Investor Presentaiton
airtel | Africa
Reducing HoldCo debt and improved leverage ratio
Cash upstream diversified across the regions
Reduced group leverage ratio and increasing debt into OPCOS
As of Sep 30, 2022
As of Sep 30, 2021
$m
EBITDA
$m
EBITDA
29%
33%
Foreign Currency:
1,189
0.5x
2,060
1.0x
- Holdco
550
0.2x
1,540
0.7x
-
- OpCos*
639
0.3x
520
0.3x
Local Currency:
802
0.3x
556
0.3x
38%
■Nigeria East Africa Francophone Africa
Note: Over the last 12 months
Reducing Holdco Debt
- OpCos*
802
0.3x
556
0.3x
Lease liabilities
1,947
0.8x
1,366
0.7x
Total debt
3,939
1.6x
3,983
1.9x
Cash and cash equivalents
661
0.3x
856
0.4x
- Holdco
81
0.0x
243
0.1x
- OpCos
580
0.2x
613
0.3x
Total net debt
3,278
1.3x
3,127
1.5x
Mar'19
Sep'22
*EURO loan in Gabon has been classified as a local currency loan since CFA is pegged to EURO
($2,146m)
$1,232m
2,696
3,389
2,157
1,441
OpCo debt
939
Lease
1,947
liabilities
•
Net debt increase driven by increased lease liabilities.
•
OpCo market debt increased by 34% to over $1.4bn in-line with our strategy to push down
debt to the Opco level
The weighted average interest rate was 6.4% versus 5.5% in the prior period, due to
increases in the base rate, increase in local currency OpCo debt and the repayment of
HoldCo bond, which had lower rate.
550
1,218
Debt at HoldCo
Debt at OpCos
(Including lease liabilities)
Notes: Leverage is calculated as gross debt (including lease liabilities) less cash and cash equivalents (including deposits with banks) divided by the last 12 months EBITDA.
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