{"id":231838,"date":"2026-04-30T03:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-sode-ci-triples-operating-profit-on-cost-cuts-despite-revenue-slip\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T03:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:29:34","slug":"cote-divoire-sode-ci-triples-operating-profit-on-cost-cuts-despite-revenue-slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-sode-ci-triples-operating-profit-on-cost-cuts-despite-revenue-slip\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Sode Ci Triples Operating Profit On Cost Cuts Despite Revenue Slip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">SODE CI (<a href=\"https:\/\/dabafinance.com\/en\/capitalmarkets\/SDCC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BRVM: SDCC<\/a>), the Abidjan water utility and Eranove Group subsidiary, delivered one of the most striking results among BRVM-listed companies in the first quarter of 2026: net profit more than doubled to 1.32 billion FCFA ($2.4 million) from 604 million FCFA ($1.1 million) a year earlier, while revenue actually fell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">That combination &#8212; profit up, revenue down &#8212; is unusual and tells a specific story. Management appears to have undertaken a significant operational cost reduction effort,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604280031.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SODE CI (BRVM: SDCC), the Abidjan water utility and Eranove Group subsidiary, delivered one of the most striking results among BRVM-listed companies in the first quarter of 2026: net profit more than doubled to 1.32 billion FCFA ($2.4 million) from 604 million FCFA ($1.1 million) a year earlier, while revenue actually fell. That combination &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,6629,5958,6183,6555,7210,5959,1218,257,6816,15693,7343,33016,51307,254,44823],"class_list":["post-231838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cost","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-cuts","tag-divoire","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-operating","tag-profit","tag-revenue","tag-slip","tag-sode","tag-south-africa-today","tag-triples"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}