América Móvil’s first quarter of
2022 financial and operating report
April 26th, 2022 / 1Q22
Mexico City - América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. (“América Móvil”) [BMV: AMX] [NYSE: AMX, AMOV], announced today its financial and operating results for the first quarter of 2022.
The consolidated figures exclude TracFone as it has been deemed to be a discontinued operation.
3.2M net subscriber additions
We added 3.2 million wireless subscribers in the first quarter, including 1.9 million postpaid clients with over half of which came from Brazil, 299 thousand from Colombia and 217 thousand from Austria. Our postpaid base was up 8.4% year-on-year to 110 million subscribers.
In the prepaid segment we added 1.3 million subscribers. Mexico contributed 485 thousand net adds, Colombia 349 thousand and Brazil and Central America approximately 200 thousand each.
On the fixed-line platform we obtained 232 thousand broadband accesses, including 68 thousand in Argentina and 63 thousand in Mexico, bringing the total to 30.7 million accesses, 2.3% more than a year before.
Service revenue +3.3% YoY at constant exchange rates
First quarter revenue of 211.2 billion pesos was up 2.4% year-on-year in nominal peso terms, with service revenue increasing 3.3% at both nominal and constant currency rates.
Mobile service +6.3% with prepaid and postpaid growing 8.0% and 5.2%, respectively
Mobile service revenue was up 6.3% year-on-year at constant exchange rates with prepaid revenue rising 8.0% and postpaid revenue 5.2%. Mexico, Brazil and Peru increased their mobile service revenue at a pace close to 10%.
Fixed-line service revenue decreased 1.1% on account of greater declines in voice revenue growth, down 5.8% year-on-year compared to -3.6% in the precedent quarter.
EBITDA +4.3%YoY at constant exchange rates
EBITDA rose 4.2% year-on-year to 81.1 billion pesos—4.3% at constant exchange rates—with the EBITDA margin expanding to 38.4% from 37.8% a year before.
Operating profit up 6.1% to MxP 39.8Bn
Net income at MxP 30.8Bn
Net income came in at 30.8 billion pesos which compares to 1.8 billion pesos in the year-earlier quarter, on the back of strong operating profits and a comprehensive financing income in the amount of 7.3 billion pesos driven by foreign exchange gains of 22.6 billion pesos.
Shareholder distributions of MxP 9.2Bn more than doubled YoY
With our capital expenditures mostly financed by new borrowings given the seasonality of our cash flow, shareholder distributions increased 109% in the first quarter to 9.2 billion pesos.
Net debt to EBITDAaL at 1.33x
At the end of March our net debt—excluding leases—stood at 425 billion pesos, equivalent to 1.33 times EBITDAaL. This figure already reflects the effect on EBITDA of having disposed of TracFone in November 2021.
We will host our conference call to discuss 1Q22 financial and operating results on April 27th at 9:00 am Mexico City time. To access the call please log on to www.americamovil.com/investors