LONDON: BP’s fourth-quarter profit sank to $115 million, missing analysts’ forecasts, pummelled by continued weak energy demand due to the coronavirus epidemic and weak trading results.
On annual basis, BP sunk to a loss of $5.7 billion, its first in a decade after it wrote down the value of oil and gas assets by $6.5 billion as a result of sharply lowering its long-term energy prices.
Its fourth-quarter underlying replacement cost profit, the company’s definition of net income, reached $115 million, beating the $360 million loss seen in a company-provided survey of analysts.
That compared with a $86 million profit in the third quarter and a profit of $2.6 billion a year earlier.
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