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Fidson Healthcare PLC H1-22 Performance Review
Currently, the local drugs manufacturers are faced with an intense competition from imported products and multinational companies. For instance, 70% of the drugs consumed in Nigeria are imported. Also, almost all the local…
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Dangote Sugar Refinery H1-22 Performance Review
Dangote Sugar Refinery PLC (DANGSUGAR) recently released its H1-22 financial performance, showing top line and bottom line growth of 40.5% y/y and 60.6% y/y, respectively. In this report, one of our trainees at…
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Transcorp Hotels PLC; Proven resilience amidst strong economic headwinds.
We arrived at a target price of N24.6 per share on Transcorp hotel PLC based on a mix of two valuations metrics- the DCF model with an intrinsic share value of N27, and…
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Fiscal Stability – A Need for States to Look Inward
The existing revenue-sharing structure of the government stifles innovation and prevents the state from looking inward to improve revenue since the Federal Allocation remains intact. The major source of revenue for most States…
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The Policymaker’s Trilemma
Imagine you’re a policymaker in sub-Saharan Africa. You’ve been charged with lifting your country out of the worst health crisis in living memory, and nobody around you knows when it will end—the second…
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Financial Highlights of SEPLAT in the first 9 months of 2020
Although revenue declined, we note that the cost of sales surged during the period. Specifically, cost of sales was N103.94 billion compared to N70.65 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2019. This…
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Financial Highlights of Bua Cement Plc in 9M-2020
Gross profit grew by 13.6% compared to the corresponding period of 2019. The gross profit growth is however slow due to the fact that the growth in cost of sales was more than…
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Financial Performance of Dangote Cement Plc in the First 9 Months of 2020
In the first 9 months of 2020, Dangote Cement (DANGCEM) plc was able to grow its revenue by 12% on the basis of solid production volume (+5.6% y/y to 18.40 million tonnes) with…
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NNPC 2019 Financial Performance in Four Visuals
A simple analysis of the 2019 NNPC Group and NNPC Corporation Financial Performance
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Mission Impossible? Can Fragile States Increase Tax Revenues?
The COVID-19 shocks are proving to be especially challenging for fragile states. Pre-COVID, fiscal revenues were low in such countries and governments were struggling to raise them. Now, COVID-19 is hitting them hard…
