{"id":20571,"date":"2023-04-27T12:11:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T10:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/?p=20571"},"modified":"2023-04-28T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T10:15:11","slug":"iberpapel-reports-growth-of-39-in-profits-despite-slowdown-in-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/iberpapel-reports-growth-of-39-in-profits-despite-slowdown-in-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Iberpapel reports growth of 39% in profits despite slowdown in demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Company announced it had signed a deposit agreement for the sale of forest land &#8211; Los Eucaliptus S.A. (11,280.72 hectares) &#8211; representing approximately 40% of the Group\u2019s total forest land area for USD55 million, a transaction which will have a very significant impact on its statement of profit or loss.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe transaction is due to close within 90 days, having provided and completed all the required information and documentation.<\/p>\n<p>Iberpapel posted a net profit of \u20ac3.91 million in 1Q23, year-on-year growth of 38.92%, despite the slowdown in demand in Europe and growth in imports, mainly from Asia.<\/p>\n<p>EBITDA was 32.13% higher year-on-year, at \u20ac8.26 million. Revenue narrowed by 14.63% to \u20ac71.22 million. Growth of 17.68% in revenue from paper sales was offset by lower revenue from electricity sales (down 71.55% due to the idling of CHP plants and price volatility) and from timber sales (down 58.37% year-on-year).<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 59.2391%;\"><em>(\u20ac million)<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 19.9275%;\">1Q23<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 19.9275%;\">1Q22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 59.2391%;\">Revenue<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 19.9275%;\">71.22<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 19.9275%;\">83.42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 59.2391%;\">EBITDA<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 19.9275%;\">8.26<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 19.9275%;\">6.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 59.2391%;\">Profit after tax<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 19.9275%;\">3.91<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 19.9275%;\">2.81<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 class=\"head-document\">Related documents<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a title=\"Press release\" href=\"\/archives\/press-release\/NdP-28-04-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" download=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Press release\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/icondescarga.png\" alt=\"Press release\" \/>Press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Company announced it had signed a deposit agreement for the sale of forest land &#8211; Los Eucaliptus S.A. (11,280.72 hectares) &#8211; representing approximately 40% of the Group\u2019s total forest land area for USD55 million, a transaction which will have a very significant impact&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}