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SOUTHERN CROSS ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING LTD — AGM Information 2025
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2025 Annual General Meeting Managing Director’s Presentation 14 October 2025
Introduction to SCEE
Leading and trusted national provider and manufacturer of specialised electrical, instrumentation, communications, security, fire, and maintenance services and products…
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Established in 1978 and listed in 2007 (ASX:SXE)
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Diversified across three broad market sectors of Infrastructure, Commercial and Resources
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Diversified geographically with over 75% of order book on East Coast
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Diversified by discipline with 80% of FY25 revenues electrical and 20% other adjacent disciplines
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Successful track record of acquisitions: Datatel in 2016, Heyday in 2017, the Trivantage Group (S.J. Electric, SEME Solutions, and Trivantage Manufacturing) in 2020, the MDE Group in 2024, and Force Fire in 2025
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Over last nine years, management have materially grown revenues from $200m in FY17 to $800m in FY25
INFRASTRUCTURE DIVERSIFIED LONG-TERM DATA CENTRES MARKETS BLUE-CHIP ELECTRIFICATION GEOGRAPHIES CLIENT BASE DECARBONISATION AND DISCIPLINES
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…operating through a portfolio of businesses:
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Historically focused on resources and industrial work, but now also diversified into infrastructure and renewables
Telecoms and communications specialist providing services to the education, health, government, commercial, resources and transport sectors
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NSW and ACT-based electrical contractor servicing the commercial and fit-out sectors, and the retail, education, health, hotel, transport, datacentre, and residential sectors
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National provider of electrical and maintenance services to supermarkets, and the retail and commercial sectors
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Provides electronic security services to the resources, law enforcement, custodial, industrial, and health sectors
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Manufacturer of premium quality switchboards and power distribution systems to internal and external customers
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Communications, data, and electrical services provider to commercial, data centre, healthcare and transport sectors
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Leading NSW and QLD-based provider of fire safety solutions to commercial, industrial, data centres, education, and retail sectors
RECURRING REVENUES GROWTH
FINANCIAL TRACK STRENGTH RECORD OF AND SUCCESSFUL SHAREHOLDER ACQUISITIONS RETURNS
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SCEE’s strategy
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SCEE sees electrical contracting as its core capability whilst increasingly diversifying into adjacent disciplines and servicing the infrastructure, commercial, and resources sectors
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Our growth strategy continues to be to deepen our presence in those sectors and broaden our geographic diversity through expanding our core competencies and adding adjacent and complementary capabilities and disciplines, either organically or by acquisition
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We are increasing our exposure to recurring revenues with services and maintenance style works
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We are actively exploring a range of acquisition targets offering further geographic diversification and new capabilities
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We aim to maximise the synergies and cross-selling opportunities created by the increasing diversification and multi-disciplinary nature of the Group
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The electrification and decarbonisation of the Australian and global economies present SCEE with opportunities across all its operations
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FY25 Financial Results
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Record revenue and profits
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Record revenue $801.5m (FY24: $551.9m) up 45.2% on prior year
Record EBITDA $54.8m (FY24: $40.1m) up 36.6% on record prior year*
Record EBIT $45.9m (FY24: $32.7m) up 40.4% on record prior year*
Record NPAT $31.7m (FY24: $21.9m) up 44.5% on record prior year
Result included $2.7m (FY24: $2.1m) for acquisition amortisation
Record year-end cash $88.6m (30 June 2024: $84.1m) up 5.3% on record prior year
Order Book $685m (30 June 2024: $720m) down 4.9% on record prior year
Force Fire acquisition contributed in final quarter, broadly netted off against acquisition costs Infrastructure remained largest sector with 63.8% of total revenue (FY24: 42.3%) Final Dividend 5.0 cps paid and fully franked
- EBITDA and EBIT are non-IFRS financial measures, for a reconciliation to statutory results see Appendix 1
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Record revenue and profits
Record revenue $801.5m (FY24: $551.9m) up 45.2% on prior year
Revenue split by sector: Infrastructure $511.6m (FY24: $233.7m), Commercial $152.5m (FY24: $171.1m), and Resources $137.4m (FY24: $147.0m) with Infrastructure more than doubling on prior year
Ongoing significant revenue contributors were the Collie Battery Energy Storage System, Western Sydney International Airport, NEXTDC Artarmon and other Data Centres, Shoalhaven Hospital, and various BHP, Rio Tinto, Woolworths and Coles projects
Record gross profit of $105.9m (FY24: $82.7m) up 28.1% on prior year. Gross margin percentage of 13.2% down on 15.0% prior year but second half margins recovered to 13.7% from 12.7% in first half
Included in gross margin was circa $4.0m of legal costs relating to the WestConnex arbitration. The first half was also impacted by a less profitable commercial buildings project mix with less fit-out works than normal
Overheads* as a percentage of revenue were 6.6% compared with 7.8% in prior year. Second half overheads included $2.5m for Force Fire acquisition costs
Record EBITDA* of $54.8m up 36.6% on record prior year $40.1m and noting guidance “of at least $53m”
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Summary financials:
| FY25 | FY24 | % | |
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| Revenue | 801.5 | 551.9 | 45.2% |
| Gross Profit | 105.9 | 82.7 | 28.1% |
| Gross Margin % | 13.2% | 15.0% | |
| Overheads* | (52.8) | (43.3) | 21.9% |
| EBITDA* | 54.8 | 40.1 | 36.6% |
| EBITDA %* | 6.8% | 7.3% | |
| EBIT* | 45.9 | 32.7 | 40.4% |
| EBIT %* | 5.7% | 5.9% | |
| NPAT | 31.7 | 21.9 | 44.5% |
| NPAT % | 4.0% | 4.0% |
Record EBIT* and NPAT of $45.9m and $31.7m respectively up 40.4% and 44.5% respectively on prior year
EBIT* and NPAT include $2.7m acquisition amortisation (FY24: $2.1m)
* Overheads, EBITDA and EBIT are non-IFRS financial measures, for a reconciliation to statutory results see Appendix 1
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Strong balance sheet
Cash increased to a year-end record of $88.6m (30 June 2024: $84.1m) despite financing Force Fire acquisition in second half
Remain debt free
Record $115.2m of bank guarantees and surety bonds were on issue at 30 June 2025 leaving headroom of $34.8m in the $150.0m of combined facilities capacity.
Project bonding headroom expected to increase in H1 FY26 as significant bonding securing Collie BESS advance payments is returned
Franking account balance of $61.5m at 30 June 2025
Fully franked final dividend of 5.0 cents per share paid 8 October 2025
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Balance sheet summary:
| Jun 25 | Jun 24 | |
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| Current assets 228.2 227.0 |
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| Non-current assets 192.8 137.7 |
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| Total Assets 421.0 364.8 |
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| Current liabilities 198.6 164.1 |
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| Non-current liabilities 17.8 9.5 |
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| Total Liabilities 216.4 173.6 |
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| Equity 204.6 191.2 |
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Record year-end cash
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Significant cash flows in the year included:
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Record pay-out of $19.1m of fully franked dividends
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First half tax payments of $16.0m effectively “catching up” on payments of only $3.7m income tax paid in H2 FY24
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$33.0m of acquisition payments being deferred consideration of $1.0m for acquisition of MDE Group based on their FY24 result and $32.0m for Force Fire in April 2025
Of the $20m of advance payments on the Collie BESS project received pre- and post-30 June 2024, $8.0m were repaid by 30 June 2025 with $12m to go in the first half of FY26
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Order book
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Order Book by Sector Order Book by Geography Order Book by Discipline
$m $m $m
• Infrastructure two-thirds of order book • Over 75% of order book on East Coast • Circa 25% of order book now in
• FY24 included recent CBESS award • WA reduced as CBESS progressed adjacent non-electrical disciplines
FY24 FY25
FY24 FY25 FY24 FY25
720
720 720
685
685 685
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30
35
95
480 360
455 150
520
650
115 405
120
310
55
30
125 110
30
80
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Infrastructure
VIC, SA & NT Electrical
Commercial
QLD Manufacturing
Resources
WA Security & Comms
NSW & ACT Fire
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Operational highlights and outlook
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Operational highlights and outlook
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Lost Time Injury (“LTI”) free for third consecutive year (FY25: 3.5m manhours LTI-free) Workforce at circa 1,900 direct employees Louise Daw appointed as independent Non-Executive Director effective from 1 September 2025 Collie BESS passing peak activity, performing well, practical completion on schedule mid H1 FY26 Western Sydney Airport terminal project demobilised, and further airport works received Shellharbour Hospital project largest ever hospital contract award Further awards at NextDC Artarmon and other Data Centres Trivantage Manufacturing order book reached record levels Growing pipeline of Data Centre, battery storage, industrial warehousing projects across Australia Force Fire acquisition completed 1 April and had strong final quarter in FY25 Wider capabilities and disciplines offering up increasing cross-Group opportunities Multiple further acquisition targets being explored and have financial capacity to execute WestConnex expedited arbitration commenced, resolution expected in H1 FY26 FY26 EBITDA guidance in range of $65m-68m growing 18-24% on FY25 EBITDA
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Widening capabilities
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Widening capabilities
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SCEE has transformed itself from a pure-play electrical contractor in the resources sector into a multidisciplinary industrial services group across a wide range of markets
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FY16 FY25
Core capability Multidisciplinary services
Electrical & Electrical &
Security
Instrumentation Instrumentation
Data &
Manufacturing
Communications
$208m Revenue Fire - Wet & Dry $801m Revenue
Markets serviced Markets serviced
Mining Mining Health Data Transport Renewables
Oil & Gas Oil & Gas Centres
Commercial Industrial
Defence Aged Care Education
Buildings Warehousing
Industrial Local Custodial Water Supermarkets
Government
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Acquisition of Force Fire
The acquisition of Force Fire on 1 April 2025 is consistent with SCEE’s strategy to add adjacent and complementary capabilities, and increase exposure to services and maintenance style works and recurring revenues
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Favourable industry demand dynamics – demand for fire safety solutions is non-deferrable and underpinned by strict regulatory and compliance requirements, a stringent insurance environment and increasing tenant demands
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Force Fire has exposure in the highly attractive commercial and industrial buildings and data centre end markets which are expected to generate long term growth
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Long-term market dynamics favourable as sustainability regulations and building codes drive refurbishments to upgrade older buildings’ electrical and fire systems
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Consideration a mixture of upfront and earn-out payments to a maximum of $53.5m conditional on delivering an EBIT of at least $13.0m in FY27
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Platform to pursue further acquisitions and consolidation in highly fragmented fire safety sector, combining highly incentivised and experienced Force Fire executive team and greater breadth and scale of support provided by wider SCEE group
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Force Fire Highlights
Attractive non-discretionary, Capital-light operating model critical technical services Highly recurring revenue base with 1,000+ contracted services sites repeat clients Leading expertise in industrial and Long-term blue-chip client base data centre end markets
Client Snapshot
Example Projects Clients
Example Services Clients
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Overview of Force Fire
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Force Fire is a leading provider of critical and non-deferrable fire safety solutions with a 25-year track record of delivery
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Offerings across both projects and services/minor works and both mechanical (“Wet fire”) and electrical (“Dry fire”) capabilities
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Projects involve design and installation services for a broad range of fire detection and fire suppression systems
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Services/minor works offering comes through Inspection & Testing (“I&T”) engagements which generally lead to award of related maintenance, repair and upgrade works
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The fire safety solutions market exhibits compelling non-discretionary and nondeferrable client dynamics through regulatory requirements
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Force Fire has deep capabilities in attractive large-scale industrial and commercial projects, including major logistics facilities, data centres and high-grade office buildings
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The group is led by an experienced senior management team with deep industry expertise and longstanding market relationships
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Clients’ needs are becoming increasingly complex (e.g. in-rack sprinklers, automated distribution centres, EV charging infrastructure) which is driving increasing spend on fire protection
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Overlapping client bases and geographies with SCEE’s East Coast businesses, particularly Heyday
Snapshot Projects
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Amazon BWU4 IC3 Super West Fulfilment Centre Data Centre
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558 Pacific Highway
Ingleburn Logistics Park
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DFO Homebush
Macquarie University
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Maximising synergies
We aim to maximise the synergies and cross-selling opportunities created by the increasing diversification and multi-disciplinary nature of the Group
Various opportunities present:
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Overlapping client bases leading to deeper relationships and business development co-ordination
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Ability to propose combined services offerings that competitors cannot match
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Leveraging Group’s overall economies of scale, buying power, and established processes to drive efficiencies in each business
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Sharing of expertise, best-practice, market insight and skillsets
We are actively exploring multiple further acquisition targets offering more geographic diversification and new capabilities. The Group has the skillsets, experience, and financial capacity to successfully execute these potential transactions
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Sectors
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Diversified across sectors
Revenue breakdown by Sector FY16-FY25 $m
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801
553 552
512
104 465
415
234
386
370 141
348
167
76
196
111 183
208 200 155 171
164 152
112
80
115 173 283
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169
125 130 147 137
95 88
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FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24 FY25
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Diversified across three broad market sectors of Infrastructure, Commercial and Resources
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Infrastructure – very much largest sector now with 64% of revenue
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Commercial – commercial buildings now stabilized at lower post-covid activity levels with Atlassian building and City Tatts redevelopment to contribute in FY26. Supermarkets steady. Sector will grow in FY26 with contribution from Force Fire’s commercial and industrial warehousing works
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Resources – at consistent volumes in absence of major greenfield development projects. Steady flow of sustaining capital-type works in FY25 and expected to continue similar in FY26
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Infrastructure
Infrastructure very wide sector for SCEE across federal and state government and private investment in Data Centres, renewables and energy, transport (including airports, rail, road and ports), health and aged care, defence, education, agriculture, water, and other utilities
Strong infrastructure opportunities for SCEE include:
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Shellharbour Hospital, Heyday’s largest ever hospital award at over $60m, ramping up. Positioning around further major hospital developments presenting in medium-term in NSW and ACT
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Western Sydney International Airport and Aerotropolis - terminal project for Multiplex now completed. Replaced with WSA Stand Alone Facilities Project for FY26. Expecting long-term pipeline of works with further airport expansion and in surrounding Aerotropolis region
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Sydney Metro - tendering for airport line and Sydney Metro West station developments. Trivantage Manufacturing awarded switchboard supply for the airport line
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Trivantage Manufacturing supplying products for multiple further transport developments in NSW and Victoria
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Performing early works at the Alkimos desalination plant in WA
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Data Centres
SCEE businesses have worked on Data Centres for over twenty years and the sector is in exponential growth. Electrical work comprises the largest component of construction costs
SCEE businesses have multiple touch points in the sector:
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Heyday very strong position in general construction in NSW
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Trivantage Manufacturing builds and supplies sophisticated electrical equipment
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Datatel and MDE offer communications and SEME offers security solutions
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Force Fire offers wet and dry fire solutions
Turned over circa $120m in Data Centre revenues in FY25 and expecting similar or increased levels in future years
Tendering on or positioning for over $500m of work to be awarded in next two years for extensions at existing or new builds of multiple Data Centres
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Electrification and renewables
SCEE has multiple exposures to Australia’s energy transition which requires electrification of many activities by 2050
This particularly includes:
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Transforming the electricity supply to run on non-carbon fuels
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The electrification and decarbonisation of existing industries, transport networks and the built environment
Transitioning the electricity supply requires investment in renewables supported by battery storage and grid reconfiguration:
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SCEE participates in this thematic having constructed multiple solar farms, wind farms and Battery Energy Storage Systems
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In early-FY26 will successfully complete Synergy’s 500MW/2,000MWh Collie BESS project which is over $200m of work for SCEE
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Force Fire nearing completion of installation of fire safety solutions on Macintyre Wind Farm in Queensland for Nordex
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Tendering for multiple battery and wind farm developments across Australia and expect to announce further battery projects in near term
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SCEE offers services across a huge range of electrification initiatives including:
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Decarbonising client operations – such as power efficiencies for supermarkets, LED lighting in education facilities and manufacturing solar security gates
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More sustainable buildings – stricter building codes and introduction of Sustainability Reporting Standards will drive increased electrification and other services provided by SCEE to upgrade buildings
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Investment proposition
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Long term earnings growth – last 5 years
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EBITDA EBIT EPS
$m $m cps
CAGR 16.6% CAGR 19.8% CAGR 21.2%
54.8 45.9
12.0
40.1 32.7
38.2
35.3 29.6 8.3
7.7
26.7
29.6
22.3 6.1
5.6
FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24 FY25 FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24 FY25 FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24 FY25
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Growth of recurring revenues
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Strong track record of recurring revenues growth - FY25 recurring revenues grew 15% on FY24
Recurring Revenues ($m)
Wide range of recurring works under services, maintenance, sustaining capital, and framework agreements, including:
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Supermarket works for Woolworths and Coles
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SEME security systems maintenance at correctional facilities and hospitals
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Trivantage
acquisition
Covid dip
H2 mid-year
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185
172
164
90
45 59 65 51
FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24 FY25
Recurring Revenue ($m)
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Maintenance teams at Citic Pacific Sino Iron and Newmont Boddington Gold mines and across Rio Tinto and BHP Pilbara and Arrow Energy’s Queensland operations
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Energy Queensland asset inspection agreement recently renewed
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Datatel education, healthcare and local government works
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Force Fire has 1,000+ contracted Inspection and Testing (“I&T”) sites, which engagements generally lead to award of related maintenance, repair and upgrade works
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Considerable longevity in many of these arrangements
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Strong shareholder returns and financial position
Shareholder returns over last eight years
(5cps franked final dividend paid 8 October 2025)
Dividends paid (cps) FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24 FY25 3.0 0.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 7.5 Implied yield (%) FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24 FY25 5.2% 0.0% 5.6% 6.8% 5.6% 8.5% 7.5% 2.9% 4.1%
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NPAT ($m) 31.7
Year of
payment 21.9
for Heyday 20.1
15.3
13.8
12.7
10.9
8.8
19.8
13.0 13.1 13.1
-0.4
7.0 7.0 7.4
2.2
FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24 FY25
Dividends paid ($m) Retained profits ($m)
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Strong cash position to support continued growth
at 30 June 2025:
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| Cash 88.6 |
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| Debt 0.0 |
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| Net cash 88.6 |
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| Bank Guarantees and Surety Bonds on issue 115.2 |
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| Group Finance Facilities capacity 150.0 |
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| Bonding headroom 34.8 |
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| Franking Account balance 61.5 |
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Track record of successful acquisitions
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Completed value-accretive acquisitions of Datatel in 2016, Heyday in 2017, Trivantage Group in 2020, MDE Group in 2024, and Force Fire in 2025
Revenue contribution of acquisition in first full year of consolidation
Actively exploring range of further acquisition targets offering increased geographic diversification and new capabilities
Revenue ($m)
Offers access to communications and telco sectors Total consideration paid $6.2m Implied acquisition multiple in final year of earn-out: 4.3x EBIT
Entry to commercial and infrastructure sectors in NSW and ACT Total consideration paid $54.1m Implied acquisition multiple in final year of earn-out: 2.9x EBIT
National provider of services to supermarkets security sector and switchboard manufacturer Total consideration paid $53.5m Implied acquisition multiple in final year of earn-out: 3.4x EBIT
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NSW provider of communications services across multiple sectors Maximum consideration to be paid by end of FY26: $10.55m
NSW and QLD provider of fire safety solutions to commercial and industrial sectors Maximum consideration to be paid by end of FY27: $53.5m
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MDE 801
revenue in
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FY25
Trivantage
revenue in
Heyday
FY22
revenue in
FY18
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465
143
Datatel 415
revenue in 386
370
FY17 348
151
200
30
FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24 FY25
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Conclusion
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Conclusion
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Record revenue $801.5m (FY24: $551.9m) up 45.2% on prior year
Record EBITDA $54.8m, EBIT $45.9m and NPAT $31.7m all up on record prior year *
Record year-end cash $88.6m (30 June 2024: $84.1m) up 5.3% on record prior year Order Book $685m (30 June 2024: $720m) down 4.9% on record prior year Final Dividend 5.0 cps paid and fully franked Growing pipeline of Data Centre, battery storage, industrial warehousing projects across Australia Force Fire acquisition completed 1 April and had strong final quarter in FY25 Wider capabilities and disciplines offering up increasing cross-Group opportunities Multiple further acquisition targets being explored and have financial capacity to execute FY26 EBITDA guidance in range of $65m-68m growing 18-24% on FY25 EBITDA
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* EBITDA and EBIT are non-IFRS financial measures, for a reconciliation to statutory results see Appendix 1
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Appendices
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Appendix 1 – IFRS reconciliation
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SCEE’s results are reported under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). SCEE discloses certain non-IFRS measures that are not prepared in accordance with IFRS. The non-IFRS measures should only be considered in addition to, and not as a substitute for, other measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with IFRS. EBITDA and EBIT are non-IFRS measures which do not have any standard meaning prescribed by IFRS and therefore may not be always be comparable to EBITDA and EBIT presented by other companies. EBITDA represents earnings before interest, income tax, depreciation and amortisation. EBIT represents earnings before interest and income tax. A reconciliation of profit before tax to EBITDA and EBIT is presented in the table on this slide.
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| $m | $m | |||
| Contract revenue | 801.5 | 551.9 | ||
| Contract expenses | (695.5) | (469.2) | ||
| Gross Profit | 105.9 | 82.7 | ||
| Other income | 1.7 | 0.8 | ||
| Overheads | (1) | (52.8) | (43.3) | |
| EBITDA | 54.8 | 40.1 | ||
| Depreciation and amortisation | (2) | (8.9) | (7.4) | |
| EBIT | 45.9 | 32.7 | ||
| Net finance income/(expense) | (3) | (0.3) | (1.0) | |
| Profit before tax | 45.6 | 31.7 | ||
| Income tax expense | (14.0) | (9.8) | ||
| Profit after tax | 31.7 | 21.9 |
(1) Employee benefits expenses, Occupancy expenses, Administration expenses and Other expenses from ordinary activities
(2) Depreciation expense, Amortisation expense and Amortisation of customer contracts and relationships
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(3) Finance income and Finance expenses
Appendix 2 - Corporate summary
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| Capital Structure | Capital Structure |
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| ASX Code | SXE |
| Share Price(10 October 2025) | $2.240 |
| No. of ordinaryshares(10 October 2025) | 266.0m |
| Market Capitalisation(10 October 2025) | $595.8m |
| No. ofperformance rights(10 October 2025) | 2.5m |
| Cash(30 June 2025) | $88.6m |
| Debt(30 June 2025) | Nil |
| Enterprise Value(10 October 2025) | $507.2m |
| Shareholders at 23 Sept 2025 | Shareholders at 23 Sept 2025 |
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| ThorneyInvestments | 13.2% |
| Other Institutions in Top60 Shareholders | 24.7% |
| Frank Tomasi | 16.9% |
| Directors and Executives | 5.1% |
| Others – Retail,Private,smaller Institutional | 40.1% |
| Total 100.0% |
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Disclaimer
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