{"id":799396,"date":"2022-08-02T11:54:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/08\/02\/bouygues-beats-core-profit-expectations-in-h1-raises-telecoms-target\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T11:54:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:54:12","slug":"bouygues-beats-core-profit-expectations-in-h1-raises-telecoms-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/08\/02\/bouygues-beats-core-profit-expectations-in-h1-raises-telecoms-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouygues beats core profit expectations in H1, raises telecoms target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French conglomerate Bouygues reported on Tuesday that core earnings surpassed analysts&#8217; expectations for the first half of the year and raised its telecoms division&#8217;s targets for the full year.<\/p>\n<p>The construction, telecoms and media group posted a current operating profit of 492 million euros ($505.23 million) for the six months to June, ahead of analysts&#8217; median forecast of 409 million euros according to a company-compiled poll.<\/p>\n<p>It now expects Bouygues Telecom&#8217;s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) after leases to increase by over 8% in 2022, against around 7% previously.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Bouygues Telecom replaced its 2022 sales from services growth target of around 5% with a sales billed to customers growth target of above 5%, which it said was &#8220;more representative of its performance&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French conglomerate Bouygues reported on Tuesday that core earnings surpassed analysts&#8217; expectations for the first half of the year and raised its telecoms division&#8217;s targets for the full year. The construction, telecoms and media group posted a current operating profit of 492 million euros ($505.23 million) for the six months to June, ahead of analysts&#8217; median forecast of 409 million euros according to a company-compiled poll. It now expects Bouygues Telecom&#8217;s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) after leases to increase by over 8% in 2022, against around 7% previously. In addition, Bouygues Telecom replaced its 2022 sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}