Anglo American PLC Anglo American Platinum earnings reconciliation (8003L)

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RNS Number : 8003L

Anglo American PLC

24 July 2017

 
 
24 July 2017 
Anglo American plc notification: 
Anglo American Platinum Limited interim results 
2017 
 
 

Anglo American wishes to draw attention to Anglo American Platinum Limited's announcement of its results for the six months ended 30 June 2017. Anglo American Platinum Limited reported headline earnings of R747 million.

Anglo American will report underlying earnings in respect of Anglo American Platinum Limited of $37 million for the six months ended 30 June 2017, which takes into account certain adjustments.

 
 
                                       6 months   6 months       Year 
                                          ended      ended      ended 
                                       30.06.17   30.06.16   31.12.16 
  $ million 
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 Anglo American Platinum Headline 
  earnings                                   56     107(1)        126 
 Restructuring costs                          -         14         14 
 Other adjustments                          (6)       (10)       (23) 
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                                             50        111        117 
 Impact of Anglo American 
  Platinum restatements(2)                    -       (41)       (56) 
----------------------------------  -----------  ---------  --------- 
                                             50         70         61 
 Non-controlling interests                 (10)       (14)       (12) 
 Exploration                                  2          2          5 
 Elimination of intercompany 
  interest                                   35         38         72 
 Depreciation of assets fair 
  valued on acquisition                     (8)        (8)       (16) 
 Other adjustments                         (13)          -        (5) 
 Corporate cost allocation                 (19)       (20)       (40) 
 
 Contribution to Anglo American 
  underlying earnings                        37         68         65 
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(1) Restated.

(2) During the year ended 31 December 2016, Anglo American Platinum Limited identified certain computational errors affecting its results reported in prior periods, the impact of which was considered material to Anglo American Platinum Limited but was not material to Anglo American. Consequently, the affected results for the years ended 31 December 2015 and earlier, and for the six months ended 30 June 2016, have been restated in the individual financial statements of Anglo American Platinum Limited but have been corrected in the year ended 31 December 2016 in Anglo American's financial statements.

Anglo American will report results for the six months ended 30 June 2017 on 27 July 2017. The above figures are unaudited.

Underlying earnings

Underlying earnings is profit attributable to equity shareholders before special items and remeasurements, and is therefore presented after net finance costs, income tax and non-controlling interests. Special items are those items of financial performance that the Group believes should be separately disclosed to assist in the understanding of the underlying financial performance achieved by the Group.

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