{"id":298914,"date":"2019-02-12T11:44:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T09:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=298914"},"modified":"2019-02-12T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T09:44:58","slug":"mustek-sees-strong-interim-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/enterprise\/298914\/mustek-sees-strong-interim-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustek sees strong interim growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mustek, an <span class=\"st\">assembler and distributor of personal computers and complementary ICT products, says it expects a big lift in interim earnings, when it publishes its financial results later in February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shares in the group climbed markedly on Tuesday (12 February), adding nearly 8% in mid-morning trade.<\/p>\n<p>Mustek said it expects headline earnings per share to be between 15% and 25% higher to 66.79 cents and 72.60 cents for the six months ended December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Basic earnings per share is expected to be between 32% and 42% higher than the previous corresponding period at between 75.41 cents and 81.12 cents (31 December 2017: 57.13 cents), Mustek said.<\/p>\n<p>Net asset value per share is expected to be between 1 430 cents and 1 440 cents, compared to 1 270,47 cents as at 31 December 2017, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Mustek said it expects to publish its results on 22 February 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Mustek.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-298928\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Mustek.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Mustek.png 705w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Mustek-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/268269\/mustek-lifts-profit-as-it-taps-into-sa-fibre-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mustek lifts profit as it taps into SA fibre growth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mustek, an assembler and distributor of personal computers and complementary ICT products, says it expects a big lift in interim earnings, when it publishes its financial results later in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13700],"tags":[26,1097],"class_list":["post-298914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise","tag-headline","tag-mustek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298914","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=298914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298932,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298914\/revisions\/298932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}