{"id":196408,"date":"2017-09-04T13:33:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T11:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=196408"},"modified":"2017-09-04T17:11:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T15:11:32","slug":"eoh-expects-big-revenue-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/196408\/eoh-expects-big-revenue-jump\/","title":{"rendered":"EOH expects big revenue jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listed IT service company EOH on Monday advised that revenue for the year ended July 2017\u00a0has increased in all areas of the business, resulting in an overall increase of 21% when compared to 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The group, which is under a cloud of corruption, advised that earnings per share is expected to be between 774 cents and 845 cents, reflecting an increase of<br \/>\nbetween 10% and 20% compared to the earnings per share of 704 cents for the year ended July 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Headline earnings per share meanwhile, is expected to be between 791 cents and 863 cents, reflecting an increase of between 10% and 20% compared to the headline earnings per share of 719 cents for the prior period.<\/p>\n<p>The listed IT service company took a massive knock on the JSE in mid July, after an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/business-report\/sas-own-guptas-danny-and-jehan-mackay-10323452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opinion article<\/a>\u00a0accused the company of misconduct in its contracts with South Africa\u2019s welfare agency.<\/p>\n<p>The report suggested that father and son Danny and Jehan Mackay, shareholders of EOH, might \u2018dethrone\u2019 the Gupta brothers \u201cas South Africa\u2019s most notorious alleged practitioners of state capture\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The company has repeatedly refuted the suggestions in this opinion piece.<\/p>\n<p>EOH expects to publish its results on 19 September 2017. Shares in the company traded\u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"_Mnb vk-fin-dn finance_answer_card__apc fac-c\" data-symbol=\"EOH\" data-tmid=\"\/m\/0ckm6gr\"><span class=\"fac-cc\">2.72%<\/span><\/span> lower on the JSE on Monday, to R107.11.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/188591\/eoh-tries-to-settle-investor-nerves-after-misconduct-hit-piece\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EOH tries to settle investor nerves after \u2018misconduct\u2019 hit-piece<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listed IT service company EOH on Monday advised that revenue for the year ended July 2017 has increased in all areas of the business, resulting in an overall increase of 21% when compared to 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1957],"class_list":["post-196408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-eoh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196484,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196408\/revisions\/196484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}