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Brand In Focus: TransCentury’s Performance Financially

BY Juma · September 15, 2016 08:09 am

TransCentury is an Infrastructure Company listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange with three operating divisions across 14 countries in East, Central and Southern Africa. TCL operating divisions include;

  1. Power Infrastructure: Manufacture of Electrical Cables, Conductors, Transformers and Switchgear.
  2. Infrastructure Projects: Critical Energy and Transport Infrastructure to Support Key Pillars of the Domestic and Export Economy.
  3. Engineering: Provision of mechanical engineering, civil engineering, transport & logistics and careenage & erection services.

TransCentury  was established in 1997 by a group of leading Kenyan professionals and investors. In April 2009, the company’s shares became available to qualified investors in an over-the-counter exchange operated by Dyer & Blair Investment Bank, as part of the original shareholders aims to provide a broad base of shareholders.

The Trend in Share Price

The company has been through some financial turmoil ever since the year begun leading to its shares hitting the all-time lower in the month of April 2016 where they closed at 4.65 shillings per share.

READ: TransCentury’s Journey from Grace to Grass

Despite the challenges, the company has been doing well in terms of maintaining the share price and on several days, emerged among the top gainers at the Nairobi Security Exchange. During the month of September for instance, the company dominated the top gainer slot for more than three days, trading at between 7.55 and 9.75 shillings per share.

READ: TransCentury Maintains Top Gainer Position for Third Day Running

The line graph below shows how the share price of TransCentury, on average, has been fairing on between January to September 2016:

transcentury-share-price

TransCentury’s Profit Trends since 2010 to 2016

Every business has its low points as well as high points and TransCentury is no exception. The company has witnessed its glorious days in making profits and sometimes some lowly moments by plunging through losses. In 2014 for instance, the company recorded a loss of 2.28 billion shillings. In 2015, it recorded another loss of 646.34 million shillings but made a comeback with a profit of 1.19 billion shillings in 2016 according to the H1 Financial results.

See the line graph below:

transcentury-profit-and-loss

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The percentages were gotten by taking the results of 2014 as the base of 100%.

What matters to the shareholders in any given company are the dividends that are issued out at the end of every financial year. For TransCentury, the dividends have been growing for a period between 2009 and 2013 except for 2014 and 2015.

In 2009, the dividend was 0.05 shillings per share, in 2010 it increased to 0.20 shillings per share and in 2011 it stood at 0.25 shillings per share. See the line graph below:

transcentury-dividends

Revenue Growth of TransCentury

The revenue of TransCentury has been increasing basing on the statistics from the year 2010. In 2010, the company had 6.8 billion shillings as income revenue, in 2011, the company had 10.7 billion shillings while in 2012, it stood at 13.5 billion shillings.

See the line graph below:transcentury-revenue

The graph below shows the comparison in terms of revenues for TransCentury between 2010-2011

transcentury-revenue-income

 

Juma is an enthusiastic journalist who believes that journalism has power to change the world either negatively or positively depending on how one uses it. (020) 528 0222 or Email: info@sokodirectory.com

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