MADRID, 1 Aug. (EUROPE PREES) –
The shares of the hotel company Meliá Hotels International have opened this Tuesday with a rise of 2.54% on the Madrid Stock Exchange to reach 6.85 euros per share after announcing on Monday the semi-annual profits that have skyrocketed to reach 46 .2 million euros and close yesterday with a rise of 2.3%.
The company chaired by Gabriel Escarrer registered a consolidated net profit of 46.2 million euros during the first half of this year, compared to 3.7 million in 2022, while revenues, excluding capital gains, increased by 22, 7%, up to 909.7 million euros, as reported by the company to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) at the close of the market.
The company closed the semester with a gross operating result (Ebitda) of 218.5 million euros (33.8%) while consolidated revenues, excluding capital gains (909.7 million euros), increased by 22, 7% until June, compared to the first half of 2022, and 9.3% in the second quarter (513.7 million euros), remaining above that registered in the same period of 2019.
The hotel company that opened this Tuesday at 6.7 euros per share raised the price of its shares in the early stages of the day until it reached 6.88 euros per share at 9:55 am.
It is thus placed among the companies that have grown the most on the Ibex so far this year with a rise of 45.4% from the 4.71 euros with which the year began.
The company was listed at 8,335 euros on January 17, 2020 (just before the pandemic) to subsequently fall, like all the tourism companies greatly affected by the arrival of the coronavirus, to 2,744 euros per share registered on 18 January. March 2020.
