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Sasol Ltd. SSL

10 fiscal years on record · ZAR · FY2024 reported · SEC filings only
ZAR 249.1B
▼ 9.5% YoY
ZAR 6.8B
ZAR 13.0B

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In brief

What this company does

Sasol operates coal mines in South Africa, together with production plants and facilities for the storage, processing and transportation of raw materials, products and waste related to coal, oil, chemicals and gas. In Germany and Italy it operates plants and facilities for the manufacture, storage, processing and transportation of chemical feedstock, products and waste. In the United States it operates plants and facilities for the storage and processing of chemical feedstock products. The main feedstocks for its production of fuels and chemical products in the Southern Africa value chain are coal mined and procured externally by its Mining segment, natural gas obtained and procured externally by its Gas segment, and crude oil purchased from external suppliers. Its Chemicals Africa segment is made up of the Base Chemicals and Differentiated Chemicals product divisions. The Base Chemicals product division produces polymers, fertilisers and explosives, methanol, ammonia, gases and solvents, sold mainly to customers in South Africa apart from polypropylene and solvents, which are mainly exported. The Differentiated Chemicals product division covers phenolics, wax, comonomers, safol, cobalt catalyst and carbon, mainly exported to international markets for external sales or internal use. Its International Chemicals business comprises the Chemicals Americas and Chemicals Eurasia segments, with base and differentiated chemicals product divisions.

Written from the business description in SASOL LTD's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 29 August 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

ZAR 249.1B
Revenue, FY2024 · full 10-year series below
Revenue ZAR B Net income ZAR B
FY2024 · Revenue 249.1 · Net income 6.8
150B300B-40B-80B
2015201820212024
Compound annual growth
−3.0%
+5.5%
−44.2%
−44.4%
−17.0%
−2.0%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +5.5% a year over the five years to FY2024.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

3 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2024 · Operating 7.6% · Net 3.1%
10%20%-20%-40%
201520192024
ROE
FY2024 · ROE 4.6%
10%20%-20%-40%
201520192024
Three returns, three denominators.
Return on capital employedNot available: we don't have total assets or current liabilities for this period.
Gross margin·
Operating margin7.6%
Net margin3.1%
EBITDAZAR 32.8B

Each ZAR of equity produced 5 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

ZAR 28.0M
returned in FY2024 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow ZAR B
FY2024 · FCF 13.0
15B30B-10B-20B
201520192024
Net buybacks ZAR B Dividends ZAR B
FY2024 · Dividends 0.0 · Net buybacks ·
5B10B
2015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Dividends paidZAR 28.0M
Net buybacks·
Share of profit0.4%
Consecutive raises·

ZAR 28.0M in dividends — 0% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsZAR 359.6B
EquityZAR 152.4B
CashZAR 41.0B
Gross debtZAR 103.3B
Net debtZAR 62.3B

Net debt stands at 41% of equity.

The 10-year record

10 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · ZAR
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
SSL, 10-year financial record
Metric 2024202320222021202020192018201720162015
Revenue ZAR B249.1275.1289.7272.7201.9190.4203.6181.5172.4172.9
Operating income ZAR B18.8−27.321.561.416.6−111.98.417.731.724.2
EBITDA ZAR B32.8−11.738.075.534.3−89.626.234.247.940.6
Income tax ZAR B4.69.75.213.90.2−26.42.85.68.58.7
Net income ZAR B6.8−44.38.839.09.0−91.83.48.720.413.2
Free cash flow ZAR B13.0−0.34.717.718.1−5.4−23.824.927.129.6
EPS, diluted ZAR 10.54−69.9413.0261.3614.39−148.495.4614.1833.2721.66
Dividend / sh ZAR ◌2.007.00◌◌◌5.905.004.805.70
Payout %0−1715601−011144281
ROE %4.6−26.04.623.26.1−49.81.54.09.66.2

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 33 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 10 of the 10 fiscal years we could check. 18 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2016. Eight checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2015.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityCrude Petroleum & Natural Gas
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code T3
Fiscal year endsJune 30
Data on record since2015

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