Preliminary Q4 2025 Rank Group PLC Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- Rank Group (The) PLC (RANKF) reported an 11% increase in like-for-like net gaming revenue, reaching £795.3 million.
- The company's underlying operating profit rose by 238% to £63.7 million, slightly exceeding expectations.
- Digital revenue grew by 10%, with Grosvenor casinos and Mecca Bingo showing strong growth of 22% and 11%, respectively.
- The company is set to roll out around 850 new gaming machines this financial year, capitalizing on recent casino legislative reforms.
- Rank Group (The) PLC (RANKF) declared a final dividend of 1.95p per share, bringing the full-year dividend to 2.6%.
- Employment costs increased by 11% due to higher national minimum wage and national insurance contributions.
- Depreciation costs rose due to capital investments, impacting overall operating profit.
- Net debt, including lease liabilities, stood at £130.8 million, with lease liabilities increasing by £23 million.
- The Spanish digital business faced challenges with flat revenues and new statutory levies impacting profitability.
- The company anticipates further increases in employment costs by 6% to 7% in the upcoming year.
Good morning everyone, a little video there which shows something of how our colleagues, across the businesses that make up the Rank Group deliver fun, excitement, entertainment to our customers. I mean, you're going to see a lot of numbers this morning, but as always, but ultimately giving fun to our customers is actually what this wonderful business is all about. Right, morning everybody, I'm John OâReilly. I'm Ranked Group CEO and delighted to welcome you to our results presentation for the year to the June 30th, 2025.
Many thanks for taking the time. To join us here this morning and thanks to for those joining online all very welcome. Joined by Richard Harris, Ranked Group CFO, who will take you through the details of the full year results in a moment, but by way of a sort of brief overview, it's been another really good year of very solid progression for the group. We've delivered growth across all of our businesses and we need to have that inflection point of the. Casino legislative reforms to look forward to and that
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