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Count — FY2025 Earnings Presentation

33 slides from Count's earnings presentation, Aug 28, 2025

  1. Slide 1: Full Year Results Presentation

    Full Year Results Presentation 28 August 2025

  2. Slide 2: Important information

    Important information This presentation is provided for information purposes only. The information in this Certain statements in this presentation may constitute forward-looking statements or presentation is in a summary form, does not purport to be complete and is not intended to statements about f

  3. Slide 3: FY2025 Business Highlights

    FY2025 Business Highlights 3

  4. Slide 4: Financial highlights for FY2025

    Financial highlights for FY2025 Statutory Revenue +28% $143.6M Underlying EBITA Margin 15% in FY2024 20% Statutory EBITA +144% $24.9M Underlying EBITA +67% $27.7M +705% +89% Statutory NPAT Underlying NPAT $8.9M $10.9M attributable attributable +280% +84% Statutory NPATA Underlying NPATA $12.7M $14.7

  5. Slide 5: Key business highlights for FY2025

    Key business highlights for FY2025 Solid operational performance delivered alongside strategic acquisitions $5.1M $3.9B +24% $37.8B +10% Diverger cost synergies achieved exceeding Funds Under Management Funds Under Advice expectations of $3M 23% 11 +2%1 Number of transactions 2.75 Cents per share +2

  6. Slide 6: Segment Performance

    FY2025 Segment Performance 6

  7. Slide 7: Strong growth delivered in each of our three operating Segments

    Strong growth delivered in each of our three operating Segments Wealth Equity Partnerships Services Revenue EBITA EBITA margin Revenue EBITA EBITA margin2 Revenue EBITA EBITA margin $42.3m $13.0m 31% $68.4m $14.4m 23% $30.5m $9.2m 30% (+42% PCP) (+148% PCP) (+4% PCP) (+5% PCP) (+113% PCP) (+124% PCP

  8. Slide 8: Managed Accounts market represents significant growth opportunities for Count

    Managed Accounts market represents significant growth opportunities for Count Total Industry Managed Account 42% of total industry Advice Firms yet to Strong potential for additional growth of FUM growing at 24% p.a. adopt Managed Accounts Count Investment Solutions FUM 53% 58% Yes $233B $195B $20.0

  9. Slide 9: Count has three different Investment Solutions propositions

    Count has three different Investment Solutions propositions to meet client and firm needs CARE Portfolios Count Portfolios Count MDAs $3.9B - Goals based adviser led $1.3B – $865M to be managed by Count1 <$10M - Enhanced offering launched investment solution to 35 advisers • Designed for firms outso

  10. Slide 10: CARE in practice: what our clients say

    “ CARE in practice: driving adviser engagement and client value What our clients say Why advisers use CARE “CARE brings clarity and consistency to advice. The Money on the Move framework simplifies client conversations and streamlines decision-making. It’s intuitive, efficient, and scalable—without

  11. Slide 11: Leading advice through operating efficiencies and strong governance

    Leading advice through operating efficiencies and strong governance 2024 2025 Award-winning CoreData Dealer CoreData Advice 2025 Finalist IMAP Advice Network Group of the Year Network of the Year Awards (Innovation) High Adviser +32 90.1% satisfaction Net Promoter Score of advisers state they would

  12. Slide 12: Scalable quality M&A conversion resulting in one transaction every five weeks

    Scalable quality M&A conversion resulting in one transaction every five weeks Increased scale Robust due diligence M&A Capital efficiency trend • Acquisition size and strategic value • Robust and rigorous process across all 13 trending upward. key financial and qualitative 11 dimensions. 10 • Increa

  13. Slide 13: Case study: Count Adelaide's growth through strategic acquisitions

    Case study: Count Adelaide’s growth through strategic acquisitions Count Adelaide’s evolution reflects a deliberate and disciplined strategy consolidating quality advisory firms in South Australia, creating a scaled and converged financial services business. • Count’s differentiated value 2023 • pro

  14. Slide 14: Case study: pioneering growth through AI and automation

    Case study: pioneering growth through AI and automation within the Count network Implementation Usage • Firm-wide AI & Automation upskilling via external training. (+60%) • 60% of staff have built and deployed their own automations. • Integrated custom bots, AI-driven workflows, and client communica

  15. Slide 15: Detailed Financials

    FY2025 Detailed Financials 15

  16. Slide 16: Key Financial Performance Summary

    Key Financial Performance Summary FY2025 FY2024 Movement Key FY2025 Highlights $’000 $’000 $’000 % • Significant underlying earnings growth driven by organic Revenue 141,103 110,146 30,957 28% growth, acquisitions and realised cost synergies. Direct Costs (56,509) (49,813) (6,696) 13% • Wealth incre

  17. Slide 17: Statutory to Underlying EBITA bridge – FY2024 to FY2025

    Statutory to Underlying EBITA bridge – FY2024 to FY2025 Increase Decrease Underlying Statutory total total Note: Refer to Appendix 7 for definition of Underlying EBITA. 17

  18. Slide 18: Growth delivered in all segments

    Growth delivered in all segments FY2025 FY2024 Movement Equity Partnerships $’000 $’000 $’000 % • Equity Partners’ productivity impacted due to one-off transaction and integration costs for increased acquisition activities, typically Equity Partnerships 68,354 66,025 2,329 4% incurred in the first 1

  19. Slide 19: Strong cash flow generation following strategic acquisitions

    Strong cash flow generation following strategic acquisitions FY2025 FY2024 Movement Key FY2025 highlights $’000 $’000 $’000 % • Operating cash flow benefited from the returns on recent Operating activities before interest and taxation 29,308 13,887 15,421 111% acquisitions and cost synergy realisati

  20. Slide 20: Dividends and funding

    Dividends and funding Key dates for FY2025 Final Dividend Ex-Dividend date Payment date Wednesday Tuesday 17 September 2025 7 October 2025 Record date Franking credits Thursday 30 June 2025 of $20.4M 18 September 2025 (30 June 2024 $23.6M) • FY2025 Final Dividend of 2.75 cents per share, fully frank

  21. Slide 21: Looking Ahead

    Looking Ahead 21

  22. Slide 22: Our ambition

    Our bold ambition is supported by a refreshed strategic plan underpinned by four pillars, three enablers and our group behaviours Our To be the leading provider of integrated accounting and wealth services, helping clients through our dynamic perspective that identifies insights from their past, max

  23. Slide 23: Continued execution of Count's integrated business system in FY2026

    Continued execution of Count’s integrated business system in FY2026 Own the profit margins by Our execution against Count’s inter-connected business investing in Equity system (flywheel) has delivered strong FY2025 outcomes. Partnerships We will continue to deliver against the flywheel in FY2026 thr

  24. Slide 24: Q&A

    Q&A 24

  25. Slide 25: Thank You

    Thank You 25

  26. Slide 26: Appendix

    Appendix 26

  27. Slide 27: The Count Group is strong and growing

    Appendix 1 18th The Count Group is strong and growing 494 Second Largest Firms Largest advice network in Australia1 Accounting Firm in Australia2 $3.9B $37.8B $143.6M Funds under management Funds under advice Statutory Revenue3 69 3 63 1 38 2 1 159 ~160,000 $27.7M 161 6 6 Firms using Count Clients s

  28. Slide 28: Historical underlying performance

    Appendix 2 Historical underlying performance 1H2025 2H2025 FY2025 1H2024 2H2024 FY2024 1H2023 2H2023 FY2023 FY2022 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Equity Partnerships – Revenue1 34,753 33,601 68,354 34,429 31,596 66,025 33,302 33,341 66,643 64,512 Wealth – Revenue 21,422

  29. Slide 29: Reconciliation of underlying EBITA to reported NPATA

    Appendix 3 Reconciliation of underlying EBITA to reported NPATA Total Equity Partnerships Wealth Services Corporate Office FY2025 FY2024 Movement FY2025 FY2024 FY2025 FY2024 FY2025 FY2024 FY2025 FY2024 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Underlying EBITA 27,746 16,633 1

  30. Slide 30: Five-year historical financial profile

    Appendix 4 Five-year historical financial profile Note: Statutory numbers were utilised for FY2021 to FY2023, FY2024 and FY2025 utilised underlying results 30

  31. Slide 31: Wealth segment growth is underpinned by strong fundamentals

    Appendix 5 Wealth segment growth is underpinned by strong fundamentals 31

  32. Slide 32: Count firms within our three Segments

    Appendix 6 Count firms within our three Segments Equity Partnerships Wealth Services 32

  33. Slide 33: Definitions

    Appendix 7 Definitions Underlying revenue (Underlying revenue) excludes divested Underlying net profit (Underlying NPAT) excludes tax effected items operations or items that does not contribute to the ongoing such as divested operations, one-off costs (including transaction, performance of Count. se

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