Karooooo Increases Earnings by 31% Driven by Strong Subscription Revenue Growth and Higher Gross Margins
October 15 2024 - 5:37AM
Business Wire
Karooooo Limited (“Karooooo”) reported strong results and a
positive outlook in the second quarter (“Q2 2025”) and Half-Year
(“HY 2025”) ended August 31, 2024. Karooooo owns 100% of Cartrack
and 74.8% of Karooooo Logistics, (collectively, “the group”).
Financial and operational highlights include:
- Karooooo subscribers increased 17% Y/Y to 2.14 million
- Cartrack net subscriber additions increased 18% Y/Y to a record
89,168
- Cartrack gross margin improved approximately 300bps Y/Y to
74%
- Karooooo adjusted earnings per share increased 31% Y/Y to a
record ZAR7.35
- Raising FY25 outlook for subscribers and Cartrack subscription
revenue at midpoint
Zak Calisto, CEO and Founder:
“We delivered another strong quarter of profitable growth in the
second quarter. Importantly, we recently completed the move to our
newly built central office in South Africa, which positions us to
support higher organic growth in the region. In addition, we
started to increase our investment in sales and marketing in
Southeast Asia to capitalize on the compelling growth opportunity
for the group in the region. Despite increased capital allocation
to growth in Southeast Asia, we remain committed to a disciplined
approach to growth as evidenced by our continued strong unit
economics.”
Karooooo grew subscription revenue by 15% to ZAR986 million (Q2
2024: ZAR860 million) in Q2 2025, and operating profit grew by 22%
to ZAR302 million (Q2 2024: ZAR247 million).
Cartrack grew subscription revenue by 15% to a record ZAR983
million in Q2 2025 (Q2 2024: ZAR858 million). Subscription revenue
equated to 98% of total revenue. Cartrack achieved 89,168 net
subscriber additions in the quarter, building on its solid track
record of growing at scale.
Karooooo Logistics grew revenue by 40% to ZAR101 million (Q2
2024: ZAR72 million). Karooooo Logistics focuses on
delivery-as-a-service (“DaaS”) for large enterprise customers
wishing to scale and digitalise their e-commerce operations without
investing unnecessarily in additional assets by connecting them
into an elastic fleet of third-party delivery drivers.
Our proven, robust and consistently profitable business model,
underpinned by a strong balance sheet and healthy cash position,
positions us to capitalize on a growing and largely underpenetrated
market.
For the full earnings, visit: www.karooooo.com
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