Durban - Healthcare group Netcare, with South African and UK
operations, released a trading update in which it informed its
shareholders that it expects a rise in earning for the six months to end
March.
The South African operator of private hospitals says earnings
and earnings per share (Eps) are likely to be between 28 percent and 32 percent
higher as compared with March 2016, with an increase in headline earnings
per share (Heps) of between 15.4c and 19c, an increase of between 17 percent
and 21 percent.
Earnings are forecast to rise by between R351 million and
R401m, up from R1.25 billion reported a year ago. The earnings per share are expected to increase by between
26 cents and 29.7c, and beating last year’s earnings of 92.7c a share.
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In the trading statement, the company says these
results will include the benefit of two sizeable, non-trading items, being,
firstly, a capital profit on the sale of the land and buildings of the old
Netcare Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital; and, secondly, a non-cash, fair
value accounting credit on the mark-to-market valuation of Retail Price Index
swap instruments related to property leases of the United Kingdom operations.The company says it will release its results on May 15.
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