"Ouch, what a shocker!"Not really.
It's not so much what this announcement says, but what it doesn't say.
And what it omits to mention is that the previous corresponding period including a JobKeeper credit of $3.26m and a forex loss of $1.0m, so net non-recurring items of $2.26m, which is clearly a very material number in the context of $4.58m in NPAT in that period.
View attachment 3976406Stripping out the tax-adjusted impact of that NRI credit (so $2.26 * (1-30%) =
$1.58 m at the NPAT level means that, excl. NRIs, DH2020's
Underlying NPAT would have been:
UNPAT = Reported NPAT $4.58m less NRIs of $1.58m =
$2.90mIt is against this underlying NPAT figure that the
$2.5 m to $3.0m NPAT for DH2021 needs to be compared.
In which case, it is not nearly as bad as the headline numbers seem to suggest.
(In fact, for what it is worth, I had a $2.5m NPAT figure derived from my modelling.)
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