FINANCIAL REVIEW

Ex-Infrastructure Net Financial Position & Cash Flow (including discontinued operations)

NET CASH POSITION (EUR)

Gross cash 5.4bn
Gross debt -3.2bn
Net cash position 2.2bn

LIQUIDITY (EUR mn)

Total cash UNDRAWN LINES
5.430 991
TOTAL LIQUIDITY 6,421

CASH FLOW COMPONENTS (including discontinued operations)

  • * EBITDA excludes contribution from projects but it includes EBITDA from Services.

DEBT MATURITIES (EUR mn)

776 5 304 2.140
2022* 2023 2024 > 2025

(*) In 2022, ex-infrastructure debt includes outstanding ECP (Euro Commercial Paper), which at 31 December 2021 had a carrying amount of EUR250mn (-0.47% avg rate)

RATING

Standard & Poor’s BBB / stable
Fitch Ratings BBB / stable

Net cash position (NCP) excluding infra projects: stood at EUR2,182mn in December 2021 vs EUR1,991mn in December 2020. The main drivers of this change were:

  • Project dividends: EUR550mn vs. EUR458mn in 2020, supported by higher dividend distributions from main toll road assets. Toll Roads dividends reached EUR469mn in 2021 (EUR340mn in 2020), including EUR164mn from 407 ETR, EUR53mn from NTE and EUR167mn from LBJ which includes the extraordinary dividends following the issuance of the senior secured note (USD609mn). Airports distributed EUR3mn from the Doha airport maintenance contract (EUR29mn from Heathrow in 2020). Services dividends were EUR43mn in 2021 (EUR87mn in 2020) including EUR22mn from a maintenance contract in Murcia and EUR10mn from several projects in Amey.
  • EBITDA: EUR442mn (vs EUR242mn in 2020) which includes EUR318mn from Services.
  • Working capital evolution stood at -EUR385mn in 2021 (EUR49mn in 2020), including the -EUR83mn application (cash out), as of December 2021, of the non-cash Construction Provision registered in 1Q 2019. Construction working capital stood at -EUR254mn excluding provisions (-EUR80mn in 2020), showing the negative evolution of Budimex working capital on the back of works billed in advance & advance payments return. Services negative working capital (-EUR120mn vs EUR207mn in 2020) was mainly driven by shorter terms of payments to suppliers and 2020 tax payments deferrals derived from COVID-19 measures paid in 2021.
  • Net Investment reached EUR509mn in 2021 vs EUR215mn in 2020. Investments reached -EUR1,112mn in 2021 (-EUR286mn in 2020), most noteworthy of which were the EUR463mn invested in the I-66 Managed Lanes project, including the equity invested and the acquisition of an additional stake, along with the minority stake acquisition of 24.86% stake in IRB (EUR369mn). Divestments stood at EUR1,621mn in 2021 (EUR501mn in 2020) mostly related to the divestment of the Environmental Services division (EUR1,032mn), the sale of non-core assets in Construction (EUR529mn) including Budimex Real Estate, URBICSA, Figueras, Nalanda and SCC, Recycled Aggregates within Webber, and the sale of Norte Litoral toll road (EUR47mn).
  • Shareholder Remuneration: -EUR463mn in 2021 above -EUR377mn in 2020, including -EUR31mn from the scrip dividend and -EUR432mn from the treasury share repurchase, consisting of the share buyback program in 2021 and the purchase of discretionary treasury stock approved in October 2021.
  • Other financing cash flows: includes other cash flow movements, such as forex impact (EUR-5mn) mainly from USD from advanced payments in construction to pay for expenses in such currency and the net cash position held by Budimex Real Estate business (EUR110mn) and Environmental Services activity (EUR140mn) upon sale.

The net cash position at the end of December (EUR2,182mn) includes the net cash from Services (EUR107mn).