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Debt management
Debt to equity ratio is 6.40, slightly lesser than the industry average of
Recent performance (FY10) 6.64. This shows that the company is less leveraged as compared to com-
Ogra raised the benchmark for the Unaccounted-For-Gas to 7% against petitors. However the TIE ratio of 1.97 is lower than the industry average
the upper and lower target of 5.50% and 4.50% respectively fixed earlier. of 2.18, due to lower profits of the company.
Furthermore, the Late Payment Surcharge (LPS) was also allowed as Liquidity Besides this, MOL Pakistan has desired to enter into a five year con-
non-operating income of the company. Revision of UFG benchmark and The current ratio 0.83 is lower than the industry average of 0.92 due to tractual relationship with SNGPL and have suggested to sign a service
allowance of LPS as non-operating income positively impacted the earn- lesser current assets of SNGPL. However the quick ratio is 0.73, higher order in this respect. These future projects would be located in Karak,
ings per share of the Company, from 1.69 to 4.65. than the industry average of 0.70, due to high amount of receivables of Hangu and Kohat districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Gas sales in FY10 were 7.64% higher than sales of FY09, with only a SNGPL.
marginal increase in volume. However, net sales decreased by 4.32% due
to increase in gas development surcharge. Due to decrease in net sales The inventory turnover ratio decreased in FY’10 from 7.13 to 5.64.
and increase in cost of gas sold, gross profit declined by 68.10%. But the However the day sales outstanding rose from 55.54 to 96.
significant decrease in operating expenses of 74.66% due to the UFG Debt management
respite, combined with huge increase in other income of 542% which The TIE ratio declined over FY10 from 8.20 to 1.97. Although the net
was mainly interest income on late payment of gas bills, there was an income increased, finance cost also increased by a huge amount, thus
overall positive effect of 70.66% increase in operating profit. causing TIE to fall. The debt to asset ratio did not show significant
change showing no significant change in the debt-asset structure of the
firm, varying from 0.87 in FY09 to 0.086 in FY10. The debt to equity
ratio also declined slightly from 6.58 in FY09 to 6.40 in FY10, due to
slight increase in the amount of debt relative to equity.