{"id":11854,"date":"2012-06-26T11:56:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T09:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/update-1-omnias-full-year-earnings-up-25-pct\/"},"modified":"2012-06-26T11:56:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T09:56:26","slug":"update-1-omnias-full-year-earnings-up-25-pct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-omnias-full-year-earnings-up-25-pct\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Omnia&#8217;s full-year earnings up 25 pct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Diluted headline EPS up 25 pct to 957.3 cents<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Group revenue up 17 percent to 10.9 bln rand<\/p>\n<p> (Adds details)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, June 26<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South African chemical<br \/>\nmaker Omnia Holdings posted a 25 percent rise in<br \/>\nfull-year profit on Tuesday, boosted by higher sales in its<br \/>\nmining and agriculture businesses and said it expects more<br \/>\ngrowth ahead.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Omnia, which has interests in chemicals, mining and<br \/>\nagriculture, said diluted headline earnings per share for the<br \/>\nyear to end-March totalled 957.3 cents from 765.1 cents last<br \/>\nyear.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Headline earnings are the main profit gauge in South Africa<br \/>\nand exclude certain one-off and non trading items.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Omnia said its group revenue rose nearly 17 percent to 10.9<br \/>\nbillion rand ($1.28 billion).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company said it expected all of its businesses to<br \/>\ndeliver solid results in the year ahead, helped by higher sales<br \/>\nand prices.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It declared a final dividend of 180 cents per share,<br \/>\nbringing the total dividend for the year to 280 cents per share.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Omnia shares are up nearly 15 percent so far this year,<br \/>\ncompared with a 6 percent rise in the Johannesburg&#8217;s All-share<br \/>\nIndex.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>($1 = 8.4995 South African rand)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda; editing by David Dolan)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Diluted headline EPS up 25 pct to 957.3 cents * Group revenue up 17 percent to 10.9 bln rand (Adds details) JOHANNESBURG, June 26 (Reuters) &#8211; South African chemical maker Omnia Holdings posted a 25 percent rise in full-year profit on Tuesday, boosted by higher sales in its mining and agriculture businesses and said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}