Perpetual (ASX: PPT) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Perpetual is a leading Australian financial services company providing investment management and wealth management solutions.
Perpetual
Perpetual is a financial services organization operating across asset management, wealth management, and corporate trust services. Founded in 1886 as a trustee company, the firm provides investment management across equities, fixed income, credit, and multi-asset strategies through global asset management affiliates. It offers private wealth advisory, trustee, estate administration, tax advisory, and philanthropic consulting to high-net-worth individuals, families, and non-profit organizations. Additionally, Perpetual provides corporate trustee, custody, securitisation, and agency services to institutional participants in debt markets and managed funds, alongside digital data and analytics solutions.
Snapshot
Operations
Products and/or services of Perpetual
- Asset Management (Global & Australian Equities): Manages equity investment portfolios across Australian, international, and emerging market equities for institutional and retail investors through specialized boutique management teams, focusing on value, growth, small-cap, and active fundamental equity investment strategies worldwide.
- Asset Management (Fixed Income & Multi-Asset Solutions): Provides active credit, fixed income, cash management, and multi-asset investment strategies, offering income generation, capital preservation, actively managed exchange-traded funds, listed investment trusts, and tailored multi-asset portfolio solutions for individual and institutional clients.
- Private Wealth Advisory & Family Office Services: Delivers comprehensive wealth advice, financial planning, portfolio management, accounting and tax advisory, estate planning, and family office administration to high-net-worth individuals, families, medical professionals, and business owners across Australia.
- Trustee & Executorial Services: Delivers personal trustee services, estate administration, powers of attorney, executor services, lifestyle management assistance, and trust management for individuals, as well as specialized services supporting health, personal injury, and vulnerable beneficiaries.
- Philanthropic & Non-Profit Services: Provides tailored advice, governance, investment management, and administrative services to philanthropic foundations, charitable trusts, non-profit institutions, senior living providers, and First Nations communities to support long-term capital preservation and distribution.
- Corporate Trust & Debt Market Services: Acts as independent corporate trustee, custodian, agency provider, and responsible entity for debt securities, securitisation transactions, wholesale managed funds, and real asset investments, supported by proprietary digital data analytics and market intelligence platforms.
Perpetual executive team
- Bernard Patrick ReillyCEO, MD & Director
- Suzanne Clare EvansChief Financial Officer
- Mark SmithChief Executive of Wealth Management - Perpetual Private
- Richard Lyn McCarthyChief Executive of Perpetual Corporate Trust
- James Keith MacNevinChief Operating Officer
- Susie ReinhardtHead of Investor Relations
- Helen MediatiGeneral Counsel
- Michael KorberManaging Director of Credit & Fixed Income
- Michael O'DeaHead of Multi Asset
- Vince PezzulloHead of Equities & Portfolio Manager
Latest news about Perpetual
Perpetual Corporate Trust reaches record $1.4 trillion
AustraliaPerpetual rejects EQT's $22.50 takeover proposal
AustraliaPerpetual FY26 underlying profit rises to $217M on cost cuts
AustraliaPerpetual posts $63.5M impairment charge
AustraliaPerpetual AUM rises to A$224b as wealth sale advances
AustraliaAustralia's Perpetual receives $22.50 buyout offer from EQT
Australia
Recent announcements
What Perpetual (PPT) has told the market, newest first.
- Appendix 3Y - F Trafford-Walker
- Appendix 3Y - P Ruiz
- Appendix 3Y - G Cooper
- Notification of cessation of securities - PPT
- Application for quotation of securities - PPT
- Notification regarding unquoted securities - PPT
Dividend history
Dividends per share paid by Perpetual, by financial year.
| Financial year | Interim | Final | Special | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2027(to date) | A$0.6300 | — | — | A$0.7600 |
| FY2026 | — | — | — | A$0.6940 |
| FY2006 | — | — | — | A$0.2100 |
| FY2005 | — | — | — | A$0.5150 |
| FY2004 | — | — | — | A$0.4680 |
Key financials
Reported results for Perpetual, in AUD.
- Market cap
- 2B
- Revenue (TTM)
- 1.2B
- P/E ratio
- 33.9
- EPS (diluted, TTM)
- 0.5
- Dividend yield
- 7.1%
- Profit margin
- 7.7%
| Fiscal year end | Revenue | Operating income | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2B | 116M | 88.9M | |
| 1.3B | 104.2M | -58.2M | |
| 1.4B | 163.1M | -472.2M | |
| 995.6M | 169.1M | 59M |