Pepco Group FY25 Underlying EBITDA At €865M

Reuters12-17

Dec 17 (Reuters) - Pepco Group NV ::
*FY25 UNDERLYING EBITDA GROWTH OF 10.3% TO €865M, REFLECTING A 100 BASIS POINT Y-O-Y GROSS MARGIN IMPROVEMENT
*FY25 REVENUE GROWTH OF 8.7% TO €4,523M, WITH RETURN TO POSITIVE LFL SALES OF 2.6% (EXCLUDING FMCG +4.0%)
*FY25 UNDERLYING NET EARNINGS GROWTH OF 19.7% TO €219M REFLECTING FOCUS ON IMPROVING EBITDA CONVERSION
*CONFIRM FY26 UNDERLYING EBITDA EXPECTED TO GROW AT LEAST 9% Y-O-Y; UNDERLYING NET EARNINGS TO EXCEED 25%
*STRONG FREE CASH GENERATION OF €334M FACILITATES AN INCREASE IN DIVIDEND PAYOUT RATIO TO 25% (FROM 20%) LEADING TO A 57% GROWTH IN FY25 DIVIDEND TO 9.6 CENTS (FY24: 6.2 CENTS), IN ADDITION TO THE €50M SHARES REPURCHASED IN Q4 FY25 AND A SECOND TRANCHE OF €50M CURRENTLY BEING EXECUTED
*MID-TERM GUIDANCE RECONFIRMED ON REVENUE AND EBITDA, WITH UPGRADED TARGETS FOR GROSS MARGIN AND UNLEVERED FREE CASH FLOW
*EXPECT AT LEAST 15% UNDERLYING NET EARNINGS CAGR
*STRATEGIC RETURN TO CORE PEPCO MODEL OF CLOTHING AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE DURING FY25
*PEPCO SAYS GROUP EXPECTS TO GENERATE FY26 REVENUE GROWTH OF 6% TO 8%
*GROUP OPENED 247 NET NEW STORES IN FY25 (FY24: 379) LEADING TO TOTAL OF 4,359 STORES AT YEAR-END
*IS TARGETING APPROXIMATELY 250 NET NEW STORES ACROSS THE GROUP IN FY26
*IN FIRST FINANCIAL QUARTER-TO-DATE (1 OCT. TO 13 DEC. 2025), PEPCO LFL REVENUES WERE +3.9% EXCLUDING FMCG (LFL OF +0.3% INCLUDING FMCG)
*IN Q1 TO DATE GROUP LFL REVENUES (INCLUDING DEALZ) WERE +3.0% EXCLUDING FMCG (LFL -0.3% INCLUDING FMCG)

((Reuters Investor Briefs; email: reutersinvestor.briefs@thomsonreuters.com))
Source Date/Time = 17-DEC-202505:54:14.037 GMT

Disclaimer: Investing carries risk. This is not financial advice. The above content should not be regarded as an offer, recommendation, or solicitation on acquiring or disposing of any financial products, any associated discussions, comments, or posts by author or other users should not be considered as such either. It is solely for general information purpose only, which does not consider your own investment objectives, financial situations or needs. TTM assumes no responsibility or warranty for the accuracy and completeness of the information, investors should do their own research and may seek professional advice before investing.

Comments

We need your insight to fill this gap

Leave a comment

{"i18n":{"language":"en_US"},"isChannel":false,"data":{"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2592969817?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","thumbnail":"","is_english":true,"pubTime":"2025-12-17 14:18","share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","id":"2592969817","market":"us","top_or_hot":-1,"title":"Pepco Group FY25 Underlying EBITDA At €865M","media":"Reuters","content":"<html><body>Dec 17 (Reuters) - Pepco Group NV <pcop.wa>::<br/>*FY25 UNDERLYING EBITDA GROWTH OF 10.3% TO €865M, REFLECTING A 100 BASIS POINT Y-O-Y GROSS MARGIN IMPROVEMENT<br/>*FY25 REVENUE GROWTH OF 8.7% TO €4,523M, WITH RETURN TO POSITIVE LFL SALES OF 2.6% (EXCLUDING FMCG +4.0%)<br/>*FY25 UNDERLYING NET EARNINGS GROWTH OF 19.7% TO €219M REFLECTING FOCUS ON IMPROVING EBITDA CONVERSION<br/>*CONFIRM FY26 UNDERLYING EBITDA EXPECTED TO GROW AT LEAST 9% Y-O-Y; UNDERLYING NET EARNINGS TO EXCEED 25%<br/>*STRONG FREE CASH GENERATION OF €334M FACILITATES AN INCREASE IN DIVIDEND  PAYOUT RATIO TO 25% (FROM 20%) LEADING TO A 57% GROWTH IN FY25 DIVIDEND TO 9.6 CENTS (FY24: 6.2 CENTS), IN  ADDITION TO THE €50M SHARES REPURCHASED IN Q4 FY25 AND A SECOND TRANCHE OF €50M CURRENTLY BEING  EXECUTED<br/>*MID-TERM GUIDANCE RECONFIRMED ON REVENUE AND EBITDA, WITH UPGRADED TARGETS FOR GROSS MARGIN AND UNLEVERED FREE CASH FLOW<br/>*EXPECT AT LEAST 15% UNDERLYING NET EARNINGS CAGR<br/>*STRATEGIC RETURN TO CORE PEPCO MODEL OF CLOTHING AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE DURING FY25<br/>*PEPCO SAYS GROUP EXPECTS TO GENERATE FY26 REVENUE GROWTH OF 6% TO 8%<br/>*GROUP OPENED 247 NET NEW STORES IN FY25 (FY24: 379) LEADING TO TOTAL OF 4,359 STORES AT YEAR-END<br/>*IS TARGETING APPROXIMATELY 250 NET NEW STORES ACROSS THE GROUP IN FY26<br/>*IN FIRST FINANCIAL QUARTER-TO-DATE (1 OCT. TO 13 DEC. 2025), PEPCO LFL REVENUES WERE +3.9% EXCLUDING FMCG (LFL OF +0.3% INCLUDING FMCG)<br/>*IN Q1 TO DATE GROUP LFL REVENUES (INCLUDING DEALZ) WERE +3.0% EXCLUDING FMCG (LFL -0.3% INCLUDING FMCG)<br/><br/>  ((Reuters Investor Briefs; email: reutersinvestor.briefs@thomsonreuters.com))<br/>  Source Date/Time = 17-DEC-202505:54:14.037 GMT</pcop.wa></body></html>","source":null,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Pepco Group FY25 Underlying EBITDA At €865M</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nPepco Group FY25 Underlying EBITDA At €865M\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1032215980\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/4567337cbdf294b657b1fa87c5488b48);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Reuters </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2025-12-17 14:18</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><body>Dec 17 (Reuters) - Pepco Group NV <pcop.wa>::<br/>*FY25 UNDERLYING EBITDA GROWTH OF 10.3% TO €865M, REFLECTING A 100 BASIS POINT Y-O-Y GROSS MARGIN IMPROVEMENT<br/>*FY25 REVENUE GROWTH OF 8.7% TO €4,523M, WITH RETURN TO POSITIVE LFL SALES OF 2.6% (EXCLUDING FMCG +4.0%)<br/>*FY25 UNDERLYING NET EARNINGS GROWTH OF 19.7% TO €219M REFLECTING FOCUS ON IMPROVING EBITDA CONVERSION<br/>*CONFIRM FY26 UNDERLYING EBITDA EXPECTED TO GROW AT LEAST 9% Y-O-Y; UNDERLYING NET EARNINGS TO EXCEED 25%<br/>*STRONG FREE CASH GENERATION OF €334M FACILITATES AN INCREASE IN DIVIDEND  PAYOUT RATIO TO 25% (FROM 20%) LEADING TO A 57% GROWTH IN FY25 DIVIDEND TO 9.6 CENTS (FY24: 6.2 CENTS), IN  ADDITION TO THE €50M SHARES REPURCHASED IN Q4 FY25 AND A SECOND TRANCHE OF €50M CURRENTLY BEING  EXECUTED<br/>*MID-TERM GUIDANCE RECONFIRMED ON REVENUE AND EBITDA, WITH UPGRADED TARGETS FOR GROSS MARGIN AND UNLEVERED FREE CASH FLOW<br/>*EXPECT AT LEAST 15% UNDERLYING NET EARNINGS CAGR<br/>*STRATEGIC RETURN TO CORE PEPCO MODEL OF CLOTHING AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE DURING FY25<br/>*PEPCO SAYS GROUP EXPECTS TO GENERATE FY26 REVENUE GROWTH OF 6% TO 8%<br/>*GROUP OPENED 247 NET NEW STORES IN FY25 (FY24: 379) LEADING TO TOTAL OF 4,359 STORES AT YEAR-END<br/>*IS TARGETING APPROXIMATELY 250 NET NEW STORES ACROSS THE GROUP IN FY26<br/>*IN FIRST FINANCIAL QUARTER-TO-DATE (1 OCT. TO 13 DEC. 2025), PEPCO LFL REVENUES WERE +3.9% EXCLUDING FMCG (LFL OF +0.3% INCLUDING FMCG)<br/>*IN Q1 TO DATE GROUP LFL REVENUES (INCLUDING DEALZ) WERE +3.0% EXCLUDING FMCG (LFL -0.3% INCLUDING FMCG)<br/><br/>  ((Reuters Investor Briefs; email: reutersinvestor.briefs@thomsonreuters.com))<br/>  Source Date/Time = 17-DEC-202505:54:14.037 GMT</pcop.wa></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","isBrief":false,"type":0,"news_type":1,"symbol":"LU0689472784.USD","symbol_name":"安联收益及增长基金Cl AM AT Acc","start_time":0,"source_url":"https://api.refinitiv.com/data/news/v1/stories/urn:newsml:reuters.com:20251217:nRSD1rSX62:1","article_id":"2592969817","we_media_id":"1032215980","thumbnails":[],"rights":null,"url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2592969817","pubTimestamp":1765952315,"columns":[],"sourceInfo":null,"weMediaInfo":{"media_name":"Reuters","introduction":"Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment and technology","home_visible":1,"id":"1032215980","head_image":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/4567337cbdf294b657b1fa87c5488b48"},"summary":"Dec 17 (Reuters) - Pepco Group NV ::*FY25 UNDERLYING EBITDA GROWTH OF 10.3% TO 865M, REFLECTING A 100 BASIS POINT Y-O-Y GROSS MARGIN IMPROVEMENT*FY25 REVENUE GROWTH OF 8.7% TO 4,523M, WITH RETURN TO P","collect":0,"end_time":0,"defaultTopTitle":"","property":[],"viewcount":null,"language":"en","relate_stocks":{"LU0689472784.USD":"安联收益及增长基金Cl AM AT Acc","LU1551013342.USD":"Allianz Income and Growth Cl AMg2 DIS USD","IE00B3T34201.USD":"BNY MELLON GLOBAL EQUITY INCOME \"B\" (USD) INC","BK4606":"AI电力股","LU2449327464.USD":"HSBC GIF GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE EQUITY \"AC\" (USD) ACC","LU0742534661.SGD":"Fidelity America A-SGD (hedged)","BK4081":"电力公用事业","BK4588":"碎股","LU0943347566.SGD":"安联收益及增长平衡基金AM H2-SGD","LU2346227817.USD":"BGF SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE \"A2\" (USD) ACC","LU0820562030.AUD":"ALLIANZ INCOME AND GROWTH \"AMH2\" (AUDHDG) H2 INC","LU0048573561.USD":"FIDELITY AMERICA \"A\" (USD) INC","LU0251131958.USD":"FIDELITY AMERICA \"A\" (USD) ACC","LU0251142724.SGD":"Fidelity America A-SGD","IE00BMQBXF63.USD":"BNY MELLON GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE INCOME \"B\" (USD) INC A","LU1551013425.SGD":"Allianz Income and Growth Cl AMg2 DIS H2-SGD","IE00BZ18W340.USD":"BNY MELLON GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE INCOME \"B\" (USD) ACC","LU2362541273.HKD":"WELLINGTON NEXT GENERATION GLOBAL EQUITY \"A\" (HKD) ACC","LU2362541513.USD":"WELLINGTON NEXT GENERATION GLOBAL EQUITY \"A\" (USD) ACC","LU0820561909.HKD":"ALLIANZ INCOME AND GROWTH \"AM\" (HKD) INC","BK4585":"ETF&股票定投概念","LU2362540622.SGD":"WELLINGTON NEXT GENERATION GLOBAL EQUITY \"A\" (SGDHDG) ACC","IE00BZ18W456.USD":"BNY MELLON GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE INCOME \"B\" (USD) INC","EXC":"爱克斯龙","LU0820561818.USD":"安联收益及增长平衡基金Cl AM DIS"},"translate_title":"Pepco集团25财年基本EBITDA为8.65亿欧元","themeId":null,"isJumpTheme":false,"ttsUrl":null,"symbols_score_info":{"EXC":0.9},"content_text":"Dec 17 (Reuters) - Pepco Group NV ::*FY25 UNDERLYING EBITDA GROWTH OF 10.3% TO €865M, REFLECTING A 100 BASIS POINT Y-O-Y GROSS MARGIN IMPROVEMENT*FY25 REVENUE GROWTH OF 8.7% TO €4,523M, WITH RETURN TO POSITIVE LFL SALES OF 2.6% (EXCLUDING FMCG +4.0%)*FY25 UNDERLYING NET EARNINGS GROWTH OF 19.7% TO €219M REFLECTING FOCUS ON IMPROVING EBITDA CONVERSION*CONFIRM FY26 UNDERLYING EBITDA EXPECTED TO GROW AT LEAST 9% Y-O-Y; UNDERLYING NET EARNINGS TO EXCEED 25%*STRONG FREE CASH GENERATION OF €334M FACILITATES AN INCREASE IN DIVIDEND  PAYOUT RATIO TO 25% (FROM 20%) LEADING TO A 57% GROWTH IN FY25 DIVIDEND TO 9.6 CENTS (FY24: 6.2 CENTS), IN  ADDITION TO THE €50M SHARES REPURCHASED IN Q4 FY25 AND A SECOND TRANCHE OF €50M CURRENTLY BEING  EXECUTED*MID-TERM GUIDANCE RECONFIRMED ON REVENUE AND EBITDA, WITH UPGRADED TARGETS FOR GROSS MARGIN AND UNLEVERED FREE CASH FLOW*EXPECT AT LEAST 15% UNDERLYING NET EARNINGS CAGR*STRATEGIC RETURN TO CORE PEPCO MODEL OF CLOTHING AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE DURING FY25*PEPCO SAYS GROUP EXPECTS TO GENERATE FY26 REVENUE GROWTH OF 6% TO 8%*GROUP OPENED 247 NET NEW STORES IN FY25 (FY24: 379) LEADING TO TOTAL OF 4,359 STORES AT YEAR-END*IS TARGETING APPROXIMATELY 250 NET NEW STORES ACROSS THE GROUP IN FY26*IN FIRST FINANCIAL QUARTER-TO-DATE (1 OCT. TO 13 DEC. 2025), PEPCO LFL REVENUES WERE +3.9% EXCLUDING FMCG (LFL OF +0.3% INCLUDING FMCG)*IN Q1 TO DATE GROUP LFL REVENUES (INCLUDING DEALZ) WERE +3.0% EXCLUDING FMCG (LFL -0.3% INCLUDING FMCG)  ((Reuters Investor Briefs; email: reutersinvestor.briefs@thomsonreuters.com))  Source Date/Time = 17-DEC-202505:54:14.037 GMT","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"1","news_tag":"dataReport","news_rank":0,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.35.12","shortVersion":"4.35.12","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2592969817","isCrawlerRequest":true}