Vedanta’s Quarterly Profit Declines on Weak Prices, Higher Costs

  • Parent Vedanta Resources has extended bond repayments
  • Company remains committed to deleveraging, value creation

The Vedanta Resources Ltd. booth on the opening day of the Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town.

Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg
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Billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Indian mining company Vedanta Ltd. reported an 18% drop in quarterly profit on weak prices of key metals such as zinc and aluminum and higher finance costs.

It posted a profit of 20.1 billion rupees ($242 million) in October-December, down from 24.64 billion rupees a year earlier, the company said in a statement Thursday. Revenue rose 3.8% to 349.7 billion rupees.