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Investor Centre » Financials » Financial Highlights

SHOPRITE HOLDINGS LIMITED AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES

			June	June
		%	2011	2010
		increase	R’000	R’000

Sale of merchandise		7.3	72 287 777	67 402 440
Trading profit		14.2	3 986 697	3 490 441 14
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and mortisation(EBITDA)		15.0	4 898 255	4 260 005
Profit before tax		14.0	3 876 368	3 399 088
Headline earnings		12.0	2 569 006	2 293 215


PERFORMANCE MEASURES
Headline earnings per share (cents)		11.5	507.6	455.4
Diluted headline earnings per share (cents)		12.4	507.6	451.6
Dividend per share declared (cents)		11.5	253.0	227.0
Dividend cover (times)			2.0	2.0
Trading margin (%)			5.51	5.18
Return on average shareholders’ equity (%)			39.3	41.9

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.