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Shell accelerates share buybacks as profits soar

Royal Dutch Shell`s profits soared to a four-year high in the third quarter, boosted by rising oil and gas prices as the company accelerated its giant $25 billion share buyback programme.

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Shell accelerates share buybacks as profits soar
Royal Dutch Shell`s profits soared to a four-year high in the third quarter, boosted by rising oil and gas prices. Image source: Reuters
Written By: Reuters
Updated: Thu, Nov 01, 2018
03:58 pm
Reuters
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Royal Dutch Shell`s profits soared to a four-year high in the third quarter, boosted by rising oil and gas prices as the company accelerated its giant $25 billion share buyback programme.

Although the $5.6 billion quarterly profit slightly missed forecasts for a fourth quarter, investors took heart from a nearly 60 percent rise in Shell`s cash generation to $12.1 billion, as deep cost savings in recent years filtered through. 

Excluding one-off charges, cashflow was the highest in 10 years at $14.7 billion, the company said on Thursday. 

"Good operational delivery across all Shell businesses produced one of our strongest-ever quarters," Chief Executive Ben van Beurden said in a statement.

Shell`s shares were down 1.8 percent by 0830 GMT, while the broader oil and gas index was down 1 percent.

The Anglo-Dutch company launched a $25 billion share buyback programme in July, making good on a promise to boost shareholder returns following the 2016 acquisition of BG Group, in a show of confidence in its cash generation and profit growth outlook.

Shell said it completed the first tranche of buybacks in October for $2 billion and was launching a second tranche on Thursday of up to $2.5 billion by Jan. 28.

"The main takeaway is the very strong cash generation," Jefferies analyst Jason Gammel told Reuters. "Continued buybacks are a pretty strong catalyst for the shares."

Shell`s shares came under pressure in recent months after three disappointing quarterly results that raised concerns over its ability to meet the share buyback target on top of $15 billion annual dividend payout, the world`s biggest.

This year`s sharp rise in oil prices to a four-year high of around $85 a barrel has boosted revenues for oil and gas companies.

British rival BP on Tuesday reported its highest quarterly profits in five years, while French rival Total`s profits rose to their highest since 2012 as both firms ramped up production.

Shell`s net income attributable to shareholders in the quarter, based on a current cost of supplies (CCS) and excluding identified items, rose 39 percent to $5.624 billion from a year ago. That compared with $4.691 billion in the second quarter, and a company-provided analysts` consensus of $5.766 billion.

Profits benefited from stronger oil and gas prices as well as bigger contributions from trading operations, though that was offset by weaker refining margins, tax and currency exchange effects.

Debt levels remained stubbornly high. Shell`s debt ratio versus company capitalisation, known as gearing, declined to 23.1 percent in the quarter from 23.6 percent at the end of June.

Oil and gas production in the quarter fell 2 percent from a year earlier to 3.596 million barrels of oil equivalent. Output was expected to rise in the fourth quarter due to lower maintenance, Shell said.

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