IAS 33 paras 23, 12, mandatorily convertible notes included in basic EPS, profit adjustments for coupon on undated notes classed as equity

Telefonica S.A. – Annual report – 31 December 2016

Industry: telecoms

Note 18. Revenue and expenses (extract)

Earnings per share

As detailed in Notes 2 and 23, the comparative figures of Profit for the period have been amended with respect to those presented in the 2015 consolidated financial statements, in order to cease to present Telefónica United Kingdom as a discontinued operation.

Basic earnings per share amounts are calculated by dividing (a) the profit for the year attributable to equity holders of the parent, adjusted for the net coupon corresponding to the undated deeply subordinated securities and for the interest cost accrued in the period in relation to the debt component of the mandatorily convertible notes of the parent company (see note 12) by (b) the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the year plus the weighted average number of ordinary shares that would be issued upon the conversion of the said mandatorily convertible notes from the date of their issuance.

Diluted earnings per share amounts are calculated by dividing the net profit for the year attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent, adjusted as described above, by the weighted average number of ordinary shares adjusted as described in the preceding paragraph, plus the weighted average number of ordinary shares that would be issued on the conversion of all the dilutive potential ordinary shares into ordinary shares.

Both basic and diluted earnings per share attributable to equity holders of the parent are calculated based on the following data:

For the purposes of calculating the earnings per share (basic and diluted), the weighted average number of shares outstanding is retrospectively adjusted for transactions that have changed the number of shares outstanding without a corresponding change in equity, as if such transactions had occurred at the beginning of the earliest period presented. Such is the case of the bonus share issues carried out to meet the scrip dividends paid in the last years have been taken into account (see Note 12).

Thus, basic and diluted earnings per share attributable to equity holders of the parent are as follows: