{"id":13848,"date":"2016-07-14T17:47:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T16:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=13848"},"modified":"2016-07-14T17:47:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T16:47:50","slug":"eph-increased-economic-performance","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/press-releases\/eph-increased-economic-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"EPH has increased its&nbsp;economic performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The consolidated revenues of&nbsp;Energetick\u00fd a&nbsp;pr\u016fmyslov\u00fd holding, a.s. (EPH) in&nbsp;2015 have increased by 25% compared to the&nbsp;previous year to EUR&nbsp;4.57 billion and&nbsp;operating profit before the&nbsp;effect of&nbsp;negative goodwill, depreciation and&nbsp;amortisation (EBITDA) reached EUR&nbsp;1.64 billion (in&nbsp;2014 EBITDA was EUR&nbsp;1.39 billion, thus an increase of&nbsp;18% in&nbsp;2015).<\/p>\n<p>The relative indebtedness expressed as a&nbsp;ratio of&nbsp;net debt to EBITDA (ie. leverage) decreased significantly to the&nbsp;level of&nbsp;2.8x, which can be, due to the&nbsp;high proportion of&nbsp;infrastructure assets held by EPH, considered as a&nbsp;very conservative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>In the&nbsp;area of&nbsp;acquisitions of&nbsp;regulated and&nbsp;contracted assets, we have fulfilled our priorities and&nbsp;built EP Infrastructure, the&nbsp;strongest regional infrastructure group. It has become a&nbsp;key economic pillar of&nbsp;EPH. It generates strong and&nbsp;predictable cash flow, which is almost independent of&nbsp;the&nbsp;development of&nbsp;energy prices and&nbsp;other commodities. These activities significantly stabilize the&nbsp;economic results of&nbsp;EPH &#8211; and&nbsp;combined with the&nbsp;minimal requirements of&nbsp;EPH\u2019s shareholders for the&nbsp;pay out of&nbsp;dividends &#8211; create resources for further growth of&nbsp;the&nbsp;financial profile of&nbsp;the&nbsp;group and&nbsp;for growth through acquisitions in&nbsp;the&nbsp;electricity generation sector in&nbsp;selected European markets,<\/em>&#8221; says Daniel K\u0159et\u00ednsk\u00fd, Chairman of&nbsp;the&nbsp;board of&nbsp;EPH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consolidated revenues of&nbsp;Energetick\u00fd a&nbsp;pr\u016fmyslov\u00fd holding, a.s. (EPH) in&nbsp;2015 have increased by 25% compared to the&nbsp;previous year to EUR&nbsp;4.57 billion and&nbsp;operating profit before the&nbsp;effect of&nbsp;negative goodwill, depreciation and&nbsp;amortisation (EBITDA) reached EUR&nbsp;1.64 billion (in&nbsp;2014 EBITDA was EUR&nbsp;1.39 billion, thus an increase of&nbsp;18% in&nbsp;2015). The&nbsp;relative indebtedness expressed as a&nbsp;ratio of&nbsp;net debt to EBITDA (ie. leverage) decreased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"tax-year":[17],"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[{"locale":"cs_CZ","id":13849,"post_title":"EPH v roce 2015 zv\u00fd\u0161il svou ekonomickou v\u00fdkonnost","href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/eph-v-roce-2015-zvysil-svou-ekonomickou-vykonnost\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/13848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tax-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax-year?post=13848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}