The Hong Kong and China Gas Company (00003) said its profit after taxation attributable to shareholders for the six months ended 30 June 2017 rose 3.3% year-on-year to HK$4,472 million.
Basic and diluted earnings per share were HK32 cents.
Revenue amounted to HK$15,430.9 million, an increase of 8.96% from a year earlier.
Benefiting from a rise in commercial and industrial gas sales, total volume of gas sales in Hong Kong for the first half of 2017 increased by 0.8% to about 15,896 million MJ, in contrast to a slight decrease in the quantity of appliances sold impacted by different occupation periods of new residential buildings, both compared to the same period last year. As at 30 June 2017, the number of customers was 1.87 million, an increase of 13,314 since the end of 2016.
The proposed interim dividend is HK12 cents (2016: HK12 cents) per share, payable on 3 October.