NetLink NBN Trust - OCBC Investment 2023-02-15: Awaiting Pricing Review Outcome

• Healthy project pipeline to support ancillary project revenue.
• Pricing review is likely to complete by Mar 2023.
• Any potential adjustment to the interconnect rates will be implemented with a few months’ lag.

NetLink's 9MFY23 earnings beat expectations

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• 9MFY23 EBITDA was up 11.7% y-o-y to S$219.8m, due mostly to lower operating expenses.
• Recall that NetLink recorded a remeasurement loss of S$12.4m in 9MFY22, relating to finance lease receivables arising from the reduction in rental rates upon the renewal of the Central Office lease agreements with Singtel from Sep 21. Excluding the impact of the remeasurement loss, EBITDA would still be higher by 5.3% y-o-y on prudent cost control.
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Fibre connections continued to grow

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Chu Peng OCBC Investment Research | https://www.iocbc.com/ 2023-02-15 SGinvestors.io

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