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COMPUTERSHARE LIMITED. — Interim / Quarterly Report 2026
Feb 9, 2026
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1H26 Financial Results
10 February 2026
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Computershare is performing to plan with Management EPS up 3.9%. Full year guidance upgraded.
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Stuart Irving, CEO noted,
“We are executing well on our strategic plans to deliver a simpler, higher quality Computershare that generates consistent results and enduring returns for shareholders.
We have positioned the group to leverage long term growth trends and have benefitted from increased activity across all our business lines.
With our natural interest rate hedge, we have delivered earnings growth again, despite a lower yield environment.
Comparing the results to 1H FY25, Management revenue was up 3.9%, Management EPS was up 3.9% and ROIC exceeded 36%.
Excluding Margin Income, growth was stronger. Revenue increased by 7.2% and EBIT ex MI increased by 12%. With BAU operating costs increasing below the rate of inflation, EBIT ex MI margins moved up to 16%, marking good progress towards our 20% target.
Our three business lines continue to strengthen their competitive positions, widen their moats and deploy new technologies to enhance customer value and efficiencies. With new business wins, client paid fees were up around 5%. These are recurring and make up the majority of our revenues.
Event and Transaction revenues are recovering, up 12.9%. Pleasingly, we are seeing increased activity levels in some categories of corporate actions, and in employee share plan trading.
NOTE: All figures (including comparatives) are presented in US Dollars (unless otherwise stated).
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1H26 Financial Results
10 February 2026
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Margin Income was resilient at $372.9m, down 5.4%. As expected, interest rates fell sharply in the period, with the average US cash rates down almost 17% on the PCP. However, Computershare has a natural hedge to lowering interest rates, limiting the impact. The reduction in rates stimulated increased business activity levels and higher client balances. Coupled with our hedging strategy and lower group interest costs, the overall effect was 1.5% of PBT.
With our capital light model and consistent cash generation, Computershare’s balance sheet continues to strengthen. Debt leverage reduced to 0.3x. This strength enables us to invest in new technologies, patiently pursue acquisitions and increase dividends to shareholders.
Acquiring further shares in a buyback program would be tax inefficient for Computershare, therefore the Board has determined to increase the interim dividend to AUD 55 cps, up 22.2% vs PCP.
Issuer Services delivered the fastest rate of revenue growth across the group with contributions from all business lines. Register Maintenance revenues improved by over 4% supported by new client wins. Corporate Actions are recovering in some of our markets with revenue growth of over 12%. We did see a strong improvement in IPOs in Hong Kong although across our markets corporate actions are 25% below 2021 levels. Volumes of completed M&A deals were down across all markets except for Australia. Based on deal pipelines the outlook is positive. We continue to engage with regulators to help shape the future of digital market structures.
Corporate Trust is performing well with Fee revenue up over 12%. We are benefitting from increased issuance volumes across all product categories with strong volume growth in our key structured products, RMBS, ABS and CMBS. As expected, higher activity levels are generating higher client balances. We continue to strengthen our platforms, regulatory positioning and capabilities as we patiently pursue acquisition targets.
Employee Share Plans delivered another set of strong results, underpinned by the tailwind of increased issuance of equity in employee remuneration. Revenue increased by 5% with higher client fees and transactional revenues. The value of Assets under Administration increased by 25%. With our EquatePlus platform and unrivalled cross border capabilities, we continue to enjoy market share growth. Recognising the business has a sensitivity to equity markets, we have built an impressive portfolio of multinational clients across diversified industry sectors.
FY26 Outlook – Upgrade to guidance
Following our first half result, and with an improved outlook for 2H, we are upgrading earnings guidance for FY26.
Initial guidance in August 2025 for Management EPS for FY26 to be up by around 4% to 140 cps.
We now expect to deliver Management EPS of around 144 cps, up around 6%. With momentum across our key business lines, lower interest costs and the benefit of the share buy back we completed last year we have a positive outlook. We will maintain our focus on executing our strategic plans to deliver a higher quality CPU that generates consistent results and enduring returns for shareholders.”
NOTE: All figures (including comparatives) are presented in US Dollars (unless otherwise stated).
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1H26 Financial Results
10 February 2026
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Interim dividend
55 cents per share (AUD) 30% franked. Up 22% on prior year interim dividend.
Record date: 18[th] February 2026 Payment date: 18[th] March 2026
Last DRP Election Date: 19[th] February 2026 Pricing Period (inclusive): 23[rd] February 2026 to 6[th] March 2026
The Results Presentation is available for download at https://www.computershare.com/corporate/investorrelations/financial-information/results
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Michael Brown - Investor Relations
Mobile: + 61 400 248 080 Email: [email protected]
Please refer to the 1H26 Results Presentation for guidance assumptions, detailed financial data and the important notice on slide 51 regarding forward looking statements.
The non-IFRS financial information contained within this document has not been reviewed or audited in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards.
This announcement was authorised to be released to the ASX by the Board.
NOTE: All figures (including comparatives) are presented in US Dollars (unless otherwise stated).
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