Astro net profit soars, declares first dividend


  • Business
  • Saturday, 12 Mar 2005

Astro All Asia Networks plc reported yesterday its best quarter yet and declared a maiden dividend for its financial year ended Jan 31, 2005. 

The pay-TV company posted a more than 10-fold increase in net profit to RM155.4mil, or 8.1 sen a share, for the year, beating estimates of RM137.7mil in a poll of brokers by Reuters Estimates. A year ago, its net profit was RM12.3mil, or 0.88 sen a share. 

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