How Contact Energy Limited makes money
Where CEN’s revenue went in FY2025: 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. CEN company profile
How Contact Energy Limited makes money — FY2025
Revenue $3.4b · EBITDA $872.0m (25.4% of revenue) · Net profit $331.0m (9.6% 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).
| FY2025 | Amount | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $3.4b | Reported | |
| Operating costs (net of other income) | −$2.6b | Derived * | Reported operating expenses $2,428m do not reconcile; not used. |
| EBITDA | $872.0m | Reported | |
| Depreciation & amortisation | −$273.0m | Reported | |
| EBIT | $599.0m | Reported | |
| Interest (net finance costs) | −$100.0m | Reported | |
| Income tax | −$132.0m | Reported | |
| Other items (net cost) | −$36.0m | Balancing item * | Net profit less the lines above; covers fair-value movements, impairments, associates and anything else not itemised. |
| Net profit | $331.0m | Reported |
- * operating costs: $2.6b = Revenue − EBITDA
Checks run on these figures (6)
- Passed: Revenue is within the scale of a column stored in thousands.
- Passed: Revenue in the income statement ($3,439m) vs the summary table ($3,439m): agree within 2%.
- Passed: EBITDA − D&A = $599m vs reported EBIT $599m: reconciles.
- Not met: Reported operating expenses ($2,428m) leave $1,011m, not EBITDA of $872m (gap $139m); costs derived as revenue minus operating profit instead. No split is shown.
- Passed: Balancing item -$36m is 1.0% of revenue (limit 25%).
- Not met: Operating segments sum to $3,306m after $602m of eliminations, 3.9% away from revenue of $3,439m (limit 2%); shown as one Revenue figure.
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.
Annual report: Contact Energy Limited Annual Report (PDF, NZX)
Year-on-year EBITDA bridge (FY2024 → FY2025)
Bridge not available: FY2024 is not charted: EBITDA is recorded but neither EBIT nor depreciation is, so the step from operating profit to net profit cannot be placed.
Margins over time
EBITDA, EBIT and net profit as a share of revenue for each year whose figures passed the checks (1 of 10 years from FY2017). The shaded line is the median of 7 other listed Utilities operating 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.
CEN peer median below the axis: year not charted (reason in the table). All panels share one scale.
| Year | EBITDA margin: CEN · peer median (n) | EBIT margin: CEN · peer median (n) | Net margin: CEN · peer median (n) | Note | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2017 | — | 36.0% (2) | — | 23.0% (2) | — | 11.9% (2) | Not charted: not from annual report |
| FY2018 | — | 24.1% (3) | — | 8.9% (4) | — | 4.5% (4) | Not charted: no EBITDA/EBIT split |
| FY2019 | — | 31.6% (4) | — | 18.3% (4) | — | 5.6% (4) | Not charted: not from annual report |
| FY2020 | — | 25.1% (5) | — | 15.9% (5) | — | 5.2% (5) | Not charted: no EBITDA/EBIT split |
| FY2021 | — | 14.0% (4) | — | 8.9% (4) | — | 6.5% (4) | Not charted: no EBITDA/EBIT split |
| FY2022 | — | 17.3% (4) | — | 8.2% (4) | — | 9.9% (4) | Not charted: not from annual report |
| FY2023 | — | 23.2% (2) | — | 11.3% (3) | — | 2.9% (3) | Not charted: no EBITDA/EBIT split |
| FY2024 | — | 22.1% (4) | — | 11.8% (4) | — | 7.7% (4) | Not charted: no EBITDA/EBIT split |
| FY2025 | 25.4% | 17.6% (4) | 17.4% | 9.1% (4) | 9.6% | 2.3% (4) | |
| FY2026 | — | — (1) | — | — (1) | — | — (1) | Not charted: no EBITDA/EBIT split |
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.
- FY2026: Neither EBITDA nor EBIT is recorded, so operating profit cannot be placed.
- FY2024: EBITDA is recorded but neither EBIT nor depreciation is, so the step from operating profit to net profit cannot be placed.
- FY2023: EBITDA is recorded but neither EBIT nor depreciation is, so the step from operating profit to net profit cannot be placed.
- FY2022: Figures were not read from a filed annual report (source: not recorded).
- FY2021: EBITDA is recorded but neither EBIT nor depreciation is, so the step from operating profit to net profit cannot be placed.
- FY2020: EBITDA is recorded but neither EBIT nor depreciation is, so the step from operating profit to net profit cannot be placed.
- FY2019: Figures were not read from a filed annual report (source: not recorded).
- FY2018: EBITDA is recorded but neither EBIT nor depreciation is, so the step from operating profit to net profit cannot be placed.
- FY2017: Figures were not read from a filed annual report (source: not recorded).
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