Elders (ASX: ELD) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Elders is an Australian agricultural services company offering livestock, real estate, and rural products to farmers.
Elders
Elders is a major Australian agribusiness enterprise providing agricultural services, farm supplies, and rural solutions across Australia. The company operates through a nationwide branch network supplying animal health products, crop protection, seed, fertilizer, and general farm merchandise to primary producers. Elders facilitates livestock agency transactions, wool marketing, and grain trading, alongside real estate services covering broadacre, residential, and commercial rural properties. Additionally, the company offers agricultural consulting, agronomy, digital agtech services, and tailored financial products including livestock funding and insurance to support regional and rural farming communities.
Snapshot
Operations
Products and/or services of Elders
- Rural and Farm Supplies: Distribution of agricultural inputs including crop protection chemicals, seed, fertilizer, animal health merchandise, fencing, and irrigation equipment to broadacre, horticultural, and livestock producers through an extensive national branch and dealer network.
- Livestock Agency Services: Facilitation of commercial and stud stock livestock trading, including beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, lambs, and goats via physical auction operations, private sales, direct-to-works marketing, and online auction platforms across regional Australia.
- Real Estate Agency Services: Provision of buying, selling, and leasing services for rural broadacre agricultural holdings, residential properties, commercial facilities, and lifestyle property assets, operating through regional real estate specialists nationwide.
- Wool Marketing and Agency: Comprehensive wool clip management and trading services, offering growers multiple sales channels including live auctions, electronic trading, direct selling options, broker services, and specialized wool handling facilities.
- Financial and Insurance Services: Financial products for primary producers, including commercial and stud livestock funding options, term deposits, farm management deposits, home and commercial loans, alongside agricultural and general insurance brokerage services.
- Technical Agronomy and Advisory: Advisory services encompassing professional agronomy advice, livestock production optimization, digital agtech systems, soil and plant testing, carbon farming advisory, and crop monitoring for broadacre and intensive farming operations.
Elders executive team
- Paul RossiterGroup Treasurer & CFO
- Mark Charles AllisonExecutive Officer
- René DedonckerChief Executive Officer
- Viv Da RosChief Information Officer
- Patrick WhiteGeneral Counsel
- Anna BennettExecutive General Manager of Strategy, Sustainability and Innovation
- Shannon Hope DoeckePrincipal Company Secretary
Recent announcements
What Elders (ELD) has told the market, newest first.
- Final Director's Interest Notice
- Director Appointment/Resignation
- Update - Dividend/Distribution - ELD
Dividend history
Dividends per share paid by Elders, by financial year.
| Financial year | Interim | Final | Special | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | A$0.1800 | — | — | A$0.3600 |
| FY2025 | A$0.1800 | A$0.1800 | — | A$0.3600 |
| FY2024 | A$0.2265 | A$0.1772 | — | A$0.4037 |
| FY2023 | A$0.2757 | A$0.2265 | — | A$0.5022 |
| FY2022 | A$0.2166 | A$0.2757 | — | A$0.4924 |
Key financials
Reported results for Elders, in AUD.
- Market cap
- 1.3B
- Revenue (TTM)
- 3.6B
- P/E ratio
- 24.8
- EPS (diluted, TTM)
- 0.3
- Dividend yield
- 5.9%
- Profit margin
- 1.6%
| Fiscal year end | Revenue | Operating income | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2B | 129.1M | 50.3M | |
| 3.1B | 20.1M | 45.1M | |
| 3.3B | 156.7M | 100.8M | |
| 3.4B | 219.4M | 162.9M |