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Earnings Double, and the Mielie Did It

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Astral Foods (JSE: ARL) expects headline earnings per share to roughly double. Cheaper maize and soya did the heavy lifting. The numbers…

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Company announcements are written to keep shareholders calm. Here is what they actually mean.

  1. “We are rationalising our cost base.”

    People are losing their jobs.

  2. “The board has initiated a strategic review.”

    Somebody wants to sell it.

  3. “Results were impacted by external headwinds.”

    It went badly, and it was somebody else's fault.

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Here is one we made earlier HEPS (Headline Earnings per Share)

Earnings per share excluding one-off items.

Heard in Ep 15: HEPS vs Core Earnings: Impairments Explained for JSE Investors

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