2025
Group annual financial statementsfor the year ended 30 September 2025

Summary of ratios and statistics

        Restated#   Restated#    
    2025   2024   2023 2022 2021
Ordinary share performance                
Number of ordinary shares upon which headline earnings per share is based (000)1   153 767   155 878   156 390 162 552 165 735
Headline earnings per ordinary share (cents)   2 056   1 782   1 735 1 702 1 127
Dividends per ordinary share (cents)2   5 570   1 034   991 973 320
Dividend cover (times)2   0.4   1.7   1.8 1.7 3.5
Net worth per ordinary share (cents)   11 318   11 721   10 321 9 384 9 383
Profitability and asset management                
Asset turnover (times)   2.5   2.2   2.6 2.7 2.6
Working capital per R1 revenue   14.0   19.5   22.6 20.6 20.3
Operating margin (%)   11.1   8.5   8.3 10.1 7.2
Effective taxation rate (%)   31.8   20.7   23.0 26.0 24.9
Return on equity (%)   18.8   15.2   15.3 18.4 12.7
Return on average net assets (%)   28.2   19.0   21.6 27.5 19.3
Return on invested capital (%)4   19.1   14.7   14.7 16.4 –
Financing                
Current ratio   1.7   1.8   1.9 1.6 2.0
Net interest cover (times)   –   10.0   13.0 46.3 41.5
Net (cash)/debt to net funding (%)   (35.0)   (2.0)   7.0 2.0 (11.0)
Total liabilities to total shareholders’ funds (%)   51   41.0   46.0 49.0 41.0
Cash flow to net liabilities (%)   115   60   45.0 49.0 72.0
Employee statistics                
Number of employees at year end3   9 927   9 720   10 323 10 439 11 093
– permanent   8 721   8 785   9 296 9 670 10 158
– seasonal   1 206   935   1 027 769 935
Revenue per employee (R’000)   3 464   3 446   3 622 3 260 2 790
Value added per employee (R’000)   1 096   729   669 683 653
Operating profit per employee (R’000)   386   292   302 329 202
Economic indicators                
Consumer Price Index (Sept on Sept) (%)   3.4   3.8   5.4 7.5 5.0
Key closing exchange rates at 30 September vs rand                
– USD   17.27   17.22   18.83 17.98 15.10
– GBP   23.22   23.05   23.01 20.01 20.35
– EUR   20.26   19.24   19.93 17.57 17.49
Stock exchange statistics                
Market price per share (cents)                
– Year end   30 876   23 300   15 345 16 944 18 727
– Highest   34 619   24 541   22 501 19 806 22 634
– Lowest   23 643   14 233   15 034 13 594 17 800
Number of transactions   666 906   502 178   554 271 597 229 573 280
Number of shares traded (000)   129 999   89 751   114 473 208 339 109 634
Value of shares traded (Rm)   37 238   17 858   21 096 32 848 22 359
Number of shares traded as a percentage of total issued shares   74.3   49.8   63.5 128.2 66.2
Dividend yield at year end (%)   18.0   4.4   6.5 5.7 1.7
Earnings yield at year end (%)   6.7   7.7   11.1 10.0 5.9
Price earnings ratio at year end   15   13   9 10 17
Market capitalisation at year end (Rm)   53 993   42 016   27 671 32 163 35 547
Market capitalisation to shareholders’ equity at year end (times)   3.2   2.5   1.7 2.1 2.3
1   Net of treasury and empowerment shares
2   Based on the sum of the interim and special dividend paid in the current year and the final dividend and special dividend declared post-year end
3   Includes employees of discontinued operations
4   Return on invested capital (ROIC) is a calculation used to assess the company’s performance on invested capital. Refer to definitions.
#   Restated for IFRS 5 discontinued operations disclosed in note 13.1 and the prior period restatements disclosed in note 12