Sea Harvest, the recently listed fishing enterprise controlled by Brimstone Investment Corporation, said on Monday the recent acquisitions of Ladismith Cheese and Viking Fishing prompted a 70% jump in operating profit for the year to end-June.
Headline earnings per share rose 32% to 61.1c in the period, while operating expenses jumped 60% to R367m as a result of the new acquisitions. Operating expenses, as a percentage of revenue, decreased to 19.3% from 21.7% in the prior comparative period.
Net finance costs, however, jumped 628% to R51m as the company funded its expansion, while the group's operating profit margin contracted 1.4 percentage points to 15%.
Revenue rose 86% to R1.87bn, and operating profit 70% to R281m.
Sea Harvest acquired Ladismith Cheese in January 2019 for R527m, saying at the time it was seeking to diversify earnings and benefit from growing consumers in natural-fat products.
The deal follows on the heels of Sea Harvest’s R885m acquisition of the Viking fishing Group and 50% of Viking Aquaculture, which was completed in June 2018.
Sea Harvest listed on the JSE in April 2017, and has said it is seeking further expansion. In May 2019, it completed its 100% acquisition of Mareterram in Australia — now Sea Harvest Australia.
Although the new acquisitions made the results difficult to compare on
gernetzkyk@businesslive.co.za
Sea Harvest profit surges after two acquisitions
Sea Harvest, the recently listed fishing enterprise controlled by Brimstone Investment Corporation, said on Monday the recent acquisitions of Ladismith Cheese and Viking Fishing prompted a 70% jump in operating profit for the year to end-June.
Headline earnings per share rose 32% to 61.1c in the period, while operating expenses jumped 60% to R367m as a result of the new acquisitions. Operating expenses, as a percentage of revenue, decreased to 19.3% from 21.7% in the prior comparative period.
Net finance costs, however, jumped 628% to R51m as the company funded its expansion, while the group's operating profit margin contracted 1.4 percentage points to 15%.
Revenue rose 86% to R1.87bn, and operating profit 70% to R281m.
Sea Harvest acquired Ladismith Cheese in January 2019 for R527m, saying at the time it was seeking to diversify earnings and benefit from growing consumers in natural-fat products.
The deal follows on the heels of Sea Harvest’s R885m acquisition of the Viking fishing Group and 50% of Viking Aquaculture, which was completed in June 2018.
Sea Harvest listed on the JSE in April 2017, and has said it is seeking further expansion. In May 2019, it completed its 100% acquisition of Mareterram in Australia — now Sea Harvest Australia.
Although the new acquisitions made the results difficult to compare on
gernetzkyk@businesslive.co.za
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