{"id":14554,"date":"2026-08-26T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=14554"},"modified":"2026-08-26T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:00:01","slug":"discovery-sees-healthy-rise-in-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=14554","title":{"rendered":"Discovery sees healthy rise in profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Financial services firm Discovery is expecting its normalised headline earnings for its June year-end to increase by between 18% and 23%, enhanced by lower finance costs, in line with the group\u2019s planned reduction in debt.<\/p>\n<p>It expects its headline earnings to rise between 31% and 36% after a required accounting adjustment, as it ended its lease for its Sandton head office when it bought the building from landlords Growthpoint and Zenprop in February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>Read:<br \/>Record half-year profit for Discovery, dividend hiked<br \/>Discovery Bank swings to profit<br \/>Discovery buys Sandton head office from Growthpoint, Zenprop for R4bn<\/p>\n<p>The JSE requires firms to issue an announcement if profit will be at least 20% higher or lower than the previous financial period.<\/p>\n<p>Normalised headline earnings per share (Heps) are expected to increase by between 18% and 23% to between 1 735.1 cents and 1 808.6 cents.<br \/>\nNormalised profit from operations is expected to increase by between 15% and 20%.<br \/>\nDiscovery South Africa, which includes the country\u2019s largest medical aid administrator Discovery Health, Discovery Bank, and life insurance business Discovery Life, is expected to grow profit by 13-18%<br \/>\nThe Vitality division, a science-based behaviour-change programme that rewards members for living healthier lives, is expected to grow profit by between 18% and 23%.<\/p>\n<p>Discovery intends to release its full-year results on 3 September.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>Discovery share price<\/p>\n<p>                        #Discovery #sees #healthy #rise #profit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial services firm Discovery is expecting its normalised headline earnings for its June year-end to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[5358,11850,2117,70,2740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}