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NZX Virtual Investor Event – Turners Presentation

Investor Presentation9 May 2023TRAConsumer Discretionary

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NZX Virtual Investor

Event

May 2023

Todd Hunter –Group CEO

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We love cars

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1967

1984

2014

Turners has been formed through the 2014 merger of New Zealand's largest vehicle and machinery

retailer, Turners Auctions, and leading consumer finance and insurance business, Dorchester

Turners Auctions was established in 1967 when Turners and Growers Limited began auctioning

cars and trucks alongside its fruit and produce business

Today, Turners is New Zealand's largest auction house and vendor of second hand cars, trucks

and machinery

Dorchester was incorporated in 1984 as Venture Pacific Limited. The company became

Dorchester Pacific Limited in 1992

Over the following years, Dorchester developed a core financial services base through the

acquisition of a number of finance companies throughout New Zealand aligned to its consumer

finance and insurance strategy

In 2014, Dorchester launched a successful takeover offer for Turners Auctions and

consolidated its interests into a single entity that carried the Turners name

The decision to continue the Turners brand recognised the rich history and consumer

recognition attached to it

History of Turners Automotive Group

2017

In 2017, Turners Limited changed its name to Turners Automotive Group to enable a Foreign

Exempt Listing on the ASX and to reflect the focus of the group on the automotive sector

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Overview of Turners Automotive Group

NZX and ASX listed business with over 50 years of heritage

700+ kiwis employed and 4,500 shareholders

FY22

$242.5m revenue

$19.4m profit

8% market share

FY22

$51.9m revenue

$18.0m profit

12% of auto loan market

FY22

$40.4m revenue

$11.6m profit

50% of Mechanical breakdown

insurance market

FY22

$9.7m revenue

$3.0m profit

20% of NZ debt collection market

54th largest

company on NZX

by free float

market cap

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Turners building a strong and sustainable business with a

proven track record...

* Dividends fully imputed from FY17 onwards

-8.5

45.5

84.7

109.6

15.1

41.9

63.7

79.2

-20.0

-

20.0

40.0

60.0

80.0

100.0

120.0

FY11 - FY13FY14 - FY16FY17 - FY19FY20 - FY22

Total NPBT/NPAT over 3 year period ($m)

NPBTNPAT

0.00

0.23

0.47

0.57

0.0

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.4

0.5

0.6

FY11 - FY13FY14 - FY16FY17 - FY19FY20 - FY22

Aggregate dividends paid over 3 year period (cps)*

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We operate to a simple formula

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Quality

outcomes for our

shareholders

Quality

environment

for our

people

+

Quality

customer

experiences

=

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Quality Environment –our team engagement scores

at all time high

•Having a strong culture and an engaged team is very

important to us, particularly in a service based retail

business and at a time when recruitment and retention is

challenging

•Turners rank in the top 5% of consumer businesses globally

using the Peakon survey tool

•We continue to invest in training, remuneration, and other

benefits.

•In FY23 we launched an Employee Share Scheme with just

under 50% take up

PeakonEmployee Engagement Scores

Across nearly 700 employees we are averaging 9/10 to the

question “How likely is it that you would recommend Turners

Auto Group as a place to work?”

7

7.5

8

8.5

9

9.5

Aug-20Oct-20Dec-20Mar-21Jun-21Sep-21Nov-21Mar-22Jul-22Oct-22Mar-23

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Our customer experience is market leading, but the job

is not finished...

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0.10

0.13

0.145

0.155

0.17

0.14

0.20

0.230.23

0.00

0.05

0.10

0.15

0.20

0.25

FY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23

Projected

We are delivering strong returns for shareholders despite

the challenges...

Dividend per Share ($)

Note -Dividends fully imputed from FY17 onwards

•Proven track record of delivering strong, sustainable and

growing dividends in the business

•Directors have declared 16.0 cents YTD in the FY23

year with a final dividend still to be declared but

expected FY23 dividends are 23.0 cents per share.

•Dividend payoutratio is 60-70% of NPAT

•Based on the projected 23.0 cents per share dividend

and a share price of $3.50 this is a gross yield of 9.1%

pa.

COVID

impacted year

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2 HY23 Results

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HY23 Results snapshot

Revenue

$185.3m+11%

Shareholders’Equity

$266.7m as at 30Sept2022

EBIT

$26.1m+2%

Q2 Dividend5.0cps

ProjectedFY Div23.0cps

Net Profit BeforeTax

$23.4m+1%

H1 Earnings PerShare

19.8 cps

(HY22 19.6 cps,+1%)

Net Profit After Tax

$17.1m+1%

Revenue

Net profit aftertax

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FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23

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FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23

Millions

2H

1H

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The business has a diverse and resilient earnings base

•All three auto related businesses grew

materially from pre-pandemic levels.

•Credit management has been significantly

impacted by reduced debt load and no

collection instructions from major corporates

and government departments during COVID.

•The mix of activity and annuity businesses

provides the earnings diversification to protect

earnings stability during difficult times.

Operating Profit Contribution by Segment ($m)

8.0

7.3

7.8

10.2

11.1

5.4

6.5

7.6

9.9

9.1

5.3

2.6

4.5

5.8

6.3

3.1

3.6

3.0

2.1

1.4

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5.0

10.0

15.0

20.0

25.0

30.0

HY19HY20HY21HY22HY23

Credit management

Insurance

Finance

Automotive retail

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3 Segment Overview

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Regulatory changes driving drop in used car market sales...

•Government regulation Clean Car Standard and Clean Car Discount

continuing to constrain the supply of used vehicles in NZ

•Overall transaction levels down 10% FY22 v FY23.

•34% reduction in used overseas imports to 90k units.

•Demand for higher value cars is moderating and shifting into the

lower price point segments.

•Turners car unit sales up 14% FY23 v FY22

NZ Used Car Change of Ownerships (000s)

Source NZTA

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10,000

15,000

20,000

25,000

30,000

35,000

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FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23

Turners cars Sales

NZ Used car Market Transations

NZ MarketTurners Sales

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AutoRetaildivision

•Market share gains through brand promotion and retail

optimisation initiatives.

•New branches performing well-Nelson and Rotorua and

pipeline of new branches and upsize existing branches

developing well

•Speed to sale initiatives leading to more sales on lower

inventory levels.

•Big opportunity to transfer sales from our wholesale

auction channel (49% of sales or 18,500 units) into our

retail channel...margin and yield uplift

•Damaged vehicle sales will continue to rise with aging

fleet

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10

20

30

40

50

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Search interest in topic

'Turners Cars''Used Cars'

Source -Google search trends

Turners brand becoming synonymous with used car sales

Branch expansion and retail optimisationkey areas of focus

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Financedivision

•Growth has moderated as quality and margin becomehigher

priorities.

•Our borrower “quality” metrics continue to improve

•Finance division profitability has been impacted by fastest

increasing interest rate cycle in history...but this will revert.

•Growth in Turners Cars business has halo impact for Oxford.

•Arrears tracking well below pre-covidlevels and at half of the

wider auto loan portfolio (2.6% v 5.4% at Mar-23)

Average Credit Score

Average consumer CENTRIX

credit score

Average Centrix

auto loan

portfolio score

Improving credit quality and maintaining margin key focus areas given environment

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Insurancedivision

•Market share gains continuing to provide robust policy sales

despite challenging market conditions.

•Risk pricing continues to be refined

•Digital distribution arrangements continuing to work well with

further opportunities in pipeline

•Claims Costs inflation being offset by frequency of claims

reducing due to changes in consumer behavior (WFH and

cost of living)

•Pandemic and weather events have confirmed no

catastrophe risk in portfolio, and our de-risking strategy has

worked effectively

Mechanical Breakdown Insurance Loss Ratio Performance

66%

60%

58%

58%

FY20FY21FY22FY23

Growing market share and focus on digital distribution

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Creditmanagement

•Consumer arrears are on the increase to 11.8%

of the credit active population (11.3% in Mar-22)

•Debt load up for EC Credit Control in FY23 v

FY22 and expecting this to gather pace as

economic conditions deteriorate

Debt load growing as economic conditions deteriorate

Consumer Arrears Trend

Source –Centrix Credit Bureau

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4 Outlook

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There are some challenges, but we are in a strong position...

Competitive advantages...

•High trust brands in our stable

•Biggest buyer and seller of cars in NZ

•Unmatched national footprint

•Diversified sources of cars

•Agility in finance and insurance systems

•Technology capability and data advantages

•Highly engaged and capable team of people

Challenges

•Cost of living impact on consumer confidence

•Rapidly increasing interest rate environment

•New car supply chain issues

•Recruitment and retention of people

•Regulatory

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•Latest guidance issued early March-23 where we reiteratedguidance given at the HY23 results announcement.

•The company is now on track for FY23 profit before tax to be at least $44.0m (FY22: $43.1m).

•Trading in Q423 has seen no significant change to the market dynamics we were experiencing in Q3:

—Auto retail: Car sales in our business continue to hold up well, market share continues to grow across new and

existing sites, margins are stable. Site expansion strategy working well and developing a pipeline of further

opportunities.

—Finance: The impact of a higher interest rate environment is increasing, the expected deterioration in arrears

occurred over December and January, however the loan book is stable and arrears improved in February.

—Insurance: Claims continue to track below expectations and investment returns improving.

—Credit: Debt load recovering, but more slowly than expected.

Outlook –FY23 Guidance

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Key Messages

1.Continue to produce robust and reliable earnings, despite macro challenges

Following a number of strategic initiatives, and focus on de-risking, Turners continues to produce reliable and consistent earnings

and a sustainable dividend yield. Auto and Insurance are growing strongly offsetting the impact of the interest rate environmenton

Finance.

2.Continue to grow market share in key auto retail segment

With more branches in the pipeline, customers turning to “trusted” brands in times of uncertainty and a diversified sourcing model

Turners is well positioned to widen its competitive moat in the used vehicle segment.

3.Used car market is mostly needs based...lots of market resilience in this segment

20% of NZ vehicle fleet is 20 years or older...this is over 830,000 cars that are at the end of their life.

4.We are very conscious of NZ and global economic challenges over the next 12-24 months

We are aware of the challenges and still have clear plans to mitigate these. We still see opportunities in the markets we operate in,

and are well positioned to take advantage of these. The strong will get stronger.

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We love cars

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Contact

ToddHunter

Group CEO

T: 64 21 722818

E:todd.hunter@turners.co.nz

Aaron Saunders

Group CFO

T: 64 27 4938794

E: aaron.saunders@turners.co.nz

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