24 Nov 2009 17:37

Alliance Oil earnings to fall almost 60% in Q3 - analysts

MOSCOW. Nov 24 (Interfax) - Alliance Oil Company (formerly West Siberian Resources) will see net profit in the third quarter plunge nearly 60% in the third quarter of 2009 year-on-year to $58 million under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), analysts from nine investment companies and banks told Interfax.

Net profit in January-September 2009 will fall 55% to $155 million, the analysts said.

Revenue will decline 48% to $462 million in the third quarter and 19% to $1.88 billion in the nine months, they said. EBITDA will fall to $104 million and $289 million respectively.

Alliance Oil will publish consolidated IFRS financials for the third quarter and the first nine months of the year on November 26.

The forecasts are presented in the table below ($ mln ):

Q3 9M
Company Revenue EBITDA Net profit Revenue EBITDA Net profit
Renaissance Capital 437 123 73 1855 308 170
Troika Dialog 464 116 65 1882 301 162
Bank of America 490 110 60 1908 295 157
Goldman Sachs 460 108 59 1878 293 156
Otkrytie 466 98 59 1884 283 156
Swedbank 442 96 59 1860 281 156
Deutsche Bank 456 91 51 1874 276 148
JP Morgan 455 96 48 1873 281 145
Cheuvreux 490 102 45 1908 287 142
Consensus 462 104 58 1880 289 155
2008 actual 894 226 132 2312 579 337
Change (%) -48.3 -53.8 -56.2 -18.7 -50.0 -54.1