{"id":24708,"date":"2012-10-22T09:12:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T07:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=24708"},"modified":"2012-10-23T08:41:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T06:41:51","slug":"vodacom-sees-jump-in-interim-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/24708\/vodacom-sees-jump-in-interim-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom sees jump in interim results"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mobile operator Vodacom<\/a> said Monday (22 October), that it expects its headline earnings per share for the six months ended September to be between 20% and 25% higher than the corresponding period last year.<\/p>\n

For the interim period \u00a0in 2011, Vodacom reported HEPS up to 324 cents and declared an\u00a0interim dividend per share to 260 cents.<\/p>\n

It also reported\u00a0service revenue of R23.505 billion.<\/p>\n

The group expects basic earnings per share (EPS) to be between 30% and 40% higher than \u00a0301 cents\u00a0in 2011.<\/p>\n

Vodacom reminded shareholders that EPS in the prior year was affected by impairment charges of\u00a0R318 million in relation to Gateway. The Group concluded the disposal of Gateway Carrier\u00a0Services on 31 August 2012, the profit of which had a favourable impact on EPS for the\u00a0period.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth HEPS and EPS were favourably impacted by strong underlying core operating performance and by the replacement of secondary tax on companies with dividend\u00a0withholding tax\u201a which is not included in the income statement tax expense\u201a\u201d Vodacom said in a statement.\u00a0\u00a0STC for the six\u00a0months ended 30 September 2011 was R417 million, it added.<\/p>\n

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Vodacom expects its headline earnings per share for the six months ended September to be between 20% and 25% higher than in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,1007,27],"class_list":["post-24708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-heps","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24708","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=24708"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24813,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24708\/revisions\/24813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}