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Crookes Brothers Ltd. Curro Holdings Ltd.

ISIN: ZAE000001434 SHORT: CROOKES CODE: CKS ISIN: ZAE000156253 SHORT: CURRO CODE: COH
REG NO: 1913/000290/06 FOUNDED: 1913 LISTED: 1948 REG NO: 1998/025801/06 FOUNDED: 1998 LISTED: 2011
NATURE OF BUSINESS: Crookes Brothers Ltd. is an agricultural NATURE OF BUSINESS: Curro was established in 1998 and is the
business growing sugar cane, bananas and macadamia nuts in leading for-profit independent school provider in southern Africa.
South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia and Mozambique, and has a long- It develops, acquires and manages independent schools for
term property development in Scottburgh, South Africa. learners from the age of three months to Grade 12. The different
SECTOR: ConsStaples--Food,Beverage&Tobacco--Food Producers--Farmers school models are Curro Castles (nursery schools), Curro, Curro
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 2 009 Academy, Meridian and Select schools.
DIRECTORS: Chance R G F (ind ne), Crookes T J (ne), Denton T K (ne), SECTOR: ConsDiscr--ConsProducts&Servcs--ConsServcs--EducationServcs
Mall F (ind ne), Stewart R (ind ne), Vaughan-Smith G (ne), NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 6 940
Xaba T (ind ne), Riddle L W (Chair, ind ne), Naidoo N (Group CFO), DIRECTORS: Fernandez C (ne), Mathe B (ind ne), Molebatsi L (ne),
Sinclair K (Group CEO) Mouton P J (ne), Ramaphosa D M (ind ne), van der Merwe Dr C R
MAJOR ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS as at 31 Mar 2025 (ne), Baloyi T (Chair Designate, ind ne), Loubser C (CEO),
Silverlands (SA) Plantations SARL 44.80% Lategan M (Deputy CEO), September B (CFO)
Government Employees Pension Fund 5.73% MAJOR ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS as at 17 Apr 2025
Ellingham Estate (Pty) Ltd. 5.50% JF Mouton Familietrust 17.21%
POSTAL ADDRESS: PO Box 1319, Hillcrest, KwaZulu-Natal, 3650 Public Investment Corporation (SOC) Ltd. 14.95%
MORE INFO: www.sharedata.co.za/sdo/jse/CKS Camissa Asset Management (Pty) Ltd. 11.20%
COMPANY SECRETARY: Highway Corporate Services (Pty) Ltd. POSTAL ADDRESS: PO Box 2436, Durbanville, Cape Town, 7551
TRANSFER SECRETARY: Computershare Investor Services (Pty) Ltd. MORE INFO: www.sharedata.co.za/sdo/jse/COH
SPONSOR: Questco Corporate Advisory (Pty) Ltd. COMPANY SECRETARY: Elizabeth Mpeke
AUDITORS: Deloitte SA TRANSFER SECRETARY: Computershare Investor Services (Pty) Ltd.
CAPITAL STRUCTURE Authorised Issued SPONSOR: PSG Capital (Pty) Ltd.
CKS Ords 25c ea 16 000 000 15 264 317 AUDITORS: PwC Inc.
CAPITAL STRUCTURE Authorised Issued
DISTRIBUTIONS [ZARc] COH Ords no par value 600 000 000 564 882 508
Ords 25c ea Ldt Pay Amt
Final No 209 5 Aug 25 11 Aug 25 150.00 DISTRIBUTIONS [ZARc]
Final No 208 5 Aug 24 12 Aug 24 200.00 Ords no par value Ldt Pay Amt
LIQUIDITY: Jul25 Avg 8 207 shares p.w., R263 990.5(2.8% p.a.) Final No 6 8 Apr 25 14 Apr 25 16.60
Final No 5 9 Apr 24 15 Apr 24 14.64
CROOKES 40 Week MA FOOD LIQUIDITY: Jul25 Avg 3m shares p.w., R37.3m(31.8% p.a.)
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FINANCIAL STATISTICS 2022 2023 2024 2025
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Final Final(rst) Final Final Final FINANCIAL STATISTICS
Turnover 833 812 727 913 615 730 576 654 635 583 (R million) Dec 24 Dec 23 Dec 22 Dec 21 Dec 20
Op Inc 132 527 111 163 - 148 560 42 744 97 859 Final Final Final Final Final
NetIntPd(Rcvd) 26 913 40 180 39 009 19 405 31 428 Turnover 5 144 4 764 4 156 3 543 3 094
Minority Int 21 685 28 002 - 3 441 16 376 19 572 Op Inc 934 847 645 508 455
Att Inc 68 138 61 326 - 196 134 62 610 23 235 NetIntPd(Rcvd) 314 274 208 170 223
TotCompIncLoss 69 395 94 453 - 134 098 63 572 25 769 Minority Int - 8 - 9 - 4 - 8 - 12
Fixed Ass 646 376 618 271 618 969 773 561 751 297 Att Inc 105 41 239 259 - 31
Inv & Loans 124 549 121 701 114 118 113 637 67 152 TotCompIncLoss 90 34 271 303 - 108
Tot Curr Ass 715 746 733 351 676 571 629 947 632 272 Fixed Ass 10 548 10 543 10 487 9 800 9 120
Ord SH Int 1 030 770 1 014 428 947 522 1 080 400 1 039 440 Tot Curr Ass 573 553 535 578 800
Minority Int 79 448 73 063 61 122 64 563 50 227 Ord SH Int 7 041 7 151 7 270 7 110 6 768
LT Liab 489 644 421 757 502 252 514 986 481 057 Minority Int 168 - 23 - 14 - 10 - 2
Tot Curr Liab 248 924 314 000 379 743 174 621 182 186 LT Liab 3 934 4 420 4 330 3 505 3 781
PER SHARE STATISTICS (cents per share) Tot Curr Liab 1 178 762 678 947 553
HEPS-C (ZARc) 425.10 334.50 - 708.80 229.60 272.20 PER SHARE STATISTICS (cents per share)
DPS (ZARc) 150.00 200.00 - - 50.00 HEPS-C (ZARc) 83.00 73.20 61.40 40.90 36.40
NAV PS (ZARc) 6 752.81 6 645.75 6 608.00 7 501.00 7 139.00 DPS (ZARc) 16.60 14.64 11.08 8.20 -
3 Yr Beta 0.27 0.09 0.01 0.12 - 0.06 NAV PS (ZARc) 1 246.00 1 229.00 1 224.00 1 189.00 1 132.00
Price High 3 899 3 600 4 224 4 749 5 000 3 Yr Beta 0.73 0.60 1.46 1.60 1.76
Price Low 2 299 2 450 2 802 3 750 3 700 Price High 1 379 1 280 1 450 1 310 1 839
Price Prd End 2 850 2 799 2 887 4 050 4 310 Price Low 974 702 805 902 469
RATIOS Price Prd End 1 305 1 165 900 1 245 948
Ret on SH Fnd 8.09 8.21 - 19.79 6.90 3.93 RATIOS
Oper Pft Mgn 15.89 15.27 - 24.13 7.41 15.40 Ret on SH Fnd 1.35 0.45 3.24 3.54 - 0.64
D:E 0.51 0.55 0.72 0.50 0.50 Oper Pft Mgn 18.16 17.78 15.52 14.34 14.71
Current Ratio 2.88 2.34 1.78 3.61 3.47 D:E 0.55 0.62 0.60 0.49 0.56
Div Cover 2.98 2.01 - - 3.04 Current Ratio 0.49 0.73 0.79 0.61 1.45
Div Cover 1.12 0.48 3.62 5.28 -
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