Spain's ACS reports 20% profit rise as North American sales soar



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MADRID, May 12 (Reuters) -Spanish construction giant ACS ACS.MC said on Friday its first-quarter profit rose 20% to 163 million euros ($179 million) led by soaring revenue in North America which accounts for more than half of its business.

Total sales in the first three months of the year reached 8.1 billion euros ($8.92 billion), up 17.1% from a year earlier, while revenue in the United States and Canada jumped 62%. ACS also highlighted growing revenue in Australia.

Abertis, its toll road operator in Europe, North and South America, has benefited from a recovery in highway traffic, contributing 41 million euros to the first-quarter profit.

ACS's main activities in North America, which include the construction of a battery plant for electric vehicles and the rehabilitation of viaducts and airport facilities, accounted for 66% of its total construction sales.

ACS and other Spanish construction and infrastructure companies such as Ferrovial see opportunities in the United States thanks to the Biden administration's green subsidies and incentives for major infrastructure projects.

Its international business accounted for 96% of its construction operations by revenue, with North America and Australia being the most important markets.

($1 = 0.9084 euros)



Reporting by Corina Pons; editing by Andrei Khalip and Jason Neely

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๋ฉด์ฑ…์กฐํ•ญ: XM Group ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ฒด๊ฒฐ ์ „์šฉ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์™€ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์—ฌ, ๊ฐœ์ธ์ด ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์—์„œ ๋˜๋Š” ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ—ˆ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ณ€๊ฒฝํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ™•์žฅํ•  ์˜๋„๋Š” ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์—๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์ด ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: (i) ์ด์šฉ ์•ฝ๊ด€, (ii) ์œ„ํ—˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ , (iii) ์™„์ „ ๋ฉด์ฑ…์กฐํ•ญ. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ •๋ณด์— ๋ถˆ๊ณผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ, ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์˜ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋Š” ๊ธˆ์œต ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ถŒ์œ ๋‚˜ ์ œ์•ˆ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธˆ์œต ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋Š” ์ž๋ณธ์— ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์— ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ž๋ฃŒ๋Š” ๊ต์œก/์ •๋ณด ๋ชฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ์ œ๊ณต๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ธˆ์œต, ํˆฌ์ž์„ธ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ์กฐ์–ธ ๋ฐ ๊ถŒ๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ธฐ๋ก, ๊ธˆ์œต ์ƒํ’ˆ ๋˜๋Š” ์›์น˜ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ธˆ์œต ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ์ œ์•ˆ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ถŒ์œ ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํฌํ•จํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์•ˆ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์— ํฌํ•จ๋œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์˜๊ฒฌ, ๋‰ด์Šค, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜, ๋ถ„์„, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ •๋ณด ๋˜๋Š” ์ œ3์ž ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋งํฌ์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด XM์ด ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ œ3์ž ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์‹œ์žฅ ๋…ผํ‰์œผ๋กœ์„œ "ํ˜„์žฌ" ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ œ๊ณต๋˜๋ฉฐ, ํˆฌ์ž ์กฐ์–ธ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๊ฐ€ ํˆฌ์ž ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜๋กœ ํ•ด์„๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ํˆฌ์ž ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜์˜ ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ฑ์„ ์ด‰์ง„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ณ ์•ˆ๋œ ๋ฒ•์  ์š”๊ฑด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๊ฐ€ ์˜๋„๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ค€๋น„๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ์ธ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋™์˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ, ๊ด€๋ จ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ๋ฐ ๊ทœ์ •์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆ์ผ€์ด์…˜์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ„์ฃผ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—์„œ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์•ž์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ์ •๋ณด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋น„๋…๋ฆฝ ํˆฌ์ž ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ฐ ์œ„ํ—˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ  ์•Œ๋ฆผ์„ ์ฝ๊ณ , ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์—์„œ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ „ํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ฟ ํ‚ค๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์ฝ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ฟ ํ‚ค ์„ค์ •์„ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝํ•˜์„ธ์š”.

๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ : ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ž๋ณธ์ด ์œ„ํ—˜์— ๋…ธ์ถœ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์ƒํ’ˆ์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ ํ•ฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ๊ณต์‹œ๋ฅผ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.