{"id":208593,"date":"2017-11-02T09:52:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T07:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=208593"},"modified":"2017-11-02T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T07:52:28","slug":"mix-telematics-reports-strong-second-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/208593\/mix-telematics-reports-strong-second-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Mix Telematics reports strong second quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mix Telematics, a provider of fleet and mobile asset management solutions delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), on Thursday announced financial results for its second quarter and first half of fiscal 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Subscription revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2017, was R349.3 million ($25.8 million), an increase of 15.9% compared to R301.3 million ($22.2 million) for the second quarter of fiscal 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Subscription revenue benefited from an increase of over 55,000 subscribers, representing an increase in the subscriber base of 9.4% from September 2016 to September 2017, and an expansion in the average revenue per user.<\/p>\n<p>Total revenue was R411.2 million ($30.3 million), an increase of 11.7% compared to R368.2 million ($27.1 million) for the second quarter of fiscal 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Operating profit was R45.3 million ($3.3 million), compared to R26.2 million ($1.9 million) for the second quarter of fiscal 2017, while earnings per diluted ordinary share were 4 cents per share.<\/p>\n<p>Subscription revenue for the first half of fiscal 2018 meanwhile, increased to R684.6 million ($50.5 million), an increase of 12.7% compared to R607.5 million ($44.8 million) for the first half of fiscal 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Total revenue for the first half of fiscal 2018 was R816.8 million ($60.2 million), an increase of 9.3% compared to R747.3 million ($55.1 million) for the first half of fiscal 2017. Hardware and other revenue was\u00a0 R132.2 million ($9.7 million), compared to R139.7 million ($10.3 million) for the first half of fiscal 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Operating profit for the first half of fiscal 2018 was R88.2 million ($6.5 million), compared to R49.1 million ($3.6 million) posted in the first half of fiscal 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Earnings per diluted ordinary share were 10 cents per share, compared to 8 cents in the first half of fiscal 2017.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/206250\/4sight-lists-on-the-jse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4Sight lists on the JSE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mix Telematics, a provider of fleet and mobile asset management solutions delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), on Thursday announced financial results for its second quarter and first half of fiscal 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":52781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[2809],"class_list":["post-208593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-mix-telematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208593","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=208593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208599,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208593\/revisions\/208599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}