mwanahisa wrote:Pesa Nane wrote:mwanahisa wrote:To be fair, STANDARD INVESTMENT BANK have a more sympathetic view of the results. Here is how it goes:...
Standard group posts 24.4 y/y rise in FY12 PAT. Standard group released its FY12 performance figures posting a 24.4% y/y rise in PAT to KES 183m. EPS however dipped 4.8% y/y due to better performance of its subsidiaries leading to a decline in loss attributable to non controlling interest.
@mwanahisa please explain this in plain 'analogue' english
It certainly sounds like goobledygook for sure!!! I am ceratinly not in a position to interpret what it means without the full set of accounts. I have gone to SG's website and I could not even find last year's (i.e. 2011) Annual Report. I can however speculate that the share of profit of minority interests has increased as losses declined in the subsidiaries where minority interests have shares. Hopes that makes slightly better sense.
'GROUP' includes subsidiaries. So the GROUP may have done very well but the % owned by 'others' aka 'Minority Interests' reduces what is 'owned' by the Shareholders of SGL. You will see similar stuff in firms with profitable subsidiaries they don't own most of i.e. 50-75% ... Look at Unga, Williamson, I&M Bank, etc which have profitable subsidiaries, JVs or associates in which they have between 20-75% ownership.
Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett