{"id":11107,"date":"2025-08-11T14:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/?p=11107"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:02:09","slug":"lucky-cements-fy25-final-quarter-profit-down-on-missing-dividend-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/lucky-cements-fy25-final-quarter-profit-down-on-missing-dividend-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Cement\u2019s FY25 Final Quarter: Profit Down on Missing Dividend Boost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Lucky Cement (<a href=\"https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/tag\/luck\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LUCK<\/a>)<\/strong> closed FY25 with a mixed bag of results. For the April\u2013June 2025 quarter, the company earned <strong>PKR 5.7 billion<\/strong> (EPS: PKR 3.9), a <strong>39% drop<\/strong> compared to last year\u2019s PKR 9.5 billion. The main reason? A big dividend cheque from its power subsidiary, <strong>LEPCL<\/strong>, that arrived last year\u2019s 4Q never came this time; it was already booked in 3QFY25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sales and margins:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the earnings dip, business performance on the ground was healthy. Revenue rose <strong>7% YoY<\/strong> to PKR 30 billion, thanks to higher cement prices and a 3% increase in sales volumes. Gross margins improved to <strong>35.6%<\/strong> from 32.4%, driven by cheaper coal and lower power costs due to more renewable energy usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other income drop:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Other income fell <strong>73% YoY<\/strong> to PKR 2 billion because of the missing LEPCL dividend. Last year\u2019s 4Q had a PKR 6 billion boost from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lower finance costs:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Finance costs dropped 33% YoY to PKR 257 million as interest rates eased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Taxes bite harder:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The tax rate jumped to 36% from 31% last year due to the lack of non-taxable dividend income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Full-year picture:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><br>For FY25, Lucky Cement posted a profit of <strong>PKR 33.1 billion<\/strong> (EPS: PKR 22.6), up 18% from last year. The company announced a <strong>final dividend of PKR 4 per share<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key takeaway:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>LUCK\u2019s operational performance remains solid, with better margins and growing sales. But without the dividend boost from its power arm in the last quarter, profits naturally took a hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: AKD Securities<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky Cement (LUCK) closed FY25 with a mixed bag of results. For the April\u2013June 2025 quarter, the company earned PKR 5.7 billion (EPS: PKR 3.9), a 39% drop compared to last year\u2019s PKR 9.5 billion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9252,"featured_media":6838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,138],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-11107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-financials","tag-luck"],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LUCK-STOCK-PSX-1140x445.png",1140,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LUCK-STOCK-PSX-463x348.png",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LUCK-STOCK-PSX-300x188.png",300,188,true],"full":["https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LUCK-STOCK-PSX.png",1920,1200,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11108,"href":"https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions\/11108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksestocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}