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The basic earnings
per share of 16.4 pence per share for the 2004 financial year
compares with 31.2 pence for the 2003 financial year and 12.0
pence for the 2002 financial year. The following table illustrates
the impact of the group’s discontinued activities up to the
date of demerger or sale for the 2002 financial year, as well
as significant exceptional items and goodwill amortisation on
the basic earnings per share for the past three financial years:
|
2004
pence |
|
2003
pence |
|
2002
pence |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Basic earnings
per share before goodwill amortisation and exceptional items
from continuing activities |
16.9 |
|
14.2 |
|
8.8 |
|
| Exceptional items
and goodwill amortisation from continuing activities |
(0.5 |
) |
17.0 |
|
(43.6 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Basic earnings
(loss) per share from continuing activities |
16.4 |
|
31.2 |
|
(34.8 |
) |
| Basic earnings
per share from discontinued activities |
– |
|
– |
|
46.8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Total basic earnings
per share |
16.4 |
|
31.2 |
|
12.0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic earnings
per share before goodwill amortisation and exceptional items,
from BT’s continuing activities of 16.9 pence for the 2004
financial year compare with an equivalent of 14.2 pence and 8.8
pence for the 2003 and 2002 financial years, respectively.
Diluted earnings per
share were not materially different in all three years.
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