Market Mover | Unilever Shares Rise 6% After Reporting 1H 2024 Results
Market Mover | Unilever Shares Rise 6% After Reporting 1H 2024 Results
July 25, 2024 - $Unilever (UL.US)$shares increased 6.32% to $60.115 in trading on Thursday.
2024年7月25日 - $聯合利華(英國) (UL.US)$週四股價上漲6.32％至60.115美元。
Today, Unilever reported its financial results for the second quarter and half-year of 2024.
今天，聯合利華報告了它2024年第二季度和上半年的財務業績。
Financial Result Highlights
財務業績亮點
1H Turnover of €31.12B, up 2.3% Y/Y; Q2 Turnover of €16.1B, up 2.2%
1H Underlying EPS of €1.62, increased 16.3% Y/Y, diluted EPS of €1.47, increased 5.4%
1H Underlying sales growth of 4.1%, with volumes up 2.6%.
1H Underlying operating margin up 250bps to 19.6%, with gross margin up 420bps.
1H Free cash flow of €2.2 billion, reflecting seasonal working capital outflow.
Quarterly dividend raised by 3%; €1.5bn share buyback commenced
1H營業額爲311.2億歐元，同比增長2.3％；Q2營業額爲161億歐元，同比增長2.2％。
1H基本每股收益爲1.62歐元，同比增長16.3％，攤薄後每股收益爲1.47歐元，同比增長5.4％。
1H基本銷售增長率爲4.1％，銷售量增長2.6％。
1H基本營業利潤率上升250個點子至19.6％，毛利率上升420個點子。
1H自由現金流爲22億歐元，反映季節性運營資本流出。
季度股息上調3％；開始進行15億歐元的股票回購。
Outlook
展望
Unilever continues to see underlying sales growth (USG) for 2024 to be within our multi-year range of 3% to 5% and expects the underlying operating margin for the full year to be at least 18%. The company also confirmed that the spinoff of its Ben & Jerry's ice cream business is on course to be completed by the end of 2025.
聯合利華繼續看好2024年的基本銷售增長率（USG）將在我們多年的3%至5%範圍內，並預計全年基本營業利潤率至少爲18%。該公司還確認，其Ben & Jerry's冰激凌業務的分拆計劃預計將於2025年底完成。