Country's largest power producer
NTPC on Thursday posted nearly five per cent rise in consolidated net profit at Rs 9,814.66 crore in the year ended March 2012, even as fuel costs surged during the same period.
The
state-run company had a consolidated net profit of Rs Rs 9,348.23 crore in the year ended March 2011.
In the last financial year, total income from operations jumped to Rs 65,893.68 crore from Rs 59,505.38 crore in the year-ago period, the company said in a statement.
NTPC's reported higher annual profit despite its fuel cost, on consolidated basis, soaring about 19 per cent to Rs 43,302.66 crore in the last fiscal. The entity incurred fuel expenses to the tune of Rs 36,414.35 crore in the year ended March 2011.
The board of directors recommended a final dividend of Rs 0.50 per share, taking the total dividend payout to Rs 4 per share for the year 2011-12.
However, the company's net profit on a standalone basis slumped 6.7 per cent to Rs 2,593.44 crore in the three months ended March. The same stood at Rs 2,781.84 crore in the year-ago period.
In the 2012 March quarter, total income from operations climbed to Rs 16,361.85 crore from Rs 15,597.31 crore in the comparable period.
The standalone figures for March quarter are unaudited.
Meanwhile, NTPC's standalone net profit rose over one per cent to Rs 9,223.73 crore in the year ended March 2012. In the previous fiscal, the same stood at Rs 9,102.59 crore.
On a standalone basis,
total income from operations climbed to Rs 62,053.58 crore in the 2011-12 financial year from Rs 56,903.19 crore in the year-ago period.
NTPC has an installed capacity of 37,514 MW.
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