sierra, through its subsidiary, Sonae Sierra Brasil, opened Passeio das Águas Shopping, the largest centre in the Central-Western region of Brazil, strengthening its presence in Brazil. The new centre is located in the city of Goiânia (Goiás state), has 78,000 m2 of Gross Lettable Area (GLA), with an investment of about 150M€ (466M R\$).
On December 20th, Sierra Fund, a pan-European retail fund in which Sonae Sierra has a stake of 50.1%, sold Valecenter Shopping Centre (Marcon, Venice) and Airone Shopping Centre (Monselice, Padua) to Blackstone Group, one of the largest real estate private equity firms worldwide, for 144.5 M€, a value in line with the latest independent valuation of the properties.
On February 5th 2014, following CMVM approvals, Sonaecom announced the launch of the tender offer for the acquisition of a maximum of 88,479,227 shares, representing 24.16% of its share capital. The period of the offer, during which sales orders were received, ran for two weeks, beginning on February 6 th and ending on February 19th 2014.
On February 20th 2014, the results of the offer were released. The level of acceptance reached 62%, corresponding to 54,906,831 Sonaecom shares and Euronext announced Sonaecom exclusion from the PSI-20, from February 24th 2014 onwards. Following the offer, Sonae's participation in Sonaecom increased from 74.32% to 89.02% and Sonaecom's direct participation in ZON OPTIMUS was reduced from 7.28% to 2.14%.
On March 10 th 2014, Sonae announced that it has completed, directly and through its subsidiaries, a number of financing transactions with maturities between 5 and 7 years for the total amount of 240 M€, with several financial institutions. These operations enabled Sonae to anticipate under favorable conditions a significant part of the refinancing programme of its medium and long-term credit facilities maturing up to the end of 2015.
We are cautiously optimistic regarding the macroeconomic situation in the Iberian Peninsula in 2014, for the development of our retail and shopping mall businesses. We remain, however, prudent as some of the recent macroeconomic risks have not yet been completely eliminated in Iberia. In other countries where we operate, namely, Germany, Brazil and Italy, we expect stable market conditions.
The increasingly competitive food market in Portugal, together with our resolute will to strengthen our leadership position would likely produce lower EBITDA margins, although we are confident that they will be kept at benchmark levels due to our cost efficiency competitive advantage.
In the case of Sonae SR businesses, we expect to further consolidate the turnaround, with positive effects following the ones already registered in 4Q13. We will grow into new geographies mainly through franchising agreements and continue to develop our business models with an Omni-channel strategy.
In what concerns our core partnerships, Sonae Sierra will probably benefit from a better market environment and stronger consumer confidence, which is expected to have a positive impact in the yields evolution as well as in the operational results. In the telecommunications area, we are confident that in 2014 we will progressively whiteness the positive impact of the merger process between Zon and Optimus.
As a group, we will continue to be focused on the sustainability of our core businesses, by keeping our market leadership positions in Portugal, consolidating turnaround results in Spain and enhancing our growing international avenues, which will further improve our capacity to generate cash flow, thus strengthening our balance sheet, despite the investments to be carried out and the dividends to be distributed.
In view of the net results for the financial year 2013, the Board of Directors will propose at the Shareholders' Annual General Meeting the payment of a gross dividend of 0.0348 euros per share, around 5% above the dividend distributed in the previous year. This dividend corresponds to a dividend yield of 3.3%, based on the closing price as at December 31st 2013, and to a payout ratio of 46% of the consolidated direct income attributable to equity holders of Sonae.
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The consolidated financial information contained in this report was prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS"), as adopted by the European Union. The financial information regarding quarterly and semiannual figures was not subject to audit procedures.
The accounting standard IFRS 11 - Joint Arrangements changes the accounting method of joint-controlled investments, namely eliminating the possibility of proportional consolidation of entities that fall under the concept of joint-ventures, as is the case of Sonae Sierra and Geostar. Under these terms, Sonae has decided, as it is already possible under the current standards, in anticipation of the requirement for this change to be implemented for annual reporting periods beginning on 1st January 2014 and in order to facilitate a future comparison of its financial reporting, to start reporting Sonae Sierra and Geostar according to the Equity Method (the only possible method according to this new standard) from 1 st January 2012.
Accordingly, the 2012 results of Sonae were restated to reflect these accounting changes and to provide a better understanding of the portfolio evolution.
| CAPEX | Investments in tangible and intangible assets and investments in acquisitions; Gross CAPEX, not including cash inflows from the sale of assets |
|---|---|
| Direct income | Results excluding contributions to indirect income |
| EBIT | EBT + financial results + shopping centres' direct results + other items |
| EBITDA | underlying EBITDA; + equity method results (Sonae Sierra direct results, Zon Optimus and Geostar) + the impact of discontinued operations of Optimus + non-recurrent items |
| EBITDA margin | EBITDA / Turnover |
| EBT | Direct results before non-controlling interests and taxes |
| Eliminations & adjustments | Intra-groups + consolidation adjustments + contributions from other companies not included in the identified segments |
| EOP | End of period |
| Free Cash Flow (FCF) | EBITDA - operating CAPEX - change in working capital -financial investments - financial results - income taxes |
| Financial net debt | Total net debt excluding shareholders loans |
| FMCG | Fast-moving Consumer Goods |
| GLAs | Gross Lettable Area: equivalent to the total area available to be rented in the shopping centres |
| Indirect income | Includes Sonae Sierra's results, net of taxes, arising from: (i) investment property valuations; (ii) capital gains (losses) on the sale of financial investments, joint ventures or associates; (iii) impairment losses of non current assets (including goodwill) and; (iv) provision for assets at risk. Additionally and at Sonae portfolio, it incorporates: (i) impairments in retail real estate properties, (ii) reductions in goodwill, (iii) provisions (net of taxes) for possible future liabilities and impairments related with non-core financial investments, businesses, assets that were discontinued (or in a process of being discontinued/repositioned); (iv) results from "mark to market" methodology of other current investments that will be sold or exchanged in a near future; and (v) other non-relevant issues |
| Investment properties | Shopping centres in operation owned by Sonae Sierra |
|---|---|
| Liquidity | Cash & equivalents + current investments, excluding the 7.28% participation at ZON OPTIMUS |
| Like for Like sales ("LfL") | Sales made by stores that operated in both periods under the same conditions. Excludes stores opened, closed or which suffered major upgrade works in one of the periods |
| "Loan to value" (LTV) Holding | Holding Net debt/ Investment Portfolio Gross Asset Value; gross asset value based on Market multiples, real estate NAV and market capitalization for listed companies |
| "Loan to value" Shopping Centres | Net debt / (investment properties + properties under development) |
| Net asset value (NAV) | Open market value attributable to Sonae Sierra - net debt - minorities + deferred tax liabilities |
| Net debt | Bonds + bank loans + other loans + financial leases + shareholder loans - cash, bank deposits, current investments, excluding the 7.28% participation at ZON OPTIMUS, and other long term financial applications |
| Net Invested capital | Total net debt + total shareholder funds |
| Other income | Share of results of associated undertakings + dividends |
| Other loans | Bonds, leasing and derivatives |
| Open market value (OMV) | Fair value of properties in operation and under development (100%), provided by an independent entity |
| RoIC (Return on invested capital) | EBIT(12 months) /Net invested capital |
| ROE (Return on equity) | Total net income n (equity holders)/ Shareholders' Funds n-1 (equity holders) |
| Technical investment | Tangible assets + intangible assets + other fixed assets - depreciations and amortizations |
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| (1) Includes provisions, impairments, reversion o f impairments and negative goodwill; (2) Share o f results o f associated undertakings + dividends; (3) Includes: (i) Sonae's Sierra indirect income contribution; (ii) the capital gain with zon-optimus merger; (iii) other asset provisions for possible future liabilities in non-core |
(i) Sonae's Sierra indirect income contribution; (ii) the capital gain with zon-optimus merger; (iii) other asset provisions for possible future liabilities in non-core and/ordiscontinued operations and (iv)non-cash impairments for operational assets.
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| 2012 | 2013 | y.o.y. | |
| TOTAL ASSETS | 6,035 | 5,477 | $-9.3%$ |
| Non current assets | 4,615 | 3,973 | $-13.9%$ |
| Tangible and intangible assets | 3,166 | 2,030 | $-35.9%$ |
| Goodwill | 658 | 610 | $-7.3%$ |
| Other investments | 516 | 1,177 | 127.9% |
| Deferred tax assets | 225 | 123 | $-45.2%$ |
| Others | 50 | 32 | $-35.5%$ |
| Current assets | 1,421 | 1,503 | 5.8% |
| Stocks | 538 | 589 | 9.4% |
| Trade debtors | 171 | 78 | $-54.2%$ |
| Liquidity | 378 | 366 | $-3.0%$ |
| Others | 334 | 470 | 40.9% |
| SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS | 1,669 | 1,908 | 14.4% |
| Equity holders | 1,319 | 1,564 | 18.6% |
| Attributable to minority interests | 350 | 344 | $-1.6%$ |
| LIABILITIES | 4,367 | 3,568 | $-18.3%$ |
| Non-current liabilities | 2,026 | 1,586 | $-21.7%$ |
| Bank loans | 364 | 241 | $-33.8%$ |
| Other loans | 1,323 | 1,121 | $-15.2%$ |
| Deferred tax liabilities | 137 | 121 | $-11.6%$ |
| Provisions | 114 | 51 | $-55.7%$ |
| Others | 88 | 51 | $-41.7%$ |
| Current liabilities | 2,341 | 1,983 | $-15.3%$ |
| Bank loans | 66 | 66 | 0.4% |
| Other loans | 461 | 168 | $-63.5%$ |
| Trade creditors | 1,222 | 1,162 | $-4.9%$ |
| Others | 593 | 587 | $-1.1%$ |
| SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS + LIABILITIES | 6,035 | 5,477 | $-9.3%$ |
This document may contain forward-looking information and statements, based on management's current expectations or beliefs. Forward-looking statements are statements that should not be regarded as historical facts.
These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, changes in regulation, industry and economic conditions; and the effects of competition. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as "believes," "expects," "anticipates," "projects," "intends," "should," "seeks," "estimates," "future" or similar expressions.
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Report available at Sonae's institutional website www.sonae.pt
Patrícia Vieira Pinto Head of Investor Relations [email protected] Tel.: + 351 22 010 4794
Catarina Oliveira Fernandes Head of Communication, Brand and Corporate Responsibility [email protected] Tel: + 351 22 010 4775
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