How NZME Limited makes money
Where NZM’s revenue went in FY2017: 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. NZM company profile
How NZME Limited makes money — FY2017
Revenue $390.7m · EBITDA $66.2m (16.9% of revenue) · Net profit $20.9m (5.3% of revenue) · Financial year ending December (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).
| FY2017 | Amount | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $390.7m | Reported | |
| Operating costs (net of other income) | −$324.5m | Derived * | |
| EBITDA | $66.2m | Reported | |
| Depreciation & amortisation | −$36.9m | Derived * | |
| EBIT | $29.3m | Reported | |
| Interest | — | Not reported | Included in the balancing item. |
| Income tax | — | Not reported | Included in the balancing item. |
| Interest, tax and other items (net cost) | −$8.4m | Balancing item * | Net profit less the lines above; covers fair-value movements, impairments, associates and anything else not itemised. |
| Net profit | $20.9m | Reported |
- * depreciation amortisation: $36.9m = EBITDA − EBIT (may include impairments)
- * operating costs: $324.5m = 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 ($390.7m) vs the summary table ($390.7m): agree within 2%.
- Passed: D&A not recorded; derived as EBITDA − EBIT.
- Not met: Operating expenses not recorded; costs derived as revenue minus operating profit.
- Passed: Balancing item -$8.4m is 2.2% 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.
Annual report: NZME Limited Annual Report 2017 (PDF, NZX)
Year-on-year EBITDA bridge (FY2016 → FY2017)
Bridge not available: there is no FY2016 annual statement on file to compare with.
Margins over time
EBITDA, EBIT and net profit as a share of revenue for each year whose figures passed the checks (5 of 9 years from FY2017). The shaded line is the median of 3 other listed Communication Services 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.
NZM peer median below the axis: year not charted (reason in the table). All panels share one scale.
| Year | EBITDA margin: NZM · peer median (n) | EBIT margin: NZM · peer median (n) | Net margin: NZM · peer median (n) | Note | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2017 | 16.9% | — (0) | 7.5% | — (0) | 5.3% | — (0) | |
| FY2018 | 14.1% | — (1) | 7.8% | — (1) | 5.4% | — (1) | |
| FY2019 | — | — (1) | — | — (1) | — | — (1) | Not charted: unexplained residual |
| FY2020 | 15.7% | — (1) | 6.4% | — (1) | 4.5% | — (1) | |
| FY2021 | 15.8% | — (1) | 8.2% | — (1) | 9.9% | — (1) | |
| FY2022 | — | — (1) | — | — (1) | — | — (1) | Not charted: not from annual report |
| FY2023 | — | — (1) | — | — (1) | — | — (1) | Not charted: not from annual report |
| FY2024 | — | — (1) | — | — (1) | — | — (1) | Not charted: not from annual report |
| FY2025 | 16.5% | 22.2% (2) | 7.4% | 8.3% (2) | 3.8% | 4.8% (2) | |
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.
- FY2024: Figures were not read from a filed annual report (source: yahoo_finance).
- FY2023: Figures were not read from a filed annual report (source: yahoo_finance).
- FY2022: Figures were not read from a filed annual report (source: yahoo_finance).
- FY2019: After placing every reported line, -$205.3m (55% of revenue) is left unexplained between EBIT and net profit. A residual that large usually means a line was mis-extracted, so the chart is not drawn.
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