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Investor Centre » Financials » Financial Highlights

(As published in the Integrated Report 2012) SHOPRITE HOLDINGS LIMITED AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES

		June	June
	%	2012	2011
	increase	R’000	R’000

Sale of merchandise	14.4	82 730 587	72 297 777
Trading profit	17.0	4 665 134	3 986 697
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and mortisation (EBITDA)	17.3	5 746 352	4 898 255
Profit before tax	15.6	4 481 707	3 876 368
Headline earnings	21.2	3 114 212	2 569 006


PERFORMANCE MEASURES
Headline earnings per share (cents)	19.6	607.0	507.6
Dividend per share declared (cents)	19.8	303.0	253.0
Dividend cover (times)		2.0	2.0
Trading margin (%)		5.64	5.51
Return on average shareholders’ equity (%)		26.0	39.3

DEFINITIONS
Return on average shareholders’ equity: Headline earnings, expressed as a percentage of the average of capital and reserves and interest-bearing borrowings at the beginning and the end of the financial year.