Actualización previa al cierre antes de los resultados del año completo 2023/24
18 de abril de 2024
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Actualización previa al cierre antes de los resultados del año completo del 2023/24
National Grid today issues a pre-close update ahead of announcing results for the year ended 31 March 2024 on 23 May 2024.
We now expect Underlying EPS for 2023/24 to be in line with the prior year, at actual exchange rates and before the reporting change noted below.
In the 2023 Spring budget, the UK Government introduced 'full expensing' tax relief for qualifying capital expenditure to encourage greater levels of investment from businesses. This change became permanent in November 2023. To represent underlying profitability more accurately, and to align with UK peers, we will now report Underlying Earnings and Underlying EPS excluding the impact of deferred tax in our UK Electricity Transmission and Distribution businesses.
This reporting change will be reflected in our 2023/24 Full Year results, which will lead to an expected increase to Underlying EPS of around 8 pence per share.
Further details will be provided in our 2023/24 Full Year results, and a note on the change to our definition of Underlying Earnings and Underlying EPS can be found on the Investors section of our website esta página¹.
Consultas y contactos
Inversores y analistas:
Nick Ashworth +44 (0) 7814 355 590
Ángela Broad +44 (0) 7825 351 918
James Flanagan +44 (0) 7970 778 952
Medios de comunicación:
Dan Roberts, Brunswick +44 (0) 207 404 5959
Lyndsey Evans +44 (0) 7714 672 052
[ 1 ] https://www.nationalgrid.com/investors/resources/analyst-modelling
DECLARACIÓN DE PRECAUCIÓN
Este anuncio contiene ciertas declaraciones que no son resultados financieros reportados ni otra información histórica. Estas declaraciones son declaraciones prospectivas dentro del significado de la Sección 27A de la Ley de Valores de 1933, según enmendada, y la Sección 21E de la Ley de Bolsa de Valores de 1934, según enmendada. Estas declaraciones incluyen información con respecto a la situación financiera de National Grid (la Compañía), sus resultados de operaciones y negocios, estrategia, planes y objetivos. Palabras como 'objetivos', 'anticipa', 'espera', 'debería', 'pretende', 'planea', 'cree', 'perspectiva', 'busca', 'estima', 'objetivos', 'puede' , 'will', 'continue', 'project' y expresiones similares, así como las declaraciones en tiempo futuro, identifican declaraciones prospectivas. Este documento también hace referencia a objetivos relacionados con el clima y riesgos relacionados con el clima que se diferencian de los riesgos financieros convencionales en que son complejos, novedosos y tienden a implicar proyecciones sobre escenarios a largo plazo que están sujetos a una incertidumbre y un cambio significativos. Estas declaraciones a futuro no son garantías del desempeño futuro de National Grid y están sujetas a suposiciones, riesgos e incertidumbres que podrían causar que los resultados futuros reales difieran materialmente de aquellos expresados o implícitos en dichas declaraciones u objetivos a futuro. Many of these assumptions, risks and uncertainties relate to factors that are beyond National Grid's ability to control, predict or estimate precisely, such as changes in laws or regulations, including any arising as a result of the current energy crisis, announcements from and decisions by governmental bodies or regulators, including those relating to the RIIO-T2 and RIIO-ED2 price controls and the proposals for the future of system operation in the UK; the timing of construction and delivery by third parties of new generation projects requiring connection; breaches of, or changes in, environmental, climate change and health and safety laws or regulations, including breaches or other incidents arising from the potentially harmful nature of its activities; network failure or interruption, the inability to carry out critical non-network operations and damage to infrastructure, due to adverse weather conditions including the impact of major storms as well as the results of climate change, due to counterparties being unable to deliver physical commodities, or due to the failure of or unauthorised access to or deliberate breaches of National Grid's IT systems and supporting technology; failure to adequately forecast and respond to disruptions in energy supply; performance against regulatory targets and standards and against National Grid's peers with the aim of delivering stakeholder expectations regarding costs and efficiency savings, as well as against targets and standards designed to deliver net zero; and customers and counterparties (including financial institutions) failing to perform their obligations to the Company. Other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in this announcement include fluctuations in exchange rates, interest rates and commodity price indices; restrictions and conditions (including filing requirements) in National Grid's borrowing and debt arrangements, funding costs and access to financing; regulatory requirements for the Company to maintain financial resources in certain parts of its business and restrictions on some subsidiaries' transactions such as paying dividends, lending or levying charges; the delayed timing of recoveries and payments in National Grid's regulated businesses, and whether aspects of its activities are contestable; the funding requirements and performance of National Grid's pension schemes and other post-retirement benefit schemes; the failure to attract, develop and retain employees with the necessary competencies, including leadership and business capabilities, and any significant disputes arising with National Grid's employees or the breach of laws or regulations by its employees; the failure to respond to market developments, including competition for onshore transmission; the threats and opportunities presented by emerging technology; the failure by the Company to respond to, or meet its own commitments as a leader in relation to, climate change development activities relating to energy transition, including the integration of distributed energy resources; and the need to grow the Company's business to deliver its strategy, as well as incorrect or unforeseen assumptions or conclusions (including unanticipated costs and liabilities) relating to business development activity, including the sale of the Company's UK gas transmission and metering business, its strategic infrastructure projects and joint ventures and the separation and transfer of the electricity system operator to the public sector. Para obtener más detalles sobre estos y otros supuestos, riesgos e incertidumbres que pueden afectar a National Grid, lea la sección Informe estratégico y los "Factores de riesgo" en las páginas 225 a 228 del Informe y cuentas anuales más recientes de National Grid, actualizados por National Grid's información financiera semestral no auditada correspondiente a los seis meses finalizados el 30 de septiembre de 2023 publicada el 9 de noviembre de 2023. Además, de vez en cuando surgen nuevos factores y National Grid no puede evaluar el impacto potencial de dichos factores en sus actividades o la medida en que cualquier factor, o combinación de factores, puede causar que los resultados futuros reales difieran materialmente de los contenidos en cualquier declaración prospectiva.
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