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Reviewed Financial Results For The Six Months Ended 31 December 2023
Sasol Limited
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
(Registration number 1979/003231/06)
Sasol Ordinary Share codes: JSE: SOL NYSE: SSL
Sasol Ordinary ISIN codes: ZAE000006896 US8038663006
Sasol BEE Ordinary Share code: JSE: SOLBE1
Sasol BEE Ordinary ISIN code: ZAE000151817
(Sasol or the Company)
Sasol Financing Limited
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
(Registration number: 1998/019838/06)
Company code: SFIE
LEI: 378900A5BC68CC18C276
(Sasol Financing, Debt issuer)
REVIEWED FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
Earnings performance
Sasol's performance for the first six months of 2024 continued to be negatively impacted by the
continued volatile macroeconomic environment, with weaker oil and petrochemical prices,
unstable product demand and continued inflationary pressure. Despite some operational
improvements in South Africa, persistent underperformance of the state-owned enterprises
involved in Sasol's value chain and the weaker global growth outlook continue to impact Sasol's
business performance.
Revenue of R136,3 billion is lower than the prior period of R149,8 billion, mainly as a result of the
lower chemical product prices across all regions. Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) of
R15,9 billion is R8,3 billion (34%) lower than the prior period. The variance to the prior period is
mainly due to lower revenue and lower gains on the valuation of financial instruments and
derivative contracts, offset by lower chemical feedstock prices in Europe, Asia and the United
States of America (US).
The current period includes remeasurement items of R5,8 billion mainly due to:
• Impairments of the Secunda liquid fuels refinery cash generating unit (CGU) of R3,9 billion
driven by a further deterioration assumed of the macroeconomic outlook, including Brent
crude oil and electricity prices, resulting in the full amount of capital expenditure incurred
during the period being impaired; and
• Impairments of the Chemicals Africa Chlor-Alkali & PVC and Polyethylene CGUs of
R1,2 billion due to lower selling prices associated with reduced market demand.
The prior period included impairments of R6,4 billion mainly due to the Secunda liquid fuels
refinery CGU (R8,1 billion), Chemicals SA Wax CGU (R0,9 billion), China Essential Care
Chemicals CGU (R0,9 billion), offset by a reversal of the US Tetramerisation CGU impairment
(R3,6 billion).
Half year Half year
Key metrics 31 Dec 2023 31 Dec 2022 Change %
EBIT (R million) 15 925 24 204 (34)
Headline earnings (R million) 12 851 19 389 (34)
Basic earnings per share (Rand) 15,19 23,23 (35)
Headline earnings per share (Rand) 20,37 30,90 (34)
Interim dividend (Rand per share) 2,00 7,00 (71)
Half year Full year
Net asset value 31 Dec 2023 30 Jun 2023 Change %
Total assets (R million) 427 138 433 838 (2)
Total liabilities (R million) 225 109 232 314 3
Total equity (R million) 202 029 201 524 0
Turnover EBIT/(LBIT)1
Half year Half year Half year Half year
31 Dec 2023 31 Dec 2022 31 Dec 2023 31 Dec 2022
Restated
R million R million R million R million
Energy business
13 960 14 219 Mining 955 1 918
6 411 5 551 Gas 2 374 3 503
61 136 61 091 Fuels 9 551 5 103
Chemicals business
31 935 35 621 Africa 3 444 8 994
20 255 23 476 America (1 869) 270
20 287 25 347 Eurasia (865) 313
- - Corporate Centre 2 335 4 103
153 984 165 305 Group performance 15 925 24 204
(17 699) (15 513) Intersegmental turnover
136 285 149 792 External turnover
1 Loss before interest and tax
Sasol's results contain an adjustment in respect of an error in the 31 December 2022 half year
related to purchases and sales of inventory with the same counterparty that were entered into in
contemplation of one another. Refer to note 1 of the reviewed condensed consolidated financial
statements.
Dividend
The Sasol Limited board of directors (the Board) declared an interim gross cash dividend of South
African 200 cents per share (31 December 2022 – 700 cents per share) for the six months ended
31 December 2023. The cash dividend is payable on the ordinary shares and the Sasol BEE
ordinary shares. The Board is satisfied that the Company is liquid and solvent, and that capital
remaining after payment of the interim dividend will be sufficient to support the current operations
for the coming year. The interim dividend has been declared out of retained earnings (income
reserves). The South African dividend withholding tax rate is 20%. At the declaration date, there
are 638 636 265 ordinary and 6 331 347 Sasol BEE ordinary shares in issue. The net interim
dividend amount payable to shareholders who are not exempt from the dividend withholding tax, is
160 cents per share, while the dividend amount payable to shareholders who are exempt from
dividend withholding tax is 200 cents per share.
The salient dates for holders of ordinary shares and Sasol BEE ordinary shares for the six
months ended 31 December 2023 are:
Declaration date Monday, 26 February 2024
Last day for trading to qualify for and participate in the Tuesday, 12 March 2024
interim dividend (cum dividend)
Trading ex dividend commences Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Record date Friday, 15 March 2024
Dividend payment date (electronic and certificated Monday, 18 March 2024
register)
The salient dates for holders of American Depository Receipts for the six months ended
31 December 2023 are:1
Ex dividend on New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Friday, 15 March 2024
Record date Friday, 15 March 2024
Approximate date for currency conversion Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Approximate dividend payment date Friday, 29 March 2024
1 All dates approximate as the NYSE sets the record date after receipt of the dividend
declaration.
On Monday, 18 March 2023, dividends due to certificated shareholders on the South African
registry will be electronically transferred to shareholders' bank accounts. Shareholders who hold
shares in dematerialised form will have their accounts held by their Central Securities Depository
Participant or broker credited on Monday, 18 March 2023. Share certificates may not be
dematerialised or rematerialised between Wednesday, 13 March 2023 and Friday,
15 March 2023, both days inclusive.
The Company's income tax number is 9520018608.
Short-form statement
This announcement is the responsibility of the Board and is only a summary of the information in
Sasol Limited's condensed consolidated interim financial statements for the six months ended
31 December 2023. The condensed consolidated interim financial statements have been reviewed
by Sasol's external auditors, KPMG, who expressed an unmodified review conclusion thereon.
Financial figures in this announcement have been correctly extracted from the reviewed
condensed consolidated interim financial statements. Any investment decision should also take
into consideration the information contained in the full condensed consolidated interim financial
statements, published on SENS on 26 February 2024, via the JSE link. The condensed
consolidated interim financial statements, including KPMG's unmodified review conclusion, have
been published and can be found on the company's website,
https://www.sasol.com/index.php/investor-centre/financial-results, and can also be viewed on the
JSE link, https://senspdf.jse.co.za/documents/2024/JSE/ISSE/SOL/HY24Result.pdf
Important information
Sasol's President and Chief Executive Officer, Fleetwood Grobler, and Chief Financial Officer,
Hanré Rossouw, will present the results at 09h00 (SA time) on 26 February 2024, followed by a
market call to address questions.
Please connect to the call via the webcast link: https://www.corpcam.com/Sasol26022024
or via teleconference call link:
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A recording of the presentation will be available on the website thereafter at
https://www.sasol.com/index.php/investor-centre/financial-results.
26 February 2024
Equity sponsor: Merrill Lynch South Africa (Pty) Limited t/a BofA Securities
Debt sponsor: Rand Merchant Bank (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)
Disclaimer - Forward-looking statements
Disclaimer - Forward-looking statements
Sasol may, in this document, make certain statements that are not historical facts and relate to
analyses and other information which are based on forecasts of future results and estimates of
amounts not yet determinable. These statements may also relate to our future prospects,
expectations, developments, and business strategies. Examples of such forward-looking
statements include, but are not limited to, the capital cost of our projects and the timing of project
milestones; our ability to obtain financing to meet the funding requirements of our capital
investment programme, as well as to fund our ongoing business activities and to pay dividends;
statements regarding our future results of operations and financial condition, and regarding future
economic performance including cost containment, cash conservation programmes and business
optimisation initiatives; recent and proposed accounting pronouncements and their impact on our
future results of operations and financial condition; our business strategy, performance outlook,
plans, objectives or goals; statements regarding future competition, volume growth and changes in
market share in the industries and markets for our products; our existing or anticipated
investments, acquisitions of new businesses or the disposal of existing businesses, including
estimates or projection of internal rates of return and future profitability; our estimated oil, gas and
coal reserves; the probable future outcome of litigation, legislative, regulatory and fiscal
developments, including statements regarding our ability to comply with future laws and
regulations; future fluctuations in refining margins and crude oil, natural gas and petroleum and
chemical product prices; the demand, pricing and cyclicality of oil, gas and petrochemical product
prices; changes in the fuel and gas pricing mechanisms in South Africa and their effects on prices,
our operating results and profitability; statements regarding future fluctuations in exchange and
interest rates and changes in credit ratings; total shareholder return; our current or future products
and anticipated customer demand for these products; assumptions relating to macroeconomics;
climate change impacts and our climate change strategies, our development of sustainability
within our businesses, our energy efficiency improvement, carbon and greenhouse gas emission
reduction targets, our net zero carbon emissions ambition and future low-carbon initiatives,
including relating to green hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel; our estimated carbon tax
liability; cyber security; and statements of assumptions underlying such statements. Words such
as "believe", "anticipate", "expect", "intend", "seek", "will", "plan", "could", "may", "endeavour",
"target", "forecast" and "project" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking
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forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties, both general and specific, and
there are risks that the predictions, forecasts, projections, and other forward-looking statements
will not be achieved. If one or more of these risks materialise, or should underlying assumptions
prove incorrect, our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated. You should
understand that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from
the plans, objectives, expectations, estimates and intentions expressed in such forward-looking
statements. These factors and others are discussed more fully in our most recent annual report on
Form 20-F filed on 1 September 2023 and in other filings with the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission. The list of factors discussed therein is not exhaustive; when relying on
forward-looking statements to make investment decisions, you should carefully consider foregoing
factors and other uncertainties and events, and you should not place undue reliance on forward-
looking statements. Forward-looking statements apply only as of the date on which they are made,
and we do not undertake any obligation to update or revise any of them, whether as a result of
new information, future events or otherwise.
Please note: One billion is defined as one thousand million, bbl – barrel, bscf – billion standard
cubic feet, mmscf – million standard cubic feet, oil references Brent crude, mmboe – million
barrels oil equivalent. All references to years refer to the financial year ending 30 June. Any
reference to a calendar year is prefaced by the word "calendar".
Date: 26-02-2024 07:05:00
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