Thank you for standing by, and welcome to Axiata's Third Quarter Results Briefing. Today, we have present with us Vivek Sood, Group CEO of Axiata, Nick Rizal Kamil, Group CFO of Axiata, as well as representatives from our operating companies. As usual, there'll be a short presentation followed by a Q&A session. Without further ado, let me hand over the conference to Vivek.
Thank you, Clare. Pleasure to brief the Quarter Three Results for 2025. I'll spend some time on our achievement against the 5x5 strategy, which we rolled out two years back. I will hand over to Nick to cover the financial numbers, and then get back in terms of where are we on our guidance, as well as what are the risks and opportunities as we see. Before I get into that details, I think it's fair to understand the company's underlying performance does get impacted by one-off items. I think it would be good for us to also take you through the results underlying, as well as what are the reported numbers, to avoid any complexity on understanding the numbers. If you remember, the 5x5 strategy was focused on five vectors of value creation and five strategy items, which operational performance items which are there.
One of them was very clearly impacting our balance sheet. As you know, when we set up this strategy, we had around MYR 11 billion Net Debt at the holding company level, which gradually we've been bringing it down. We are now at around MYR 7.2 billion as the debt, with further intentions of further bringing down. Having said that, that's basically resulted in us balance sheet improving to around 2.6x net debt to EBITDA from, if I remember, back in 2023, it was around 3.3x Net Debt to EBITDA. That's coming not just purely from paring down the holding company debt, but also the effect of the efforts being made at the various countries' operations of us. For example, Smart, with around $240 million net cash, Robi it was almost being completely pared down.
They're expecting the borrowings to be back to zero by the end of this year. There has also been a reduction in the Dialog debt. In addition to that, we've seen cash generated by EDOTCO has been used for paring down some of their debt. They've pared down around close to the MYR 100 million SOCOC amount during the year. We've also been able to manage the liabilities on our long-term bonds by buying back some of those bonds during this year. We did that also earlier during last year too. That is basically directionally our balance sheet looks much stronger than what we have earlier stated.
If I go to the next item on our strategy, which is really around the frontier market performance, I think if you look at the results, all three frontier markets, which are Bangladesh, Robi, Dialog, as well as Smart, have done well in their overall performance. Bangladesh did get impacted because of the continuing macro pressures and also intensity of competition during the last quarter. Also, I think it's good to remember that previous quarter, when you look at quarter- to- quarter performance, previous quarter, we got the benefit of two Eid. And the performance here, we are looking at relative to that. Having said that, I think Robi has been doing extremely well on cost side and improving their profit margins by paring down debt as well as lowering the finance costs. So we've seen a fairly significant growth in the profit numbers coming out of Robi.
I must say that Robi relative to the market has been performing better. Dialog has been a very great success story after the merger we did last year in June with Airtel. We have seen strong growth in mobile business, also supported by market where we are seeing improving. We have also seen the synergies coming out of the merger, which we did with Airtel, and also disciplined cost management, realizing profit growth of greater than 100%. I mean, core revenue grew year- on- year by nearly 18%. Also, the fact that this has resulted in a fairly strong cash flow generation for Dialog. Smart Cambodia continues to do well with prepaid supported by growth in ARPU as well as subscribers, and also nearly 17% growth in the enterprise segment, coupled with the cost savings has helped improve the bottom line of the frontier market.
I would say frontier markets are well financially strong, as well as performance-wise, they've been doing a reasonably good job, which is seen from the results in the quarter. The merger, which we did in April in Indonesia between XL Axiata and Smartfren, I think delivers, continue to deliver synergies in line with what was projected. Also, we are seeing market structure improving with market ARPUs seen growing by nearly 10% quarter- on- quarter for us. Also, the synergies which we had communicated earlier would deliver $300 million-$400 million synergies post integration. We should end this year by nearly between $150 million and $200 million merger synergies to be achieved. I'm happy to say the integration is in line with our plan in terms of realization of benefits we had ahead of what was planned by us.
A strong integration as well as strong outcome coming from the Indonesian merger, which we did earlier this year. In fraud business, I think we've said we are one of the strategies which we had put in place early this year was to look at value elimination and monetization of our non-telco businesses. I think we are progressing on our monetization efforts on infra business. I will not be able to share much on where we stand on that, but I think I must say that we are progressing in the right direction. EDOTCO continues to deliver strong EBITDA margin of 73.4% and also has a strong order book in hand in various markets.
Specific mention, I would say, of the Philippines as well as Pakistan market, which has been doing well in terms of getting new orders, as well as we are seeing strong organic growth coming from the other markets. We've seen around 890-odd million build-to-suits and around 1,500 colos during this particular quarter. EDOTCO remains strong in balance sheet with net debt- to- EBITDA at 3.2x, much below what was earlier, and they've been able to pare down around MYR 600 million of debt.
Net, I think while the fiber business has stabilized and we've seen quarter- on- quarter improvement in revenue in Link Net, however, given the uncertainty around the fiber or broadband connects and the intensity of competition in Indonesia, the management as well as the board has agreed to take an impairment of around IDR 167 million in this particular quarter, which does take the total impairment of goodwill for the year so far to around IDR 397 million. Having said that, I think they are going beyond just the XL orders, XL as orders to build home passes. They've built around 430,000 home passes for non-XL customers, which should help in delivering further revenue growth going forward there. I think one of the key focus for us has been delivering operating free cash flows across markets, and that does result in a fairly strong flow of dividend for us.
During the year so far, we've got around MYR 1.2 billion dividend upstream by the operating companies coming from the frontier markets, around MYR 250 million from Dialog, around MYR 140 million from Robi, and around MYR 137 million from Smart. We've also got dividends coming in from CelcomDigi of around MYR 435 million and around MYR 170 million dividend, which we got earlier in the year from XL. This was pre-merger, but we also expect some special dividend coming in quarter four. For ability to generate cash as well as upstream, that's across our working group, a good progress for us. With that, I'll hand over to Nick to take you through. I think it's very important from a result standpoint not to look at just the consolidated, but also look at how the operating companies are performing. I'll hand over to Nik to take you through that details here.
Sure. Thank you, Vivek. [Foreign language] and good afternoon, everyone. I will take us through the nine- months financial performance. Starting off on revenue, the first nine months of the year, we recorded a revenue of MYR 8.8 billion. On a year-on-year basis, this was 8.3% down and 1.5% down quarter- on- quarter. This is mainly due to the Forex translation, due to the strengthening of the Ringgit against our opco currencies. At constant currency, keeping the currency at the same level, year-on-year showed a marginally higher revenue of 0.4%. This is mainly due to Dialog and Smart, which recorded good results and positive growth. On EBITDA, we recorded MYR 4 billion for the first nine months of the year, 6.9% down year-on-year, again, mainly due to the Forex translation.
At constant currency, it was 3.2% up, which was contributed by most opcos, primarily in Dialog from the Dialog and Airtel merger. Quarter- on- quarter, on a reported basis, was 5.4% lower and mainly in all opcos except for Dialog, Boost, and ADA. EBIT, we recorded MYR 1.04 billion, 26.5% lower year-on-year, mainly due to the lower revenue and EBITDA, as I had alluded to earlier, but also mainly also driven by the Link Net impairment that we took in quarter two and also in quarter three. Excluding the impairment, our year-to-date EBIT stood at MYR 1.59 billion, which is 11.8% higher on a year-on-year basis. Quarter- on- quarter, it was up 12%, mainly due to the lower Link Net impairment in quarter three compared to quarter two. For our joint control entities share of results, for the first nine months, we recorded MYR 143 million.
For CDB, stable performance with contribution up by 3.5% to MYR 359 million from MYR 347 million in the same period last year. For XL Smart, the share of results for year-to-date 2025, it was minus MYR 217 million, mainly due to the merger integration costs, which is expected. PATAMI, on a combined basis, we recorded MYR 403 million, and combined includes the discontinued operations from XL Axiata and also EDOTCO Myanmar. On a continuing basis, for group PATAMI, we recorded MYR 378 million, which is 19.7% higher year-on-year and 15.4% higher quarter on quarter. The year-to-date PATAMI reflects the underlying performance of our opcos, as alluded to by Vivek, and based on constant currency and also adjusted for one-off items. This is mainly driven by Dialog, EDOTCO, and Robi. Quarter- on- quarter was mainly driven by EDOTCO and Boost. I will now take us through the highlights from some of our basically major opcos.
For Robi, as indicated by Vivek, the macroeconomic pressures continued to persist in Bangladesh, which impacted revenue, whereby the year-to-date revenue was 2.5% lower. However, cost efficiencies measures, including lower dealer commissions, sustained EBITDA, while EBIT also benefited from lower depreciation and amortization. Year-to-date PATAMI was 55.2% higher to BDT 6.3 billion, supported by lower finance costs from $ loan repayments and also lower Forex losses. Quarter- on- quarter, PATAMI was 5.9% lower due to the revenue shock fall, as in quarter two, we were lifted by the two Eid festivals, and quarter three also was affected by the extended monsoon that affected revenue. Next, on Dialog, year-to-date revenue grew by 6.2%, driven by an increase in the mobile segment, which can be decomposed to 19% organic growth, supported by yield correction measures and also improving RPUs, and a further 16% from Airtel consolidation.
This is in spite of us scaling down the hubbing business, which is a low-margin business, and there was a conscious business decision that was made for Dialog. EBITDA grew 40% year-on-year, underpinned by the disciplined cost management, which translated into more than 100% year-to-date growth in both EBIT and PATAMI. For Smart, year-to-date revenue grew 3.8%, supported by growth in the prepaid segment through higher RPU and also revenue-generating base, as well as a strong performance in enterprise that showed double-digit growth. Strategic savings from the backbone project and the optimized sale and marketing spend also contributed to the EBITDA growth of 6.8%, which then drove overall bottom line improvement. For Link Net, the year-to-date performance continues to reflect the strategic shift in Link Net's business model from serve to a wholesale fiber business. Year-to-date home passes, though, reached 4.4 million homes.
On a quarter-on-quarter basis, we started to see offshoots of recovery with revenue growing 6.8%, supported by revenue adjustment in the broadcasting services. However, quarter-on-quarter, EBITDA declined 0.7%, and EBIT was lower by 3.5%, mainly due to some customer bad debt provision. For EDOTCO, as alluded to by Vivek earlier, strong tenancy growth in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Cambodia. However, year-to-date revenue registered a decline, mainly again due to Forex translation impact due to the strengthening of ringgit against the EDOTCO operating company currencies, in particular Bangladesh, and one-off impacts in year-to-date 2024 that was no longer present in 2025 around price benchmarking. There was also strong performance across other major entities on a constant Forex basis. EBIT was 16.9% higher from lower depreciation and amortization due to the extension of the life of the towers at EDOTCO. This was put in place from the second half of last year.
Debt reduction, as mentioned by Vivek earlier, was able to be performed by EDOTCO. Over MYR 600 million of debt was reduced in the quarter, mainly utilizing the sale proceeds from the sale of EDOTCO Myanmar, and this has lowered the net debt- to- EBITDA to 3.2 times. Further, year-to-date PATAMI was up by 7.1%. Finally, I will take us through our balance sheet as at 30th September 2025. On a group cash basis, we closed the quarter at MYR 3.676 billion. This quarter-on-quarter decline was mainly due to the debt repayments, and also the CapEx were mainly funded by the internal liquidity. Just to basically as a recap, in quarter two, we had received the proceeds, the disposal proceeds from the Indonesia merger, and this was basically utilized to pare down debts in quarter three.
As you can see from group borrowings, at the end of September, we were down to MYR 15.8 billion, 29.1% lower year-on-year and 11% lower quarter-on-quarter. This is mainly due to the debt pared down at Holco via the Euro Medium Term Notes buyback via our liquidity management program, EDOTCO, which I had indicated earlier, and also accumulatively, the frontier markets also reduced their debts. AOFCF was at MYR 1.5 billion, up 6.1% year-on-year and more than 100% quarter-on-quarter, mainly due to the lower CapEx at Robi and Link Net. Holco cash, as you can see, is 42.5% lower quarter-on-quarter, closed at MYR 787 million, again mainly used to pare down the debt in quarter three. Holco borrowings showed a 14.6% reduction year-on-year and 8.9% reduction quarter-on-quarter, largely due to the EMTN buyback.
Just for information, since we launched the Axiata 5x5 strategy at the end of 2023, Holco debt has gone down by approximately a third or roughly about MYR 4 billion. As such, at the end of quarter three or end of September, our net debt- to- EBITDA continues to improve to 2.61 times compared to 2.76 times at the end of quarter two, which is driven by the deleveraging across the group, which overall resulted in a quarter-on-quarter MYR 1.9 billion debt reduction. With that, I will pass you back to Vivek on our headline KPIs.
Thanks, Nik. Just on the headline KPI, if you recall, we had said EBITDA, EBIT growth of high- single digit. I think we are maintaining that expectations to achieve the bias on better performance. Having said that, this is based on the baseline of RM 1.9 billion, which is based on continuing operations and excludes the XL and the EDOTCO Myanmar in the baseline. You do see us meeting or exceeding the headline KPI. Opportunities, I think we are seeing positive signs on market repair across our footprint. I mean, we talked about good traction in Indonesia. I talked about Sri Lanka, the RPUs increasing, and we've also seen that happening in Bangladesh. That's a positive trend. We believe if this trend continues, and more likely than not, is because of the fact that markets are now fully consolidated. I mean, we have Bangladesh, basically three-player market.
Sri Lanka is kind of a two-and-a-half-player market. Indonesia is a three-player market. Cambodia is again a three-player market. It is fairly consolidated markets, and we are seeing a good traction of that consolidation resulting in market repair. I think one of the challenges which we see is really the CelcomDigi, where the market is getting far more fragmented than consolidation happening in this market. I think that is a positive development. We are also continuing to focus on cost excellence and also looking at capital allocation or investments into CapEx based on real-time than really investing long upfront, which you would have seen resulting in far stronger CapEx yields as well as the CapEx- to- EBITDA ratios. We are also positive around the synergies which would come out of the joint control entities.
I think CelcomDigi should see integration completed by the end of next year or early 2027, and we should then see the full benefits of integration. XL Smart, I think, as I said earlier, we are still tracking to deliver $300 million-$400 million synergies on completion of the integration process. We have seen the impact of Dialog- Airtel synergies with EBITDA growth happening at 40% year-on-year. That, I think, is something which we will see continuing impact on our margin lines. Monetization of infra assets, as I said, we are progressing well on that direction. I will not be able to share much yet. However, at appropriate time, we will provide all the details regarding this activity which we are carrying on.
Also, the paring down of debt, which has been one of the strategic intent, is a positive development that does allow transparent flow of earnings to our shareholders from the dividend which we get from our subsidiaries and associates. As I said earlier, MYR 1.2 billion is what we got this year, and I think that's a steady number we can obtain over the years to come based on our clear margin improvement in these markets here. Risk, 5G wholesale network continues to be a little unknown at this point in time, but developments are in the right direction. What's the ultimate outcome of that will determine where we stand as far as the 5G investments are concerned in Malaysia. I think we are going ahead with investments on 5G in other markets with Cambodia, Sri Lanka, as well as at appropriate time in Indonesia and Bangladesh.
I think monetization of that investment would be a key consideration. Having said that, I think market being consolidated should see overall market structure improvement, helping overall monetization capabilities. Geopolitical macro risks continue. I mean, we would expect elections coming in Bangladesh next year. Having said that, I think we are seeing markets fairly stable now, which had gone through a fairly rough period when it came to the macro situation. Sri Lanka, Bangladesh are much more stable now than what we saw a year back. I think the whole efforts around our value elimination monetization strategy while progressing well, but does have risks depending on where the appetite exists on these particular assets. With that, I'll hand over back to Clare for Q&A.
Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Vivek and Nik. We move on to the Q&A session. I would like to highlight that we also have representatives online with us today, including from EDOTCO, from XL Axiata, from Robi, as well as from Link Net on the call. If you have any questions, you would like to direct your questions to. Basically, to ask your questions, you may choose to do this verbally. Just raise your hand and wait till your name is called out for your turn. Otherwise, you can also type up your questions in the chat box. Let's start off with Ranjan. I see Ranjan has his hand up for the first question. Let's open the line for Ranjan from J.P. Morgan.
Hi, good afternoon, and thank you for the opportunity. Two questions from my side. I believe you mentioned something about a special dividend in the fourth quarter. If you can please elaborate on that. The second is, if I look at EDOTCO, the overall tenancies have declined in Malaysia. If you can help us understand that as well. Thank you.
The special dividend was in the context of the Excel Smart. It's not from Axiata. In the context, you would probably have heard of recent EGM, which did approve the special dividend to be declared by XL Smart. That's essentially coming out of, if you recall, there was by the, what is called the shares of those who dissented or bought by the company at the time of merger. Now those shares have been actually part of what has been sold, and that money has been declared as special dividend to the shareholders. It's XL- specific item. The second.
The second question was basically on EDOTCO.
EDOTCO Malaysia tenancy ratio. We have someone from EDOTCO.
Yeah. I think we do have Adlan online from EDOTCO. Perhaps Adlan, you can help take that question. The decline in tenancy ratio in Malaysia on a Q- on- Q basis. Okay. Never mind. Maybe there's a little bit of an IT glitch over here. Let's circle back, and then we'll come back.
Sorry. I think, Ranjan, I think the drop in the tenancy ratio this quarter in Malaysia is predominantly the execution of CelcomDigi integration. I think on the DEDT that's executed this quarter.
Sorry, the voice was not clear. Can you repeat, please?
Hello? Can you hear me, Ranjan?
It's breaking up a little. I'm not sure if it's my issue.
Maybe we can say what Adlan mentioned. I think there is this CelcomDigi integration going on. As part of that, there have been some decommissioning as part of the plan. Obviously, in return, the revenues are protected by extending contract with CelcomDigi.
Got it. Thank you. Sorry, Vivek, can I just have a quick follow-up? I mean, XL has high leverage, I believe the negative free cash flow. Why are they paying a special dividend, especially if they're issuing shares to pay a dividend? I mean, that's a form of capital raise to pay a dividend.
They're not issuing shares, right? They basically sold the monetized the treasury shares.
Treasury shares.
There are no new issuance of shares.
That is still a form of capital raise, right? You are taking money from certain shareholders and giving it to existing shareholders.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think we do see leverage over time coming down. I think it was seen as a way because these shares, this money was actually paid out earlier when they bought the shares back from the descending shareholders.
Okay. Thank you.
Okay. Let's move on. The next line of question comes from Luis from Citi. Luis, let's unmute the line for Luis so that he can ask his questions.
Hi. Good afternoon. Thanks for hosting the call. I initially had two questions. The first one on a few more on EDOTCO. We noticed that tenancy ratios in Philippines have finally recovered quite well. What's the factor behind that? Is the third operator gotten an infusion, or what has changed, essentially? Second, related to Ranjan's question on Malaysia, the tenancies are down, but the revenues are down even more significantly, double-digit Q- on- Q. What's driving that? Is there a renegotiation of rates? The second question, a bit of housekeeping, sorry, but if you could walk us through the exceptional items in nine months or third quarter, just broadly, what are the big items? That would be great.
Okay. Thank you, Luis, for the three questions. I think the first one and the second one, can I please request that the EDOTCO team take that, please?
Yeah. I think for Philippines, yeah, I think we have seen this year a pickup in our orders, right? Predominantly coming from Globe and Smart. I think more importantly, the colo is actually coming from Globe. Today, we are the preferred partner for Globe today, right? A lot of the sites that we are getting, that the SLP from Smart is being coloed by Globe. You would expect that this number, hello? You would expect that this number will continue to grow in the coming quarters as Globe ramp up their rollout and their colocation, especially to our existing SLB sites with Smart. The second question is on.
Yeah. Malaysia revenues down, Q- on- Q, double-digit.
Yes. I think there are two factors there with regards to revenue. I think predominantly the same as what you've seen in Axiata. We are being impacted a lot on revenue, essentially as a result of Forex, right? If you look at for year-to-date, our Forex losses for revenue impact, revenue is around MYR 95 million, EBITDA around MYR 77 million, and PAT around MYR 27 million, right? That is partly due to the strengthening of the Malaysian Ringgit. That is partly due to that.
Sorry, Adlan. Malaysia. Yes.
Malaysia revenue.
Malaysia revenue.
Malaysia revenue as compared to.
Q- on- Q. In the Excel sheet, it is MYR 235 million versus MYR 269 million the prior quarter. It is down 13%. Is that from a renegotiation of tenancy rates or something?
Just a second. 1.5.
It was Q- on- Q, right?
Correct. Q- on- Q. There's no change.
Sorry, Luis. Sorry, sorry. Okay. Yeah. I think that reduction because in quarter two, we had a one-off revenue coming from our WiFi project from the USP fund from MCMC.
Okay.
There is a MYR 40 million recognized in quarter two as regard of that project, which was fully recognized in quarter two, but none was actually recognized in quarter three, essentially.
Okay. That's perfect. Thanks, Adlan.
Okay. I think, Luis, on the third question was basically you were requesting to understand the one-off items for YTD basis.
Q3 .
For Q3. Is that right?
Either. Either is fine. Just a broad, what are the larger items?
Yeah. The biggest ticket item there will be the impairment, the Link Net Goodwill impairment, right? There is also further accelerated depreciation of assets at XL Axiata Smart. As part of the merger integration, certain equipment assets will be and will be decommissioned. As and when these assets are taken offline, then there is accelerated depreciation for this. Other than that, there is. The gain from.
Yeah.
The gain from the disposal of XL.
Not gain from the early redemption.
The liability management, which is the early redemption of the EMTN.
That's also been excluded.
Yeah. That's been excluded. Those are the big ticket items. The rest are really small around Forex, hedging, PPAs, etc.
Great. Just to double-check, I heard earlier the Link Net impairment year-to-date is about MYR 390 million, and for the quarter, MYR 167 million. Is that roughly right?
That's right. Yes, that's right.
Okay. Perfect. Thank you.
Thank you, Louis. Let's move on. The third in line is Foong. He has his hand raised. Foong from CIMB. Please unmute.
Yeah. Hi, good afternoon. Thank you very much for the call. Three questions from me. Firstly, I wanted to go back to what you mentioned about the special dividend at XL coming from the sale of the shares that were bought from dissenting shareholders. My question is, what would Axiata's stake be in XL post the sale of these shares? That's question number one. Number two is, on Link Net, after two impairments, right, that we have done, is there potentially still more to come? And what is the net book value left over for Link Net in our books? And then third question for EDOTCO on the Philippine tenancies, it looks like it's finally rising pretty healthily on a Q- on- Q basis, but the revenue seems to be flattish. Is that all due to Forex effects, or did some of these orders come in late part of the quarter? Yep. Those are my three questions. Thank you.
Okay. The first question, just to recap, essentially is special dividend at XL Axiata. What is the stake Axiata has in XL Axiata post the sale of the trading shares?
Yeah. 34.7% now.
Yes.
Post the sale of these shares.
Okay. The second question is basically on the impairment on Link Net. After two rounds of impairment, what is the book value left in our books? I think we can safely not, we don't disclose that number.
Yes. The next one on Philippines, I think you're right, Foong, colo ratio is coming back. I think if you look at a local currency level in pesos, I think revenue in Philippines is growing. I think at a single digit, mid-single digit. I think it's due to the decline is actually due to Forex, yeah, the translation losses when converted to Malaysia, where pesos actually depreciate by about 5.5% as compared to Malaysian Ringgit. Yeah.
Okay. Understood. If I can just throw in one last question, right? Also coming back to the adjustments for underlying PATAMI. Just wanted to reconfirm that accelerated depreciation at XL Axiata has been adjusted out to arrive at this underlying PATAMI of MYR 378 million for the third quarter. Is that correct?
Yes, that's right.
Okay. That is despite the fact that they are an associate. We still adjust it out on our end.
Yes.
Okay. Also, the gain on early debt redemption has been removed, yeah, from this MYR 378 million number.
Yes, that's right.
Okay. Understood. Understood. Thank you so much. That's all the questions from me.
Thanks, Foong. Thank you.
Okay. Thanks, Phong. I think next up we have Prem from CGSI. Go ahead, Prem.
Hi. Thank you for the opportunity. Just one question from me, please. Looking at your slides with regards to opportunities and risk in 2025, the third bullet point on your opportunities side of the slide still talks about monetization of your infrastructure assets. Just want to clarify that that's still on the cards for 2025, given that we have just over four weeks left in the year.
I mean, the process is on. Unlikely we'll get over before the end of this year.
Do we at least expect announcements around this in the near term, or is this all pushed to 2026?
It would be difficult to say because there's still many things to be completed, including all the formalities relating to the regulatory approvals and all that, because that would involve market regulations and the respective markets to be taken care of. We will let you know, Prem, as and when we are ready to announce it.
All right. Thank you.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you. I think Luis is back on the second round. Perhaps we can unmute his line again for his follow-up questions. Thank you.
Hey, thanks. Just one follow-up question for me from my colleague who looks at Telenor. In a scenario where there is a possibility where you could increase your stake in CelcomDigi, would you consider it again in the future?
Okay. Now, sorry, I cannot answer that question.
Yeah. Had to ask.
Good try, Luis.
Yeah. Thanks. No worries. That's all I had. Thank you.
Okay. Thank you.
Why? Are they selling?
Hard to tell also.
It's okay, Luis. You're right.
Likely. We sit on the same table to run CelcomDigi, so I think it will not be fair for you to make any comment there.
Fair enough. Thank you.
Thanks. Thanks, Luis. We do have one question from New Street Research, Kelvin. Let's take that. I think that came in via the chat box. Basically, the question from Kelvin is, what is the underlying EBIT in constant currency, and what is that number for third quarter 2025 and for nine months 2025? Basically, it's a question to clarify on the adjusted items at EBIT level.
EBIT, we do not adjust any item other than the impairment and any restructuring if there has happened of people restructuring activities. The only item we have adjusted is really the Link Net goodwill, which we talked about. The underlying EBIT for quarter three is MYR 613 million for obviously continuing operations. For year-to-date, it is around MYR 1.827 billion. That is what, around 19% positive, right?
Yeah. Okay. It doesn't look like we have any more questions for now. Okay. I guess perhaps, Vivek, you might have some closing remarks before we end the session.
First of all, I think thank you, all of you, to join this call. I think from our performance standpoint, we are positive about the operational performance at operating company level. We do understand some challenges, and one of them has been really the performance of Link Net, which you've seen in terms of the impact on impairment. We are quite focused on delivering our strategy, which we had put in place two years back, and we also reinforced at the early part of this year when we had our investment, the Axiata Investor Day.
I think we're looking forward to another one in January, and I think we'll get more to hear on where we stand with our strategy and how do we see going forward as far as Axiata is concerned. We look forward to interacting with you at that point in time. Thank you very much once again for joining this call.
Thank you.