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OPTASIA LIMITED - VOLUNTARY TRADING UPDATE FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2026

Optasia Limited
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What this filing means

A genuinely strong nine-month print, and the number itself is the news. Optasia's preliminary management accounts indicate 9M 2026 revenue of approximately $270 million, up 45% on the prior-year period, with MFS revenue up 67% to roughly $194 million and the combined take rate improving to 5.3% from 4.9%. The company also confirms its full-year targets are unchanged. The one caveat is that the H1 foreign exchange benefit has since largely eased, reducing the support provided by currency effects.

Preliminary management accounts indicate that Optasia's revenue grew by nearly half in the first nine months of the year, and the part of the business that is growing fastest — micro-financing — is also earning a higher take rate per transaction, up to 5.3% from 4.9%. The company says its previous full-year targets remain unchanged. The main thing to watch is that a currency benefit that helped earlier results has now faded, so the growth from here has to come from the actual business.

Bull case

  • Optasia's preliminary management accounts indicate 9M 2026 revenue of approximately $270 million, up 45% from 9M 2025.
  • MFS revenue increased 67% to approximately $194 million on a preliminary basis, with the combined take rate improving to 5.3% from 4.9% in 9M 2025.
  • Optasia distributed approximately $5.1 billion through its platform in 9M 2026 on a preliminary basis, up 34% from 9M 2025.
  • Optasia launched three new deployments, including merchant loans in Uganda and two FirstRand banking deployments covering ACS and MFS.

Bear case

  • MFS generated approximately 72% of year-to-date revenue and remains the primary growth driver, creating material revenue concentration in one business.
  • The foreign exchange benefit included in H1 2026 reported results has since largely eased, reducing the support that non-operating currency effects provided to earlier results.
  • ACS revenue grew 8% on 9M 2025, materially slower than MFS growth, while Nigerian airtime credit services continued to stabilise under the new multi-provider structure.

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

SENS-AI conclusion

A strong preliminary nine-month read: 45% revenue growth with the primary driver, MFS, up 67% and its take rate improving, while full-year targets are reaffirmed. The share had run 6.4 points ahead of the market into the print, so expectations were elevated going in. The read is constructive on the strength of the operating momentum; the open question is whether the second half can hold the pace now that the H1 foreign exchange benefit has largely eased.

The full-year results are where the market will test whether revenue growth holds without the H1 foreign exchange benefit and whether the take rate improvement is durable.

Evidence from the filing

  • Optasia's preliminary management accounts indicate 9M 2026 revenue of approximately $270 million, up 45% from 9M 2025.

    “Based on preliminary management accounts, Optasia generated revenue of approximately $270 million in 9M 2026, representing growth of 45% versus the nine-month period ended 30 September 2025 ('9M 2025').”

  • MFS revenue increased 67% to approximately $194 million on a preliminary basis, with the combined take rate improving to 5.3% from 4.9% in 9M 2025.

    “Of total revenue, Micro-Financing Solutions ('MFS') contributed approximately $194 million, an increase of 67% on 9M 2025, and Airtime Credit Solutions ('ACS') contributed approximately $75 million, an increase of 8% on 9M 2025.”

  • Optasia distributed approximately $5.1 billion through its platform in 9M 2026 on a preliminary basis, up 34% from 9M 2025.

    “In 9M 2026, Optasia distributed approximately $5.1 billion of value through its platform, an increase of 34% on 9M 2025.”

  • Optasia launched three new deployments, including merchant loans in Uganda and two FirstRand banking deployments covering ACS and MFS.

    “Over the same period, the Group has launched three new deployments, rolling out merchant loans in Uganda and launching two banking deployments with FirstRand (ACS and MFS).”

  • MFS generated approximately 72% of year-to-date revenue and remains the primary growth driver, creating material revenue concentration in one business.

    “MFS therefore accounted for approximately 72% of Group revenue in the year to date, and remains the Group's primary growth driver.”

  • The foreign exchange benefit included in H1 2026 reported results has since largely eased, reducing the support that non-operating currency effects provided to earlier results.

    “Reported results in the first half of 2026 included a foreign exchange benefit, which has since largely eased.”
Category
Trading Update
Event posture
Constructive
Published
Nov 5, 2026

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