Key financial statistics
for the year ended 30 June 2018
| 2018 | 2017 | % Change |
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| Revenue | R billion | 77.0 | 71.0 | 8.4 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross profit margin1 | % | 28.9 | 29.1 | |||||||
| Operating expenses ratio1 | % | 21.0 | 21.3 | |||||||
| EBITDA | R billion | 8.2 | 7.7 | 6.5 | ||||||
| Trading result (excluding investment income) | R billion | 6.4 | 5.8 | 9.6 | ||||||
| Trading profit | R billion | 6.5 | 6.0 | 8.2 | ||||||
| Trading profit margin | % | 8.5 | 8.5 | |||||||
| Basic earnings | R billion | 3.8 | 4.8 | (20.0) | ||||||
| Headline earnings | R billion | 4.1 | 3.7 | 11.9 | ||||||
| EPS | cents | 1 137.3 | 1 430.3 | (20.5) | ||||||
| Normalised HEPS3 | cents | 1 254.9 | 1 115.4 | 12.5 | ||||||
| HEPS | cents | 1 231.6 | 1 108.2 | 11.1 | ||||||
| DPS | cents | 556.0 | 491.0 | 13.2 | ||||||
| EBITDA interest cover | times | 8.0 | 7.2 | |||||||
| Net debt EBITDA | times | 0.8 | 0.7 | |||||||
| Long-term portion of gross debt | % | 57.1 | 50.5 | |||||||
| Average funds employed | R billion | 30.3 | 28.6 | 6.1 | ||||||
| Average return on funds employed (ROFE) | % | 22.9 | 22.3 | |||||||
| Cash conversion2 | % | 106.4 | 80.4 | |||||||
| Weighted number of shares | million | 335.7 | 333.5 | 0.7 | ||||||
| 1 | As percentage of revenue. |
| 2 | As percentage of trading profit. |
| 3 | Normalised headline earnings per share excludes acquisition costs and amortisation of acquired customer contracts. |
Contribution to revenue
Contribution to trading profit
