Centrepoint Alliance Ltd AGM Addresses and Presentation
Key points
- FY26 marked five years of disciplined execution with profitable growth
- Normalised EBITDA increased 16% to $12.3 million, margin improved to 29%
- Net revenue rose 53% to $43.0 million, cost-to-income ratio fell to 71%
- The company declared a fully franked final dividend of 1.75 cents per share
- Total shareholder return since February 2021 is 130%
Full summary
Centrepoint Alliance Ltd has delivered another year of profitable growth and strategic progress, further strengthening its position as one of Australia's leading providers of advice and business services to financial advice firms and their clients. The company's FY26 results showed normalised EBITDA increasing 16% to $12.3 million, with the normalised EBITDA margin improving to 29%, up from 26% in the prior year. Over the past five years, normalised EBITDA has grown 262%, net revenue has risen 53% to $43.0 million, and the company's cost-to-income ratio has fallen from 88% to 71%. The company's licensee franchise remains one of the strongest in the market. Centrepoint finished the year as the largest adviser network in Australia, with 576 advisers operating under its licence and 201 self-licensed firms in its network. The salaried advice business is emerging as a material growth platform, with revenue increasing 22% to $10.3 million during the year. The company declared a fully franked final dividend of 1.75 cents per share, bringing total fully franked ordinary dividends for FY26 to 3.0 cents per share. Since February 2021, the company has returned 17.5 cents per share, or $31.6 million, to shareholders through ordinary and special dividends, alongside share-price growth -- a cumulative total shareholder return of 130%.
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