Financial highlights

Good financial management and leading market positions have served us well this year in the face of a challenging consumer environment. We will continue to pursue our long-term strategy which will put us in an even stronger position once our markets emerge from the economic downturn.

Growth on 2008 (for the 53 weeks to 28 February 2009)

Group sales (including VAT)*

Underlying Group profit before tax*†

Group profit before tax*

Underlying diluted earnings per share**

Diluted earnings per share

Dividend per share

Share Price

439.30p

Updated 10/03/2010 : 07:17

Detailed Share prices
OTC (ADR)

$19.74

Updated 09/03/2010 : 20:58

	2009 53 weeks	2009 52 weeks pro-forma	2008
Group sales (£m) (including value added tax)	59,426	58,588	51,773
Group revenue (£m) (excluding value added tax)	54,327	53,552	47,298
Underlying Group profit before tax (£m)^*†	3,128	3,093	2,846
Group profit before tax (£m)	2,954	2,920	2,803
Underlying diluted earnings per share (p)^**	28.92	–	27.02
Dividend per share (p)	11.96	–	10.90
Group enterprise value (£m) (market capitalisation plus net debt)	35,907	–	37,656
Return on capital employed	13.0%^‡	–	12.9%^§

* Sales and profit growth reported on a consistent basis (12 months versus 12 months) for China.
** Growth in underlying diluted EPS has been adjusted to reflect a constant tax rate year on year. Growth was 7.0% on a statutory basis.
† Adjusted for IAS 32, IAS 39, the net difference between the IAS 19 Income Statement charge and ‘normal’ cash contributions for pensions, IAS 17 ‘Leases’ (impact of annual uplifts in rent and rent-free periods), and the IFRS 3 amortisation charge on intangible assets arising on the acquisition of Tesco Personal Finance (TPF).
‡ Excluding acquisitions of TPF and Homever, India start-up costs, and after adjusting for assets held for sale.
§ Using a ‘normalised’ tax rate before start-up costs in the US and Tesco Direct, and excludes the impact of foreign exchange in equity and our acquisition of a majority share of Dobbies.