Whitbread 1H 2022 Pretax Loss Narrowed
Whitbread 1H 2022 Pretax Loss Narrowed
By Anthony O. Goriainoff
作者：安东尼·O·戈里亚诺夫
Whitbread PLC said Tuesday that its pretax loss narrowed for the first half of fiscal 2022 as revenue rose, and that the board was confident in returning to prepandemic U.K. profit margins.
惠特布莱德公司周二表示，由于收入增加，该公司2022财年上半年的税前亏损有所收窄，董事会有信心恢复英国的利润率。
The FTSE 100-listed hotel-and-restaurant company said that sales recovery was ahead of expectations and that although a number of uncertainties remain, U.K. like-for-like revenue per available room run rate had the potential to reach full recovery sometime in 2022.
这家在富时100指数(FTSE 100)上市的酒店和餐厅公司表示，销售复苏超出预期，尽管仍存在一些不确定性，但英国每间可用客房的同比收入有可能在2022年的某个时候实现全面复苏。
Whitbread said that for the six months ended Aug. 27, pretax loss was 19.3 million pounds ($26.6 million) compared with a pretax loss of GBP724.7 million for the first half of fiscal 2021. The company said it benefited from a GBP28.6 million profit in property disposal and a GBP8.7 million VAT claim.
惠特布莱德表示，截至8月27日的6个月，税前亏损为1930万英镑(2660万美元)，而2021财年上半年的税前亏损为7.247亿英镑。该公司表示，它受益于2.286亿英镑的财产处置利润和870万英镑的增值税索赔。
Adjusted pretax loss--a key metric which strips out exceptional and other one-off items--was GBP56.6 million compared with a loss of GBP367.4 million the year before.
调整后的税前亏损--剔除特殊和其他一次性项目的关键指标--为5660万英镑，而去年同期为亏损3.674亿英镑。
Revenue for the period was GBP661.6 million compared with GBP250.8 million the year-prior period, and consensus of GBP682.1 million, taken from FactSet and based on five analysts' forecasts.
这一时期的收入为6.616亿英镑，而去年同期为2.508亿英镑，共识为6.821亿英镑，取自FactSet，基于5位分析师的预测。
The company, which owns the budget Premier Inn hotel chain, said first-half total U.K. sales were 1.3% ahead of the same period the year before, with accommodation sales up 7.9% and occupancy at 81.2%.
这家拥有经济型Premier Inn连锁酒店的公司说，上半年英国的总销售额比去年同期增长了1.3%，住宿销售额增长了7.9%，入住率为81.2%。
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