Ann: Link Group announces AustralianSuper contract extension, page-23

from half year report.
I do full year and half year.
usually you can see when the trend changed in between.
for LNK, 2H is pretty bad, comparing to 1H
almost no profit.

So, to get the $355m "gain on financial assets" you simply took that item from the first half result and you doubled it?

But that is very much a non-recurring sort of P&L item, and most investors - if they were even remotely prudent - would strip that out (or the bulk of it, at the very least) in determining the underlying earnings of the core business.

Because without that $355m figure, the company's underlying operating earnings will be significantly reduced, and the P/E multiple will be a lot higher than the 15 times as quoted in your earlier post.