{"id":157789,"date":"2025-11-28T09:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/157789\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T09:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:41:17","slug":"russian-corporate-losses-surge-in-2025-as-more-firms-slip-into-the-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/157789\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Corporate Losses Surge in 2025 as More Firms Slip Into the Red"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian companies have reported a sharp rise in losses so far this year, with total negative results jumping nearly 25% year-on-year to 6.52 trillion rubles ($83.3 billion) in the January-September period, the Vedomosti business daily reported<\/a> Thursday, citing\u00a0data from state statistics agency Rosstat.<\/p>\n

About 18,400 firms posted losses, or 11% more than the same period of 2024.<\/p>\n

Profit-making companies generated 25.7 trillion rubles ($32.8 billion), marking a 1.2% decline from 2024. Aggregate net profit fell 7.7% to 19.2 trillion rubles as a result.<\/p>\n

Several sectors saw more than half of companies operating at a loss.<\/p>\n

The worst hit were coal mining (68.1%), electricity, gas and steam supply (54.7%) and water and waste services (52.9%).<\/p>\n

Loss-making firms also approached the 50% mark in logging (45%), oil extraction (48.1%), finance and insurance (44%) and research and development (41.8%).<\/p>\n

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The share of profitable companies declined across most industries over the nine-month period.<\/p>\n

A handful of sectors bucked the trend, including fishing (+12 percentage points), air and space transport (+10.8 percentage points), public administration and national defense (+7.4 percentage points) and pharmaceutical manufacturing (+4.9 percentage points) all saw profitability improve.<\/p>\n

Nearly 40% of companies reported problems with overdue payments from counterparties in the third quarter, according to the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP).<\/p>\n

State-owned companies were among those delaying payments<\/a> under federal procurement contracts.<\/p>\n

Business investment has also weakened, with capital expenditure growth slowing almost sixfold from 8.7% in the first quarter to 1.5% in the second quarter, Rosstat said.<\/p>\n

Nearly 714,000 legal entities and individual entrepreneurs had outstanding bank loans as of October, with about a quarter behind on payments, according to Central Bank statistics.<\/p>\n

This share is the highest in at least two and a half years. The figure has risen six percentage points over the past 12 months and nearly doubled since early 2023.<\/p>\n

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