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Old Aug 19, 2017, 12:21 pm
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Originally Posted by deadinabsentia
Can you read their profit loss statement? They make a massive operation profit.

read that again. MASSIVE operating profit.

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I don't see where you read that.

Operational loss before non-recurring items stands at -2,534. If you add the normal financing charges of 814, you get a total loss of 3,348. Hedging losses including in this loss amount to 3,230. So CX would have shown a loss anyway.
Of course, they used various non-recurring tricks like divesting of shares that had been purchased lower a long time ago. They could have shown that extraordinary capital gain at any time, but it helps embellish the awful results. But this is a one time accounting gain.
As an ongoing concern CX is losing money beyond its fuel hedges.
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