IN BRIEF: Celtic swings to loss as revenue drops, restrictions bite

Celtic PLC - Glasgow, Scotland-based professional football club - Revenue falla 13% to GBP60.8 ...

Alliance News 21 September, 2021 | 1:12PM
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Celtic PLC - Glasgow, Scotland-based professional football club - Revenue falla 13% to GBP60.8 million in the year ended June 30, from GBP70.2 million a year prior. Swings to GBP11.5 million pretax loss, from a profit of GBP100,000. Operating expenses including labour dropped 7.6% year-on-year to GBP74.4 million from GBP80.5 million. Gains from player sales down 61% to GBP9.4 million, from GBP24.2 million last year. Decides against declaring a dividend, in keeping with the year before.

Chair Ian Bankier says the company's loss "was driven by revenue attrition and significantly lower gains on player trading, compared to the prior financial year...The persisting trading restrictions from Covid-19 translated into lost earnings and, taking account of the seasonality in our trading, this was the key factor in the widening of our losses in the second half of the financial year."

"Conditions have improved markedly since the year end and we were delighted to welcome our fans back in July," Bankier adds.

Highlights Scottish Cup win for fourth season in a row and qualification for UEFA Europa League group stage.

Current stock price: 111.00 pence, up 0.9% on Tuesday

Year-to-date change: up 9.9%

By Scarlett Butler; scarlettbutler@alliancenews.com

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