Daniel Hajj
Analyst · Barclays. Please proceed
Good morning. Welcome to América Móvil second quarter of 2015 financial and operating results. Carlos is going to make us a summary of the second quarter results.
Carlos García Moreno: Thank you, Daniel. Good morning everyone. Well, of course to start on the second quarter, the U.S. economy seemed to have hit a soft patch subsequent economic data points which haven't been short-lived. The Fed continues to affirm that they expect 13% increase in U.S. to take place in 2015 with market expectations centering in the September month. Against this back drop, we are seeing a mixed bag of economic indicators throughout Latin America. With Mexico's economy appearing to be regaining momentum retail sales has exceeded expectations. Brazil is continuing to hold deeper into negative territory. Colombia a similar blow to the economy from the drop in our process and the rest of the region experiencing relatively stable decelerating economic growth. We ended June with 367 million access lines, 1.4% more than a year before. This includes 288 million wireless subscribers, 34 million landline and 22 million broadband accesses and 24.5 million PayTV units. Our wireless subscriber base goes to 0.8% year-on-year, while our fixed RGUs increased to 3.7% for important increases in Colombia and in the Central America, Caribbean block. Our wireless subscriber base ended June with 288 million plans after net disconnections of 850,000 subs in the quarter including 739,000 in Brazil, 582,000 in Mexico, 464,000 in Colombia and 208,000 in Argentina. On the other hand, Mexico contributed with 589,000 net gains, the Central America, Caribbean block with 448 new tops and Chile with 151,000 net additions. Our wireless postpaid base grew 5% in annual terms reaching a total of 60 million subscribers. We added 608,000 contract lines in the quarter of which 293,000 came from Mexico. On the fixed line platform broadband access increased 5.2%, PayTV access is 3.6% and voice access is 4.8% year-over-year. Triple play packages represent nearly 2/3 of the net additions of RGUs on the fixed line platform. América Móvil consolidated revenues totaled Mex$222 billion in second quarter bringing to Mex$440 billion a realistic number through June. EBITDA of Mex$58.3 billion and that's Mex$136.3 billion through June was down 5% year-on-year as the EBITDA margin declined from 32.6% to 31.1%. As constant exchange rates, average revenues were slightly down in the period minus 0.5%, while EBITDA came down by 3.1%. Mobile data revenues continue to be the main engine of revenue growth with 9% followed by PayTV at 8% and fixed data revenues at 7% both revenues were down in both platforms. Average revenues continue to shrink in Central America and the Caribbean they might tend a stable growth rate, in the South American block this are solid though declining expansion. In Europe, they are trending up and in Mexico, we were always kept coming down but seems to be stabilizing. Our operating profits reached Mex$36 billion and we're up 2.2% from the relative quarter. Depreciation and amortization charges were down 11.9% year-on-year or the prior year Telekom Austria has registered an impairment -- investment of €340 million. Our comprehensive financing costs Mex$11 billion were down 24% from the year before. Our net profit totaled Mex$14 billion and was onto Mex$0.21 per share. In the first half of the year capital expenditures Mex$70.9 billion and our share buybacks Mex$23 billion while net debt was up Mex$6.8 billion. Reclassification in May of our investment in KPN, long-term investment valued at cost to an available for sale last year valued at cost. As such the shares are now included in the cash and security backing with a current cost of Mex$39.5 billion which were deducted from gross debt to come up with the net debt for the year. It must be noted that at the end of June, the carrying cost is lower than the market value of the shares which was Mex$51.4 billion. Our net debt to EBITDA ratio stood at 1.77x EBITDA at the end of year. Thank you. And with this I would want to pass the floor back to Daniel. And also we can open to Q&A session. Daniel?