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LESAKA TECHNOLOGIES INC - Lesaka FY2026 Results: Delivers guidance across all metrics, exceeds Adjusted EPS and achieves GAAP profitability

Lesaka Technologies, Inc.
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What this filing means

A milestone result that lands as a genuine inflection. Lesaka swung to full-year GAAP profitability for the first time since its 2022 creation, with Adjusted EPS up 210% to ZAR 6.51 and Group Adjusted EBITDA up 41% to ZAR 1.27bn. The share had drifted 5% lower into the print. The catch: the largest segment, Merchant, contracted, and the filing discloses prior-period accounting errors spanning two decades, though management assessed them immaterial.

Lesaka finally made a real profit after years of losses, and its earnings per share more than tripled. The share had been falling into this announcement, so most investors had not already bet on good news. But the biggest part of the business, Merchant, shrank, and the company admits it made accounting mistakes in past reports — it says they were small, but that is its own judgment.

Bull case

  • Group Adjusted EPS grew 210% YoY to ZAR 6.51, up from ZAR 2.10 in FY2025.
  • Group Adjusted EBITDA grew 41% YoY to ZAR 1.27bn, showing operating leverage.
  • Consumer segment Adjusted EBITDA grew 78% to ZAR 775m, overtaking Merchant as the largest segment contributor.
  • FY2027 Adjusted EPS guidance of ZAR 7.50–ZAR 8.50 implies continued earnings growth into next year.
  • Lesaka achieved full-year GAAP profitability for the first time since its effective creation in 2022.

Bear case

  • Merchant, the largest segment by revenue, contracted: revenue fell 10% YoY and Q4 EBITDA dropped 33%, even as Consumer became the top EBITDA contributor.
  • Filing discloses treasury-share presentation errors spanning June 2006 to June 2026, relying on management's own SAB 99/108 self-assessment of immateriality rather than independent restatement.
  • FY2027 guidance is bundled with a pending Bank Zero acquisition still subject to SARB approval, leaving the organic run-rate opaque.
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SENS-AI conclusion

A genuine positive inflection: first GAAP profitability since 2022, Adjusted EPS up 210%, and FY2027 guidance implying continued growth — all landing on a share that had drifted 5% lower into the print. The Merchant contraction and the two-decade accounting-error disclosure are real caveats, but they qualify rather than erase the operating inflection. So what: the direction has turned, but the market still needs the audited 10-K to confirm the earnings are cash-backed and the prior-period errors are truly immaterial.

The audited Form 10-K is where the market will test whether the GAAP profit is backed by operating cash flow and whether the prior-period errors stay immaterial.

Evidence from the filing

  • Merchant, the largest segment by revenue, contracted: revenue fell 10% YoY and Q4 EBITDA dropped 33%, even as Consumer became the top EBITDA contributor.

    “Revenue 509,335 526,600 8,609,898 9,562,360 (10%)”

  • Filing discloses treasury-share presentation errors spanning June 2006 to June 2026, relying on management's own SAB 99/108 self-assessment of immateriality rather than independent restatement.

    “the presentation of the number of shares and amounts used for common stock and treasury shares and the amount of additional paid-in capital in our consolidated balance sheets and consolidated statement of changes in equity and related notes to the consolidated financial statements included in previously filed Annual Reports on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q since June 30, 2006, were incorrect”

  • FY2027 guidance is bundled with a pending Bank Zero acquisition still subject to SARB approval, leaving the organic run-rate opaque.

    “FY2027 guidance includes the impact of the pending Bank Zero acquisition (subject to regulatory approval by the Financial Surveillance Department of the South African Reserve Bank and other customary closing conditions)”

  • Group Adjusted EPS grew 210% YoY to ZAR 6.51, up from ZAR 2.10 in FY2025.

    “Adjusted Earnings per Share(2)(3) 0.39 0.12 6.51 2.10 210%”

  • Group Adjusted EBITDA grew 41% YoY to ZAR 1.27bn, showing operating leverage.

    “Group Adjusted EBITDA(2)(3) 75,742 49,822 1,274,588 906,573 41%”

  • Consumer segment Adjusted EBITDA grew 78% to ZAR 775m, overtaking Merchant as the largest segment contributor.

    “Segment Adjusted EBITDA 46,193 23,949 775,027 435,193 78%”

  • FY2027 Adjusted EPS guidance of ZAR 7.50–ZAR 8.50 implies continued earnings growth into next year.

    “Adjusted earnings per share between ZAR 7.50 and ZAR 8.50”

  • Lesaka achieved full-year GAAP profitability for the first time since its effective creation in 2022.

    “achieved full-year GAAP profitability for the first time since Lesaka was effectively created in 2022”
Category
Results
Event posture
Constructive
Published
Sep 10, 2026

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