CAFCA Limited provided earnings guidance for the first half of fiscal year 2018. For the first half, the company’s basic earnings per share and headline earnings per share for first half of fiscal year 2017/2018 will be approximately 4.5 cents per share which is above the 0.7 cents per share of first half of fiscal year 2016/2017. Profitability has been improved by a favourable copper price, changes to trading terms and a change in sales mix from aluminium to copper products. The prior year was adversely affected by a volume decrease that resulted in break-even months until the cost base was significantly reduced ­ this cost base has since been maintained.