Thursday, 20 February 2014

MTN 2013 Earnings Climb by Up to 30% on Foreign Exchange Gain

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MTN Group Ltd. (MTN), Africa’s biggest mobile-phone company, said 2013 earnings per share jumped 25 percent to 30 percent, boosted by a foreign exchange gain of about 1.1 billion rand ($99.5 million)
The increase was mainly a result of a 2.3 billion rand currency gain in MTN Mauritius, the Johannesburg-based company said in a statement today. MTN made a foreign exchange loss of about 2.7 billion rand the previous year.
MTN is the second-biggest provider of mobile phone services to South Africans, lagging behind Vodacom Group Ltd. (VOD) It also has operations in more than 20 other countries including Nigeria, Iran and Yemen.

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