African Equity Empowerment Investments Limited provided earnings guidance for the six months ended 28 February 2018. The company expects that the group's basic earnings per share for the six-month period ended 28 February 2018 will increase and will be between 1,698.87 cents and 1,717.40 cents per share, compared to the restated 92.65 cents in the prior corresponding period. Basic earnings per share were positively impacted by the gain on the deemed disposal of a subsidiary. The company also expects that the Group's headline earnings per share for the six-month period ending 28 February 2018 will be between 30.71 cents and 49.33 cents per share, compared to the restated 92.71 cents in the prior corresponding period. The company further expects that the Group's normalized headline earnings per share for the six-month period ended 28 February 2018 will increase and will be between 30.82 cents and 31.94 cents per share, compared to the restated 5.62 cents in the prior corresponding period.