{"id":53932,"date":"2014-03-05T09:07:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T07:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=53932"},"modified":"2014-03-05T09:07:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T07:07:46","slug":"micromega-lifts-heps-by-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/53932\/micromega-lifts-heps-by-74\/","title":{"rendered":"MICROmega lifts HEPS by 74%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT holding company,\u00a0MICROmega lifted its headline earnings per share by 74% to 49.29 cents in results\u00a0for the twelve months ended December 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue however, declined to R731.7 million, from R746 million in 2012, but profit for the period advanced to R54.9 million, from R8.7 million previously.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Board is pleased with the growth in headline earnings per share of 74% and basic earnings per share of 354%. We are now well positioned for continued grow in 2014,&#8221; the group said.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that in previous years, the group exercised extreme prudence in the valuation of our intangible assets by writing them off on an accelerated basis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are now adopting a more realistic, albeit conservative valuation of our development in new technology, and this has caused the disparity between the growth in headline and basic earnings per share.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dave King, Chairman of MICROmega said: \u201cI believe we have never been as well positioned to deliver sustainable growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on\u00a0MICROmega<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"MICROmega buys smart meter company\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/47631\/micromega-buys-smart-meter-company\/\"><strong>MICROmega buys smart meter company<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MICROmega reports profit slip\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/46893\/micromega-reports-profit-slip\/\"><strong>MICROmega reports profit slip<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MICROmega in share buy-back\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/43302\/micromega-in-share-buy-back\/\"><strong>MICROmega in share buy-back<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MICROmega sees vast earnings growth\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/34477\/micromega-sees-vast-earnings-growth\/\"><strong>MICROmega sees vast earnings growth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MICROmega earnings up 87% for H1\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/18765\/micromega-earnings-up-87-for-h1\/\"><strong>MICROmega earnings up 87% for H1<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MICROmega lifted its headline earnings per share by 74% to 49.29 cents in full year results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1842],"class_list":["post-53932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-micromega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53932","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=53932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53938,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53932\/revisions\/53938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}