Half Year 2026 Centrepoint Alliance Ltd Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- Centrepoint Alliance Ltd (ASX:CAF) reported a 17% increase in EBITDA, reaching 6.2% for the half year.
- The company achieved a net growth of 14 licensed advisors in six months, with an additional 15 advisors joining by February 20, 2026.
- Investment platform adoption increased by 72%, with a pipeline of $1 billion in platform transitions.
- The salaried advice business saw a 24% revenue increase, partly due to the Brighter Super acquisition.
- Centrepoint Alliance Ltd (ASX:CAF) has become the number two licensee in the market, driven by strong advisor recruitment and retention.
- Net profit before tax decreased from 4.9% in the first half of 2025 to 3.5%, due to a one-off release of contingent consideration.
- The company experienced a working capital drag of $1.3 million, primarily due to annual staff bonuses and prepayments.
- Other revenue decreased by 10%, mainly due to the cessation of platform rebates driven by regulatory changes.
- The cost to income ratio, although improved, remains at 71%, indicating room for further efficiency improvements.
- The lending aggregation business was divested, which may indicate challenges in maintaining profitability in that segment.
Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us today for the Centrepoint Alliance half year results investor conference call. All attendees are now in listen-only mode. My name's John Shuttleworth, I'm the Chief Executive Officer of Centrepoint Alliance, and with me today is Brendon Glass, our Chief Financial Officer. We'll have the presentation today followed by the opportunity for Q&A.
If you'd like to ask a question, please type it into the Q&A panel on your Zoom app and we'll hope to get through all the questions that, we get given. Alright, so what we're going to cover today is the highlights for the first half of 2026.
I'm then going to dive into some different areas and try to give everyone a a good background on the business, so we'll start out and look at the licensee growth and our pipeline and compare what's happening with us to some other licensees. Our salaried advice business has been a key contributor.
To an uplift in, revenue and earnings and we'll go through what we're doing with that
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