FINANCIAL REVIEW

Ex-infrastructure Net Financial Position

NET CASH POSITION (EUR)

Gross cash 5.2bn
Gross debt -3.7bn
Net cash position 1.4bn

LIQUIDITY (EUR mn)

Total GROSS cash UNDRAWN LINES
5,154 964
TOTAL LIQUIDITY 6,118

CASH FLOW COMPONENTS

  • * EBITDA excludes contribution from projects but it includes EBITDA from Services.
    ** WC evolution includes the impact from IFRS16 (-EUR72mn).
    ***Ferrovial’s net cash position includes Budimex’s net cash position at 100% that reached EUR553mn in 2021 and EUR667mn in 2022.

DEBT MATURITIES (EUR mn)

718 303 759 1,867
2023* 2024 2025 > 2026

(*) In 2022, ex-infrastructure debt includes outstanding ECP (Euro Commercial Paper), which at December 31st, 2022, had a carrying amount of EUR696mn (1.82% average rate).

RATING

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

Net cash position ex-infra projects: stood at EUR1,439mn in December 2022 vs EUR2,182mn in December 2021. The main drivers of this change were:

  • Project dividends: EUR475mn, mainly from Toll Roads dividends that reached EUR388mn, including EUR237mn from 407 ETR and EUR123mn from Managed Lanes, along with EUR28mn from the rest of the toll roads. Airports distributed EUR10mn, mostly from the Doha airport maintenance contract. Construction dividends stood at EUR12mn in 2022, while Services dividends reached EUR5mn in 2022. Energy Infrastructure and Mobility reached EUR60mn of dividends, including the extraordinary dividend from Transchile (EUR51mn) upon the closing of its refinancing.
  • EBITDA: EUR228mn, including the EBITDA ex-infrastructure from Toll Roads and Airports corresponding to the headquarters.
  • Negative Working Capital evolution stood at -EUR47mn in 2022, on the back of the negative working capital from Services (-EUR60mn), offset by the positive working capital from Construction at EUR79mn. The Construction activity showed a significant improvement on the back of advanced payments in Canada (EUR160mn) and positive working capital evolution in Budimex, partially offset by the negative evolution of North America construction activity on the back of projects reaching the end of the construction phase.
  • Investments reached -EUR856mn in 2022, most noteworthy of which were the EUR322mn invested in I-66 Managed Lanes project and the EUR46mn invested in NTE 3C, along with the EUR104mn to acquire an additional 7.135% stake in I-77, together with the EUR186mn from Airports (EUR119mn from Dalaman acquisition and EUR59mn of equity invested in NTO).
  • Divestments stood at EUR429mn in 2022 mostly related to the divestment of the Services including the sale of the Infrastructure Services business in Spain (EUR175mn), Amey (EUR132mn), and the Toll Roads divestments, Algarve (EUR23mn) and Ausol (EUR111mn).
  • Shareholder Remuneration: -EUR578mn in 2022, including -EUR132mn from the scrip dividend and -EUR446mn from the treasury share repurchase, that combines the share buyback program (EUR388mn) along with the discretionary shares purchased (EUR57mn) following the Board of Directors approval in 2021 which took place from December 2021 to January 2022.
  • Other financing cash flows: include mostly the deconsolidation of net cash in divested companies and other cash flow movements, such as forex impact (-EUR113mn) from translation of cash positions and rollover of FX hedges in place at year end 2021. This effect will be more than offset by higher dividends since new hedging positions added during this year USD and CAD had a positive impact in the cash movement and lock in attractive FX levels for dividends to come. The company benefits from the appreciation of USD and CAD, because the large majority of dividends net of investments are unhedged, and leave the company positively exposed to the strength of these currencies.