ANGLO AMERICAN PLATINUM LIMITED
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
(Registration number: 1946/022452/06)
Share Code: AMS
ISIN: ZAE000013181
(“the Company" or "Anglo American Platinum")
Anglo American Platinum will release results for the twelve months ended 31 December 2015 (“the period”) on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange News Service (“SENS”) on 8 February 2016.
Shareholders are referred to the Company’s business update and trading statement released on SENS on 8 December 2015 in which the Company advised that headline earnings and headline earnings per share (“HEPS”) for the period were expected to be at least 20% (R157 million or 60 cents per share) lower than for the comparative reporting period for the twelve months ended 31 December 2014 (“comparative period”) and that basic earnings and basic earnings per share (“EPS”) for the period were also expected to be at least 20% (R125 million or 48 cents per share) lower than for the comparative period.
Following the end of the period, shareholders are advised that headline earnings and HEPS for the period are likely to decrease to between R60 million and R135 million (or between 92% and 83% lower than the prior year) and 25 cents and 55 cents per share (or between 92% and 82% lower than the prior year) respectively. This compares to headline earnings and HEPS of R786 million and 301 cents respectively reported for the comparative period.
Basic earnings and EPS for the period are likely to decrease to between a loss of R12.1 billion and a loss of R12.2 billion (or between 2,039% and 2,055% lower than the prior year) and a loss of between 4,630 cents and 4,665 cents per share (or between 2,037% and 2,052% lower than the prior year) respectively. This compares to basic earnings and EPS of R624 million and 239 cents respectively reported for the comparative period.
The expected decrease in earnings and headline earnings is largely due to impairments and write-offs of the carrying value of assets of R14.0 billion (post-tax), with only R1.8 billion impacting headline earnings; restructuring costs amounting to R850 million (post-tax) due to reorganising the support and service functions to ensure a rightsized overhead structure to support a more focused business; and the implementation of operational plans which focus on the need to deliver positive cash flows and further increase efficiencies which ultimately led to a reduction in contractors and employees.
As previously announced in the Company’s FY15 interim results released on 20 July 2015 and the business update and trading statement released on 8 December 2015 on SENS, certain one-off items have impacted headlines earnings for the full year to 31 December 2015. Excluding these one-off items of the write off of Atlatsa loans (equating to a loss of 686 cents per share post-tax), restructuring costs (equating to a loss of 325 cents per share post-tax) and the increase in inventory based on the result of an annual inventory count (equating to a gain of 599 per share post-tax), the headline earnings performance of the Company would have improved by a total of 412 cents per share, against a headline earnings of 301 cents per share in the comparative period.
The financial information on which this trading statement is based has not been reviewed or reported on by the Company’s external auditors.
Johannesburg
25 January 2016
Sponsor
RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)