{"id":98557,"date":"2015-09-16T08:23:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T06:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=98557"},"modified":"2015-09-16T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T06:23:14","slug":"eoh-reports-massive-jump-in-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/98557\/eoh-reports-massive-jump-in-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"EOH reports massive jump in profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listed ICT firm, EOH has reported a massive jump in earnings for the year ended 31 July 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The group recorded profits after tax of R692 million, up 41% from R492 million in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue increased by 35% to R9.734 billion (2014: R7.220 billion), while headline earnings per share (HEPS) were up 29% to 575 cents.<\/p>\n<p>The group increased its dividend by 25% to 150 cents.<\/p>\n<p>During the year under review, EOH embarked on growing its international IP software business and its service offerings in the financial services, telecommunications, energy and local government sectors.<\/p>\n<p>It also expanded its activities in Africa by joining forces with Twenty Third Century Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>EOH also acquired the businesses of Construction Computer Software Proprietary Limited, Managed Integrity Evaluation Proprietary Limited and Afiswitch Proprietary Limited and several smaller businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The groups said it will continue with its strategy to consolidate and complement its existing services with strategic acquisitions.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on EOH<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/82257\/eoh-sees-massive-jump-in-earnings\/\">EOH sees massive jump in earnings<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"EOH full-year revenue surges 42%\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/68676\/eoh-full-year-revenue-surges-42\/\"><strong>EOH full-year revenue surges 42%<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"EOH lifts earnings by 40%\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/45708\/eoh-lifts-full-year-earnings-40\/\"><strong>EOH lifts earnings by 40%<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"EOH acquires software firm Sybrin\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/47570\/eoh-acquires-software-firm-sybrin\/\"><strong>EOH acquires software firm Sybrin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listed ICT firm, EOH has reported a massive jump in earnings for the year ended 31 July 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[25,1957],"class_list":["post-98557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-eoh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98557","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=98557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98563,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98557\/revisions\/98563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}