{"id":11558,"date":"2026-08-17T06:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=11558"},"modified":"2026-08-17T06:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:01:23","slug":"romanias-romgaz-posts-3-4-stronger-net-profit-in-h1-on-tax-regulatory-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=11558","title":{"rendered":"Romania&#8217;s Romgaz posts 3.4% stronger net profit in H1 on tax, regulatory effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian natural gas producer Romgaz (BVB: SNG) reported its net profit rose 4.7% y\/y to RON 762.7 million (EUR 145 million) in Q2, while turnover fell 6.6% to RON 1.75 billion. Gross profit decreased by 8.3% to RON 796.6 million, while EBITDA fell 13.5% y\/y to RON 864.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>The decline in operating profit was partly offset by a 75.9% reduction in profit tax during the quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gas deliveries in Q2 were 10.2% lower than in Q1, while gas sales turnover fell 17.5% to RON 1.51 billion. Deliveries at regulated prices accounted for 66.8% of total volumes, down from 86.6% in Q2 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Romgaz, Romania&#8217;s largest natural gas producer, had a market capitalisation of RON 74.0 billion (EUR 14.1 billion) after its shares gained 127% y\/y.<\/p>\n<p>In the entire H1, Romgaz reported consolidated net profit of RON 1.74 billion (EUR 332 million), up 3.4% y\/y, despite an 8.6% decline in turnover to RON 3.88 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in profit was driven mainly by lower taxation and a positive effect related to amounts owed by the Ministry of Energy under the emergency gas and electricity price-capping mechanism, rather than stronger operating performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For H1, income tax expense was 44.5% lower than a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The H1 result also benefited from a net positive effect of EUR 123.8 million after Romgaz collected part of the amounts owed by the Ministry of Energy under OUG 27\/2022, which introduced measures for capping electricity and gas prices. The company also reversed an impairment adjustment recognised in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/Adel Al-Haddad)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian natural gas producer Romgaz (BVB: SNG) reported its net profit rose 4.7% y\/y to RON 762.7 million (EUR 145 million) in Q2, while turnover fell 6.6% to RON 1.75 billion. Gross profit decreased by 8.3% to RON 796.6 million, while EBITDA fell 13.5% y\/y to RON 864.6 million. The decline in operating profit was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}