Jardine Matheson Fiscal Year Profit Declines to $5.34 Billion

LONDON--Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited (J36.SG), a diversified business company, Friday reported a slide in full year pretax profit due to weakness in Indonesia's currency, difficult motor trading in China and a one-off charge in Dairy Farm, and said that the group looks forward to another satisfactory year in 2013.

MAIN FACTS:

-Pretax profit for the year ended Dec. 31, 2012, amounted to 5.34 billion dollars, compared with pretax profit of $9.49 billion in the year ago period.

-Underlying pretax profit $4.76 billion versus $4.78 billion.

-Revenue, together with revenue of associates and joint ventures, $60.45 billion versus $57.31 billion.

-Underlying earnings per share $4.06 versus $4.13.

-Earnings per share $4.63 versus $9.53.

-Dividends per share $1.35 versus $1.25.

-Net asset value per share $48.54 versus $45.09.

-Most of the Group's businesses continue to trade well, despite the relatively subdued economic environment.

-Write to Tapan Panchal at [e-mail]

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