{"id":43181,"date":"2013-07-29T17:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=43181"},"modified":"2013-07-29T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:04:33","slug":"jse-sees-big-jump-in-interims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/43181\/jse-sees-big-jump-in-interims\/","title":{"rendered":"JSE sees big jump in interims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"JSE Ltd\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1663-JSE-Limited\">JSE Ltd<\/a>, which operates the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, expects its headline earnings per share \u00a0to be between 20%\u00a0and 40% higher than the previous year&#8217;s 245.5 cents per share.<\/p>\n<p>Basic earnings per share\u00a0for the period are expected to be between\u00a0180% and 200% higher than the previous year&#8217;s 117 cents per share.<\/p>\n<p>The JSE said that its results\u00a0have been impacted by\u00a0increased group operating revenues as a result of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0increased trading activity in its Equity, Financial\u00a0Derivatives, Interest Rate and Currency Markets;<\/li>\n<li>continued strong performance by its Post Trade Services and\u00a0Market Data Divisions;<\/li>\n<li>the absence of an impairment and its associated tax consequences\u00a0in this reporting period whereas there was an impairment (H1\u00a02012: R72.6m) in the comparable period in 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 24px;\">In March the JSE\u00a0<\/span><\/span>reported a marginal (1.1%) increase in revenue for the year ended December 2012 to R1.38 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The group said it invested in a number of new technologies to improve its services, while additional investments remain under consideration by management.<\/p>\n<p>Such potential investments, it said, would mean\u00a0capex spend in 2013 projected at about R200 million.<\/p>\n<p>Profit from operating activities was R405.57 million, from R380.07 million, while diluted earnings per share declined to 349.5 cents from 396.1cents in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s board maintained a dividend of R2.50.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the JSE<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"JSE lauds zero trading outages\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/41079\/jse-lauds-zero-trading-outages\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">JSE lauds zero trading outages<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"JSE lifts capex for tech plans\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/33486\/jse-lifts-2013-capex-for-tech-plans\/\">JSE lifts capex for tech plans<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Biggest companies on the JSE\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/25851\/biggest-companies-on-the-jse\/\"><strong>Biggest companies on the JSE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"JSE to rewrite back office programme\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/11974\/jse-to-rewrite-back-office-programme\/\"><strong>JSE to rewrite back office programme<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The JSE expects its headline earnings per share  to be between 20% and 40% higher than 245.5 cents before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,175],"class_list":["post-43181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-jse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43181","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=43181"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43188,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43181\/revisions\/43188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}