Hyundai's strong financial performance first half of 2016

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has revealed a strong financial performance during the first half of 2016. Profits for the engineering firm reached US$792.754 million (900 billion South Korean Won) for the first half of 2016. The second quarter for the April-June period was healthy, with HHI achieving $8.68142 billion (9.8627 trillion Won) in sales, while operating income stood at $490.504 million (557.2 billion Won). Meanwhile accumulated sales hit $$17.7306 billion (20.1355 trillion Won) and operating pro
November 28, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
Hyundai Heavy Industries is seeing strong financial performance
236 Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has revealed a strong financial performance during the first half of 2016. Profits for the engineering firm reached US$792.754 million (900 billion South Korean Won) for the first half of 2016.

The second quarter for the April-June period was healthy, with HHI achieving $8.68142 billion (9.8627 trillion Won) in sales, while operating income stood at $490.504 million (557.2 billion Won). Meanwhile accumulated sales hit $$17.7306 billion (20.1355 trillion Won) and operating profits for the first half of this year reached $777.01 million (882.4 billion Won).

HHI says that its strong operating profits in this period follows from restructuring measures put in place since 2014 as well as strong from its refining subsidiary.

Today, HHI also held a board of directors meeting and decided to sell Hyundai Finance Corporation and Hyundai Venture Investment Corporation as a part of the proposed management improvement plan. With the decision to dispose of all of its financial arms including Hyundai Futures, Hi Asset Management and Hi Investment & Securities, HHI will accelerate its business reorganisation efforts with much more focus on its core businesses.

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