Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization

Greece's main power utility Public Power Corporation (PPC) said on Thursday it had swung to profit in the first quarter on the back of lower energy costs. 

The utility reported net profit of 51 million euros for the January-to-March period versus a loss of €186 million last year. 

Mytilineos on Thursday reported its best ever performance in a first quarter, with net profit after minorities soaring 113% to 143 million euros, earnings per share jumping 109% to €1.04 and EBITDA rising 72% to €225 million, while turnover rose 30% to €1.358 billion. Net debt, on an adjusted basis, stood at €948 million.

ATHEX-listed Ellaktor Group said on Thursday its 2022 turnover totaled 1.04 billion euros, up 14% from the previous year, and its EBITDA jumped 45% to €239 million.

Pre-tax profit was €68 million in 2022, after a loss of €29 million in 2021, while after-tax profits totaled €519 million, boosted by the sale of a 75% equity stake in the renewable energy sources sector.

The capitalization of PeopleCert, the first Greek unicorn, currently stands at around $3 billion, while it has had growth rates of around 36% over the last decade.

It plans to become the first Greek "decacorn" with a capitalization of $100 billion.

Public Power Corporation (PPC) expects its EBITDA to jump by 30% annually after the acquisition of Enel Romania, since the latter has a leading position in the Romanian electricity market.

Greece's biggest power utility Public Power Corporation (PPC) made a core profit in the first quarter of the year, helped by a drop in energy costs due to worldwide coronavirus lockdowns, it said on Tuesday. 

OTE Telecom, Greece's biggest telecoms operator, reported on Thursday a 3.6 percent rise in core profit thanks to increased data traffic and usage of broadband services amid the coronavirus lockdown.

Leading business group Mytilineos on Thursday announced a 3.7 percent yearly increase in its turnover in the first quarter of the year, to 532.7 million euros, while enjoying strong cash flow of €1.5 billion.

Telecommunications company Forthnet, whose creditors have entered into exclusive negotiations with BC Partners for the concession of its shares and debts, announced on Thursday that it had reversed the trend of previous years in which it registered a drop in in broadband subscriptions to post growth of 0.2 percent in 2019 to 550,967, while its pay-TV (Nova) subscribers in Greece and Cyprus fell

Greece's biggest power utility Public Power Corporation (PPC) on Thursday posted a net loss of 1.68 billion euros for 2019 after it wrote down the value of its coal-fired plants.
PPC, which is 51 percent state-owned and plans to switch off all but one of its coal-fired plants by 2023, said the figure compared with a net loss of 903.8 million euros in 2018.