{"id":7191,"date":"2012-03-02T15:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T15:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=7191"},"modified":"2012-03-05T11:13:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T11:13:51","slug":"mtn-fy-adj-heps-seen-41-8-46-8-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/7191\/mtn-fy-adj-heps-seen-41-8-46-8-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN FY adj HEPS seen 41.8% &#8211; 46.8% higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Group (MTN) says it expects a rise of between 41.8% and 46.8% in adjusted headline earnings per share for the year ended December 2011, compared to 909.1 cents previously.<\/p>\n<p>Attributable earnings per share are expected to increase by between 41.7% and 46.7%, and basic HEPS to increase by between 37.9% and 42.9%, MTN said.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that prior year reported earnings included a R2.9 billion charge associated with the implementation of the MTN Zakhele scheme which had the effect of negatively impacting the prior year&#8217;s reported earnings. \u201cIf this charge is excluded, current year&#8217;s earnings growth would have been between 56% and 61% lower.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current year&#8217;s earnings are also positively affected by lower net finance costs,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>For 2010, MTN announced a final cash dividend of 349 cents per share, following a reported revenue of R114,7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>MTN expects to publish its results on Wednesday, March 7, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Group (MTN) says it expects a rise of between 41.8% and 46.8% in adjusted headline earnings per share for the year ended December 2011 compared to 909.1 cents previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,28,229],"class_list":["post-7191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7191"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7201,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions\/7201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}