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Dividend
- Interim dividend of 8.25 cents per share
- Flat on prior year
- Imputation at rate of 10.5%
- Dividend record date of 28 March 2023 and payment date of 6 April 2023
- Dividend policy to be reviewed following completion of Metering transaction
Dividend (cents per share)
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6.00
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6.50 | 6.50 | 6.50 | 6.50 | 6.75 | |||||||||||||
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Interim | Final | |
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H1 2023 Business Overview
Electricity and Gas Distribution | Gas Trading | Metering | Review of Metering Business |
- 9,203 new electricity and gas connections added, up 10.4% on prior six month comparative period
- Level of investment continues to be at historically higher levels with gross capital expenditure for H1 at $197.4m
- Electricity volumes overall up 1.4% at 4,374 GWh with higher business volume offset by lower residential volume
- IM review underway with final decision expected December 2023
- DPP3 reset for gas impacted prices from 1 October 2022
• LPG continues to be affected by | • In H1, deployed 38k advanced |
higher input costs for LPG | meters in Australia and 12k in NZ |
impacting margins | • Advanced meter fleet totals 2.03 |
• 13.0% decrease in 9kg LPG bottle | million across NZ and Australia |
swaps to 309,855 due to loss of | • More than 528k meters now |
large customer | |
• LPG volumes down 10.7% to 22,535 | installed in Australia |
• Invested capex of $91.7m or 13.3% | |
tonnes | |
more than equivalent prior | |
• 4.4% increase in Liquigas tolling to | period |
56,908 tonnes | • Rollout of 4G modem |
• Natural gas sales down 3.4% to 2.8 | replacement in New Zealand |
PJ | progressing well with c390k |
completed to date | |
• AEMC's draft report announced | |
accelerated uptake of advanced | |
meters in Australia to 2030 |
- Completed strategic review of metering business
- Partnership announced with QIC
- Deal is expected to conclude by Q2 2023
- Deal is still conditional
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Metering Strategic Review - update
• QIC selected as the preferred partner for sale of | • Proceeds will be used to reduce debt |
50% of metering business | • As part of the interim results, the Metering |
• Sale is conditional on regulatory approvals and | segment is now classified as held for sale and is |
finalisation of funding | reported as discontinued operations |
• Transaction is expected to be finalised before 30 | • Post completion of the deal, the Metering result |
June 2023 | will be reported as an Associate |
• Terms imply an enterprise value of $2.51b1 against | • Metering will operate as a standalone business. |
a book value of $0.85b2 | Work on separation has commenced |
- Conclusion of the deal is expected to realise gross transaction proceeds of $1.74b to Vector
Disclosure | Associate |
Balance Sheet and P&L | Equity accounted |
Revenue/Costs | Below EBITDA |
Dividends received | Included in operating cashflows |
1 Subject to customary completion adjustments | 5 |
2 Updated to reflect corrected book value as at 31 December 2022