{"id":6824,"date":"2026-05-21T07:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6824"},"modified":"2026-05-21T07:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:22:25","slug":"sa-gains-lift-investec-profit-dividend-to-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6824","title":{"rendered":"SA gains lift Investec profit, dividend to record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Investec posted a record dividend for the fourth straight year as the South Africa- and UK-listed bank\u2019s full-year profit climbed to a new high.<\/p>\n<p>The specialist lender posted a 3.5% increase in \u201cpre-provision\u201d adjusted operating profit for the year ending March 31 to \u00a31.08 billion ($1.4 billion) as revenue climbed 4.2%, it said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Adjusted earnings per share climbed 4.8% to 82.9 pence, beating the 80-pence median estimate by five analysts in a Bloomberg survey.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>Return on equity dropped 30 basis points to 13.6% \u2014 remaining within the bank\u2019s target range of 13% to 17%.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Investec names Ryan Friedman to lead investment arm<\/p>\n<p>Profit at the firm\u2019s southern Africa business climbed 5.5% to \u00a3488.3 million, while its rose 1.3% at \u00a3462.7 million at UK operations.<\/p>\n<p>It declared a final dividend of 21 pence for the second half, bringing the total payout for the year to 38.5 pence per share.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Sens here and here.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>                        #gains #lift #Investec #profit #dividend #record<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investec posted a record dividend for the fourth straight year as the South Africa- and&#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":[186,567,3964,3916,2117,847],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824"}],"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=6824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}