Australia's SG Fleet chases best day in 15 months on upbeat HY results

SG Fleet

16/02/2022 02:23

** Shares of SG Fleet Group  SGF.AX  rise as much as 12.1%
to A$2.78, post their biggest intraday percentage gain since
November 2020
    ** Vehicle leasing and management co posts half-year net
profit after tax of A$29.7 mln ($21.24 mln), a 16.6% rise from a
year earlier  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nASXN71qS
    ** Posts total net revenue of A$153.8 mln, up 58%
    ** Declares fully franked interim dividend of 8.32
Australian cents per share
    ** Shares hit their highest since Nov. 9, 2021
    ** More than 167,000 shares change hands, 2.1 times the
30-day average of about 78,000 shares
    ** As of last close, stock down 0.8% this year

($1 = 1.3986 Australian dollars)

 (Reporting by Himanshi Akhand in Bengaluru)
 ((Himanshi.Akhand@thomsonreuters.com;))