Despite the slowdown in the world economy, Votorantim Cimentos continues to operate within solid financial metrics and with high liquidity, maintaining its investment grade status with a stable outlook attributed by the credit rating agencies Moody’s and Fitch. The company’s leverage remained at stable levels and in line with our financial policy. In May, we carried out a transaction in the international market that repurchased the most expensive debt in our portfolio, taking advantage of attractive market rates. And we used funds from debt issuances in the local market with more attractive rates to finance our operation,” said Bianca Nasser, Global CFO of Votorantim Cimentos.
Consolidated net revenue totaled R$22.3 billion in 2021, an increase of 33%. Adjusted EBITDA was R$5.2 billion, up 37% over the previous year. EBITDA margin was 24%, 1 percentage point higher than in 2020. Leverage, measured by the net debt/adjusted EBITDA ratio, dropped from 1.95x to 1.55x, the best level in the last ten years....