Five-year financial performance

All numbers presented in this appendix are the reported numbers in the respective Annual Reports of 2018 till 2022, unless restated in a later year.

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PostNL Five-year performance in million, unless indicated otherwise
2018 - 2022

 

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

Revenue

     

Parcels

1,555

1,672

2,052

2,361

2,165

Mail in the Netherlands

1,678

1,606

1,708

1,683

1,495

PostNL Other/Eliminations

(461)

(434)

(505)

(577)

(516)

PostNL

2,772

2,844

3,255

3,466

3,144

      

Normalised EBIT

     

Parcels

121

120

209

230

56

Mail in the Netherlands

130

52

96

160

107

PostNL Other

(45)

(37)

(55)

(81)

(80)

PostNL

206

135

250

308

84

      

Normalised EBIT margin

     

Parcels

7.8%

7.2%

10.2%

9.7%

2.6%

Mail in the Netherlands

7.7%

3.2%

5.6%

9.5%

7.2%

PostNL

7.4%

4.7%

7.7%

8.9%

2.7%

      

Profit for the year1

33

4

216

258

14

Profit from continuing operations1

127

72

213

228

26

Normalised comprehensive income

182

83

200

285

90

Free cash flow

(21)

107

186

288

40

      

Adjusted net debt

(614)

(736)

(407)

(203)

(467)

Consolidated equity

46

(21)

211

426

177

Cash and cash equivalents

269

480

651

848

556

      

Earnings per share (in cents)1

7.1

0.8

43.8

50.9

2.8

Leverage ratio (adjusted net debt/EBITDA)

1.9

2.6

1.0

0.4

1.9

Return on invested capital1

not reported

not reported

17.6%

16.4%

4.1%

  • 1 2022 excluding change in pension accounting classification