Big props to the octopus CEO if its all true and no secret stuff.
One major glaring issue with the article is the mention of SSE.
SSE plc don’t actually supply any energy in the UK, they sold their energy supply business to OVO in 2020 and licence their brand. SSE plc’s profits have no bearing on the supply business.
For those businesses that do both supply and generation, it would be a bit more honest to break down the profits to include the profit on domestic supply in general. British Gas only made £6 per domestic supply customer in the first 6 months of the year, the profit was entirely on the generation side.
It’s not what they make in 2022 that’s interesting its what they made year by year for the past 5 years.
We should abolish CEOs are retrieve 8p per person!!
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I beg people don’t give politicians the continued incentive to talk about salaries, profits, green levies, VAT etc when that is just not the problem we are facing:
“The figures would represent an 82 per cent increase to the energy price cap, which rose by 54 per cent to £1,971 in April this year.”
…and a 54% increase followed by an 82% increase means the cumulative increase is 180%, meaning bills would be 2.8 times higher than in March.
Headlines with profits firms make without the working capital to run them quoted are just for drumming up anger.
If a company makes £100m in profits, but requires £10bn in capital to run, it is making a 1% return on investment and thus those aren’t “huge profits” it doesn’t make sense to keep that cash in running the business if things don’t change.
Hypothetically if you had an article saying “Shell made a 5% return on capital, BP made a 6% return, Microsoft made a 4% return, Mcdonalds made a 7%” doesn’t fit the narrative of “These companies we dislike are making huge profits.”
I really hope the eon guy is enjoying the million “I gave him”…
Also, kudos to the octupus guy for giving up his bonus.
Such a diverse group of people
Makes a gain last 10 years… Nothing reinvested. Make a loss this year… Time to screw the poor.
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Automod says paywall but there isnt.
Anyway, direct link
https://inews.co.uk/news/energy-supplier-who-boss-my-how-much-earn-profits-ceos-firms-explained-1815525
Big props to the octopus CEO if its all true and no secret stuff.
One major glaring issue with the article is the mention of SSE.
SSE plc don’t actually supply any energy in the UK, they sold their energy supply business to OVO in 2020 and licence their brand. SSE plc’s profits have no bearing on the supply business.
For those businesses that do both supply and generation, it would be a bit more honest to break down the profits to include the profit on domestic supply in general. British Gas only made £6 per domestic supply customer in the first 6 months of the year, the profit was entirely on the generation side.
It’s not what they make in 2022 that’s interesting its what they made year by year for the past 5 years.
875 000 + 1 150 000 + 1 000 000 + 2 410 000 = 5 435 000
5 435 000 / 67 000 000 = 0.08
We should abolish CEOs are retrieve 8p per person!!
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I beg people don’t give politicians the continued incentive to talk about salaries, profits, green levies, VAT etc when that is just not the problem we are facing:
[Graph](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/718955813066244217/1012710249960067152/unknown.png)
Mine makes a loss, just looked it up on CH.
“The figures would represent an 82 per cent increase to the energy price cap, which rose by 54 per cent to £1,971 in April this year.”
…and a 54% increase followed by an 82% increase means the cumulative increase is 180%, meaning bills would be 2.8 times higher than in March.
Headlines with profits firms make without the working capital to run them quoted are just for drumming up anger.
If a company makes £100m in profits, but requires £10bn in capital to run, it is making a 1% return on investment and thus those aren’t “huge profits” it doesn’t make sense to keep that cash in running the business if things don’t change.
Hypothetically if you had an article saying “Shell made a 5% return on capital, BP made a 6% return, Microsoft made a 4% return, Mcdonalds made a 7%” doesn’t fit the narrative of “These companies we dislike are making huge profits.”
I really hope the eon guy is enjoying the million “I gave him”…
Also, kudos to the octupus guy for giving up his bonus.
Such a diverse group of people
Makes a gain last 10 years… Nothing reinvested. Make a loss this year… Time to screw the poor.