In its recently released FY-2020 scorecard, NB reported a 4.3% y/y growth in Revenue, printing at N337.0bn, from N323.0bn in FY-2019. The growth in Revenue was driven by a solid recovery in H2-2020 where Revenue grew 21.2% y/y compared to 10.8% y/y decline in H1-2020. The company faced significant cost pressures during the year, emanating from inflationary pressures and naira devaluation impact on raw material costs. As a result, Gross profit fell 9.6% y/y to N118.7bn. Despite controlled Operating expenses, higher Finance costs (up 50.8% y/y) pressured profitability during the year as Pre-Tax profits and Net income plunged 50.4% and 54.3% to N11.6bn and N7.4bn, respectively. We review our forecasts for the company and present our outlook below.
