Production growth of 3% from focused investment in the health of our business; underlying EBITDA of $23.9 billion and full year ordinary dividend of 435 US cents per share
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Underlying EBITDA of
$23.9 billion . Net cash generated from operating activities of$15.2 billion . -
Profit after tax attributable to owners of
(referred to as "net earnings" throughout this release) ofRio Tinto $10.1 billion , after$0.7 billion of net impairment charges, mainly relating to our Australian alumina refineries. -
Underlying earnings of
$11.8 billion , leading to a full year ordinary dividend of$7.1 billion , a 60% payout.
At year end |
2023 |
2022 |
Change |
||
Net cash generated from operating activities (US$ millions) |
15,160 |
16,134 |
(6)% |
||
Purchases of property, plant and equipment and intangible
|
7,086 |
6,750 |
5% |
||
Free cash flow¹ (US$ millions) |
7,657 |
9,010 |
(15)% |
||
Consolidated sales revenue (US$ millions) |
54,041 |
55,554 |
(3)% |
||
Underlying EBITDA¹ (US$ millions) |
23,892 |
26,272 |
(9)% |
||
Profit after tax attributable to owners of |
10,058 |
12,392 |
(19)% |
||
Underlying earnings per share (EPS)¹, ² (US cents) |
725.0 |
824.7 |
(12)% |
||
Ordinary dividend per share (US cents) |
435.0 |
492.0 |
(12)% |
||
Underlying return on capital employed (ROCE)¹, ² |
20% |
25% |
|
||
Net debt¹ (US$ millions) |
4,231 |
4,188 |
1% |
||
"We are making clear progress as we shape
"In 2023, we lifted our overall copper equivalent production by over 3% and delivered resilient financial results, with underlying EBITDA of
"We will continue paying attractive dividends and investing in the long-term strength of our business as we grow in the materials needed for a decarbonising world."
Resilient financial results, steady improvement in operational performance
Safety is our top priority. While we had zero fatalities at our managed operations in 2023, tragically four colleagues and two airline crew members died in a plane crash while travelling to our Diavik diamond mine in
Our team is committed to learning how we continuously improve safety. This remains imperative throughout 2024.
By focusing on our four objectives, and prioritising the health of our assets, our ore body knowledge and our people, we have improved our operational performance and delivered resilient financial results. We have maintained a strong financial position, which allows us to invest for the future to deliver profitable growth, while also continuing to pay attractive returns.
As part of our focus on Best Operator, we continue to roll out the Safe Production System across our business. This is a multi-year process, which is already delivering real improvements in our Pilbara iron ore operations, realising a 5 million tonne production uplift in 2023. We expect to deliver another 5 million tonne uplift in 2024.
In line with our Excel in Development objective, we advanced a number of projects, including making significant progress at the Simandou iron ore project in
The low-carbon transition continues to be at the heart of our strategy, aligned with our objective of achieving impeccable ESG credentials. In 2023, our Scope 1 and 2 emissions were 32.6Mt CO2e (32.7Mt4 in 2022), 6% below our (restated and adjusted) 2018 baseline of 34.5Mt CO2e4.
We continue to progress our six large carbon abatement programs, focusing on repowering our Pacific Aluminium operations, renewable energy, aluminium anodes, alumina process heat, minerals processing and diesel transition. In 2023, we made significant progress with our decarbonisation commitments, with two sites fully transitioning to renewable diesel (Boron is complete and we have announced that Kennecott will transition in 2024). We also focused on progressing our other promising new technologies including BlueSmeltingTM, ElysisTM and NutonTM. Key to achieving our 2030 Scope 1 and 2 decarbonisation target is the repowering of our Gladstone operations in
A significant development with respect to potentially reducing Scope 3 emissions, was the announcement in
Inclusion and diversity are imperative for the sustainable success of the business. We increased our gender diversity to 24.3% (from 22.9% in 2022). The increases were distributed across all levels of the organisation with female senior leaders increasing to 30.1% (from 28.3% in 2022).
The 2023 full year results release is available here
Footnotes
1 This financial performance indicator is a non-IFRS (as defined below) measure which is reconciled to directly comparable IFRS financial measures (non-IFRS measures). It is used internally by management to assess the performance of the business and is therefore considered relevant to readers of this document. It is presented here to give more clarity around the underlying business performance of the Group’s operations. For more information on our use of non-IFRS financial measures in this report, see the section entitled “Alternative performance measures” (APMs) and the detailed reconciliations on pages 40 to 49. Our financial results are prepared in accordance with IFRS — see page 35 for further information. Other footnotes are set out in full on page 25.
2 Comparative information has been restated to reflect the adoption of narrow scope amendments to IAS12 'Income Taxes'.
Other footnotes are set out in full on page 25 of the 2023 full year results release.
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