MOSCOW, June 26 (Reuters) - Rosneft, Russia's topoil producer, said on Friday its first-quarter net profit roseby 30 percent year-on-year to 56 billion roubles ($1 billion).
Analysts, polled by Reuters, expected net income of 58billion roubles.
Rosneft said its January-March revenues were 1,288 billionroubles, down 6 percent, while earnings before interest, taxes,depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) were 265 billion roubles,down 8 percent from a year earlier.
Net debt stood at $43.3 billion, down almost 5 percentyear-on-year. ($1 = 55.0560 roubles) (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin and Maria Kiselyova, editingby Elizabeth Piper)
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