{"id":177155,"date":"2025-02-18T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T05:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=177155"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T05:23:09","slug":"aurizon-2025-half-year-financial-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=177155","title":{"rendered":"Aurizon 2025\u00a0Half Year Financial Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Aurizon today reported Group EBITDA of $814 million for the half year ended 31 December 2024. This is down 4% against the prior comparable period (1HFY2024 of $847 million) primarily due to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Network EBITDA increased $9 million to $495 million in 1HFY2025, driven by an uplift in the Maximum Allowable Revenue, partly offset by a reduction in external construction works and higher maintenance costs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coal EBITDA decreased $19 million to $264 million with coal volumes up 6% and contract rate indexation more than offset by the impact of customer mix (lower yield) and higher operating costs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bulk EBITDA decreased $28 million to $84 million with new contract growth (including Northern Iron and Gold Valley) more than offset by lower grain railings, the cessation of a rail maintenance contract, a derailment in Western Australia in addition to an increase in doubtful debt provisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Aurizon Board has declared an interim dividend payment of 9.2 cents per share, 60% franked, which is 80% of Underlying Net Profit After Tax. The dividend will be paid on 26 March 2025 to shareholders on the register at the record date of 4 March 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.corporate.aurizon.com.au\/ch\/38869\/2g0ry\/2128500\/CZtKTXL04Vg3uoWEqCJhGcA55N1C2Mi5lZ2NAD5k.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ASX&nbsp;release<\/a>&nbsp;is available from&nbsp;the Aurizon website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurizon today reported Group EBITDA of $814 million for the half year ended 31 December 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":177156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15419,8495,47],"tags":[7465],"class_list":["post-177155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aurizon","category-coal","category-rail-news","tag-queensland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177172,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177155\/revisions\/177172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}