N N FLOUR MILLS SURPRISE FLOWER.

In the nine months to December 2015, Northern Nigeria Flour Mills PLC came up with a surprise flower: Higher gain on each N100 income
Or so the otherwise frightening figures for the period released last week show.
Frightening because the notice accessed from the Stock exchange site, indicated a shopping 99.3% drop in the total revenue of the company from N10877.4m to N945.5m.
This was as core revenue decreased by 93% to N749.7m from N10764.9m, and interest income dropped by 39.5% to N28m while other operating income increased by 153.5% to N167.8m from N66.2m.
An early indication of how well NN Flour Mills would prove to be equal to the task was the lower 83.6% decrease in gross profit from N411.5m to N67.6m as direct cost of producing the goods sold declined by 93.4% to N682.2m from N10353.5m.
In addition, there was also 92.9% drop in selling and distribution costs to N1.1m from N15.4m.
However, the decrease in administration cost at 19.9% from N238.1m to N190.8m was no where near the percentage drop in revenue.
The really good news was that all said and done, in spite of the huge income decline, NN Flour Mills ended the period with N55m profit which worked out at N5.82 gain on each N100 income.
This compares very favourably with the N1.92 per each N100 income recorded by December 2014 when total income was more than 10 times higher.
Good news yes but dividend does not seem in sight come year end.
SO:
* To really turn out to be the tough one that stayed atop a trying situation NN Flour Mills needs to have more effective hands-on over administration cost.
* Of course, whatever caused the huge income decline needs to be tackled as well.

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