Sonae released a 6.7% increase yoy in 9M total sales to €3,882m, mainly driven by the retail operations (4.1% lfl growth over Q3). EBITDA has slightly enhanced, benefiting from non-recurrent items, albeit the underlying EBITDA is below the FY2015/16 level. Most divisions experienced declining profitability. Sustained by indirect results including the mark-to-market effect of NOS, net profit stood at €141m vs. €146m a year ago. Sonae succeeded in lowering its net debt to €1
