Diluted HEPS of 1 023cps (+21.4% y-y).
Revenue up by 10.1% y-y to R167 652m, supported by strong performance in Egypt (+34.5% y-y) and International (+9.2% y-y).
Group service revenue grew 10.6% y-y in rands, and increased 12.9% y-y on a normalised basis.
Financial services revenue increased by 19.6% y-y, contributing 12.6% to Group service revenue.
Contribution margin up by 70bps to 61.7%.
Operating margin up by 280bps to 26.3%
Operating expenses (excl. direct expenses) increased by 6.2% y-y to R63 541m. Operating expense to sales (excl. direct expenses) down to 37.9% (FY25: 39.3%).
Dividend of 665.0cps (FY25: 570.0cps).
Cashflow from operations increased by 6.1% y-y to R56 019m.
The group now serves a combined 237.3m customers, up 12.3% y-y, and 103.0m financial services customers, including Safaricom.
Group leverage increased to 1.0x (FY25: 0.9x) as a result of Egypt spectrum acqusition and the Maziv fibre transaction in SA.
