{"id":2296327,"date":"2026-02-23T21:53:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2296327"},"modified":"2026-02-23T21:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:53:39","slug":"nine-entertainment-posts-42-increase-in-1h-profit-hikes-dividend-capital-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/nine-entertainment-posts-42-increase-in-1h-profit-hikes-dividend-capital-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Entertainment posts 42% increase in 1H profit, hikes dividend \u2014 Capital Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><b>The news:<\/b> Media group Nine Entertainment recorded a 42% rise in first-half statutory profit to $81 million, as chief executive Matt Stanton attributed earnings growth during the period to improved performances by Stan, the metro mastheads and the <i>AFR<\/i>, despite a soft advertising market.<\/p>\n<p><b>The numbers:<\/b> Analysts had expected a first-half profit of $77.9 million, according to Visible Alpha data.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue slipped 5% year on year to $1.06 billion, short of the market estimate of $1.15 billion. Group EBITDA added 6% to $192.2 million, in line with guidance.<\/p>\n<p>The group declared an interim dividend of 4.5 cents per share, up from 3.5 cents per share last year and above forecasts of 3 cents per share.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><i>Our journalists are working to update this briefing. We will publish more shortly<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.capitalbrief.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news: Media group Nine Entertainment recorded a 42% rise in first-half statutory profit to $81 million, as chief executive Matt Stanton attributed earnings growth during the period to improved performances by Stan, the metro mastheads and the AFR, despite a soft advertising market. The numbers: Analysts had expected a first-half profit of $77.9 million, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2296328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[409950,444991,357431,23032],"class_list":["post-2296327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-asxnec","tag-earnings-season","tag-markets","tag-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Nine-Entertainment-posts-42-increase-in-1H-profit-hikes-dividend.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2296327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296329,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296327\/revisions\/2296329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2296328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}