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Barloworld 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 summary24 Nov, 2025

Executive summary

  • Demonstrated resilience amid global and regional volatility, with strategic focus on fixing, optimising, and growing the business portfolio.

  • Maintained disciplined capital allocation, investing in growth, paying down debt, and distributing dividends.

  • Continued pivot toward defensive, asset-light, and cash-generative industrial sectors.

Financial highlights

  • Group revenue declined 10% year-over-year to R37.7 billion, mainly due to normalisation in Mongolia and subdued results in southern Africa.

  • Excluding VT, revenue was R36 billion, down 4.7% from the prior year.

  • EBITDA margin (excluding VT) remained resilient at 11.7%.

  • Net asset value per share increased 3.9% to 9,141 cents.

  • Net debt improved by 37% to R884 million.

  • Total dividend distributed was 120 cents per share.

  • Group headline earnings per share fell to 810 cents from 1,022 cents.

Outlook and guidance

  • Positive outlook for Zambia, supported by strong copper prices, but hard currency liquidity challenges persist in Africa.

  • South Africa expected to benefit from logistics reforms and infrastructure initiatives, though consumer sentiment remains cautious.

  • Equipment southern Africa ends the year with a strong order book, nearly doubling to R3 billion.

  • Ingrain's maize supply secured for 2025/26, with favourable crop projections.

  • Mongolia's growth rates expected to stabilise; VT trading near break-even with sufficient capital.

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Barloworld Limited is an industrial brand management company that specializes in the processing, distribution, and provision of services across two primary sectors: Industrial Equipment & Services and Consumer Industries. Its Industrial Equipment division offers earthmoving equipment, industrial services, and power systems, catering to the operational needs across mining, construction, and power solution sectors. The Consumer Industries business, known as Ingrain, supplies essential ingredients for a variety of products in the food and beverages, paper, pharmaceuticals, building materials, and adhesives industries, among others. Barloworld operates in multiple geographies, demonstrating a strong capability in developing businesses in diverse territories, including those with high growth prospects. The company is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, and its shares are listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

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