News Release
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Jack Bowles, Chief Executive, BAT
(BATS.L):
"We continue to accelerate our A Better Tomorrow™ transformation at speed.
“Driven by our strong New Category momentum, (with revenue approaching £3bn), we are confident in our £5bn revenue target by 2025, and now expect New Category profitability in 2024, one year ahead of plan.
"Our New Category business delivered strong volume, revenue and market share growth and has become a significant contributor to the Group's financial delivery. In 2022, we invested more than £2bn in New Categories to drive long-term sustainable growth, while making excellent progress in reducing operating losses by 62%.
"While reported results were impacted by a number of one-off charges, we achieved a 150 bps improvement in adjusted operating margin at current rates and another year of 100% operating cash conversion demonstrating our ability to successfully navigate an increasingly challenging macro-economic environment. This enabled us to return £6.9bn to shareholders in 2022. I am proud of our people and their focus on delivery of our three strategic priorities, demonstrating once again the strength and resilience of our business.
"Looking forward, while we expect the macro-economic environment to remain challenging, we will continue to deliver and further accelerate our transformation. We will leverage our well-established multi-category brand portfolio, our new regional structure to enable even greater collaboration and accelerated decision-making and our new market archetype model to guide our strategic choices and resource allocation to further enhance returns.
"I am confident in BAT's ability to deliver long-term sustainable value for shareholders.”
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| REPORTED | ADJUSTED | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Current rates |
Vs 2021 (current) |
Current rates |
Vs 2021 (current) |
Vs 2021 (constant) |
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| Cigarette and THP volume share | -10 bps | ||||
| Cigarette and THP value share | flat | ||||
| Non-combustible consumers1 | 22.5m | +4.2m | |||
| Revenue (£m) | £27,655m | +7.7% | £27,655m | +7.7% | +2.3% |
| Revenue from New Categories (£m) | £2,894m | +40.9% | £2,894m | +40.9% | +37.0% |
| Profit from operations (£m) | £10,523m | +2.8% | £12,408m | +11.3% | +4.3% |
| Category contribution - New Categories (£m)^ | -£366m | -61.6% | -60.7% | ||
| Operating margin (%) | 38.1% | -170 bps | +44.9% | +150 bps | +90 bps |
| Diluted EPS (pence) | 291.9p | -1.3% | 371.4p | +12.9% | +5.8% |
| Net cash generated from operating activities (£m) | £10,394m | +7.0% | |||
| Adjusted cash generated from operations (£m) | £7,889m | +7.4% | +3.9% | ||
| Cash conversion (%) | +98.8% | +390 bps | +100.0% | -360 bps | |
| Borrowings2 (£m) | £43,139m | +8.8% | |||
| Adjusted Net Debt (£m) | £38,131m | +7.3% | +0.5% | ||
| Dividend per share (pence) | 230.9p | +6.0% | |||
The use of non-GAAP measures, including adjusting items and constant currencies, are further discussed from page 48 (in the preliminary announcement), with reconciliation from the most comparable IFRS measure provided.
Note
1 Internal estimate.
2 Includes lease liabilities.
^ This is an improvement in New Categories contribution as losses reduced by 61.6% (or 60.7% at constant rates of exchange).
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- New Category profitability expected in 2024, one year ahead of target
- Non-Combustible product* consumers up 4.2m to 22.5m
- Non-Combustibles now 14.8% of revenue up 2.4 ppts from 2021
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New Categories revenue up 37.0% to £2,813m** with growth in:
- Vapour (+43.8%**), THP (+26.7%**), Modern Oral (+45.6%**)
- New Category contribution losses reduced by £578m**, an improvement of 60.7%**
- Double Materiality Assessment completed
- Scope 1 & 2 Greenhouse Gas emissions down 15% vs. 2021
- Achieved target of 30% renewable energy use 3 years early
- CDP "A" for Climate Change; DJSI World Sustainability Index
Strong FY Results
- Revenue up 2.3%** driven by New Category growth and pricing
- Combustible revenue underpinned by price/mix of +4.6%
- Global Cigarette value share flat, US value share up 10 bps
- Delivered £1.9bn annualised Quantum savings, well ahead of original £1bn target, with £629m in 2022
- Adjusted profit from operations up 4.3%** absorbing a negative transactional FX impact of 1.5%
- Adjusted operating margin up 90 bps**
- Adjusted diluted EPS up 5.8%**
- Operating cash flow conversion of 100%
- Adjusted net debt/Adjusted EBITDA 2.89x
- 6.0% dividend growth
* Based on the weight of evidence and assuming a complete switch from cigarette smoking. These products are not risk free and are addictive.
** at constant rates of exchange
2023 OUTLOOK:
- Global tobacco industry volume expected to be down c.2%.
- 3-5% organic constant currency revenue growth, reported growth impacted by timing of the transfer of the Russian and Belarusian businesses expected to close in 2023.
- Strong New Category revenue growth with further improvement in category contribution alongside incremental investment.
- Mid-single figure constant currency adjusted EPS growth, including a c.2% transactional FX headwind, with growth H2 weighted.
- Translational foreign exchange is expected to be broadly neutral on full year adjusted EPS growth.
- Operating cash flow conversion in excess of 90%.
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