Aecon Group Inc. says it notched record annual revenues in 2018, allowing it to raise its quarterly dividend by two cents per share to 14.5 cents.
The engineering firm logged a 16 per cent year-over-year increase in revenues to $3.27 billion last year, up from $2.81 billion in 2017. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, it says revenues rose 38 per cent to $948.5 million compared with the same period in 2017.
The Toronto-based company says net profits jumped 32 per cent to $27.9 million last quarter, from $21.1 million with a year earlier.
That equalled 41 cents per diluted share, up from 33 cents per share in the previous year’s quarter.
Aecon says it booked new contracts worth $5.8 billion in 2018, a record and a substantial increase from the $2.8 billion in contracts recorded in 2017.
Analyst Derek Spronck of RBC Dominion Securities says the firm benefited from new projects and milder winter weather last quarter.
