- Plans to float at least 35 percent of Cepsa
- Also setting up $400m venture fund
LONDON: Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company reported first half profit of 10.9 billion dirhams ($2.97 billion) as it expanded its global investment portfolio.
It did not provide comparative figures for the year-earlier period.
Mubadala Group CEO Khaldoon Khalifa Al-Mubarak, said: “In the first half of the year, we continued to deploy capital in new sectors and geographies, in line with our long-term strategy. We also monetized select assets at good valuations, to deliver financial returns.”
In a statement, the group said that historically reported figures such as revenue and net operating income were no longer relevant to its business model.
Mubadala said this week it planned to float at least 25 percent of Spain’s Cepsa by the end of 2018, in what would be the largest listing in a decade on the Madrid stock exchange.
Cepsa, which operates in the oil and gas industry, did not say how much the deal would be worth, but market sources said the listing could value the firm at around €10 billion.
Mubadala also this year announced plans to create a $400 million venture fund to invest in leading European technology companies. The fund will be managed by Mubadala Ventures, the venture capital arm of Mubadala with SoftBank Group as a strategic investor.
The Abu Dhabi investment group also announced the sale of its consortium’s majority interest in EMI Music Publishing to Sony Corporationfor about $4.75 billion.
Mubadala manages a worldwide portfolio worth $225 billion with assets in sectors such as aerospace, ICT, semiconductors, metals and mining, renewable energy, oil and gas, petrochemicals and finance.