How Australian Foundation Investment Company Limited makes money
Where AFI’s revenue went in FY2019: operating costs, depreciation, interest and tax, and what was left as net profit. Built from the income statement in the filed annual report, and drawn only when the figures reconcile with each other. AFI company profile
How Australian Foundation Investment Company Limited makes money — FY2019
Revenue $441.4m · Net profit $405.9m (92.0% of revenue) · Financial year ending June (from the issuer record)
Band widths are proportional to NZD amounts. Dashed outlines mark derived figures; the hatched node is a balancing item (net profit less every line above it).
| FY2019 | Amount | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $441.4m | Reported | |
| Operating expenses (incl. depreciation) | −$19.8m | Reported | |
| Depreciation & amortisation | — | Not reported | |
| EBIT | $421.5m | Reported | |
| Interest (net finance costs) | −$826k | Reported | |
| Income tax | −$15.2m | Reported | |
| Other items (net gain) | +$385k | Balancing item * | Net profit less the lines above; covers fair-value movements, impairments, associates and anything else not itemised. |
| Net profit | $405.9m | Reported |
Checks run on these figures (5)
- Passed: Revenue is within the scale of a column stored in thousands.
- Passed: Revenue in the income statement ($441.4m) vs the summary table ($441.4m): agree within 2%.
- Passed: Revenue − operating expenses = $427m, reconciles to EBIT $421.5m.
- Passed: Balancing item $0.4m is 0.1% of revenue (limit 25%).
- Not met: No operating segments recorded for this year.
Figures extracted automatically from the annual report; check against the report. NZD thousands as stored, shown in millions. Source: annual_report_pdf · method: claude_haiku_pdf · extracted 7 March 2026.
Year-on-year EBITDA bridge (FY2018 → FY2019)
Bridge not available: EBITDA isn't a meaningful measure for banks, insurers and property trusts; sector-specific measures (net interest margin, combined ratio, FFO) are not yet held.
What changed from FY2018 to FY2019
| Measure | FY2018 | FY2019 | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $308.5m | $441.4m | +$132.9m | +43.1% |
| EBITDA | — | — | — | n/m |
| Net profit | $279.0m | $405.9m | +$126.9m | +45.5% |
| EBITDA margin | — | — | — | — |
| Net margin | 90.4% | 92.0% | +1.5 pts | — |
Both years passed the same checks. Margins are shares of revenue; their change is in percentage points. n/m = not meaningful (prior-year figure at or below zero). Each year holds the figures from its own annual report; restated comparatives are not applied.
Margins over time
Net profit as a share of revenue for each year whose figures passed the checks (7 of 8 years from FY2018). The shaded line is the median of 9 other listed Financials funds and investment companies, using each one’s same financial year where it passed the checks; the number of companies in each median is in the table. Gaps are years that were not charted.
AFI peer median below the axis: year not charted (reason in the table).
| Year | Net margin: AFI · peer median (n) | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2018 | 90.4% | — (0) | |
| FY2019 | 92.0% | — (1) | |
| FY2020 | 91.5% | — (0) | |
| FY2021 | 89.5% | — (1) | |
| FY2022 | — | — (0) | Not charted: profit exceeds revenue |
| FY2023 | 90.2% | — (0) | |
| FY2024 | 88.7% | — (1) | |
| FY2025 | 86.8% | — (0) | |
Peer medians use only peer-years that passed the same checks; a median of fewer than two companies is not shown. Years are grouped by financial-year label, and year-end months differ between companies.
Not yet available: where the cash goes (operating cash flow to capex, dividends and debt) and underlying versus reported earnings. The figures they need are not yet validated.
Years not charted
These years are on file but their figures did not pass the checks, so no chart is drawn for them.
- FY2022: EBIT ($374m) exceeds revenue ($360.6m); the figures probably include gains that are not in revenue, or one is mis-extracted.
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