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Australian Clinical Labs H2 2025 earnings summary

Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.
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H2 2025 earnings summary26 Aug, 2025

Executive summary

  • Achieved strong earnings and cash flow growth in FY25, with revenue up 6.4% to $741.3M and underlying EBIT up 8.7% to $68M, despite challenging market conditions.

  • Delivered on earnings guidance, with operational and digital initiatives driving efficiency, margin improvement, and robust free cash flow supporting significant capital returns.

  • Maintained focus on efficiency, leveraging a single national Laboratory Information System to drive cost savings and operational improvements.

  • Returned $44M to shareholders through dividends and share buyback, while reducing net debt.

Financial highlights

  • Revenue reached $741.3M, up 6.4% year-over-year; underlying EBIT was $68M, up 8.7%, with a margin of 9.2%.

  • Underlying NPAT rose 7.7% to $34M; underlying EPS up 13.4% to 17.8¢ per share.

  • Free cash flow before interest, tax, and financing increased over 30% to $70.8M; free cash flow conversion at 113.6% of cash EBITDA.

  • Net debt to cash EBITDA ratio at 0.3x, reduced from 0.5x at end-Dec 2024.

  • Final fully franked dividend of 9¢ per share, full-year dividend 12.5¢ per share, 72% payout ratio.

Outlook and guidance

  • FY26 revenue guidance: $760M–$780M; underlying EBIT: $67M–$73M.

  • Guidance reflects ongoing market softness, patient rebate cuts, and restructuring to remove underperforming sites, with continued investment in revenue initiatives and efficiencies.

  • Initiatives in development expected to add at least $8M EBIT in FY27.

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Australian Clinical Labs Limited (ACL) is a private provider of pathology services in Australia, operating over 70 accredited laboratories. Annually, these laboratories conduct millions of test episodes for both clinicians and patients. ACL serves more than 90 public and private hospitals, including two of the largest private hospital groups in Australia, with a comprehensive range of services encompassing routine pathology tests, advanced molecular genetics testing, and pathology services for clinical trials, among others. The company is headquartered in Clayton, Victoria, and its shares are listed on the ASX.

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