August 17, 2014 Pakistan Oilfields earnings up by 19 percent Pakistan Oilfields Limited (POL) announced its FY14 result during the week posting profit after tax of PKR12.9 billion (EPS: PKR54.5) posting a growth of…
August 15, 2014 Pakistan: Attock Petroleum EPS up 11 percent Attock Petroleum Limited (APL) posted profit after tax of PKR4.3 billion (EPS: PKR52.2) for FY14 (financial year ended June 30, 2014) as compared to…
May 15, 2014 Pakistan: PSO included in MSCI FM Index In the latest MSCI semi-annual review certain Pakistani scrips were added to/removed from MSCI Frontier Market 100 Index and MSCI FM Small Cap Index….
May 1, 2014 Pakistan: PSO third quarter profit up by 18 percent Pakistan’s largest oil marketing company, Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has announced its third quarter (Jan-Mar 2014) result, posting profit after tax of Rs3.6 billion…
March 20, 2014 Pakistan: Energy Sector Victim of Incongruous Policies A closer look at Pakistan’ energy sector reveals that exploration and production activities have remained lackluster, refining sector suffers from underutilization of capacity and…
March 12, 2014 Pakistan awaits foreign investment in sugar industry Pakistan is an agrarian society and two of its large scale industries, textiles and sugar, are agro based. While textile and clothing industry contributes…
October 28, 2013 Pakistan: PSO posts better than expected results Pakistan State Oil (PSO) announced its 1QFY14 result on Monday, posting higher than expected profit after tax of PkR7.8 billion (EPS: PkR31.57), a growth…
October 28, 2013 Pakistan: OGDC, PSO and KAPCO results Pakistan’s largest E&P entity, Oil & Gas Development Company (OGDC) has announced its 1QFY14 financial results on Friday posting profit after tax of PkRs33.6…
October 14, 2013 Pakistan seeking loan for Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline At present Pakistan is suffering from two contentious problems: 1) precarious balance of payment position and 2) acute shortage of electricity and gas. The…
September 11, 2013 Pakistan: Power Sector Shifting Paradigm The Power sector of Pakistan outperformed the market (benchmark index KSE-100) by 11% during FY13, generating a return of 60% as compared to 49%…