How Michael Hill International Limited makes money
Where MHJ’s revenue went in FY2024: operating costs, depreciation, interest and tax, and what was left as net loss. Built from the income statement in the filed annual report, and drawn only when the figures reconcile with each other. MHJ company profile
How Michael Hill International Limited makes money — FY2024
Revenue $644.9m · EBITDA $82.2m (12.8% of revenue) · Net loss $479k (-0.1% of revenue) · Balance date 30 June 2024
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).
| FY2024 | Amount | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $644.9m | Reported | |
| Operating costs (net of other income) | −$562.7m | Derived * | Reported operating expenses $391.1m do not reconcile; not used. |
| EBITDA | $82.2m | Reported | |
| Depreciation & amortisation | −$68.0m | Reported | |
| EBIT | $14.2m | Reported | |
| Interest (net finance costs) | −$3.6m | Reported | |
| Income tax | −$3.0m | Reported | |
| Other items (net cost) | −$8.1m | Balancing item * | Net profit less the lines above; covers fair-value movements, impairments, associates and anything else not itemised. |
| Net loss | -$479k | Reported |
- * operating costs: $562.7m = 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 ($644.9m) vs the summary table ($644.9m): agree within 2%.
- Passed: EBITDA − D&A = $14.2m vs reported EBIT $14.2m: reconciles.
- Not met: Reported operating expenses ($391.1m) leave $253.8m, not EBITDA of $82.2m (gap $171.6m); costs derived as revenue minus operating profit instead. No split is shown.
- Passed: Balancing item -$8.1m is 1.3% of revenue (limit 25%).
- Not met: Fewer than two operating segments with revenue; 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: Preliminary Final Report (PDF, NZX)
Year-on-year EBITDA bridge (FY2023 → FY2024)
Bridge not available: FY2023 is not charted: Figures were not read from a filed annual report (source: not recorded).
Margins over time
EBITDA, EBIT and net profit as a share of revenue for each year whose figures passed the checks (8 of 10 years from FY2017). The shaded line is the median of 13 other listed Consumer Discretionary 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.
MHJ peer median below the axis: year not charted (reason in the table). All panels share one scale.
| Year | EBITDA margin: MHJ · peer median (n) | EBIT margin: MHJ · peer median (n) | Net margin: MHJ · peer median (n) | Note | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2017 | — | 13.1% (5) | — | 10.0% (7) | — | 7.2% (7) | Not charted: not from annual report |
| FY2018 | 12.0% | 11.2% (7) | 8.7% | 9.5% (7) | 0.8% | 7.1% (7) | |
| FY2019 | 7.1% | 18.3% (4) | 3.7% | 14.3% (7) | 2.9% | 7.0% (7) | |
| FY2020 | 14.2% | 18.6% (7) | 2.9% | 8.5% (7) | 0.6% | 5.5% (7) | |
| FY2021 | 22.2% | 11.9% (9) | 13.0% | 8.7% (10) | 8.1% | 4.8% (10) | |
| FY2022 | 21.0% | 10.3% (6) | 12.3% | 8.6% (9) | 7.8% | 3.5% (9) | |
| FY2023 | — | 13.8% (6) | — | 12.2% (8) | — | 7.9% (8) | Not charted: not from annual report |
| FY2024 | 12.8% | 13.8% (5) | 2.2% | 9.0% (7) | -0.1% | 5.0% (7) | |
| FY2025 | 13.1% | 13.9% (7) | 2.9% | 7.3% (7) | 0.3% | 4.3% (7) | |
| FY2026 | — | 17.4% (6) | 3.2% | 11.9% (6) | 1.3% | 7.5% (6) | EBITDA not recorded or derivable for this year (EBIT only) |
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.
- FY2023: Figures were not read from a filed annual report (source: not recorded).
- FY2017: Figures were not read from a filed annual report (source: not recorded).
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