How WasteCo Group Limited makes money
Where WCO’s revenue went in FY2023: 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. WCO company profile
How WasteCo Group Limited makes money — FY2023
Revenue $34.4m · EBITDA $5.6m (16.3% of revenue) · Net loss $2.0m (-5.8% of revenue) · Financial year ending March (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).
| FY2023 | Amount | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $34.4m | Reported | |
| Operating costs (net of other income) | −$28.8m | Derived * | Reported operating expenses $33.8m do not reconcile; not used. |
| EBITDA | $5.6m | Derived * | |
| Depreciation & amortisation | −$4.1m | Reported | |
| EBIT | $1.5m | Reported | |
| Interest (net finance costs) | −$2.1m | Reported | |
| Income tax credit | +$236k | Reported | |
| Other items (net cost) | −$1.7m | Balancing item * | Net profit less the lines above; covers fair-value movements, impairments, associates and anything else not itemised. |
| Net loss | -$2.0m | Reported |
- * ebitda: $5.6m = EBIT + depreciation & amortisation
- * operating costs: $28.8m = 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 ($34.4m) vs the summary table ($34.4m): agree within 2%.
- Passed: EBITDA − D&A = $1.5m vs reported EBIT $1.5m: reconciles.
- Not met: Reported operating expenses ($33.8m) leave $0.5m, not EBITDA of $5.6m (gap -$5.1m); costs derived as revenue minus operating profit instead. No split is shown.
- Passed: Balancing item -$1.7m is 5.0% 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: WasteCo – Annual Report 2023 (PDF, NZX)
Year-on-year EBITDA bridge (FY2022 → FY2023)
Bridge not available: FY2022 is not charted: Revenue is $0m; a flow from revenue cannot be drawn.
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 22 other listed Industrials 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.
WCO peer median below the axis: year not charted (reason in the table). All panels share one scale.
| Year | EBITDA margin: WCO · peer median (n) | EBIT margin: WCO · peer median (n) | Net margin: WCO · peer median (n) | Note | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2017 | — | 13.1% (6) | — | 9.0% (6) | — | 6.0% (6) | Not charted: not from annual report |
| FY2018 | — | 11.2% (8) | — | 7.2% (8) | — | 6.4% (8) | Not charted: not from annual report |
| FY2019 | — | 8.8% (8) | — | 5.7% (10) | — | 4.7% (10) | Not charted: no annual statement on file |
| FY2020 | — | 14.0% (7) | — | 6.7% (8) | — | 6.3% (8) | Not charted: revenue ≤ 0 |
| FY2021 | — | 13.2% (10) | — | 6.3% (12) | — | 5.1% (12) | Not charted: no EBITDA/EBIT split |
| FY2022 | — | 14.0% (8) | — | 8.4% (10) | — | 6.5% (10) | Not charted: revenue ≤ 0 |
| FY2023 | 16.3% | 15.0% (11) | 4.5% | 8.6% (12) | -5.8% | 6.1% (12) | |
| FY2024 | — | 14.5% (10) | — | 5.9% (11) | — | 2.8% (11) | Not charted: operating loss |
| FY2025 | — | 16.8% (14) | — | 7.9% (14) | — | 5.2% (14) | Not charted: operating loss |
| FY2026 | — | 18.3% (3) | — | 7.6% (3) | — | 4.7% (3) | 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.
- FY2025: EBIT is -$3.5m. This layout does not draw an operating loss.
- FY2024: EBIT is -$2.8m. This layout does not draw an operating loss.
- FY2022: Revenue is $0m; a flow from revenue cannot be drawn.
- FY2021: Neither EBITDA nor EBIT is recorded, so operating profit cannot be placed.
- FY2020: Revenue is $0m; a flow from revenue cannot be drawn.
- FY2018: 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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