Highlights of the day: 21 November

FinMeUp highlights of the day

South Africa

Transaction Capital Limited- Dealings in securities

• A director purchased 120 000 shares for a total value of R4 717 523.61.

Barloworld Limited- Annual results for the 12 months ended 30 September 2022

• Group revenue increased 9.5% to R49.2 billion.
• Basic EPS fell by 24.4% to 1 051.9 cents.
• Group operating profit from core trading activities grew by 32% to R5.6 billion.
• The company has declared a final dividend of 295 cents per share and a special dividend of 550 cents per share, which will be paid on Monday, 9 January 2023.

Astral Foods Limited- Audited results for the year ended 30 September 2022

• Revenue grew by 22% to R19 333 850 000.
• Operating profit grew by 103% to R1 439 778 000.
• EPS grew by 127% to 2 781 cents per share.
• The board has declared a final dividend of 590 cents per share which will be paid on Monday, 16 January 2023.

PPC Limited- Group Results of the six months ended 30 September 2022

• Group revenue excluding PPC Zimbabwe grew by 9% to R4 248 million.
• Group EBITDA margins excluding PPC Zimbabwe declined by 3.2%.
• Profit before tax excluding PPC Zimbabwe increased by 4% to R259 million.
• Net debt for the SA and Botswana group improved by R140 million.
• EPS decreased from 8 cents to 5 cents.

Netcare Limited- Summarised Group results for the year ended 30 September 2022

• Revenue grew by 2.1% to R21.6 billion.
• Operating profit grew 9.9% to R2.3 billion.
• Basic EPS grew by 32.4% to 72.3 cents.
• The company declared a gross final dividend of 30.0 cents per share which will be paid on Monday, 30 January 2023.

Sirius Real Estate Limited- Results For The Six Months Ended 30 September 2022 

• Total revenue increased by 47.7% to EUR130.6 million.
• Net asset value per share increased by 1.8% to 103.90 cents.
• Earnings per share decreased by 6.8% to 6.00 cents per share.
• The board has declared a dividend of 2.70 cents per share which will be paid on Thursday, 19 January 2023.

The U.S.

Disney

• Disney has appointed Robert Iger as CEO.

FTX

• Sam Bankman-Frieds FTX owes its 50 biggest unsecured creditors a total of $3.1 Billion.

Elizabeth Holmes

• Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to 11.25 years in prison + 3 years of supervised release for fraud.

Meta

• Meta has introduced nee privacy default settings for Instagram and Facebook to protect teens from harm online.