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Five Year Financial Summary

 
  IFRS 2006
£m
IFRS 2005
£m
UKGAAP 2004 (restated)
£m
UKGAAP 2003
£m
UKGAAP 2002
£m
Turnover 2,295.0 2,014.4 2,015.1 1,852.0 1,794.3
Profit before interest, goodwill amortisation and exceptional items 488.2 398.8 440.6 409.8 418.8
Goodwill amortisation - - (29.8) (25.2) (26.5)
Profit before interest and exceptional items 488.2 398.8 410.8 384.6 392.3
Net exceptional items (15.7) (2.3) 11.6 (40.8) (17.0)
Net interest payable before fair value movements on treasury instruments (167.9) (169.5) (168.0) (159.4) (159.0)
Fair value movements on treasury instruments (36.7) - - - -
Results of associates and joint ventures 2.1 1.8 - - -
Profit on ordinary activities before taxation 270.0 228.8 254.4 184.4 216.3
Current taxation on profit on ordinary activities (48.7) (37.9) (33.3) (24.8) (16.1)
Deferred taxation 6.0 (33.6) (36.3) (59.5) (42.3)
Profit on ordinary activities after taxation 227.3 157.3 184.8 100.1 157.9
Net assets employed
Fixed assets 6,391.6 6,290.8 5,803.9 5,480.6 5,395.7
Other net liabilities excluding net debt, retirement benefit obligation and provisions (212.2) (218.3) (266.7) (232.1) (208.2)
Financial instruments (130.0) - - - -
Retirement benefit obligations (221.9) (317.5) - - -
Provisions for liabilities and charges and deferred tax (980.4) (1,010.9) (572.0) (523.1) (480.4)
Net assets held for sale 13.0 - - - -
  4,860.1 4,744.1 4,965.2 4,725.4 4,707.1
Financed by
Called up share capital 227.2 225.8 225.2 224.4 224.0
Reserves 1,669.2 1,621.8 1,988.5 1,993.2 2,070.0
Total shareholders' funds 1,896.4 1,847.6 2,213.7 2,217.6 2,294.0
Minority shareholders' interests 2.6 1.9 2.4 2.2 1.4
Net debt 2,961.1 2,894.6 2,749.1 2,505.6 2,411.7
  4,860.1 4,744.1 4,965.2 4,725.4 4,707.1
Statistics
Earnings per share (continuing) 65.2p 45.4p 53.5p 28.9p 45.9p
Adjusted earnings per share 77.2p 53.3p 61.4p 58.1p 63.2p
Dividends per share 51.13 48.51p 47.04p 45.9p 45.9p
Dividend cover (before exceptional items and before deferred tax) 1.5 1.2 1.3 1.3 1.4
Gearing 60.9% 61.0% 55.4% 53.0% 51.3%
Ordinary share price at 31 March 1,117p 915p 761p 716p 738p
Average number of employees
  - Water and sewerage 5,188 5,106 4,998 4,780 4,662
  - Other 11,124 11,268 10,795 9,867 9,710
Following the implementation of UITF38 - 'Accounting for ESOP Trusts', the 2004 balance sheet was restated to reflect shares held by the Severn Trent Employee Share Ownership Trust which have not vested unconditionally at the balance sheet date. Other prior year comparatives have not been restated in the above table.
Gearing has been calculated as net debt divided by the sum of net equity and net debt

 

 
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