Cashbuild flags earnings fall as it counts cost of looting

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Looting hit more than 10% of Cashbuild’s store base, and the company is also facing a waning Covid-19 home-improvement boom

SA’s biggest building materials retailer, Cashbuild, has flagged an up to 35% fall in headline earnings per share for its 2022 year, hit by violent riots in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, as well as the crumbling of the pandemic-induced home improvement boom.

HEPS are expected to fall between 30% and 35% to as low as 1,867.2c, the firm said in a trading update, which would be about 2.2% below pre-pandemic levels...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.

 

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Not because of looting but because too much competition our in the market which they are not telling their shareholders. Competition is going to keep increasing going forward and their trading condition is going to get worst.

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