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CORONATION FUND MANAGERS LIMITED - Voluntary trading update and assets under management update

Coronation Fund Managers Limited
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What this filing means

Coronation has guided full-year earnings down. The board expects EPS for the year to 30 September 2026 to fall 5% to 15% to between 403.2 and 450.6 cents, from 474.3 cents, with fund management earnings per share declining by the same percentage to between 385.9 and 431.3 cents. The update is voluntary and unaudited, with full results due on or about 17 November 2026. Assets under management held at R750 billion.

Coronation is telling shareholders it expects to make less profit this year than last — both its headline earnings and its core fund-management earnings are expected to fall by 5% to 15%. The company still manages R750 billion of client money, so the business remains large, but the earnings engine is running a bit slower. The full results are scheduled for release on or about 17 November 2026.

Bull case

  • Coronation reported total assets under management of R750 billion as at 30 September 2026, evidencing substantial operating scale.

Bear case

  • EPS for the year ended 30 September 2026 is expected to decline by 5% to 15%, to between 403.2 and 450.6 cents per share from 474.3 cents.
  • FMEPS for the year ended 30 September 2026 is expected to decline by 5% to 15%, to between 385.9 and 431.3 cents per share from 454.0 cents.

AI-generated summary by SENS-AI, based on the original JSE SENS filing.

SENS-AI conclusion

A clean earnings decline, guided by the company itself. The 5%–15% fall in both EPS and FMEPS is a genuine negative signal, and the share had lagged the market by 3.3 points over the 20 sessions to 26 October 2026. The R750 billion AUM figure shows the franchise is intact, but the earnings direction is down. So what: the market still needs the 17 November results to confirm the decline and show whether the dividend is protected.

The 17 November results will show whether the earnings decline hits the dividend and whether operating cash flow backs the lower earnings.

Evidence from the filing

  • EPS for the year ended 30 September 2026 is expected to decline by 5% to 15%, to between 403.2 and 450.6 cents per share from 474.3 cents.

    “The board of directors of Coronation is reasonably certain that earnings per share ('EPS') for the year ended 30 September 2026 is expected to decrease by between 5% and 15% (a decrease of between 23.7 and 71.1 cents per share), compared with EPS of 474.3 cents per share reported for the prior period. This would result in EPS of between 403.2 and 450.6 cents per share for the current period.”

  • FMEPS for the year ended 30 September 2026 is expected to decline by 5% to 15%, to between 385.9 and 431.3 cents per share from 454.0 cents.

    “Fund management earnings per share ('FMEPS') for the year ended 30 September 2026 is expected to decrease by between 5% and 15% (a decrease of between 22.7 and 68.1 cents per share), compared with FMEPS of 454.0 cents per share reported for the prior period. This would result in FMEPS of between 385.9 and 431.3 cents per share for the current period.”

  • Coronation reported total assets under management of R750 billion as at 30 September 2026, evidencing substantial operating scale.

    “Shareholders are advised that Coronation's total assets under management as at 30 September 2026 was R750 billion.”
Category
Trading Update
Event posture
Bearish Continuation
Published
Oct 27, 2026

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