AWB gets 21% of its income from the single desk and has to pay $102 million interest on a $5 billion loan. If you take out the single desk what do you think the earnings per share be for that year? I estimate 8 cents. If that is the case AWB is trading on a PE of 48.5 Further without the single desk its of paying off that $5 billion debt are not very good.
Check out these figures based on the '05 financial report.
Debt $5156,545,000 Interest $102,651,000 Revenue $4,703,399,000 Profit before tax and interest (5.1% of Revenue) $143,271,000 Profit - Interest $40,620,000 Profit after interest and tax (30%) $28,434,000 No of shares: 344 million EPS .08
AWB Price at posting:
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