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POSCO Holdings Announces Q3 Performance… Consolidated Sales of KRW 18.321 trillion, Operating Profit of KRW 743 billion
POSCO Holdings announced Q3 performance with consolidated sales of KRW 18.321 trillion, operating profit of KRW 743 billion, and net profit of KRW 497 billion.
Although the recovery of the steel and secondary battery materials market is delayed, sales and operating profit maintained a similar level with a slight decrease of △1% and △1.2%, respectively, compared to the previous quarter (Q2 2024), while sales and operating profit decreased by △3.4% and △37.9%, respectively, compared to the same period last year (Q3 2023).
In the steel sector, POSCO recorded operating profit of KRW 438 billion, a KRW 20 billion improvement in earnings compared to the previous quarter, but operating profit decreased compared to the previous quarter due to the continued sluggish demand for steel in China and the impact of falling prices, which led to worsening profitability centered on Chinese corporations.
In the infrastructure sector, operating profit increased by KRW 20 billion compared to the previous quarter, recording KRW 449 billion, an increase of KRW 20 billion, as profits improved due to increased profits from POSCO International’s power generation business and POSCO E&C’s profit recovery activities such as the sale of non-core assets.
In the secondary battery materials sector, sales increased slightly due to POSCO FutureM’s brisk sales of high-nickel cathode materials, but operating profit decreased due to a loss on the valuation of cathode inventory and a decrease in sales of cathode materials. Operating loss also increased due to the completion and initial operation costs of the new secondary battery materials business corporation.
On this day, POSCO Holdings also announced a continuous investment plan to overcome difficult market conditions and preempt future growth markets in the steel and secondary battery materials sectors, the two core axes of the group’s business.
In the steel sector, it introduced an investment plan centered on the steel upstream process, including a project to build an integrated steel mill in India with an annual capacity of 5 million tons in a joint venture with JSW Group, the largest steel company in India. Through the Indian upstream process project, POSCO Group said it plans to preempt the high-growth Indian steel market and resolve trade risks by seeking synergy with the downstream process already in operation and strengthening the local supply chain amidst the trend of strengthening trade barriers.
In the secondary battery materials sector, it announced that it will establish a lithium hydroxide production system with a total annual capacity of 68,000 tons by combining the recently completed 25,000-ton brine lithium phase 1 plant in Argentina and the 43,000-ton domestic ore lithium plant this year. In addition, it emphasized that it is currently participating in the bidding for a new lithium mine in Chile and plans to continuously invest in quality assets through equity participation in the Tanzanian graphite project.
In addition, POSCO Holdings increased the number of low-profit businesses and non-core assets subject to restructuring from 120 to 125, and announced that it is accelerating the improvement of asset efficiency by completing a total of 21 restructurings by the third quarter of 2024, resulting in a cash inflow effect of KRW 625.4 billion. <저작권자 ⓒ 브레이크뉴스 대구경북 무단전재 및 재배포 금지>
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