Category: Companies
Seylan Bank net profit up 24.4 percent for full year
Feb 29, 2016 (LBO) – Seylan Bank reported a reported a record profit after tax of 3,831 million rupees for the year ended 31st December 2015, up 24.4 percent compared with the previous year, the bank said. Profit before tax increased 24.25 percent to reach 5,777 million rupees for the year. Earnings per share was […]
CT Properties acquires Keppel CT Developments for Rs550mn
Feb 29, 2016 (LBO) – CT Properties, a subsidiary of CT holdings has acquired Keppel C T Developments Private Limited (KCT) for 550 million rupees from Edmonton Private Limited, the company said in a stock exchange filing. CT Properties held a 40 percent shareholding prior to this acquisition, the company said. It has also obtained […]
Popular international stocks take a beating, say analysts
Feb 29, 2016 (LBO) – Popular stocks are taking a beating this year due to redemptions by sovereign and wealth funds, analysts say. These companies are victims of their own success as investors sell winners to meet redemptions, according to BNP Paribas Investment Partners. For instance, Amazon.com Inc. is down 18 percent in 2016 after […]
SEC reconsiders minimum public float rule: CSE
Feb 25, 2016 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s securities regulator is reconsidering the minimum public float rule as the intention of introducing such rule was not met, a senior official at the CSE said. Chief Executive Officer at the Colombo Stock Exchange Rajeeva Bandaranaike said the intention of introducing the minimum holding rule was to encourage […]
Dialog ventures into digital health with Asiri Hospitals
Feb 24, 2016 (LBO) – Digital Holdings Lanka, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dialog Axiata has entered in to a joint venture agreement with Asiri Hospital Holdings yesterday to provide digital health solutions. Digital Holdings holds 70 percent of the shareholding and Asiri Hospitals holds the balance 30 percent of the joint venture that was […]
Sri Lanka’s Nestlé unit net up 4-pct in Dec quarter
Feb 24, 2016 (LBO) – Nestlé Lanka, a unit of a Swiss-based food group said profits rose 4 percent to 640 million rupees in the December 2015 quarter from a year earlier. The firm reported earnings of 11.92 rupees per share for the quarter against 11.44 rupees reported a year earlier. In the twelve months […]
Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Tobacco unit profits down 7.7-pct in Dec
Feb 20, 2016 (LBO) – Profits at Ceylon Tobacco, a unit of British American Tobacco fell 7.7 percent to 1,834 million rupees in the December quarter, interim accounts showed. The firm reported earnings of 9.79 rupees per share for the quarter compared to earnings of 10.61 rupees per share posted a year ago. Gross revenue […]
‘s Orient Finance IPO backed by Janashakthi
Feb 18, 2016 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Orient Finance initial public offering was backed by Janashakthi Insurance given the trying market conditions for raising capital, a senior official said. “The biggest investor was the parent company (Janashakthi Insurance) because the way the restructuring went; during the amalgamation the parent had a cash out of their […]
Sri Lanka’s Sampath Bank net up 15-pct in Dec quarter
Feb 17, 2016 (LBO) – Net profits at Sri Lanka’s Sampath Bank group rose 15 percent to 1.5 billion rupees in the December quarter from a year earlier, interim accounts showed. The group reported earnings of 8.91 rupees for the quarter against 7.74 rupees per share last year. For the year ended December the group […]
Laugfs Power acquires Pams Power for 2MW mini hydro
Feb 17, 2016 (LBO) – Laugfs Power, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Laugfs Gas PLC, announced the acquisition of Pams Power (Pvt) Ltd for 200 million rupees to set up a 2MW mini hydro power plant in Ginigathhena in the Nuwara Eliya district. The plant, expected to be commissioned in early 2017 with a total investment […]
Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata net down 58-pct in December quarter
Feb 17, 2016 (LBO) – Profits at Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata group, which has interests in mobile, fixed and pay television, declined 58 percent to 620 million rupees from a year earlier in the December 2015 quarter, interim accounts showed. Revenues grew 16 percent to 20 billion rupees in the December quarter from a year […]
Norges Bank increases shareholding in Dialog Axiata
Feb 17, 2016 (LBO) – Norges Bank has increased its shareholding in Dialog Axiata PLC to 63.7 million shares as of end December, data filed with the Colombo Stock Exchange shows. Norway’s Norges Bank, which manages the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund, is now the sixth biggest shareholder in telecommunications company Dialog with a 0.8 […]